Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama approved an act that allocated $600 million to boost security along the border with Mexico. An AS/COA analysis looks at how the funds will be raised and spent.
Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute, talks with AS/COA Online about the July 14 Mexican cabinet shuffle and what it signifies for President Felipe Calderón’s last two years in office.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party won nine of the 12 gubernatorial seats up for grabs in Mexico’s July 4 vote, but an opposition alliance won unexpected victories in three PRI strongholds.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drew help from Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. Meanwhile, fears about the oil spreading into the Caribbean have prompted a quiet dialogue between the United States and Cuba.
Nearly half of Mexico’s states head to the ballot box on July 4, with voters picking new governors in 12 out of the 14 elections. AS/COA explores the races, the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate, and the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Fleeing the violence of Ciudad Juarez, photojournalist Keith Dannemiller follows a family's migration back to Veracruz.