Dudley Althaus
Wall Street Journal
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Bishop Who Ministers to Mexican Drug Lords: ‘I Don't Come to Judge You’
Prelate in violent Guerrero state tries to broker disputes between gangs and protect his priests, nuns and local communities from their wrath. → Read More
Negotiators Cite ‘Good Progress’ In Nafta Talks, Though Wide Gaps Remain
Negotiators working to redraw Nafta said they made “good progress” at talks this week, even though big gaps remain between the U.S., Mexico and Canada over the Trump administration’s broader vision for overhauling the pact. → Read More
Powerful Earthquake Shakes Mexico City
The second quake to strike Mexico this month sparked panic and drove many thousands into the streets in the capital and elsewhere. → Read More
Hurricane Maria Roars Toward Caribbean’s Outlying Eastern Islands
Hurricane Maria, a Category 3 storm that is rapidly gaining strength, barreled toward the Caribbean’s outlying eastern islands early Monday with Puerto Rico in its sights. → Read More
Guatemala Congress Passes Law Granting Immunity for Campaign Finance Violations
Guatemala’s Congress on Wednesday passed a new law that grants its members immunity from prosecution for violating campaign finance laws, delivering a big setback to local prosecutors and a United Nations backed anticorruption agency. → Read More
Hurricane Irma Blamed for 10 Deaths in Cuba
Hurricane Irma killed at least 10 people as it slammed into Cuba and scraped across its northern coast over the weekend, the communist island’s official media reported Monday. → Read More
Mexico Intensifies Recovery Efforts After Earthquake and Hurricane
Mexican security forces intensified recovery efforts from one of the country’s strongest earthquakes in decades along its southern Pacific Coast and a hurricane that dropped heavy rains inland from the Gulf coast. → Read More
Irma Leaves Battered Caribbean in Its Wake
Hurricane Irma left widespread human and economic havoc in a string of tourism dependent Caribbean islands as the storm pulsed into Florida on Sunday. → Read More
Hurricane Irma Leaves Trail of Destruction Through Caribbean
Hurricane Irma’s record-setting winds left a trail of devastation across a string of small islands in the Caribbean, killing at least seven people even as it headed toward fresh targets in the region. → Read More
Another Top Court Rules Against Guatemalan President Morales
Guatemala’s Supreme Court approved a petition from the country’s attorney general’s office to strip immunity from President Jimmy Morales, bringing the leader one step closer to a potential trial for alleged election finance violations. → Read More
Nafta Talks Target Stubbornly Low Mexican Wages
Mexico has reaped big trade benefits from Nafta, but wages for its millions of workers remain stubbornly low, something labor advocates and U.S. and Canadian officials hope to see redressed in renegotiating the 23-year-old pact. → Read More
U.S. Urges Guatemala’s President to Allow Corruption Probe
The U.S. government Monday called on Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales to rethink his attempt to expel a United Nations-backed anticorruption prosecutor who is investigating the president and other top politicians for possible breaches of campaign finance laws. → Read More
U.N. Antigraft Commission Has Power, Popularity and Enemies in Guatemala
The commission at the center of Guatemala’s latest political crisis was created 10 years ago to help the country take on criminal networks that had their origin in the country’s decadeslong military dictatorship and civil war. → Read More
Guatemalan Court Blocks President’s Expulsion of U.N. Prosecutor
Guatemala’s political crisis deepened on Sunday as a constitutional court temporarily barred President Jimmy Morales from expelling a United Nations-backed anticorruption prosecutor probing allegations of illegal financing in the president’s 2015 election campaign. → Read More
Guatemala Attorney General, U.N. Panel Want President’s Immunity Revoked
Guatemala’s attorney general and a United Nations-backed prosecutor’s office have asked the country’s Supreme Court to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution, deepening the country’s political crisis. → Read More
U.S. State Department Expands Mexico Travel Warning
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday broadened its warning to citizens who travel to parts of Mexico as the country grapples with a soaring murder rate tied to infighting between drug cartels. → Read More
U.S. Heroin Trade Rooted in Mexico’s ‘Corridor of Death’
A deadly combination of corruption and criminal gangs fighting for control of a booming heroin trade has turned Mexico’s Pacific Coast state of Guerrero into one of the most violent corners of the country. → Read More
Mexican Soldiers, Alleged Fuel Thieves Killed in Shootouts
Clashes between soldiers and alleged fuel thieves left 10 people dead and nearly a dozen more injured in central Mexico, the military and state officials said Thursday. → Read More
U.S. Arrests a Mexican State Attorney General on Drug-Trafficking Charges
U. S. federal agents arrested a Mexican state attorney general on drug-trafficking charges, calling attention to the corruption and rising violence afflicting Mexico. → Read More
Mexican Companies Aiming to Work on Trump’s Border Wall Get Criticized
The Trump administration’s plans to build a wall along the U.S. southern border have sparked an outcry in Mexico—and a warning to Mexican businesses that might consider profiting from the venture. → Read More