Rivals in Mexico Congress fracas
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Rival deputies in Mexico's Congress come to blows, days ahead of President-elect Calderon's inauguration.
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Supporters and opponents of liberalized   immigration laws bellowed at each other through bullhorns at a   rally in Phoenix on Monday as pressure on the U.S. Congress to   break a deadlock over a proposed immigration overhaul gathered   pace nationwide.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President-elect Felipe Calder&#xF3;n named a hard-line conservative for interior minister yesterday and lawmakers slapped and pushed one another in a deepening political crisis three days before Calder&#xF3;n takes power.
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Ecuador's Congress suspended its session on Thursday after police surrounded it to enforce a court ruling to fire 57 lawmakers in a power struggle between President Rafael Correa and the opposition.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 -- Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday in a chaotic ceremony rocked by fist fights in Congress and jeering protests from leftists who claim he stole a July election that sparked months of unrest.
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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Rep. Raul Grijalva says he feels like he's been in a "telenovela" &#151; a steamy Spanish-language soap opera &#151; as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus wrestles with a nasty power struggle, complete with accusations of name-calling.
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By IOAN GRILLO MEXICO CITY - Leftist lawmakers threw punches and chairs at their conservative colleagues and some tried to block the doors of the congressional chamber Friday just an hour before incoming President Felipe Calderon was to take the oath of office there.
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Riot police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his final state-of-the-nation address Friday, fueling fears the country's electoral crisis could turn violent.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, as it hit a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament were kidnapped and killed during a trip to Guatemala for a parliamentary meeting, then their bodies were burned, authorities said Tuesday.
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The 108th Congress slogged toward an unhappy end yesterday, with leaders trading bitter personal accusations and lawmakers still fighting over
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions  before 2006 presidential elections in a close governor's race  on Sunday in Veracruz state.
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MEXICO CITY -- This is what Mexico's presidential campaign has come to: For three days this month, dozens of legislators climbed atop the speaker's platform in the lower house of Congress and brought proceedings to a halt. In one widely televised scene, two congresswomen tried to grab a microphone from the speaker's hands, then shoved a placard in his face.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, hitting a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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Supporters and opponents of liberalized   immigration laws bellowed at each other through bullhorns at a   rally in Phoenix on Monday as pressure on the U.S. Congress to   break a deadlock on an immigration overhaul gathered pace   nationwide.