Mexico quietly drops border-deaths probe
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Federal officials have quietly closed a three-year inquiry into the rape-strangulation of 14 women and teenagers in the border city of Juarez, leaving relatives with little hope the killings will ever be solved.
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Traffic chaos eases at the scene of a border death crash in which two people died.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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Mexico has set aside 298 million  pesos ($26.5 million) for thousands of retired laborers who say  they were cheated out of earnings from a U.S. guest worker  program decades ago, a lawmaker said on Wednesday.
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Plans for a screening facility at one of the nation's busiest land-border crossings were abandoned because of a disagreement over fingerprinting travelers, an outcome that has angered business groups in the United States and Canada.
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AT ISSUE: Critics accuse Border Patrol of underreporting number of illegal immigrants who die crossing border. Border Patrol says its vigilance has helped reduce deaths.
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Rescuers called off their search Friday after pulling 32 bodies from a Mexican passenger bus buried when a rain-soaked mountainside gave way.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday vowed no respite in his crackdown on drug gangs after brazen attacks on police stations this week killed seven.
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A flap with the United States over violence on Mexico's northern border does not threaten the two nations' strong relationship, though Mexican officials maintain Washington went too far with a travel alert, President Vicente Fox said Friday.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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Prosecutors on Thursday dropped their investigation of two German soldiers who posed for photos with a skull they found in Afghanistan.
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A U.S. border security program that photographs and fingerprints visitors from most foreign countries has apprehended just one terrorism-related suspect since its 2004 inception, officials said on Wednesday.
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U.S. efforts to seize and disrupt cocaine shipments from Latin America yielded substantially less of the drug last year, officials said on Monday.
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U.S. homeland security officials are preparing to abandon plans to develop a system to track the departure of foreign visitors at land borders, citing cost and technical obstacles in scaling back a major post-Sept. 11 domestic security initiative, officials said.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District yesterday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by  Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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Traffic chaos eases at the scene of a border death crash, which claimed the lives of two people.