Not much happens at the lonely outpost of Antelope Wells, a border crossing in the remote bootheel area of New Mexico. It is the smallest and least-used border crossing of the 43 ports of entry along the border with Mexico. But June 14, 2008 turned out not to be an average day. Emilio Gutierrez crossed […]

In Mexico, the Catholic Church walks a fine line between two forces:  narco-traffickers and the government. Although the Church does not readily concede that it benefits from narco donations, people are aware of the influence of drug money in their churches. "Of course the narcos paid for the church,” said a resident from a town […]

Mexico is being characterized as a “failing state” in two recent U.S. reports on the status of the country and its fight against drug crime. The analysts warn in the reports that the government could collapse in a few years and recommend that the U.S. monitor Mexico along such states as Pakistan as a “weak […]

Three uncompleted tunnels that ran under the US/Mexico border in the city of Nogales were recently discovered by Mexican and U.S. police. So far, no one knows who or which group built the tunnels, which were obviously used to smuggle drugs into the U.S. The tunnels are several hundred yards away from each other. Since […]

Hiroshi Nohara had a mega layover in Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport – 117 days to be exact. After visiting the city in the fall, the Japanese man returned to the airport on Sept. 2 and did not leave until January. He left on Monday to fly to San Francisco and on to Japan. […]