Full Coverage: Central America

28.12.2004

Bajo presión de EEUU

In Latin American cities, governments are exploiting public fear to implement the New York style hard line crime control model made popular by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Analysts fear this approach which enhances state powers of coercion at the expense of civil liberties, is preparing the ground for another questionable U.S anti-crime export: the private prison industry.

14.12.2004 Pakistan and Mexico have agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement, hoping that this will pave the way for a booming bilateral trade.

03.12.2004 The tourist haven of Cancun, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is being shaken by a turf war between two drug cartels.