Foreign Policy In Focus

The caravan of drug war victims led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, on Sept. 14, where they asked for forgiveness from the migrants who risk their lives to cross Mexico to reach the United States.

If new Peruvian President Ollanta Humala institutes aggressive policies that threaten coca production and leave behind piles of bodies, his political future will be in doubt.

To conservatives, the Drug War is as deserving of uncritical support as any other war we're losing.

This pact was read by Olga Reyes and Patricia Duarte in Mexico City's Zocalo on May 8th, the last day of the March for Peace with Justice and Dignity. The document will be signed June 10 in Ciudad Juarez.

The Obama administration faces a scandal around a U.S. gunrunning operation to Mexico.

Mexico's House of Deputies has brought the country to the cusp of a police state.