Guest commentary by Jose de la Isla

Arizona: Mexico’s firearm superstore

While a surge of humans and drugs flows north across the border, assault rifles and other high-powered weapons flow south.

A hundred and twenty-three Paul Strand photographs will be exhibited at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City at the end of this year.

Authorities say they have busted up a drug trafficking cell in Tempe that, in adddition to being linked to the Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico, has received shipments of drugs from South and Central America, only to have domestic traffickers distribute the drugs to all corners of the nation.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard will be in Mexico City early next week to meet with Mexico's top law enforcement officials about border security and crime issues.

A federal court in Mexico has sentenced a man to 42 1 /2 years in prison for two murders in Chandler in 1982, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday.

Guest commentary by Jose de la Isla

LEXINGTON, Neb. - A female schoolteacher was arrested in Mexico and the 13-year-old boy she allegedly ran away with was turned over to his relatives, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Ray Lindell expected to be in Nogales, Mexico, for two hours. More than a month later, the 66-year-old is still there — in jail on felony drug trafficking charges. His crime: Overlooking a technicality in Mexican law.

Ray Lindell expected to be in Nogales, Mexico, for two hours. More than a month later, the 66-year-old is still there — in jail on felony drug trafficking charges. His crime: Overlooking a technicality in Mexican law.

Bradley, who is now retired, talked to me at a lunch of old school friends about having gone to Colombia with his new wife -- his fifth, I believe -- and how impressed he was by the modernity of its capital, Bogotá. He was unconcerned about Colombia's 40-year insurgency, now possibly truly waning. But he did say how scary Mexico was, although he has never been to any city there. The same day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had previously described Mexico's narco-violence as similar to the Al Capone rampage in the United States, revised her comparison and referred to the situation in Mexico as "an insurgency." Maybe she's right, but it seems to me inertia prevents a reversal of the situation. Otherwise, the narco-cartels would have no successes.

ANAPRA, Mexico - Ten years ago, the border slum of Anapra was a sea of shacks made of packing crates and car parts.

For the first time in Arizona Amber Alert's three-year history, it's likely that an accused abductor and his two children have slipped across the border and disappeared into Mexico.

For the first time in Arizona Amber Alert's three-year history, it's likely that an accused abductor and his two children have slipped across the border and disappeared into Mexico.

PHOENIX - An expert in Mexican drug crimes says he's not surprised to hear that Phoenix has seen hundreds of smuggling-related kidnappings over the past few years.

Violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, which has long plagued the scrubby, often desolate stretch, increasingly is spilling northward into the Southwest.

HONOLULU - The crime-fighting duo of TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and his wife, Beth, were honored by Hawaii lawmakers for getting crooks off the street. "I hate to say this, but for felons and ex-cons, I'm their president. What I do, they shall follow," Chapman said after the ceremony. "I'm the poster child for rehabilitation in America."

My friend Bernie wanted to meet for coffee and gab. Loopholes, he baited me, made accomplishing anything through politics almost impossible.

Arizona is No. 1, but only the criminals are celebrating.

Mexican officials promised Thursday to crack down on human smugglers, or coyotes — a dramatic change in policy that Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said could help slow the tide of illegal immigration.

Mexican officials promised Thursday to crack down on human smugglers, or coyotes — a dramatic change in policy that Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said could help slow the tide of illegal immigration.

February 4, 2005

Arizona State University warned its students Thursday to be wary of spring break trips to Mexico because of increased violence by drug traffickers there.