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...With Tuesday's arraignment, Smith becomes the fourth person to be charged in connection to the case and the first Harvard student charged. Chanequa N. Campbell ’09, who was also linked to the shooting, denied any involvement with the incident and has not been charged to date...
...civic leaders like Vargas, who is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen, say the Obama Administration and the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón need to pay closer attention to what many believe is the real reason the narcos are turning even more vicious. And it has less to do with Calderón's military crusade than with a murderous blunder the drug cartels made shortly after midnight on Jan. 31 that may well have changed the course of the drug...
That night, narco gunmen massacred 15 Juárez teenagers at a party. After apologizing for initially suggesting that the victims were somehow involved with drugs themselves, Calderón has since made two visits to Juárez, which saw some 2,500 drug-related murders last year. He is making another visit on Tuesday. But rather than throwing more troops onto the city's streets, as he did last year, Calderón is pushing social and financial reform - including the kind of judicial modernization that tends to spook drug lords more than soldiers do. Last week...
What worries the narcos perhaps even more is that the January massacre has prompted Calderón to seek heightened U.S. assistance in specific areas - from more sophisticated intelligence-gathering on the politicians and businesses that aid the cartels to a re-engineering of the judicial system in drug-beleaguered states like Chihuahua. That might go some way toward answering critics of the Mérida Initiative, a bilateral pact that is supposed to deliver more than $1.5 billion in U.S. antidrug aid to Mexico, a plan some see as too wedded to tired and often failed U.S. drug...
...March 4, a law went into effect that allowed gay couples in Mexico City to wed, despite outcries from the Roman Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderón's conservative National Action Party. With five other Latin American nations already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calderón called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...