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As narcotraffickers battle over turf and trade, the unpaid Red Cross volunteers who come to the aid of the wounded are under increasing pressure. Culiacán is home to some of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins, and thugs fight daily with Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and homemade bombs. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Culiacán | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Zooming to and from scenes of murder and mayhem, the medics swap anecdotes of their ordeals. Last year, recalls medical student Juan Carlos Saavedra, 24, a group of gunmen held up an ambulance, smacked around the medics and shot their patient dead on his stretcher--finishing off a victim who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Culiacán | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

President-elect Obama's Cabinet appointments are sending a powerful signal that change is on the way. His choice to run Veterans Affairs, retired general Eric Shinseki, was a brave critic of the Iraq war and is a staunch advocate for wounded vets. His pick for Housing and Urban Development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Power Will Be in White House, Not Cabinet | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

The real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

The most recent drug battle broke out during a horse race in the tiny village of Agua Zarca, less than an hour's drive from the busy Mexico-Guatemala border crossing at La Mesilla. Authorities found nearby what appeared to be an improvised hospital for the wounded, including an impromptu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Exports Its Drug Wars to Guatemala | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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