Naranjo, Mexico News

The death of Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva will help disrupt trafficking ties between Mexican cocaine gangs and their Colombian counterparts, the Andean country's police chief said on Friday.

Lois Duffy is known for her art: Large-scale portraits that can take on a surreal quality.

For a moment, it looks like Ramiro Mejia will topple. He is up on a chair, holding one end of a beaded chain.

Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement John Morton , General Luis Alberto Moore of the Colombian National Police and Administrator Alfredo Gutierrez Mena of the Mexican Tax Administration Service participate in a news conference at ICE headquarters in Washington yesterday.

Bogota - Colombian police on Wednesday found $3.4 million in a container shipped from Mexico at the southwestern port of Buenaventura, bringing to three the total number of seizures of huge amounts of cash - now $25.8 million in all - in the past eight days in cargo inspections there, officials said.

Photo: The death of Jose Naranjo during the Villasur Massacre on the Platte River in 1720.

"Raising hell." The expression captures Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo in multiple ways: Not only is it the colloquial translation for the title of one of Naranjo's great inspirations - Franois Truffaut 's coming-of-age classic Les quatre cents coups - but it's also how he defines his own childhood.

And it ends in places like Compton, where there's a white stucco box of a house with the roof painted ominously black and bars on the windows.

Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.

Since March 2008, 33 Zetas have been captured in Guatemala, officials say. Mexican drug traffickers are branching out as never before - spreading their tentacles into 47 nations, including the U.S., Guatemala and even Colombia, long the heart of the drug trade in Latin America.

GUATEMALA CITY a ' Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business.

Photo: Bob Sweeney was recently recognized as the statewide Volunteer Tutor of the Year by the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy.