As Americans obsess over NSA spying, abuse by the IRS, and other assaults on our freedom, I can't get my mind off the thousand other ways politicians abuse us.
President Obama is in Mexico City Thursday evening. He is meeting with Mexico's president on trade, immigration and drug smuggling. The country is at war with drug cartels and that spills into the U.S. One border town is caught in the crossfire.
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Mexico and Costa Rica this week, starting with a flight Thursday to Mexico City, where he will meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office in December of last year.
In an attempt to convince the public that it's not a drug war, the Mexican government is trying to put a new linguistic spin on the country's ongoing conflict with the nation's drug cartels.
Mexico opened a memorial Friday honoring tens of thousands of victims of a brutal drug war, but the garden of towering steel walls has been rejected by some relatives of the dead and missing.
The violent deaths of all but one member of a musical band in northern Mexico have thrown a spotlight on the murky world of musicians who play for the country's drug gangs, says the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City.