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The Zetas: brutal narco-state kings

Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico when the gang struck. Heavily armed men, faces hidden under ski masks, stormed on board, ordered its passengers off and swung the bus around to block a bridge, sealing off the ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Union Pacific

Juárez, the world's murder capital

The executioners burst through the gates of the Anexo de Vida (Annexe of Life) drug rehabilitation centre at almost the exact moment that Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, and mayors across the country, including the one in Juárez, rang bells to ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Oct 2009

How tide turned against US war on drugs

Bruno Avangera, a 40-year-old web designer from Tucumán in Argentina, pauses to relight a half-smoked joint of cannabis. Then he speaks approvingly of "progress and the right decision" by the country's seven supreme court judges, who decided last week ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Bill Clinton,  Ronald Reagan,  Evo Morales,  Rafael Correa

'It was basically freak-out music'

The approach to intergalactic headquarters runs along a narrow lane in Devon, under the bridge of a railway closed decades ago and through a number of gates with signs warning that "Our Dogs Bite". There is a carved totem pole in the garden, and a ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  27 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Doug Smith (musician),  Pink Floyd,  Michael Moorcock,  John Lydon,  Mudhoney (musician)

20 years on, life is still tough for Romania's street children

Laurentiu, left, and Cola near their trailer in Bucharest. They lived in the sewers until a year ago. Photograph: Petrut Calinescu/petrut calinescu/ panos pictures "Come," Anca had said 13 years ago, "I want you to meet some interesting people." Beside ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Nicolae Ceausescu,  McDonald's,  Spice Girls,  Michael Jackson

Drugs 'Taliban' declares war

The male voice on the line was not a typical contributor to the Voice and Solution TV programme where residents of the Mexican state of Michoacán air their everyday grievances. "We want President Felipe Calderón to know that we are not his enemies," ...

From JO TUCKMAN, ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Pablo Escobar

The voice of protest sings on

It was one of those appointments one had waited so long for and finally it happened, in a church on a Brooklyn corner: Pete Seeger in concert. It had been 16 years since I had run home, barely adolescent, clutching the LP of his concert in the Carnegie ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Pete Seeger,  Woody Guthrie,  Bruce Springsteen,  White House,  Barack Obama

Obama casts glow over ancien regime

President Barack Obama kept trying to wrap it up, get out of there and get on with it all. "All right?" he said conclusively after dealing with the same question about global markets for the umpteenth time. His impeccably frozen listening position had ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Ronald Reagan,  David Miliband,  UK Conservative Party

How dare they do this to my Liverpool

Back in Liverpool last Saturday night - after quite a game at Old Trafford (Man Utd 1, Liverpool 4) - I decided to take a walk around some of the buildings precious to years living on Merseyside. I thought it might be tough, having seen the ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Comment Is Free,  22 Mar 2009
Related Topics: John Lennon,  Michael Brown (politician)

The voices in G20's chorus of protest

The G20 summit of industrialised nations in London next month will be marked by one of the biggest demonstrations since a million people marched against war in Iraq in 2003. On that Saturday, the issue was simple. This time the protest - although it ...

From ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Bruce Kent,  World Bank,  International Monetary Fund

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