Colin McMahon

Border crossings in Central America are like hangovers: full of headaches and a bit disorienting. You're hot, thirsty and thinking: If I can just get through this one. And with...

Like a procession of ancient shamans carefully picking their way single-file on stony soil, a band of tourists walked slowly in the black of night and gaped as blood-red lines...

The United States is telling foreign business executives to choose between Fidel Castro and Uncle Sam. The Clinton administration, trying a new economic weapon against the durable Cuban dictator, is...

The Mexican government, asserting again that real economic recovery is just around the corner, has gone on the offensive in the face of continuing attacks on its 14-month-old austerity program....

Maybe the best testament to how much things have changed in El Mozote is, ironically, the soldiers on patrol. Though they represent the very institution that laid the place to...

The Mexican legislature on Thursday approved an amnesty plan for Zapatista guerrillas in an effort to defuse the Chiapas rebellion before it re-ignites into a shooting war. First proposed by...

In the movie "Summer of '42," a memoir about the coming of age during World War II, the 15-year-old protagonist goes into a pharmacy to buy condoms. The boy hems,...

The images of the West Side apartment where police found 19 neglected children were so bleak that they fueled outrage even in the White House. But the stories that unfolded...

In a city rife with examples of children caught up in street violence, the politicians and experts who gathered Monday morning in Chicago to talk about the issue hardly needed...

Police closed their investigation Tuesday into the death of 5-month-old Sasha Brown after the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled she died in a dog attack, probably by her family's...