Laura Carlsen

A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration.

The presidential summit made a show of putting the bi-national relationship back on track – in precisely the wrong direction.

Women human rights defenders have been threatened, tortured, raped, exiled, and assassinated. But they have not been silenced.

A recent speech by Secretary Napolitano highlights the deficiencies plaguing U.S. border policy.

When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief.

The murder of women and the escalating war on drugs reveal a Mexican system with blood on its hands.

They did it! After pre-announcing that no major decisions would result from Cancun talks and nearly two weeks of debates and discussions, the army of international climate change negotiators reached an agreement fully in line with the low expectations for it.

Negotiators ultimately came up with a flawed compromise.

The showdown in Cancun is over preventing a market-based approach to global warming.

There appears to be little hope for meaningful action at the November/December climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico

Is climate change a business opportunity, columnist Laura Carlsen asks, or a chance to change the way we structure our economies and our lives?

The uprising in Ecuador that occurred on September 30 shook the world and sparked a debate about the reason for the unrest.

The only thing surprising about Clinton’s horrifying proposal to apply a Colombian model to Mexico is that she said it out loud, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.

The only thing surprising about Clinton’s horrifying proposal to apply a Colombian model to Mexico is that she said it out loud, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.

The Colombian president is on his way out. But he wants to make sure to lock in a confrontational approach toward Venezuela.

Two Border Patrol killings in two weeks have thrown U.S.-Mexican relations into a tailspin.

The killing of two human rights activists in Mexico is only the most recent example of Mexico’s slide into lawlessness. The Mexican government, columnist Laura Carlsen argues, is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

It looked peaceful on the surface. But as Laura Carlsen reports, the Colombia elections were anything but.

Mexico’s drug war is a failure. Ciudad Juarez, Laura Carlsen points out, is the epicenter of this failure.

The recent elections are the latest act in the Honduran theater of the absurd, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.