Another proposals have been submitted to the Legislature to legalize the use of marijuana in the United States. The Secretary of State William F. Galvin said that the proposals are now on their way on the 2016 ballot.
A remark by Pope Francis to the effect that he hoped his homeland Argentina could avoid "Mexicanization" was not intended to offend Mexicans or to undervalue the government's efforts to fight drug trafficking, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
Terrorized by brutal drug gangs and corrupt police, residents around this town in southwestern Mexico have for years kept silent when relatives disappeared, fearing they would be targeted next if they made a fuss.
Tainted or sub-standard drugs probably led to the deaths of 13 Indian women after sterilization surgery at a family-planning "camp", and owners of the factories that produced them have been summoned for questioning, a senior official said on Thursday.
