Peña Nieto, outgoing Institutional Revolutionary Party governor in the State of Mexico, is silhouetted against the national flag before delivering his sixth and final state report in Toluca (Courtesy Reuters).
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Bundles of confiscated drug money worth two million euros ($2.7 million) are displayed at a police headquarters in Madrid January 18, 2011. (Andrea Comas/Courtesy Reuters)
First lady Michelle Obama attends a Hispanic Heritage event at Lamb Public Charter School in Washington (Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters).
Source: Corporación Latinobarómetro, Informe Anual 2010 (Santiago de Chile, December 2010)
A view of the San Alberto gas plant (David Mercado/Courtesy Reuters).
Free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea finally passed, after four plus years of delay. My colleague Ted Alden talks about the consequences for the U.S. job market and for the Obama administration’s trade and investment strategy. Read more »
Members of Venezuela's militia and supporters of Venezuela's President Chavez attend a ceremony in Caracas (Jorge Silva/Courtesy Reuters).
Police pay became a hot topic of discussion over the past two weeks with the release of a Mexican government report breaking down police salary by state. Â The disparities are stark — with police officers in Tamaulipas earning monthly salary of just $268, while their counterparts in Aguascalientes bring home about $1,342 a month. Read more »
Andean protesters shout slogans against the government in Lima (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Courtesy Reuters).
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