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As the price of U.S. rice soars, experts urge a return to corn and other homegrown staples. But farmers say there are too many obstacles.
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President Evo Morales and eight governors will be judged. Few expect the election will oust the leftist leader or unite the polarized country. >>
The No. 2 police officer in this border city across from El Paso was shot to death Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown on drug trafficking. >>
Top officials mourn a colleague allegedly killed by a drug cartel. 'We will not be intimidated,' one says. >>
The inland settlement, about 14,000 years old, predates the Southwestern Clovis sites by about a millennium and coincides with findings at Paisley Cave in Oregon, researchers say. >>
COLUMN ONE
The painter and sculptor's greatest work adorns the dining hall walls in San Quentin. His post-prison career mixed prolific work and poor business sense. >>
MEXICO CITY JOURNAL
MEXICO CITY -- Phantoms come, phantoms go. They swirl around Leonora Carrington, a tiny woman of 91 with a tart intellect and a posh British accent, as she sips Earl Grey tea at her kitchen table. They rise like black vapors from the pavement of Avenue Reforma, where a menagerie of Carrington's enigmatic bronzes startle pedestrians and spook passing cars. >>
The nation's top organized crime officer, Edgar Millan Gomez, is shot dead in his home, the third police killing in a week. Officials blame the Sinaloa drug cartel. >>
President Evo Morales agreed Thursday to stand for election in a nationwide recall vote, gambling that Bolivians will reelect him after just two years in office and shore up support for his pending reforms. >>
COLUMN ONE
Those who earn the old peso are seeing its purchasing power decline. To them, powdered milk and sweet potatoes are luxuries. >>
Ash drifts across the Andes to coat Esquel, and residents complain of irritated eyes and throats. The situation could last for months. >>
The former leader in a right-wing paramilitary group called AUC is to face drug trafficking charges. >>
A dinner with 500 fellow Cuban exiles honors the militant and former CIA operative, now 80 and still wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges. >>
Immigration
At random times in San Diego near the border, vehicles are searched. Most detainees without criminal records or numerous immigration violations are released in a few hours, officials say. Photo Gallery >>
Police acting on an informant's tip captured one of Colombia's main cocaine traffickers hiding in a tractor-trailer's secret compartment -- just days after killing his twin brother. >>
Washington works to improve and broaden the democracy program, which has been criticized as wasteful and corrupt. >>
Ash shoots up almost 20 miles. Officials say lava is detected near the rim and order evacuations. >>
U.S. prosecutors announced an indictment against a Russian arms dealer who they say tried to sell weapons to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with the goal of killing Americans. >>
The situation is growing desperate as Central America is hit by soaring global prices for grains and fuel. >>
The sandy streets of Sasabe are empty. Migrant smugglers have to hunt for business at border-town shelters. Deported migrants give up after one try, taking their government up on free bus rides home. >>
A human rights activist whose disappearance prompted an intense manhunt said Thursday that captors beat him and warned him against publicizing killings by a past dictatorship, telling him, "Your life is in our hands." >>
BOOK NEWS
Dwindling customers may put Ruebén Martinez's Libreria Martinez out of business. >>
Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from Colombian drug lords to the families of U.S. presidents, died in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to an official document. >>
Supporters of the measure declare victory, with official results still pending. Federal officials cite irregularities, and scattered violence is reported. >>
ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
"El Octagono," an hourlong Saturday night series on Galavision, will include fighter interviews, highlights and mixed martial arts education for fight fans who traditionally have flocked to boxing. >>
BOXING
His lack of punching power in an otherwise dominant victory over Forbes raises concerns heading into his rematch with Mayweather. >>
The killing of a farm leader who opposed growing coca suggests the emergence of former right-wing paramilitary fighters. >>
A bid by wealthy Santa Cruz province for greater powers is expected to pass, setting the stage for a clash with leftist President Evo Morales, whom detractors accuse of authoritarianism. >>
Abductors release Dr. Fernando Guzmán without ransom, but he comes under new scrutiny after gunmen arrive at his clinic with companions wounded in last week's bloody shootout. >>
SATURDAY PROFILE
He sees that Mexicans in Southern California have their rights protected while abiding by U.S. laws. >>
ENERGY
The oil company's issues glowing annual report to investors. >>
New evidence confirms the plant was being raised more than 4,600 years ago, researchers say. Previous thinking held that it was converted to a crop only in the Mississippi Valley. >>
Citing those close to him, a newspaper reports that he died of lung cancer last year in Cuba. >>
Many think backlash from some Latinos over the success of East L.A. boxer will finally be put to rest when he fights Steve Forbes in his first match here in eight years. >>
About 8,500 peaceful protesters converge on L.A. City Hall, urging an end to work-site immigration raids. >>
President Rafael Correa breaks with tradition in overhauling the armed forces' command in the wake of a Colombian incursion. >>
They account for 15% of the U.S. population, according to new 2007 data. Minorities overall make up 34%. >>
Authorities used baited hooks to catch sharks today near a Mexican beach where a U.S. surfer was killed in an attack. >>
Some residents have launched an Internet fight against an L.A. County law curbing how long the vehicles can remain parked as they sell their wares. >>
BOXING
It will join similar tributes to Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky. De La Hoya says of Saturday's bout with Forbes: 'This is no pushover fight.' >>
The actress and representatives of several groups say the firm's operations in Peru left behind toxics that continue to contaminate an indigenous people's waters. >>
Thousands of farmers plan to mark the end of a 30-day "truce" with the government over export tax hikes by taking to the streets again this weekend -- but without blocking roads or causing the food shortages that crippled the country during a farm strike in March. >>
Experts say many family members in home countries will fall below the poverty line as a result. >>
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