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Miguel Caballero likes to shoot people whenever he has an audience and a volunteer. "Take a deep breath and let the air out after the shot," he said to one recent target. "You may get a bit of a bruise." The range was point-blank, the bang loud and the smell of burned powder strong, but the human bullseye didn't flinch. The bullet was embedded in an internal protective panel of his brand-new suede jacket.
More than 35 000 Mexican minors seeking to cross the northern border, about half of them unaccompanied, were repatriated last year.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rails against "the privileged" in a staccato voice that softens as he turns to the virtues of "the poor" and a cheeky grin accompanies the thumbs up to go with his latest slogan: "Smile, we are going to win." Depending on who you talk to, the presidential candidate is the great hope of the downtrodden, a messianic danger to stability, or a crafty pragmatist.
Mexico's body count of innocents and gangsters rises as cartel feuds increase and spare no one.
Assaults on police stations killing seven, a chopped-up body discarded in rubbish bags, three execution-style murders and foreign tourists grazed by bullets: it was a nasty week in the resort city of Acapulco, defying a much flaunted crackdown on drug related violence and delivering a serious blow to Mexico's tourism industry.
Miguel Caballero likes to shoot people whenever he has an audience and a volunteer. "Take a deep breath and let the air out after the shot," he said to one recent target. "You may get a bit of a bruise." The range was point-blank, the bang loud and the smell of burned powder strong, but the human bullseye didn't flinch. The bullet was embedded in an internal protective panel of his brand-new suede jacket.
More than 35 000 Mexican minors seeking to cross the northern border, about half of them unaccompanied, were repatriated last year.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rails against "the privileged" in a staccato voice that softens as he turns to the virtues of "the poor" and a cheeky grin accompanies the thumbs up to go with his latest slogan: "Smile, we are going to win." Depending on who you talk to, the presidential candidate is the great hope of the downtrodden, a messianic danger to stability, or a crafty pragmatist.
