When the intense violence of illegal drug-trafficking was causing a commotion several hours away by air in places like Colombia, Americans were not terribly concerned. But now that it is killing about 100 people a week in Mexico, spilling over the U.S. border with that country, being branded a top national-security threat and disrupting vacation [...]

Will the incoming Obama administration finally give Latin America and the Caribbean their due? It ought to.
There is no reason to pay sporadic, insufficient attention — as the United States commonly has done — to the nations that form part of the same hemisphere and have such a dramatic impact on this country. Whether the [...]