Free Republic

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence. Opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has focused her ire on López Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” policy of not confronting the drug cartels. She faces former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is running for López Obrador's Morena party. Sheinbaum, who leads in the race, has promised to continue all...

Amy Galvez was amazed by the love and support she found - sometimes from total strangers - after learning her son, Adam, had been killed in Iraq. But it was the patients of the Salt Lake City nurse who gave her the biggest surprise, one that still overwhelms her sense of human grace. The inconspicuous central city office where Galvez works is the daily destination for hundreds of drug addicts battling opiate addiction. While fighting their own battles - many with the help of methadone, which treats the withdrawal symptoms of heroin, morphine and other drugs - Galvez's patients also...