drug war, i'm joined by david luhnow, "the wall street journal's" latin america bureau chief in mexico cityid, first of all, what more can you tell bus the gunning down of this navy commando's family? >> well, the operation seemed to be well designed. just hours after the commando was buried with full military honors, a group benefit a desen hit men stormed the house. they broke open the door. they were armed with ak-47s, and assault rifles and shot up the entire family. they left as quickly as they arrived, and prosecutors, mexican prosecutors are now saying that they may have had help from local police in find -- planning their getaway. it looks like a pretty either efficient operation, which shows this cartel run by arturo beltran leyva, is alive and kicking >> how well publicized was the name of this navy commando? >> well, that's a very good question. the name was publicized, and that's unusual in mexico. because normally, the military soldiers, both navy and army that take part ofn these operations, their identities are kept secret. most wear black masks to hide their identities. when

mexico city lelized gay marria today. the first ace in latin america to do so. the mexican capil's legislature voted redefine marriage as, qte, the free uniting two people. the city's may is expected to sign it into law. polish pole have recovered the sign stolen fr the main gate of the auschwitz concentration camp officials said today they arrest five men described as common cminals looking to make a profit. the thieves legedly cut the sign into three pieceso make easier to transport. the n could face up to ten years in prison for eft of an object of special culral value. the ash wits sign has come one of t defining symbolof the holocaust. i'll be backt the end of the program with a previewf what you'll fd tonight on the nehour's website. fonow back to gwen. >> ifill: and we move ono iran and the protests th won't go away. margaret warner repos. >> warner: the streetsf iran's hy city and the nter of its religious life fied with tens of thousands of mourners today. they came both thonor a founding father of modern an, grand ayatollah, a to protest thgovernment h

and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not going to succeed me. you do not have executive flare. and then he went on to expirexpn what he meant. i thought i had torn up that ladder. i have a vivid memory of tearing up that ladder and the waste basket. i could have sore right toward up. when i was getting ready to write the book, i have folders and paper sitting around and i found it. i found the original letter. my memory played me false. so then -- i have to figure out what am i going to do with

and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not going to succeed me. you do not have executive flare. and then he went on to expirexpn what he meant. i thought i had torn up that ladder. i have a vivid memory of tearing up that ladder and the waste basket. i could have sore right toward up. when i was getting ready to write the book, i have folders and paper sitting around and i found it. i found the original letter. my memory played me false. so then -- i have to figure out what am i going to do with

only thing that/center wanted him to change -- schlessinger 1 interchange was when we had gone to mexico city but they would not negotiate. we could just take over the whole country. he believed that that was a more serious movement at that time that was in the book. john went back and put it in. my research indicates that it was of byplay of the mexican war. but john has polk exactly right. he would have gotten right into the city politics of today. although not so much in terms of face-to-face confrontation, because paul was not that it that. but he was could outmanoeuvring his rivals behind the scenes. >> for those who say that today's politics are a lot more acidic and difficult, a lot more uncivilized -- what do you say to them? >> no, there are various period in our history where politics had just been is raucous and nasty and better as we -- and better as we are experiencing today. we have gone through that. early part of the republic, the people who are writing the pamphlets, very nasty and bitter. everything leading up to the civil war, we had a caning on the floor of the senate. the

the idea during the mexican war when we were sort of in logger heads, we'd gone all the way to mexico citybut they still wouldn't retreat or negotiate, that we should just take over the whole country. and schlesinger believed that that was a more serious movement at that time than was in seigenthaler's book, and so john went back and put it in. and my research indicates that it was a significant bi-play during a certain point of the mexican war. but, no, i think john has got polk exactly right. i do think that he would have gotten right into the acidic politics of today, although not so much in terms of face-to- face confrontation because polk was not good at that but he was very good at attempting to outmaneuver his rivals behind the scenes and he loved doing that. >> just for a side moment, for those who say that today's politics are a lot more acidic or a lot more difficult or a lot more uncivil, what do you say to them, than in the past? >> no, there are various periods in our history in which politics have been just as raucous and just as nasty and just as bitter as we are experiencin

the alliance of viewyouth movemt launched in mexico city is helping young leaders drive positive change in their own society, started with little more than a cellphone and an idea. we are working with our partners in latin america to ensure economic growth that does not just to benefit the upper echelons of society. anyone who spends more than five minutes looking at the challenges in latin america knows the income disparity is one of the biggest we have to overcome, so how do we drive economic growth downward? many of you are aware of the pathways to prosperity initiative which i hope we launch in june -- relaunched in june. our focus is to empower women as drivers of economic and social progress. we hosted a meeting of promising female entrepreneurs, and bringing them together with more experienced businesswomen who could serve as models and mentors. there are new ways of doing business, founded on mutual respect and common vision, but also one shared responsibility. the united states has contributed to some of the problems we see in the region, but we're determined and the obama admi

and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not going to succeed me. you do not have executive flare. and then he went on to expirexpn what he meant. i thought i had torn up that ladder. i have a vivid memory of tearing up that ladder and the waste basket. i could have sore right toward up. when i was getting ready to write the book, i have folders and paper sitting around and i found it. i found the original letter. my memory played me false. so then -- i have to figure out what am i going to do with my life now but i have to figure out what do i do with this man? who has been my -- the man

and i thought we were going to lunch around the corner, but instead we go to mexico city and then totaxco. that was his ideao f getting away from it all. and there he sort of underlined the offer. but this was to be the plan of my life then at age 23. i accepted it without demure. that shows you how young i was. and then i opened a letter from bill that said, i think you are not going to suceed. and i got ready to write this book, and i had papers and folders. and i found it. and i thought, what do i do with this man? how do i relate to this guy? >> tell us just how you found your view of bill in light of this information that would strike most people as tremendously coral -- cruel? >> certainly, the way he did it was. he was largely, maybe even mostly right in his judgment. my wife was a help. she is a psychoanalyst. she actually gave him a raw shark card once -- rosach card. we had him and his wife, pat, over for dinner. during a conversation, i wife mentioned the test. and they said, let's see them. she used the right steaks. and the cards have color, also. it is oppositional temp

and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not going to succeed me. you do not have executive flare. and then he went on to expirexpn what he meant. i thought i had torn up that ladder. i have a vivid memory of tearing up that ladder and the waste basket. i could have sore right toward up. when i was getting ready to write the book, i have folders and paper sitting around and i found it. i found the original letter. my memory played me false. so then -- i have to figure out what am i going to do with

and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco.that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not going to succeed me. you do not have executive flare. and then he went on to expirexpn what he meant. i thought i had torn up that ladder. i have a vivid memory of tearing up that ladder and the waste basket. i could have sore right toward up. when i was getting ready to write the book, i have folders and paper sitting around and i found it. i found the original letter. my memory played me false. so then -- i have to figure out what am i going to do with

michael ware is also going to take us to the front lines of mexico's war against drugs to the city ofuarez, just across from el paso, texas. he goes out on patrol with mexican authorities where the death toll is rising there every single day. a full report on the war here along the u.s.-mexico border, larry. >> larry: anderson and michael, two of the best reporters in the business. that's 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. queen latifa is with us. last year the "new york times" quoted you as saying i dponlt have a problem discussing the topic of someone being gay, but i do have a problem discussing my personal life. so in this era of 24/7 media, how do you draw a privacy line being in the public eye. how do you do that? >> you just draw it. you just call it. i mean people can choose to deal with their personal lives however they choose. i can't tell another celebrity how to handle their personal lives. some like to live their life out in the open, they want you to come into their kitchen and watch them cook and they want you to come with them with their kids to the park and i just can't rea

mexico. and on jeffrey brown's "art beat" blog, a celebration of second city's 50th birthday. we've posted remembrances from the last surviving member of the comedy club's first year and a conversation with actor/director/writer harold ramis. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you on-line, and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: when someone you count on is not responsive, bad things could happen. grant thornton. monsanto. producing more. er

they choose mexico for joint replacement surgery not just for the cost-savings but also for the comforts of a citylike puerto vallarta that already caters to tourists. >> we have a whole team that receives them. we make sure that they get accommodated in hotels and that they are transported from the hotels to the different appointments or to the hospital. and then after surgery once they are released from the hospital, we have nurses and physical therapists that visit them in their hotel. and this way they can recover in a beautiful place, looking at the swimming pool, the palm trees. >> suarez: greeg is a member of the american academy of orth petic surgeons and touts his state of the art facility. >> we are using the same implants, same technique, but here we have a great advantage. we don't have the liability costs you can find in the u.s. i pay orthopedic surgeon about one tenth of what my colleague in the u.s. would pay for malpractice insurance. >> suarez: and with one million u.s. citizens now living in mexico, many of them retirees, private hospitals now advertise american standard facilit

city of juarez across from el paso, texas. the death toll is rising there every single day. a full report on the war here along the u.s./mexico larry. >> anderson and michael, two of the best reporters in the business. that's 10:00 eastern and 7:00 pacific. queen latifah is with us. last year "the new york times" quoted you saying i don't discuss the topic of being gay but i have a problem discussing my personal life. how do you draw a privacy line in the public eye? how do you do that? >> you just draw it. i just call it. i mean, people can choose to deal with their personal lives however they choose. i can't tell another celebrity how to handle their personal life. some like to live their life out in the open. they want you to come into their kitchen and watch them cook, and they want you to come with them to their kids at the park. i can't see me living my life like that. i feel like what i do with the public is what we share together, and what i do when i'm off the clock is my business. i just want to keep it for myself and my family and my friends. i don't want to share it with the world. >> larry: yu do you think the wo