Mexico's Youth Make Voices Heard Ahead Of Vote
• http://www.npr.org, by Carrie KahnMexicans go to the polls July 1 to choose their next president, and polls show that voters seem inclined to embrace the past.
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Mexicans go to the polls July 1 to choose their next president, and polls show that voters seem inclined to embrace the past.
Plight of world's poor, some living near the G20 venue, not on agenda for global economic leaders.
It was all caught on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear. But police weren't making an arrest; they were apparently taking orders from a drug gan
Mexico's drug war is thought to have killed 50,000 people in just six years, yet, surprisingly, the drug war is not dominating the debate in the upcoming July 1 election.
Earlier this month, the Mexican government arrested three high-ranking Army generals "including a former second in command at the Defense Ministry.
Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico.
If you walk through the desert in southern Arizona you can find evidence of a major migration. Water bottles, shoes, food wrappers -
While in Mexico in March as part of a labour union delegation from the United States to meet with Canadian and Mexican union officials, I was given this book by a professor of history and design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Texas on Tuesday warned residents for the third consecutive year not to travel to Mexico during the upcoming university spring break season, saying drug cartel violence and other criminal activity are a safety threat even in resort areas.
Mexico's top domestic security official says a U.S. State Department travel warning on almost half of Mexico's states is "ridiculous" and "out of proportion."
Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second time in less than a year.
Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denied a "cover-up" by the Justice Department over "Operation Fast and Furious," telling a House panel investigating the botched gun-running program that he has nothing to hide and suggesting the probe is a "po
Now, American politicians want to send the military to Mexico, and are doing it quietly in the form of retired or “retired” military types, DEA, drones, training, and all the rest of the now-standard camels' noses under other people's tents.
When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming.
Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico
While I have no desire to mess around in Mexican politics, Mexico's rulers have tyrannically misused their power and thus created the sorry mess across the Border. First and foremost they have engaged in political corruption.
A ruthless campaign of killing, extortion and kidnapping by Mexico’s powerful Zetas drug cartel has created plenty of enemies, from the Mexican government to paramilitary vigilantes to rival cartels. But now the Zetas have a new adversary: the hacker
As the twilight of his presidency sets in, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is striving to lock in the militarized approach to drug cartels that has defined his tenure, pushing aside public doubts and pressing lawmakers to adopt strategies he hope
The customer known only as "Cesar of Huizache" had an odd request for shoemaker Dario Calderon: He showed him a cell-phone photo of a sequined cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He wanted a pair, but with longer t
Not all of the guns acquired in the US and crossing the border go to the Narco Trafficantes. Many end up in the hands of regular folks looking to survive.
Mexico is a problem that has been left to fester on our border for decades and the Left has exploited this war zone to pursue their corrupt anti-American agenda. Right now there is no battlefront more important to the continued existence of America t
The parents of a Mexican teenager allegedly killed last year by a bullet fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent across the Rio Grande river, on Monday sued the U.S. government for $25 million. The U.S. Border Patrol says Sergio Hernandez Guereca, 15,
IN NOGALES, ARIZONA On the dusty hilltops west of U.S. Interstate 19, National Guardsmen with M-4 rifles peer down from camouflage tents and surveillance posts, so close to the border fence they can almost watch TV through the windows of Mexican home
Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store. The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his han
Air travelers may think they have a lot to worry about this Thanksgiving, what with the strict TSA screenings. But the Associated Press reports that people driving to Mexico are less worried about pat-downs than shootouts.
Mexico's savage drug war claimed more victims yesterday - when four men were publicly executed.
President Felipe Calderon said Mexico should consider appointing anonymous judges for drug trafficking trials, an unexpected proposal that he acknowledged contradicts the country's efforts to build a more open judicial system.
When Rodolfo Olmedo was dragged down by a group of men shouting anti-Mexican epithets and bashed over the head with a wooden stick on the street outside his home, he instinctively covered his face to keep from getting disfigured. Blood filled his mou
07/09/2010 - VIDEO - Real News Tucson heads down to Buenos Aires National Park about 40 miles SW of Tucson to see if parts of Arizona were really being blocked off to Americans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Zn2XPzlgM
We're not talking immigration. Our borders have become a war zone. It's on the MSM. We need to convince Babeu and Brewer that we are the resource we need, that we are the help we are calling for.