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Mexico Shifts Strategy in Border City Violence
 Mark Stevenson
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
Chihuahua Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
 Emilio Godoy
The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
House of Death in Juarez, Prelude to a Massive Murder Cover-Up
 Kimberly Dvorak
Blinded by death, shrouded in secrecy and driven by recklessness could be used to describe the Mexican drug cartels – however, these terms are used to describe our own government agency, ICE.
US Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody - Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures and Job Losses
 Nick Turse
Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
 US Yet to Sign UN Child Rights Treaty
 The Real News Network
Now 20 years since the United Nations adopted a treaty aimed at protecting the rights of children.
UN: Climate Change Pushes Poor Women to Prostitution, Dangerous Work
 Joseph Holandes Ubalde
The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.
Narco Pirates Smuggle Mexican Petrol into Texas
 John Ross
HOT OIL! Union crooks, drug cartels and U.S. corporations are stealing billions of bucks of Mexican petroleum.
Workers in Mexico are Taking to the Streets Nationwide
 Frontera NorteSur
In the week leading up to the 99th anniversary celebration of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, workers across Mexico took to the streets.
Billboard Aims to Raise Profile of Nonbelievers
 John Wilkens
The San Diego Coalition of Reason paid for a billboard as part of a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about people who don't believe in God.
Nearly One in Six US Citizens Went Hungry in 2008
 Jim Lobe
As the World Food Security Summit got under way in Rome Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) disclosed that nearly one in six U.S. households went hungry at some time during 2008, the highest level since it began monitoring food security levels in 1995.
Natural Disasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color
 Jacqui Patterson
The effects of climate change threaten everyone, but they do not threaten all people equally. Women are disproportionately affected by natural disasters, which are on the increase, as they experience higher rates of mortality, morbidity and post-disaster diminishment in their livelihoods.
Veterans Group Tells President Obama: Don’t Escalate in Afghanistan
 Derrick Crowe
Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan is gathering signatures for a simple message they plan to deliver to the White House: Don’t escalate.
Central America: Gender-based Violence, the Hidden Face of Insecurity
 José Adán Silva
Gender-based violence and sexual abuse are serious public security problems in Central America, and Nicaragua is no exception, according to reports by United Nations agencies and women’s organisations.
UN Official Calls for Probe into Mexican Reporter's Murder
 United Nations News Center
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the murder of Mexican journalist Vladimir Antuna García, and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Fixing Mexico Police Becomes a Priority
 Ken Ellingwood
Reversing police corruption that has tainted whole departments, shattered faith in law enforcement and compromised one of society's most basic institutions is proving difficult, but not impossible.
Texas Accounts for Half of Executions in US but Now Has Doubts Over Death Row
 Chris McGreal
Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by overturned convictions, judicial scandals and growing evidence that at least one innocent man has been executed.
Mexican Scholar: 'Has Any War on Drugs Ever Been Won?'
 Dan Freedman
In a country infamous for its organized narcotics crime, the violent conflict between Mexican drug cartels and federal law enforcement has recently gone from bad to worse, according to Dr. Gustavo Flores-Macias, a postdoctoral associate in development sociology who earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.
Obama's War in Afghanistan
 The Real News Network
Fault Lines debates Obamas war in Afghanistan. Hosted by Avi Lewis.
Prioritizing Low-Cost, Simple Health Measures Would Save 2.5 Million Child Lives a Year
 Geraldine Ryerson-Cruz
Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal and newborn care, leading aid agency World Vision said today.
US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty
 Thalif Deen
When the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the celebrations: the United States and Somalia.
Environmental Laws Put Gaps in Mexico Border Security
 Stephen Dinan
In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants.
US-Honduras: Washington Stresses Urgency of Unity Govt
Jim Lobe
In a renewed effort to save a U.S.-sponsored accord to resolve the five-month-old political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department last week called on both sides to create a government of national unity "without delay" and on the Honduran Congress to "swiftly" consider the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Journalist Murders in Mexico Hit a New Record
 Ioan Grillo
According to a tally by El Universal, the country’s top-selling newspaper, 12 reporters, photographers, editors and radio hosts have been slain this year — two more than in the previous worst year of 2006. The deaths — all of Mexicans working for local media — make the country the most dangerous for the trade in the Western hemisphere
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
 Truthout
A striking biography of the work of one man who thrust himself into the center of the revolutionary fervor of the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement changed the country, Disturbing the Universe is essential viewing.
Castro as Commentator on US Politics
 Paul Haven
Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? Well, you're not alone. Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor.
Mexico Has a President Who Runs Things and One Who Doesn't
 Nicholas Casey
Like a lot of countries, Mexico has a federal government. It meets in a number of imposing colonial and modern buildings around the country. But Mexico has another body, the so-called "Legitimate Government," which claims to be running the republic, too. It meets here in the capital every 15 days in a former garage at 64 San Luis Potosí St.
How the US House Abortion Restrictions Would Work
 Julie Appleby
The health care bill that the House of Representatives has passed would bar insurers from selling policies that cover abortion to anyone who gets a federal subsidy. It does allow insurers to offer optional abortion coverage that consumers could purchase with their own money.
Court Rules CIA Did Not Violate Valerie Plame's First Amendment Rights
 Jason Leopold
By now, most people can admit to the fact that former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson had a decades long career with the spy agency before high-level officials in the Bush administration leaked her undercover status to reporters six years ago. That is, most people except for Valerie Plame Wilson.
VIDEO: Big Business Worried About Regulations Against Child and Slave Labor
 Truthout
Rachel Maddow this week highlighted the alarming concerns of business groups over US trade regulations that would ban the import of goods made with "convict labor, forced labor or forced or indentured child labor."
Mexico: DNA Tool to Trace Missing Kids
 Emilio Godoy
An international genetic identification project, in which Mexico is participating, could help find missing children. But first, a legal framework to enable data collection, tracing of victims and criminal prosecution of people trafficking is needed in this country.
Abortion Amendment May Sink US Health Care Bill
 Yana Kunichoff
An amendment prohibiting both private and public health insurance plans which accept government subsidies from offering abortions as part of basic coverage risks sinking the fragile health bill passed Saturday.
Reinventing Paradise: New Orleans and the Invisible Coast
 Robert Corsini
Paradise to me is the entire planet. How far would a human have to travel to find a better place than this? And what could be more of a "paradise" than feeling safe and secure in your own home, wherever that might be?
Video Documentary: Honduran Voices
 Matt Schwartz
This short video interviews Hondurans in the streets about their thoughts on democracy.
Calderón: It's Time for Profound Change
 The News
President Felipe Calderón on this week called on lawmakers to take measures next year in order to curb extreme poverty as the country recuperates from an economic crisis.
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