|
|
|
 Editorials | At Issue
««« Click HERE for Recent Issues
The Death and Life of American Journalism
 The Real News Network
McChesney and Nichols: The market cannot generate sufficient journalism on its own.
Cuban Dissident Orlando Zapata Dies After 85 Days on Hunger Strike
 TimesOnline UK
An opposition political activist imprisoned since 2003 died Tuesday after a lengthy hunger strike, members of Cuba's human rights community said.
Juarez Massacre May Mark a Turning for Mexico
 Tracy Wilkinson
The January killing of 15 young people has created a furor and left some wondering whether it's a tipping point, a moment when Mexicans overcame their fear and fatalism to confront the violence.
Prison Violence and Security in Latin America
 Belen Fernandez
A January 27 article in Venezuelan daily El Universal entitled “Riot leaves at least 7 dead and 17 wounded in La Planta” announces that “a little after 9 this morning, inmates in the La Planta prison initiated a shootout. Meanwhile the National Guard responded with shots from above.”
More Mexicans Investing Their Way to US Visas
 Jenalia Moreno
Mexicans with enough cash are increasingly taking advantage of a special visa that offers immigrants a chance to live in the United States if they invest in this nation.
Tiger Woods "Turning To Buddhism"
 Associated Press
In the theater of American public apologies, it's common for celebrities to invoke their faith. Disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods did it last week, in fact, with a twist.
 Bias Claims Dog Mexico's Drug War
 Al Jazeera
Critics of Felipe Calderon, Mexico's president, and his so-called war on drugs have alleged that the Mexican government may be favouring the Sinaloa cartel, one of the country's most powerful drug-trafficking organisations.
US ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery
The Real News Network
Obama says the stimulus saved or created 2 million jobs in 2009. But is the recovery really working?
How Mexico's Drug War May Become Its Iraq
 Ioan Grillo
While TV spots boast of victories and progress, a rising chorus of voices across Mexico are complaining that the military approach to Mexico's crime problem is not bearing fruit.
The Youth Time Bomb is Ticking Away in Mexico & the US
 Kent Paterson
In Mexico, narco and other forms of criminal violence disproportionately involve the young, and the victims and victimizers are getting younger and younger.
DOJ Report on Torture Memo: Yoo Said Bush Could Order Civilians "Exterminated"
 Jason Leopold
A long-awaited report into the legal memos former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee prepared for the Bush administration on torture was released Friday afternoon.
Amnesty Asks Mexico for New Probe of Journalist’s Death
 EFE
Amnesty International is urging the Mexican government to undertake a new investigation of the 2006 killing of U.S. journalist Brad Will now that a political activist falsely accused of the crime has been released from custody.
Mexico Exonerates Suspect in Killing of U.S. Journalist
 Elisabeth Malkin
The man accused of killing a New York City journalist as he videotaped street clashes in Oaxaca in 2006 was released from jail on Thursday after an appeals tribunal declared that there was no evidence against him.
Maher Strikes Again: Americans 'Not Bright Enough to Really Understand the Issues'
 Jeff Poor
HBO's 'Real Time' host insists Obama administration should have acted without consideration of citizens on NYC terrorism trial and health care due to their intellect.
The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth - What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?
 David DeGraw
The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis - and it's gotten even worse.
Colombia's Cocaine Trail 2: The Labs
The Real News Network
Farmers often have little choice who they sell their coca paste to. The buyers take it to labs deep in the jungle to turn into cocaine, but anti-narcotics police are on the trail.
Employers Take a Beating by Laying Off Employees
 Sherwood Ross
It's not only employees who suffer when they get laid off but the firms responsible for handing them the pink slips can take a beating, too.
Colombia's Cocaine Trail 1: The Farmers
The Real News Network
Matthew Bristow spent two years documenting the cocaine industry in Colombia. In the first of three films, he meets the farmers, and looks at their battle with a government determined to eradicate the crop.
 Pirated Goods Pose Huge Problems In Mexico
 Jason Beaubien
Mexico's multibillion-dollar pirated goods market is worth more than its oil exports and illicit narcotics trade combined. Throughout the country, pirated goods dominate the marketplace, cutting into government tax revenues, discouraging foreign investment and funding organized crime.
Haiti Could Learn from Mexico's Earthquake Recovery
 David Ovalle
Spurred by the social unrest following the quakes, the Mexican government, aid groups and activists built or rehabilitated nearly 100,000 housing units in the capital in less than two years - an achievement widely considered a success that could serve as a model for quake-torn Haiti.
Former Mexican Foreign Minister Calls for ‘North American Union’
 Stephen C. Webster
Prolific Mexican politician and intellectual Jorge Castañeda believes that a greater North American community - a "North American Union" - with economies tied together under a European Union-style system, complete with open borders and a unified currency, is the wave of the future.
The Good Life in Xalisco Can Mean Death in the United States
 Sam Quinones
The poorest of Mexico's poor can step up to the middle class when they go north to sell black tar heroin.
Slaughterhouse Sweatshop: Filmmaker Exposes US Dirty Secrets
 Brenda Norrell
Americans don't want to hear about Postville, Iowa, or how the US spent $5.2 million on a raid that revealed the underbelly of not just the meat packing industry, but of the abuse of migrant workers by US companies and the sinister justice delivered by the US Justice Department. Guatemalan filmmaker Luis Argueta is telling this story.
Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek
 Jason Leopold
On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around his policies.
Mexican Bishops Criticize Gov't Drug War Strategy
 Catherine E. Shoichet
Mexico's Roman Catholic bishops have joined in the growing criticism of a drug war that has captured top kingpins but done little to stem gang violence.
Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency
 Tom Engelhardt
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
Mexican Valley Discovers Perils of New Wealth
 Dudley Althaus
Barely a month after selling her land to the Mexican government and pocketing $200,000 — a bonanza in rural Mexico — Irma Garcia, 45, was strangled to death along with her 22-year-old daughter.
LatAm Schools Under Attack by Traffickers
 The News
Regarding the fight against drug trafficking, Mexico and Brazil have reported cases of armed forces invading schools controlled by the mafia and fighting them right there, stated a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Reporters, Activists Demand Protection in Mexico
 Emilio Godoy
Journalists and human rights activists in Mexico are frantically seeking a mechanism to protect them from attacks related to their work, but the state has been slow to respond. The Colombian model might provide a solution.
CBS Bans Ad for Marijuana Legalization Over "Morals"
 Paul Armentano
Representatives from the CBS Corporation and Neutron Media Screen Marketing have rejected a paid advertisement from the NORML Foundation, the educational arm of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), that was intended to appear on the CBS Super Screen billboard in New York City's Times Square.
Felipe Calderon Proposes New Strategy for Mexico’s Drug War
 Tracy Wilkinson
Facing intense political pressure and demands that he resign, President Felipe Calderon traveled to Mexico’s deadliest city Thursday to defend his troubled fight against drug cartels, which critics charge has only intensified the violence.
U.S. Says it Has Right to Kill American Terror Suspects Abroad Without a Trial
Sherwood Ross
Aping the assassination tactics of Josef Stalin, the U.S. has created an illegal “hit list” of Americans abroad marked for murder.
NGOs Blame Mexico Officials for Most Attacks on Journalists
 Agence France-Presse
Some two-thirds of attacks on journalists in Mexico last year were carried out by the authorities, and less than 10 percent by criminal groups, two rights groups said Wednesday.
Mexico Suffers as U.S. Economy Struggles
 Jason Beaubien
In 2009, Mexico experienced the largest decrease in money sent home by migrants ever recorded by Mexico's central bank. Remittances from migrants working primarily in the United States dropped by nearly 16 percent.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Vallarta Weddings
Tell a Friend
Site Map
Print this Page
Email Us
