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Mexico Cartels Empty Border Towns
 Associated Press
The 14-year-old boy tied a few mattresses and a bedstead to the family pickup truck. He went back into his single-story yellow house for the cat, and chained up the gate. Then he drove off with his family, which was abandoning home, jobs, school and country. All because the drug smugglers told them to.
Study: US Church Attendance Steady, But Makeup of Churchgoers Changes
 Philip Schwadel
U.S. church attendance rates have held relatively steady over the past three and a half decades, a new study shows. But the makeup of the nation's congregations has undergone significant changes during that same stretch.
Google Street View Ruffles European Feathers
 Michael Scott Moore
Recent controversies over the volume of information about ordinary Europeans that U.S. agencies have demanded in the wake of 9/11 — including banking details, flight-customer data and passport biometrics — show a strange difference between America and the Old World.
In Mexico's Murder Capital, Residents, Businesses Suffer
 Tim Johnson
At the traffic lights, only the killers look at other cars. Everyone else looks straight ahead, afraid of ticking off potential assailants. By nightfall, vehicles disappear from the roads. Welcome to the most dangerous city in the world outside a declared war zone, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
22,700 Killed in Drug Violence in Mexico Since '06
 E. Eduardo Castillo
More than 22,700 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war since a U.S.-backed military crackdown on cartels began more than three years ago, according to a government report.
 Fossil Find New Branch in Human Family Tree?
 CBSNews
The fossilized skull and bones found by a boy with his scientist father are the discovery of a lifetime and may prove to be a new link in the human evolutionary chain. Bob Simon reports.
Dying: A Renewed Effort to Reduce the Global Toll
 Marshall Hoffman
Widespread global use of known and proven maternal and childcare techniques, practices, and therapies could save the lives of millions of women, newborns and children each year, according to a new analysis prepared for a mid-April meeting of world leaders and technical experts on maternal and child health
Mexico Proposes Citizen-Watchdog for Media
 Yvonne Reyes Campos
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, a member of the Labor Party (PT) parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies will promote a reform initiative to several articles of the Constitution in order to establish the foundations of an autonomous citizen institution, created by the Congress, that would regulate radio, television and telecommunication concessions and permits.
Rape aXe: Putting Teeth Into the Fight Against Rape
 Amanda Bailly
Rape-aXe is a flexible polyurethane condom-like tube that fits into the woman's body. Rows of jagged plastic hooks line the inside of the tube - bent backward like teeth in a shark's mouth - and lodge in a perpetrator's penis upon entry.
Why Over 77,000 Veterans, Wounded or Disabled in Action, Have No Benefits
 David Lord
Right now there are seventy seven thousand disabled veterans that were discharged from the military with only severance pay - and they could be missing out on their real entitled benefits. The reason is that no one knows about the disputed claims program.
US: Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations
 Jim Lobe
Five days before the assassination in downtown Washington of former Chilean Defence Minister Orlando Letelier, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions to U.S. ambassadors in Latin America's Southern Cone to warn the region's military regimes against carrying out "a series of international murders", according to documents released by the National Security Archive (NSA).
Marijuana Legalization: The Pay-Any-Price Principle
 David Sirota
When faced with criticism of budget-busting prosecution and incarceration costs, law enforcement agencies and private prison interests have successfully depicted their cause as a willingness to pay any price to jail dealers of hard narcotics.
Out of Work in the US
 The Real News Network
Fault Lines travels to some of the regions hardest hit by the recession, tracking some creative measures taken by local communities to combat the jobs crisis from the bottom up.
Ramsey Clark Chosen to Head Commission to Investigate Bush Crimes
 IndictBushNow.org
On April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush administration.
Bush ‘Knew Guantanamo Prisoners Were Innocent’
 Agence France-Presse
Former US president George W. Bush and his top aides were accused Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the 'war on terror'.
A Global V.I.RUS of Instability
 Sean Goforth
Ever since "axis of evil," broad characterizations of geopolitical threats have been considered impolitic, if not ignorant. Certainly this had a lot to do with the intractable stance taken by the US government after President Bush's 2002 State of the Union, which led to the invasion of one country that didn't have WMD while speeding the development of WMD in at least one, if not both, of the other axis members.
Mexico Study: Two-Thirds of Students Bullied
 Rocío Zayas
The first Gender Violence Report in Basic Education by the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) reports that two thirds of students in Mexico are physically and verbally assaulted and 90 percent of feel humiliated by their classmates.
Kingpin's Cartel Winning Mexican Drug War
 Alicia A. Caldwell & Mark Stevenson
After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa cartel now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez.
Fiji's Law Enforcement Approach to Sex Work Falls Short
 Shailendra Singh
Two months after a new anti-prostitution law took effect, taxi driver Shiu Kumar says he sees fewer sex workers along Victoria Parade, the centre of Suva’s nightlife. But while this has had a negative effect on his nighttime fares, he is nevertheless happy about the law.
Why Does Food Cost So Much?
 Annie White
I am at Whole Foods in Toronto, Canada, where I just bought two plums and a banana for almost $5.00. Steep prices are standard at fancy Whole Foods. In fact, no matter where you get food, price tags have become significantly higher than they were 10 years ago. There may never be a free lunch, but it’s getting harder to find even a cheap lunch.
Mexico's PAN to Conduct Poll on Gay Marriages
 The News
The National Action Party (PAN) has entered the ring in the dispute that currently exists between the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Catholic hierarchy, announcing that it will carry out a citizen consultation and two surveys in order find out society's opinion on the issue of the recent approval of gay marriages.
Controversial 'Man Jesus Christ' Pulls in Followers
 Emilio Godoy
José Luis de Jesús Miranda, a Puerto Rican national based in the United States, founded his religious organisation, Ministerio Internacional Creciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace International Ministry) in 1988. Also known as "The Government of God on Earth", the group is popularly referred to as the Antichrist or 666 Sect.
Mexico's UNAM Calls for Social Progress
 Magnolia Velázquez
The rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), José Narro Robles, yesterday called for a consensus on public policies seeking to reinforce social cohesion instead of widening the social gap.
Policing Mexico and its Cart-Before-the-Horse Woes
 Jerry Brewer
The old media cliché of “if it bleeds it leads” still has a soft place in the heart for aspiring markets. However, the graphic and war-like carnage in Mexico, along with its deep suffering citizenry, cries out for much more than mere sympathy.
US Covering Up Reality in Honduras
 The Real News Network
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country's crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary.
America is About to Undertake 'Its Biggest Transformation in Decades'
 The Economist
America’s economy is set to shift away from consumption and debt and towards exports and saving. It will be its biggest transformation in decades, says Greg Ip.
100 Million Americans Question or Find Fault with the Official 9/11 Story
 Joel S. Hirschhorn
The failure to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Manhattan has received endless attention. But public anger about this failed reconstruction should not been seen so negatively. After all, mental reconstruction has also still not been successful and is surely more needed, with too many Americans still accepting the official government story about 9/11.
Latin America: Poor, Overweight and Malnourished
 Marcela Valente
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) reports that rates of obesity and obesity-related illnesses - such as type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, some forms of cancer and osteoporosis - are rising rapidly in Latin America, and especially among the poorest sectors of the population.
He's Called the Face of Ciudad Juarez Terror
 Richard A. Serrano
Authorities say Eduardo Ravelo has helped turn the border city into Mexico's homicide capital. Now investigators think he played a role in the U.S. Consulate slayings.
Drug Cartel Threatens to Kill Every Child in Mexican Border Town
 Dave Gibson
Residents of El Porvenir have been fleeing into the tiny town of Fort Hancock, TX, seeking political asylum. The rush comes after cartel gunmen have threatened to kill all of the children in El Porvenir, unless their parents pay a protection fee.
Wikileaks Releases Video Depicting US Forces Killing of Two Reuters Journalists in Iraq
 Dan Murphy
A video released on the Internet Monday by WikiLeaks, a small nonprofit dedicated to publishing classified information from the US and other governments, appears to show the killing of two Iraqi journalists with Reuters and about nine other Iraqis in a Baghdad suburb in 2007 that is sharply at odds of the official US account of the incident.
Mexican Cartels Cannot be Defeated, Drug Lord Says
 Robert Campbell
Mexico's war on the drug trade is futile even if cartel bosses are caught or killed as millions of people are involved in the illicit business, a senior drug chief said in an interview published on Sunday.
Religion in Latin America: Scarred for Life
 Daniela Estrada
As Catholic Church authorities in Latin America close ranks around the Vatican, whose credibility has been undermined by countless cases of child sex abuse committed by priests, other sectors are calling for major structural reforms in the institution.
Death Penalty Decreasing Worldwide
 Andrew Meldrum
Amnesty International released its annual survey on the use of the death penalty. GlobalPost asked Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International, about the report on the use of the death penalty worldwide.
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