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Argentina Opens Dirty War Torture Garage Trial
 Bridget Huber
From the street, it was an unremarkable auto-body shop in a busy middle-class neighborhood. Behind its metal garage door, Automotores Orletti was a tactical operations center for Operation Condor, a coordinated effort by South America's dictatorships to eliminate dissidents who sought refuge in neighboring countries.
Parents' Fight for Justice Continues a Year After Nursery Fire
 Emilio Godoy
From the moment he wakes up each morning, Abraham Fraijo feels the absence of his daughter Emilia, one of the 49 children who died Jun. 5, 2009, in a fire at the ABC child-care centre in the northwestern Mexican city of Hermosillo. It is the battle for justice that keeps him going.
Drug-Torn Mexico to Scrap Municipal Police?
 Danica Coto
Mexico's president is urging approval of a plan to replace local police departments with state forces so the government can better fight unrelenting drug violence that has claimed nearly 23,000 lives.
 Washington Post Exposes BP Ties to Eco-Groups, Other Media Ignore Controversy
 Julia A. Seymour
Nature Conservancy and other left-wing environmental organizations accepted millions from oil giant, while broadcast networks remain silent.
Cartels Smuggle U.S. Drug Money Back to Mexico in Cash, Study Finds
 Tracy Wilkinson
More than half of the "breathtaking" sums of money earned by Mexican drug cartels in the U.S. and smuggled into this country dissolves into Mexico's cash-based economy, eluding detection and funding vast criminal operations, according to a new U.S.-Mexican government study released Wednesday.
US-Mexico Border Isn't So Dangerous
 Martha Mendoza
It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer. It's the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn't so dangerous after all.
FCH Confirms Condemnation of Anastasio Hernández Case
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
The Presidency confirms Federal Government's condemnation of the case of Mexican citizen Anastasio Hernández Rojas, who was violently subdued by US migratory authorities in San Diego, California on Friday May 28 and died on May 31.
Opening Soviet Archives Providing New Insight Into Stalin’s Mind
 Sherwood Ross
Historians today are only coming to understand the complex and sophisticated individual that was Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia for nearly thirty years until his death in 1953.
Universities Crucial to Development of Latin America
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
President Felipe Calderón said that in the century of knowledge, higher education institutions are called to play a strategic role in Latin America.
Contaminated Cocaine Can Cause Flesh to Rot
 Kathleen Doheny
Cocaine abusers - already at risk for an abnormal heartbeat, blood pressure problems, hallucinations, convulsions and stroke - can add another potential health complication to the list: rotting flesh.
Arizona Immigration Law Prompts Mexico to Extend Repatriation Aid Program
 Nacha Cattan & Sara Miller Llana
In response to the controversial new Arizona immigration law, Mexico is extending a program that helps citizens living illegally in the US return home.
Cartels Expand South of Mexico's Border
 Chris Hawley
Traffickers are infiltrating into Central America to help replenish their ranks, and are getting help from the countries they target.
World Leaders Could Face Prosecution for ‘State Aggression’
 David Charter
World leaders could face prosecution for acts of state aggression — potentially including the invasion of Iraq — under calls for the International Criminal Court to extend its powers.
Corporations Profit From Permanent War: Memorial Day 2010
 Bill Quigley
US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to permanent war than permanent peace.
Mexico Ignores Inter-American Court Rulings
 Emilio Godoy
Six months after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down two sentences against the Mexican state, one of them linked to the wave of murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, little has been done to comply with the rulings.
Media Claim Access to Gulf Spill Site has Been Limited
 Matthew Brown
Media organizations say they are being allowed only limited access to areas impacted by the Gulf oil spill through restrictions on plane and boat traffic that are making it difficult to document the worst spill in U.S. history.
Is Our Demand for Cheap Food Putting our Health at Risk?
 Rob Edwards
The latest compilation of factory farming horrors assembled by the campaign group, Animal Aid, packs an emotional punch. But it also underlines the serious message that the anti-meat activists want to get across: that industrial farms can hurt humans as well.
Analysts Question Korea Torpedo Incident
 Jeff Stein
How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare?
Don’t Fence Them In
 Newsweek
A little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development has been unfolding south of our border. The fertility rate in Mexico - whose emigrants account for a majority of the United States’ undocumented population - has undergone one of the steepest declines in history, from about 6.7 children per woman in 1970 to about 2.1 today, according to World Bank figures.
Musicians Differ in Responses to Arizona’s New Immigration Law
 Larry Rohter
For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards should have been a moment of pure celebration. But when it came time for Mr. Hernandez to accept his award as new artist of the year, he got drawn into politics.
US House Votes to Repeal Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
 William Douglas & David Lightman
The House of Representatives voted 234 to 194 Thursday night to repeal the military's 17-year-old policy that prohibits gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the nation's armed forces.
TRNN Exclusive: The Man that "Shoed" Bush Pt3
 The Real News Network
al-Zaidi: Under US pressure, Iraqi media covered up my torture and supporters were arrested.
Human Rights Organizations Urge US State Department to Withhold Security Funds for Mexico
 Amnesty International USA
In advance of a Congressional hearing on U.S.-Mexico security cooperation and funding, a coalition of human rights organizations today urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to withhold funds to support Mexico’s anti-drug operations until the government makes concrete and measurable advances on human rights.
Arizona Law Already in Effect for Some Immigrants
 Valeria Fernández
It's not the law yet, but for undocumented immigrants like Ismael Palafox and his family, SB 1070 is already a reality.
Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create a Panic in California
 Michael Montgomery
Marijuana in California costs much less than $2,000 a pound, according to interviews with more than a dozen growers and dealers. But the people who don't have quality product aren't selling it, according to a former underground grower who now cultivates medical marijuana.
Mexico: Another Triqui Leader Slain in Oaxaca
 Nancy Davies
Less than a month after the deaths of two activists in the ambush of a humanitarian caravan headed to San Juan Copala, an armed group assassinated the indigenous leader Timoteo Alejandro Ramirez, a member of the Movimiento de Unificación y Lucha Triqui-Independiente.
Cancun Mayor's Arrest Fuels Fears of Drug Politics
 Alexandra Olson
The arrest of Cancun's mayor on suspicion of protecting two violent drug gangs as he campaigned for governor has heightened fears that cartels are muscling their way into Mexican politics. There are also worries the gangs are tightening control over the country's most important tourist resort.
Obama Admin. Backs Vatican’s Claim of Immunity
 Agence France-Presse
The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed the Vatican's claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.
Making Latin America's Cities Women-Friendly
 Marcela Valente
Violence against women is not only domestic, it also happens in the streets. Not having the right to feel safe in a city square or at a bus stop without someone bothering us, that's also violence.
Activists Blast Mexico's Immigration Law
 Chris Hawley
Arizona's new law forcing local police to take a greater role in enforcing immigration law has caused a lot of criticism from Mexico, the largest single source of illegal immigrants in the United States. But in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive terrible treatment from corrupt Mexican authorities, say people involved in the system.
Supreme Court to Hear DNA Testing Case of Texas Death Row Inmate
 Dave Montgomery
A Texas Death Row inmate who came within minutes of being executed for a triple murder in the Panhandle is now at the center of a potentially far-reaching Supreme Court case on DNA testing.
Why Mexico Welcomes Obama's Plan to Send US Troops to Border
 Nacha Cattan
Departing from its complaints about the Arizona immigration law, Mexico cautiously welcomes President Barack Obama's plan to send 1,200 troops to the border.
'But My Mom Doesn't Have Papers'
 The Real News Network
With legislation popping up all over the country targeting immigrant groups, a national movement is forming to fight back. In one example in the video, Arizona bans ethnic studies, in spite of the fact that the state's own superintendent is clueless on Chicano history.
Saving Rainforests May Help Reduce Poverty
 Renee DeGross Valdes
A new study shows that saving rainforests and protecting land in national parks and reserves reduced poverty in two developing countries, according to research by a Georgia State University professor.
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