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Nixon Urged Death Threats to Uruguayan Prisoners
 Raul O. Garces
Long-secret diplomatic cables show President Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to save the life of a kidnapped U.S. agent 40 years ago this week.
California Judge to Gay Marriage Opponents: ‘Give It Up’
 Paul Elias & Lisa Leff
The federal judge who overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban has more bad news for the measure’s sponsors: he not only is unwilling to keep gay couples from marrying beyond next Wednesday, he doubts the ban’s backers have the right to challenge his ruling.
New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP
 Jim Hightower
With BP's well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor.
Mexico Hopes $270 Million in Social Spending Will Help End Juarez Drug Violence
 Nick Miroff
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a border ciity that once seemed like a model for U.S.-Mexico economic integration, has become a dangerous place full of murder and violence. As the Mexican government struggles to repair the city's social fabric, inhabitants struggle to stay alive.
Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web
 Ms. Smith
Schmidt's message at the Techonomy Conference was that anonymity is a dangerous thing and governments will demand an end to it.
Transvestite Magazine Fights Media Stereotypes
 Sebastián Lacunza
The magazine El Teje, which is published in the Argentine capital and presents itself as "the first transvestite publication in Latin America," has been fighting the stigmatisation of the trans community for nearly three years.
 Arizona: State of Fear - Pt. 2
 The Real News Network
Violent crime in Arizona is down significantly, so why are Arizona politicians falling over themselves to hype up their state's immigrant-fueled crime wave? Because it gets them elected says Alejandro Chávez, campaign manager and grandson of César Chávez.
GAO: Border Security Technology Program ‘Has Not Produced Expected Results’
 Edwin Mora
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) technology program aimed at securing the border and reducing the number of undocumented immigrants is “in a constant state of flux” and “has not produced expected results,” according to a government audit.
Mexicans, US Question Drug Legalization Proposal
 Mark Stevenson
A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs as a way of breaking the economic power of drug cartels is stoking debate inside his country and bringing opposition in Washington.
Mexico Town Has Tradition of Prostitution
 Kate Brumback & Mark Stevenson
In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: Entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.
Michele Obama’s Lavish, Jet-Set Lifestyle Raises Questions
 Doug Thompson
First Lady Michele Obama’s jet-set travels leave critics shaking their heads and wondering why she is living large at taxpayer expense while her husband preaches financial restraint to the rest of America.
Mexico: Cartels Pay Corrupt Cops $100 Million a Month
 Latin American Herald Tribune
Mexican authorities said at a forum that drug-trafficking gangs pay around 1.27 billion pesos (some $100 million) a month in bribes to municipal police officers nationwide.
What State Officials Don't Want Arizona School Children to Know
 Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
For the next few months, the world will be focusing on Arizona's SB 1070 - the state's new racial profiling law - as it works its way through the appeals process. However, in this insane asylum known as Arizona, where conservatives have concocted one reactionary scheme after another, another law in particular stands out for its embrace of Dark Ages-era censorship - the 2010 anti-ethnic studies HB 2281.
Bernie Madoff and the “Watchdog” that Didn’t Bark or Bite
 Sherwood Ross
Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the greatest Wall Street swindle ever was that despite repeated warnings from many different sources the Securities and Exchange Commission over a period of 16 years refused to conduct a diligent probe into the operations of fraudster securities broker Bernard Madoff.
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’
 Muriel Kane
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized.
Con Air: On-Board the US Illegal Immigrants Flights
 Nick Martin
"Everybody wants to stay, nobody wants to leave." Channel 4 News gains exclusive access to US border police and travels with illegal immigrants deported "back home" to Guatemala.
What the Heck Are US Marines Doing in Costa Rica? Obama's Tilt to the Right on Latin America
 Nikolas Kozloff
Costa Rica, with a small population of just four million, is seen as safer than its Central American neighbors and an attractive destination for tourists and US retirees. So, why is the Costa Rican government now inviting the US Navy to patrol its local waters?
 NPR Considers A Mexico Changed by Drug Violence
 NPR.org
Drug violence in Mexico has transformed that country in numerous ways and almost always not for the better. Jason Beaubien takes a look at some of the changes that reflect the widening Mexico tragedy.
U.N. Declares Water and Sanitation a Basic Human Right
 Thalif Deen
When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights back in December 1948, 58 member states voted for a historic document covering political, economic, social and cultural rights. Nearly 62 years later, a widely-expanded 192- member General Assembly adopted another memorable resolution: this time recognising water and sanitation as a basic human right.
"Media Gives Obama Pass on Iraq"
 The Real News Network
Gareth Porter: Most US media helps Obama back away from Iraq pledge.
At 50, Cuban Trade Embargo is Not Aging Well
 Al Kamen
The half-century-old Cuban trade embargo has seen better days. For its first 30 years, when the Castro crowd was in cahoots with the Soviets - even welcomed nukes 90 miles from Florida - the embargo enjoyed widespread support. The collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago undermined the Cold War rationale for the effort.
Worst. Decade. Ever.
 ReasonTV
Hands down, the '00s were the worst political decade at least since the 1990s. Reason.tv celebrates the (lack of) personalities, the scandals, and the screw-ups that made us all want to forget the first 10 years of the 21st century.
Arizona's Tough Laws Just One Peril for Day Labourers
 Valeria Fernández
Ovidio Perez's brother was planning to return to Guatemala because of a new Arizona law that made it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant. He returned, but in a coffin.
Mexico: Cartels Move Beyond Drugs, Seek Domination
 Associated Press
President Felipe Calderon said this week that Mexico's cartels in many cases have moved beyond drugs as their main money-earner and are even trying to supplant the government in parts of the country.
Deadly Illegal US Border Crossing
 Al Jazeera
As the US state of Arizona fights to reinstate controversial sections of its law targeting illegal immigration, every day Mexican migrants risk their lives to cross into the United States.
The Mexican Border’s Lost World
 Marc Lacey
Once thought of by Americans as just a naughty playland, the divide between the United States and Mexico is now most associated with the awful things that happen here.
Arizona: State of Fear
 The Real News Network
'Attrition by enforcement' is the name of the game in Arizona. The goal is to dissuade undocumented immigration by making life unbearable for the undocumented already living in Arizona.
Mexico's Violence Not as Widespread as Seems
 Chris Hawley
A closer look at the latest official statistics indicates that much of Mexico has modest murder rates, with the horrific violence that is jacking up the national death toll largely in nine of Mexico's 31 states.
Pacific Rim v. El Salvador and the Perils of Free Trade in the Americas
 Krista Scheffey
Like NAFTA, the treaty that DR-CAFTA is based upon, DR-CAFTA’s Chapter 10 includes extensive investor rights provisions. These clauses, ostensibly designed to encourage foreign investment, in fact allow multinational corporations to avoid negotiations with individual governments and instead to settle investor disputes with an international tribunal.
Mexico: San Juan Copala Again Under Fire
 Nancy Davies
Residents of San Juan Copala once again huddle together under fire, pleading for urgent support from national and state governments, as well as the ambassadors of Finland, Germany, and Belgium. Shootings have increased and another indigenous leader has been threatened with death.
Protests Test Patience of Mexico City Drivers
 Elisabeth Malkin
“Capital en Movimiento” the city declares itself, next to a windblown drawing of its main landmark, the Angel of Independence. On many days, however, this capital is not in movement at all.
US Supreme Court Eats Away at Miranda Rights
 Jesse J. Holland
The Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warnings this year. The rulings will change the ways police, lawyers and criminal suspects interact amid what experts call an attempt to pull back some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades.
Controversial Cosmetics Inspired by Violent Mexican City
 Nicholas Casey
It’s a rare thing for a cosmetic company to apologize for its own bad makeup, but then again, it’s a rare thing for a makeup line to be named after the murder capital of Mexico.
US Immigrant Detention: A Long Stay
 Yana Kunichoff
More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there - and who is profiting from their imprisonment?
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