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 Editorials | At Issue
Fox Administration Gets the Bulk of Border Fence Controversy
 Isaac Garrido
The proposed U.S.-Mexico border fence is just as controversial in Mexico as it is in the United States - with Mexican President Vicente Fox getting the bulk of the criticism.more »»»
War, Scandal Could Make This "Year of the Woman"
 Liz Marlantes
They are leading the attack on ethics issues, vowing to clean up Washington, and reaching out to erstwhile "security moms" who have turned against the war. Women candidates - mostly Democrats - may prove the biggest beneficiaries of this year's scandal-dominated headlines and the growing voter disgust with Congress.more »»»
Resolution OK´d, but Ruiz Skewered
 Jonathan Roeder
Despite months of unrest in Oaxaca that have led to at an estimated 11 deaths, the Senate decided against dissolving Oaxaca´s government on Thursday. Senators voted 74 to 31 along party lines in favor of a resolution arguing that the Senate lacks the authority to remove Gov. Ulises Ruiz.more »»»
Mexican Gov. Protects Pedophile Priests
 The Watchdog
Mexico has put out the “not welcome” mat for St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson. He and two colleagues will fight an order by Mexican immigration authorities banning them from entering the country for five years. Anderson, whose specialty is representing victims in clergy sex abuse cases, learned of the ban Friday.more »»»
Inside the Secret World of White Supremacy
 John F. Sugg
For years, Aryan Nations aspired to have an uprising in the Northwest, and turn five states into, literally, The Aryan Nation. With the group staggering from the double whammy of litigation and factionalism, the new goal is more modest: South Carolina.more »»»
APPO Acts Earn Mixed Reactions
 John Gibler
At noon on Wednesday, about 80 men and women belonging to the Oaxaca People´s Assembly (APPO) huddled in Oaxaca City´s Zócalo. Armed with sticks, homemade rocket launchers, slingshots, and iron rods, they listened intently to one of the group´s provisional leaders, who urged them to stay calm and "resist provocation."more »»»
Pealing Church Bells and Gunfire
 Deirdre Cornell
Around three o’clock in the morning of Aug. 22, my husband and I awoke to the sound of alert rockets popping in the night air. Our children slept blissfully unaware; here in Mexico, numerous fiestas are punctuated with fireworks. But this was different.more »»»
LA Mexican Consul Says Immigrants Wrongly Left Out of Debate
 Peter Prengaman
Mexican immigrants have been wrongly excluded from the immigration reform debate, and building more fence along the U.S.-Mexico border could exacerbate migration problems, said Ruben Beltran, Mexico's general consul for Los Angeles.more »»»
Latin America Faces Donation Crunch
 Mark Stevenson
Latin America faces a dearth of charitable giving as international foundations look to needs elsewhere, while the region's own corporations are donating at rates well below those seen in the developed world.more »»»
López Obrador Power in Doubt as Party Loses in Home State
 Monica Campbell
The power of defeated presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador's political project is now in question with his party's candidate losing a state gubernatorial race that was considered a test of the leftist politician's influencemore »»»
Mid-Term Elections, Remember Our K.I.A.
 David Lord
If you are a US citizen planning to vote in the mid-term elections remember that our killed in action has nearly reached three thousand of America's finest citizens and ask yourself, should we stay "The Course" and continue to spill more blood?more »»»
APPO Protesters Confront the Media
 John Gibler
The Oaxaca People´s Assembly (APPO) does not hire professional media consultants or issue well-crafted press releases to get their message out. Instead, the protesters have walked through the unlocked doors of radio stations across the city and simply informed the workers that the APPO would be taking over.more »»»
Mexican Officials Hope Economic Growth Can Stem Illegal Migration
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Top Mexican business leaders were developing ways last week to boost the economy and create jobs in a bid to stem illegal immigration to the United States, where authorities are tightening border security to stop migrants from entering.more »»»
Humble Donkey Reclaiming Its Place
 Sara Miller Llana
A single donkey the locals call "The Precious One" stands alone, grazing in a field with the low mountains of western Mexico in the background. But burros, or donkeys, once thronged the country's dirt roads. Mules hauled everything from maize to Mexicans, laying down tracks extending from Veracruz to the state of Mexico.more »»»
Disease Tracker Wants to Rewrite Mexican History
 Marion Lloyd
Here's what history tells us about the Spanish conquest of Mexico: Armed with modern weapons and Old World diseases, several hundred Spanish soldiers toppled the Aztec empire in 1521. And by the end of the century, the invaders' guns, steel and germs had wiped out 90 percent of the natives. But it may be just a legend, according to Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist.more »»»
Failure of Act was Wide Ranging
 Daniel González
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 taught the country several lessons. Granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants doesn't solve illegal immigration and employer sanctions are meaningless unless they are strictly enforced.more »»»
Why Do Courts Say "Habeas Corpus"?
 Steve Sampson
U.S. citizens generally regard the Bill of Rights as freedom's most fundamental guarantee. The Constitution's framers, however, treated habeas corpus as even more fundamental than that. They didn't tack habeas corpus on as an amendment. They wrote it into the Constitution's first article.more »»»
Job Demand Spurs Border Crossing
 Wire services
There is no shortage of promises of jobs from family and friends in the United States. Sometimes U.S. employers even assure veteran undocumented workers that they will hold a job open for them while they visit an ailing parent or a pining spouse back home.more »»»
Border Fence to Complicate US-Mexico Ties: Calderon
 Reuters
A U.S.-Mexico border fence aimed at keeping illegal immigrants out of the United States will "enormously complicate" relations between the countries, Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon said.more »»»
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
 Howard Zinn
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat.more »»»
Dispute over Election Keeps Mexico on Edge
 David Adams
Many Mexicans say they remain convinced that presidential elections in early July were stolen by the country’s political and business elite. The sit-in by thousands of supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lasted 2½ months, even after a partial recount ratified the results.more »»»
New Wall Not Expected to Stop Migrants
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Rising from the Pacific surf and zig-zagging along the border for 14 miles, Tijuana's border fence has done little but push illegal migrants into the Arizona desert and feed the smuggling industry since it went up in 1994.more »»»
Mexico Mega-Port Plan Key to 'NAFTA Superhighways'
 WorldNetDaily.com
There are mixed signals coming from Mexico about the fate of a proposed mega-port in Baja California for mainly Chinese goods that would be shipped on rail lines and "NAFTA superhighways" running through the U.S. to Canada.more »»»
Mexico Begins to Suspect Priests of Covering Up Abuse
 Laurence Iliff
The pedophile priest scandals that roiled the Roman Catholic Church in Dallas, Boston and Los Angeles were seen in Mexico as mostly a U.S. problem, but that's rapidly changing as parish priests and even a cardinal face new legal battles.more »»»
US Border Fence Plan Upsets Mexico
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Mexico lobbied for six years for a comprehensive immigration reform that would allow millions to cross into the United States legally. Instead, they're getting a fence.more »»»
Mexican Left Pushes Forward Despite New Administration
 Diego Cevallos
Mexico’s Left plans to re-lay the foundations of the country with a symbolic “government” of social activism chosen by its followers, and a party coalition acting through the country’s institutions.more »»»
The Cost of This War
 David Lord
The War goes on, and as we watch from Puerto Vallarta, we Americans and Canadians are told that fighting over there is the way we stop from fighting within North America. The program of keeping the terrorist at bay is a folly.more »»»
Support the Oaxacan Teachers/People's Encampment for Dignity and Against Repression
 Eric Mar
Narco News has excellent and up-to-date reports on the struggles in Mexico City, Oaxaca and throughout Latin America. APPO and others are calling for allies and supporters to defend the people's encampments.more »»»
Gov. Ruiz Feeling the Heat
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Ulises Ruiz´s hold on power seemed to weaken Wednesday as calls for his ouster intensified and even a key National Action Party (PAN) legislative leader suggested the embattled Oaxaca governor may have to consider resigning.more »»»
Mexico Hid Police Rapes of Protesters: Amnesty
 Reuters
Police who beat, sexually abused and raped women arrested after riots in a rebellious town near Mexico City have not been punished and authorities hid what happened, Amnesty International said on Thursday.more »»»
Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant...
 Heather Wokusch
Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers.more »»»
Mexico Warns Women: If You Love Him, Don't Traffic His Drugs
 Sara Miller Llana
Just when it seemed the list of maxims about love couldn't get any longer, the state of Jalisco has added another: "Stop! Love can cost you dearly." The words were plastered last year on posters at bus stations, in the airport, and outside men's prisons as part of a campaign to caution women against dating drug traffickers.more »»»
Law of the Gun in Acapulco
 Duncan Kennedy
In some ways it is appropriate that John Wayne used to holiday in Acapulco, because this once paradise resort for the rich and famous has become a little like the Wild West. The setting may be the back streets, not the OK Corral, but for the past few months here it has been all guns blazing and very few are getting to ride off into the sunset.more »»»
Mexican Lawmaker: Fox Term 'Black Sexenio For Freedom Of Expression'
 Mark Fitzgerald
A Mexican opposition party congresswoman famed for her pro-press legislative proposals told the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) at its annual meeting Sunday in Mexico City that, despite conventional wisdom, President Vicente Fox's six-year term was a dark time for freedom of expression.more »»»
US Blockade Genocidal and Deviant
 Prensa Latina
Cuba´s First Assistant Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla explained to press Monday the details of a resolution Cuba will submit to the UN General Assembly urging cessation of a “genocidal and aberrant” policy, that of the US blockade.more »»»
Experts See U.S. Border Fence Plan as Impractical
 Tim Gaynor
Building a fence to try to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.more »»»
No Place Like Home...
 Barbara Ferry - The New Mexican
Alcantar Arce decided to try his own form of international tourism: He accepted a temporary job as a housekeeper at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe. The $8-an-hour position came with a six-month visa - an opportunity to legally enter the US that he would not have qualified for without taking a temporary job. But the experience did not turn out as he expected.more »»»
Mexicans See Good and Bad Side to Wall
 Héctor Tobar
Mexicans feel helpless about the effects of the migrant exodus to the US, and talk about it the same way they talk about the weather. Everyone complains about it, but there's not much you can do about it.more »»»
Sex Scandals Hit Mexican Priests
 Marion Lloyd
When the scandal over pedophile priests rocked the Roman Catholic Church in the United States in 2002, the shock waves barely registered in Mexico. Now, just four years later, the Catholic Church in Mexico is facing unprecedented scrutiny.more »»»
US Fence Ends Immigration Dream of Mexico's Vicente Fox
 Alistair Bell
Mexican President Vicente Fox retires in November with his dream shattered of a U.S. immigration overhaul that would allow millions more Mexicans to work legally north of the border.more »»»
US Fence Won't Make Good Neighbors: Mexico, Latinos, Democrats
 Antonio Rodriguez
A fence along the US border with Mexico, which US lawmakers approved to stop illegal immigrants, became a sounding board for criticism from Mexico, Latinos and opposition Democrats weeks before elections. more »»»
Mexican Government Demands Protesters Stop "Kidnapping" of Tourist City
 Associated Press
Mexico's interior secretary on Friday demanded protesters immediately stop the "kidnapping" of the southern city of Oaxaca, reacting to increasing pressure on the government to resolve a crisis that has scared tourists away from the popular destination.more »»»
President Carter: Bush Has Brought US "International Disgrace"
 Associated Press
Former President Carter urged Nevadans on Thursday to elect his Democratic son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought "international disgrace" to the United States.more »»»
PAN, PRI Team Up Against PRD
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Legislators allied with President-elect Felipe Calderón teamed up Friday with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leadership in the Chamber of Deputies to freeze the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) out of all three of the key purse-string committee chairmanships in the lower house of Congress.more »»»
Characters Animate Texas Race
 Miguel Bustillo
Kinky Friedman, the musician, mystery writer and Jewish cowboy running for governor of Texas, was stumping for votes in a smoky beer bar called the Flying Saucer and spraying one-liners like a Gatling gun.more »»»
Disgrace!
 David Lord
After two thousand seven hundred Soldiers and Marines K.I.A. and twenty thousand more wounded in Iraq, President Bush said, "This will be nothing more than a 'Comma' in American History!" Wolf Blitzer of CNN and America were shown the real depth of this President during his interview last Sunday.more »»»
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