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 Editorials | At Issue
Hugo Chavez: A Walk in the Footsteps of Arbenz, Allende
 Dr. Rosa Maria Pegueros
For more than forty years, Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been the target of countless United States- and CIA-sponsored assassination attempts. I shudder to think what might have happened if Cuba had been endowed with large reserves of oil. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez may learn the consequences of such a blessing very soon.more »»»
USAID Sued over Anti-Prostitution Policy
 William Fisher
A U.S.-based family-planning charity is formally challenging Washington's "anti-prostitution" policy, calling it an unconstitutional infringement of speech that is undermining international efforts to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS.more »»»
Across the Tracks at Crawford, Texas, a Divided Nation Bares Its Pain and Fury
 Andrew Gumbel
There could have been no starker symbol of the political divisions vexing George Bush's America this weekend than the railroad track running right through the heart of Crawford, home to the president's summer holiday ranch in the scorched plains of central Texas.more »»»
Not Your Daddy's Creationists
 Rosa Brooks
Sometimes it seems like secular intellectuals just can't win. In the 1980s and '90s, they were attacked by the right for their "relativism" - an alleged refusal to accept the existence of absolute truth. Today, they're under attack once more, only this time the right is mad because secular intellectuals aren't relativist enough.more »»»
Will News Media Help Bush Exploit the 9/11 Anniversary Again?
 Norman Solomon
President Bush and many of his vocal supporters aren't content to wrap themselves in the flag. It's not sufficient to posture as more patriotic than opponents of the Iraq war. The ultimate demagogic weapon is to exploit the memory of September 11, 2001.more »»»
Could It Be Bush's Watergate?
 Thomas Pauken
Karl Rove's favorite president is Richard Nixon. What a twist of fate it would be if Rove were driven from power as Nixon was over what both men would consider trivial matters - the leaking of a CIA employee's name to reporters by Rove in 2004, and the Watergate break-in of the Democratic headquarters at the instigation of Nixon campaign officials in 1972.more »»»
Bush's Aid Cuts on Court Issue Roil Neighbors
 Juan Forero
Three years ago the Bush administration began prodding countries to shield Americans from the fledgling International Criminal Court in The Hague, which was intended to be the first permanent tribunal for prosecuting crimes like genocide.more »»»
Roberts Questioned Value of Women Lawyers
 David Espo
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts disparaged state efforts to combat discrimination against women in Reagan-era documents made public Thursday, and wondered whether "encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."more »»»
Roberts Resisted Women's Rights
 Amy Goldstein, R. Jeffrey Smith & Jo Becker
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. consistently opposed legal and legislative attempts to strengthen women's rights during his years as a legal adviser in the Reagan White House, disparaging what he called "the purported gender gap" and, at one point, questioning "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."more »»»
Information Access First Step In Controlling Toxic Waste
 Talli Nauman
Could somebody please get the message to the new environment secretary in Mexico? Local communities will not accept hazardous waste confinement sites until residents have: 1) access to information, 2) proof that factory operators are reducing inputs, 3) participation in decision-making, 4) assurance of open bidding processes, and 5) guarantees of developers' responsibility.more »»»
Immigrants Duped by False Promises
 Liliana Alcántara
As a child in sub-Saharan Africa, Emily was orphaned when her mother died of AIDS. Her grandparents took charge of raising her and helped her to finish her primary and secondary education. But when she turned 18 and announced that she wanted to continue her studies at the university level, she found that her grandparents had other plans for her: They had arranged for her to marry a 50 year-old man who already had two wives.more »»»
Report: High School Exit Exams Pressuring Limited-English Students
 AP
Huge numbers of students who don't speak or read English well may be denied a high school diploma based on graduation tests that do not fairly measure their skills, a study suggests.more »»»
Amnesty International Criticizes Mexico's Human Rights Record
 James Blears
Amnesty International has held a public forum in Mexico City for political parties, to convince them to ingrain human rights as a cornerstone of the political agenda in the ongoing presidential election campaign.more »»»
Mexico's Other Border Problem
 Maria Elena Salinas
A group of 15 men and women, mostly from Central America, took the risky trip through the rough waters of the Pacific Ocean on a high-speed boat from the Guatemalan city of Tecún Umán to Puerto Escondido in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Their goal was to reach the United States, find a job and send money back home.more »»»
How Many Dead Indians Will Satisfy Feds and Scientists?
 Suzan Shown Harjo
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is fighting an uphill battle to defend its 1990 national repatriation law and to clean up the mess created by activist judges who overrode congressional intent in 2004 and wrote their own law.more »»»
How Cafta Passed House by 2 Votes
 Edmund L. Andrews
It was just before midnight on Wednesday when Representative Robin Hayes capitulated. Mr. Hayes, a Republican whose district in North Carolina has lost thousands of textile jobs in the last four years, had defied President Bush and House Republican leaders by voting against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or Cafta.more »»»
Gene Map Sparks Ethics Debate
 Theresa Braine
The recently launched public-private partnership that will map the genes of Mexicans in hopes of developing specific, tailor-made treatments for various diseases could be a boon or a boondoggle, depending how the ethics are handled.more »»»
A 'Free Market' Includes Labor
 Douglas S. Massey
There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of U.S. relations with Mexico. Together, our nations have created an integrated market characterized by the relatively free flow of capital, goods, services and information across our borders.more »»»
The Religious Left Fights Back
 Van Jones
Rabbi Michael Lerner is stirring up trouble again - thank God. Earlier this week, Lerner was the main organizer of a national gathering in Berkeley, California, for the religious Left. His "Spiritual Activism" conference was intended to help launch a much-needed new initiative: the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP).more »»»
Evangelical Interference in Stem Cell Research
 W. Christopher Epler
It's now clear that the stem cell issue isn't between Republicans and Democrats. It's between George W. Bush's Evangelical presidency and the religious and scientific convictions of most Americans - as many as 72 percent, according to a recent Harris poll.more »»»
Secret Nuclear Waste Shipment Should Be Campaign Issue
 Talli Nauman
Transporting nuclear waste is always a dangerous thing, despite Perma-Fix Environmental Services statement that no issues regarding national security or risk to public health and safety exist in a plan to ship it from Mexico´s Laguna Verde atomic power plant to the United States.more »»»
Race Is Complex Issue In Diverse Society
 Lennox Samuels
Foreigners in Mexico City who look at Mexican television or movies or magazines or anything with human faces on it could be excused for thinking they had landed in a European city.more »»»
Mexican Immigrants Assimilate Differently Than Europeans Did
 Brady McCombs
The continued and increasing flow of Mexican immigrants in the past 30 years has altered the traditional assimilation patterns and created tension between U.S.-born Latinos and newer immigrants, according to an immigration researcher.more »»»
Indian Migrants Strive To Save Customs
 Teresa Borden
While living in the United States, indigenous groups find it harder and harder to hold on to their culture, and observers believe they are migrating to the United States in ever increasing numbers, driven by a host of circumstances.more »»»
Graduates Struggle to Find Work, Look to U.S. for Jobs
 Ana Maria Salazar
Mexico's youth time bomb is ticking and the question is, when will it blow up? I apologize for using silly clichés, but I am still struggling to find words to describe the current crisis facing young Mexican professionals and how its repercussions will be felt in the upcoming years.more »»»
Bush's Strategy for Court: Disarm the Opposition
 Adam Nagourney
With his nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, President Bush moved Tuesday to plant the conservative imprint on the Supreme Court that has been a central aim of his presidency, but with a member of the Washington legal establishment designed to frustrate any Democratic effort to block Mr. Bush's replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.more »»»
The Life and Death of an American Dream
 W. E. Gutman
Long before he shipped out for the Persian Gulf, Marine Lance Corporal Jose Antonio Gutierrez had defied the odds and conquered adversity. He is fondly remembered as a lanky youth with eyes black as night and a face chiseled by sharp Maya features.more »»»
Election Fraud: Team Bush Paid $8 Million for Dirty Tricks to Suppress Votes - and Tried to Hide It
 Mark Crispin Miller & Jared Irmas
In the months before the 2004 presidential election, a firm called Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states. The group - run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition - had been hired by the Republican National Committee.more »»»
Zapatista Turn: One Step Forward
 Phil Hearse
The Chiapas Red Alert called by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in mid-June set alarm bells ringing among the left and social movements in Latin America and beyond.more »»»
Data Shows Faster-Rising Death Toll Among Iraqi Civilians
 Sabrina Tavernise
Iraqi civilians and police officers died at a rate of more than 800 a month between August and May, according to figures released in June by the Interior Ministry, who said that 8,175 Iraqis were killed by insurgents in the 10 months that ended May 31.more »»»
Report of 180 Types of US Human Rights Violations Since 9/11
 Ann Fagan Ginger
In celebration of Independence Day and the rights and freedoms of the peoples of the US, reports of more than 180 violations of human rights by the US Government since 9/11 were submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee Against Torture, the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and to the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.more »»»
The Heterosexual Revolution
 Stephanie Coontz
The last week has been tough for opponents of same-sex marriage. First Canadian and then Spanish legislators voted to legalize the practice, prompting American social conservatives to renew their call for a constitutional amendment banning such marriages here.more »»»
Many Hurdles To Voting Abroad
 Ana María Salazar
There's no question that the passing of legislation that allows Mexicans living abroad to vote in the 2006 presidential elections is historical. It was politically inconceivable to think that Congress could deny that right to Mexicans who provide 2.46 percent of this country's GDP making Mexico the second largest remittance-recipient nation in the world, behind India.more »»»
Traumatized Teens Need Help
 Andrew Malekoff
Reports of teens murdering their parents have a way of getting reactions from the public that tell us a lot about ourselves. The first question many people raise is: Should these kids be tried as adults or subject to a more humane and child-friendly legal standard?more »»»
It's Too Late to Deplore the Evolution of the Species
 Michel Veuille
Dutch Education Minister Maria van der Hoeven's declarations against the teaching of Darwinism (Le Monde of 28 May 2005) recall that the theory of evolution is still rejected by those who see it as contradictory to their religious convictions.more »»»
War? What War?
 Gary Kamiya
As the Iraq nightmare deepens over the last four years, Fox News and its cable competitors wallow in shark attacks and Natalee Holloway. Question: If you don't cover a war, does it exist?more »»»
A Monument Stirs Immigration Debate
 Sara B. Miller
For a dozen years, a 20-foot monument has stood quietly at the rail stop in this predominantly Latino city. Ray Leyba had never bothered to read it - even though he lives next door.more »»»
Siege on Border
 Daniel González & Susan Carroll
It's a simple idea: Make it tougher to cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally and fewer migrants will try to sneak in. For 12 years, the United States has backed that strategy, pumping billions of dollars into fortifying the border.more »»»
US Immigration Law as Anti-Terrorism Tool
 Mary Beth Sheridan
In the past two years, United States officials have filed immigration charges against more than 500 people who have come under scrutiny in national security investigations, according to previously undisclosed government figures.more »»»
Rearranging the Mexican Cabinet
 Carlos Luken
Participants and onlookers alike greeted the June 1 resignation of Santiago Creel, Mexico's secretary of government and the Vicente Fox administration's top political operative, with mixed emotions.more »»»
Black Oaxacans Demand Recognition
 Alberto López
Seated in the dusty front yard of her ramshackle home in the El Ciruelo community of Pinotepa Nacional, Elena Ruiz's bright white blouse accents the deep ebony color of her skin. "We (Mexican) blacks are not even in the history books," she laments. "It's as if we were invisible in the eyes of the government."more »»»
Social Security: Migrants Offer Numbers for Fee
 Eduardo Porter
Virtually undetected by American authorities, operating below the radar in immigrant communities from coast to coast, a secondary trade in identities has emerged straddling both sides of the Mexico-United States border.more »»»
Take Action Now!
 ActionCenter.org
The United States' H.R. 1528, Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005, is one of the worst drug war bills that the US Congress has ever considered.more »»»
The Hard Truth Of Immigration
 Robert J. Samuelson
We could do a better job of stopping illegal immigration on our southern border and of policing employers who hire illegal immigrants. The stakes are simple: will immigration continue to foster national pride and strength or will it cause more and more weakness and anger?more »»»
How Many More Migrants Must Die?
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
U.S. citizens are going to be massing along the Arizona/Sonora border this week, and the issue once again is Mexican migrants. But these volunteers probably won't be praised by the governor of neighboring California. Nor will they get the wink-wink, nudge-nudge support of the Bush administration.more »»»
Crisis Center Shelters Wives Of Traffickers
 Ginger Thompson
When battered wives show up at Lydia Cacho's crisis center, they often come with more than their children and their pain. They come with men like Alfredo Jiménez Potenciano trailing after them.more »»»
The Latino Face of America
 Alan Caruba
As far as the mass media is concerned, Latinos are an even greater minority than African Americans, but Latinos outnumber them these days. When you read or hear about a Latino it is most likely because they have been arrested. This totally ignores the growing Latino middle class of those born here and others who arrive here legally or illegally.more »»»
A Comment Not Even Spinners Can Explain Away
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
There’s no need to mince words about it. President Fox’s now-famous remark about Mexican migrants filling U.S. jobs that “not even blacks want to do” was racist. Per se, ipso facto, and on its face.more »»»
MAD About Immigration
 Avery Oldach
It looks like it belongs on the pages of MAD Magazine, but in all actuality it is a brochure distributed by the Mexican government that instructs, through illustrations, how to safely and successfully sneak across an international border. And you guessed it - the American border is the one being overwhelmingly penetrated by illegal aliens.more »»»
Catholic Devotion, and Doubts
 Nicholas D. Kristof
Here in Latin America, the great remaining heartland of Roman Catholicism, some Catholics have a blunt warning for Pope Benedict XVI: unless the Catholic Church changes course, it may come close to committing suicide.more »»»
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