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From Barricades to Blogs
 Jennie Yabroff
According to a 2005 CBS News poll, while 69 percent of women said the women's movement had made their lives better - compared with 43 percent in 1997 - only 24 percent said they considered themselves feminists. Almost 80 percent were uncertain who Gloria Steinem is.
Little Enthusiasm Over Anti-Poverty Campaign
 Diego Cevallos
The enthusiasm among social groups in Mexico and Central America for the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is not reflected by the general public, which has displayed scant interest in this week's event.
More Attacks on Free Expression Reported
 Laura Wides-Munoz
At least 13 employees of media organizations were killed and two disappeared in the past six months in the Western Hemisphere, according to preliminary reports presented Sunday by members of a press association that promotes free expression in the Americas.
Canada and the Transcontinental Drug Links
 Strategic Forecasting Inc
The jungles of South America, where cocaine is produced, seem a long way from the St. Lawrence River. Using a sophisticated shipment and distribution network, however, criminal and militant organizations can cover the distance in a few days.
Femicide Cases are Unraveling in Northern Mexico
 Frontera NorteSur
Even as Mexican authorities stepped up a campaign to convince international public opinion that the justice tide was turning in favor of female victims of gender violence, multiple defendants walked free or were not charged with crimes.
Despite Progress, Latin American Journalists Still Face Threats
 Frances Robles & Andres Viglucci
When a gunman was quickly caught and convicted for killing the deputy managing editor of Colombia’s newspaper La Patria, his 29-year prison sentence came to illustrate the first signs of a growing movement: No longer do killers of Latin American journalists go scot free, as they routinely did just a few years ago.
Fox Opens Up On Immigration and More Political Hot Potatoes
 Bridget Johnson
No longer muzzled by concerns of fragile diplomacy and political alliances, former Mexican President Vicente Fox has recently begun seizing the opportunity to speak out.
Flags Going Back Up at Museum After Threats Brought Them Down
 Dianna M. Náñez
The flags of the United States, Arizona and Mexico are going back up in front of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, in Tucson where they flew side by side for more than 50 years until last week.
Female Murders in Mexican Town Hidden for Years
 NewKerala.com
Ciudad Juarez owes its international renown to a terrible, sad fact: a total of 393 women have been murdered in the border city between 1993 and 2007. It is known as "the global capital of feminicides."
US Income-Inequality Gap Widens
 Greg Ip
The richest Americans' share of national income has hit a postwar record, surpassing the highs reached in the 1990s bull market, and underlining the divergence of economic fortunes blamed for fueling anxiety among American workers.
Gore's Back, But Not For a Bid
 Ron Fournier
An Oscar, an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize. Will Al Gore now seek the ultimate reward and Oval Office mantel space? Don't count on it. Odds are that the former vice president won't risk his Nobel-burnished image and huge public platform with a return to the rough-and-tumble world of presidential politics — at least not in 2008.
Getting Arrested in US Can be Deadly
 Agence France-Presse
More than 2,000 people died in the United States during arrests between 2003 and 2005, according to data published by the Department of Justice for the first time this week.
Former Mexican President Says U.S. 'Denying Its Immigrant Soul'
 Alfredo Corchado
Vicente Fox is adjusting to life after the Mexican presidency, but in a new book and a lengthy interview, he returns to the contentious issue he made the centerpiece of his six-year administration: immigration.
Rash of Noose Incidents Reported in US
 Errin Haines
In the months since nooses dangling from a schoolyard tree raised racial tensions in Jena, La., the frightening symbol of segregation-era lynchings has been turning up around the country.
Mexico's Blacks Struggle to Unite, Thrive
 Jonathan Roeder
More black Mexicans are trying to foster a sense of cultural identity as they demand better treatment in a country that fails to acknowledge them.
The Plight of American Veterans
 Peace and Freedom Party
Every day, U.S. veterans are leaving active duty and returning home to find no jobs or low paying jobs. Many returning veterans are having to live with their relatives just to make ends meet, while others are homeless and living on the streets.
New Border Patrol Uniforms Cost $535 Per Agent
 Tim King
This government of ours is certainly known for overspending our tax money. We're now under conservative leadership that has stated repeatedly that they are more responsible with our hard earned contributions to the IRS. Welcome to the age of the $535 military uniform.
Fox Assaults American Isolationism
 Dan Hirschhorn
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox yesterday said the issue of immigration is misunderstood in the United States, and that this country is slipping down an isolationist slope.
Bush Reverses Stance on Execution of Foreign National
 Sheldon Alberts
In the months before Texas executed Canadian Stanley Faulder in June 1999, George W. Bush made it crystal clear what he thought about outsiders who challenged his state's right to carry out the death penalty. "Foreigners can't expect to get away with murder in the state of Texas," said Bush. That was then, this is now.
Odd Marathon Finish Isn't Mexican Politico's First Controversy
 Sean Mattson
Jeffrey Weldon, a political scientist with ITAM, a Mexico City university, said the flap over Roberto Madrazo's victory in his age group at the Berlin Marathon reminded him of the slogan from a street campaign against Madrazo during his party's presidential primary: "Do you believe Madrazo? Me neither."
US Dems Back Down on Troop Withdrawl
 Anne Flaherty
Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner legislation ordering troops home from Iraq and turned their attention to war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to reject.
Priest Convicted in Argentine "Dirty War" Tribunal
 Sam Ferguson
Close to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, a large crowd inside and outside La Plata's federal courthouse erupted into cheers when a three-judge tribunal announced that Father Christian von Wernich was guilty, committed his crimes "under the mark of genocide" and was sentenced to life in prison.
Vet Commission Backs Pay Gains and Real Attention to Veterans Disabilities
 David Lord
The first review of veterans' disability benefits in 51 years recommends that Congress and the Bush administration support an immediate increase in compensation levels to recognize monetarily their reduced quality of life.
Plans for Post-Castro Cuba Presented
 Luisa Yanez
In a new Cuba, the Communist Party is banned. The wrongs of Fidel Castro's almost 50-year regime will be set right with Nuremberg-style trials. And as the island's future is carved out, Miami exiles would have a spot at the political table. Those are among the mandates issued by Unidad Cubana.
Vicente Fox: Racists Stop Immigration
 Diego A. Santos
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday that the United States is letting racism dictate its policies, especially when it comes to immigration.
Hanging Up? Slim Looks to Legacy
 Adam Thomson
A widower, Carlos Slim does not seem anxious over the pitfalls of succession. He has already handed over the leadership of his main businesses to his sons and says he is confident that the empire will keep on course even after he backs out completely.
Che's Legacy Looms Larger Than Ever
 Patrick J. McDonnell
Today, the ideological legacy of this peripatetic militant may loom larger than ever in Latin America, abetted by the election of a "Pink Tide" of leftist governments from Nicaragua to Argentina. Socialism is in, the Cubans are on the march, and Che is the defiant embodiment of it all.
Hola or Hello? Debate Over Spanish Integration In America
 ABC News
Mexico and the United States have been intertwined for centuries, but now that so many Mexican and Hispanic immigrants have spread out across the states, the two cultures have been mixing more than ever before.
Tensions Grow in Strained Canada-Mexico Relations
 Frontera NorteSur
Canada has long enjoyed a reputation among Mexicans as a friendly country that is much easier to visit than the United States, a neighbor that strictly limits which Mexican nationals can cross the border. However relations between Canada and Mexico are currently experiencing strains.
Migration of Mexicans Can't Be Stopped, Says Felipe Calderon
 ABC News
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has called the idea of building the fence "deplorable," and said today on "Good Morning America" that he wanted to strengthen the Mexican economy to keep Mexicans there.
Falling Mexican Fertility Rate May Cut Immigration
 David Gaddis Smith
The United States is going to need an infusion of immigrants in the coming decades to keep its economy humming and Mexico will probably be providing fewer of those workers because of its falling fertility rate, a demographer told UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies last week.
US Democrats to Offer New Surveillance Rules
 Ellen Nakashima
House Democrats plan to introduce a bill this week that would let a secret court issue one-year "umbrella" warrants to allow the government to intercept emails and phone calls of foreign targets and would not require that surveillance of each person be approved individually.
The "Queen of the Pacific" and Other Mexican Narco Women
 Allan Wall
When you think of a Mexican drug smuggler, cartel operative or drug baron, what is your mental image? Surely not Sandra Avila Beltran, who resembles a middle class Mexican mother or businesswoman, one you might see any day of the week.
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