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The Unseen Victims of California's Wild Fires
 Amanda Martinez
Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego’s hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Accident Is Deadliest in 43 Years
 Andres R. Martinez & Patrick Harrington
The collision of a Petroleos Mexicanos oil rig and a floating platform during a storm this week was the deadliest offshore accident in the Gulf of Mexico in 43 years, with at least 18 workers killed and seven missing.
Shift Is Afoot on Mexican Border
 Joel Millman
A security crackdown on the Mexican border is believed to have reduced the number of people trying to cross illegally into the U.S. while increasing business for professional smugglers with ties to the drug trade.
Informer Tells of Corrupt Mexico
 Jerry Seper
An informant who worked for U.S. authorities for more than four years says government, police and military authorities in Mexico have been corrupted by drug smugglers, often carrying out kidnappings and killings on the orders of drug cartel bosses.
Experts: Mexico-US Drug Plan Won't Work Unless Police Corruption Eliminated
 E. Eduardo Castillo
The U.S. government is vowing to spend $1.4 billion to help Mexico battle violent drug gangs, but the money will be largely wasted if authorities here don't cut the ties between police forces and organized crime, security analysts say.
ARMY: 50,000+ Discharged as Unfit for Duty After War Service
 David Lord
I ended last week's article by saying I would continue this week with an explanation of the underhanded expedient dismissal of our service-wounded Veterans. Those that have been wounded so gravely as to render them Unfit for Duty.
Mexico's Fox Falls From Grace Amid Corruption Probe
 Pablo Garibian
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox always delighted in his image as an honest rancher but his reputation is sagging amid a corruption probe and fierce media scrutiny of his flashy cars and lavish lifestyle.
Illegal Border Crossers Brave Flames, Get Burned
 Leslie Berestein
The Harris fire along the U.S.-Mexico border is affecting various aspects of immigration in San Diego County, in particular the busy human-smuggling routes surrounding Tecate and Campo.
Costly U.S.-Mexico Drug Crackdown Could Fall Short
 Robin Emmott
Mexico and the United States plan to spend $8.4 billion on a three-year assault against Mexico's drug gangs but experts warn it could fail without a crackdown on cartel finances and better police intelligence.
Mexico, One of the World's Biggest Oil Producers, is Running Out
 Valerie Rota & Patrick Harrington
President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is delivering a grim message: The largest oil producer in Latin America is running out of crude.
Mexican, Latin American Immigrants Lacking In Health Insurance Coverage
 The Kaiser Weekly
While Latin American and Mexican immigrants account for a large portion of the U.S. work force and often work in dangerous occupations, they also typically are not offered health insurance by their employers.
Don't Worry, Be Ignorant
 Dale McFeatters
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near-collisions and runway interference occur more frequently than the government previously recognized.
Who Will Win An Election? Snap Judgments Of Face To Gauge Competence Usually Enough
 ScienceDaily
A split-second glance at two candidates' faces is often enough to determine which one will win an election, according to a Princeton University study. Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov has demonstrated that quick facial judgments can accurately predict real-world election returns.
Is the Justice Department Conducting Latino Outreach on Behalf of the GOP?
 Steven Rosenfeld
According to civil rights lawyers across the country, is how the epartment of Justice's Voting Section has turned away from defending minorities that are seen as supporting Democrats - African Americans and Native Americans - while instead focusing on another minority that is seen as a Republican swing vote - Latinos.
Struggles for Sexual, Gender Liberation Rooted in National Liberation Movements
 Leslie Feinberg
Resistance rose wherever European colonial and imperial powers enforced the restructuring of indigenous sexualities, gender expressions, organization of the sexes, and family and kinship structures. This “New World Order” facilitated the economic exploitation of the labor, land and resources.
Dealing With Police Extortion in Mexico
 Catharine Hamm
This is one of the dirty little secrets of travel. Extortion of visitors happens more often than is reported. It's not confined to Mexico, of course, but because so many U.S. residents cross the Mexican border so often, we might get our turn on the horns of this dilemma.
More Latinas Fight Domestic Violence
 Jack Chang
Many Latin American women continue to suffer silently under social norms that give men the unspoken right to hurt their spouses, but attitudes toward such violence are changing as more women rise to political power and governments take tougher stances.
Names Can Sometimes Hinder Latino Politicians
 Eunice Moscoso
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is facing a challenge in his presidential bid: convincing voters that he is Hispanic. Latino candidates with Anglo-sounding last names have a harder time attracting the attention of the growing number of Latino voters, political experts say.
After Applause, Mexico's Mega-Library Sinks in the Rain
 DPA
It seems a bit of rain was enough to jeopardize Mexico's most modern library, the Jose Vasconcelos "mega-library" in Mexico City, opened in great pomp last year at a cost of some 120 million dollars, but it was only open for 10 months and will now most likely remain closed until late January 2008.
Is Richardson 'Too Real?'
 Pauline Arrillaga
You would have to look hard these days for signs of "the unmade bed," as Bill Richardson has been described time and again through the years.
Western Union Boycott Stirs Disunity
 Oscar Avila & Antonio Olivo
The resentment some Mexicans feel toward the money service that has become their lifeline is apparent in a flier making the rounds on both sides of the border. "Western Union, your fees are a rip-off," it says, showing the image of a masked bandit.
Consulate Seeks to Issue IDs to Help Reduce Arrests
 Patrick Mcgee
The Mexican Consulate wants to send mobile units to Irving, Texas to issue identification cards to illegal immigrants to try to save them from arrest and deportation.
Stamp is First-Class Lesson in Civil Rights
 David Montgomery
Of all the little pictures for sale at the postage stamp counter, one of the newest ones is not so familiar. Two young people study an open book, facing an orange sun. "Mendez v. Westminster 1947," says the stamp.
Plan Mexico and the Billion-Dollar Drug Deal
 Laura Carlsen
The latest statistics purported to show that the street price of cocaine has doubled in some cities and that purity has decreased, indicating restricted supply. According to U.S. drug czar John Walters, the United States and Mexico are winning the drug war, and “the real challenge is to continue it.”
Cardinal Off the Hook, But Sex Abuse Controversy Rages On
 Diego Cevallos
The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico celebrated a legal ruling that dismissed a case against Cardinal Norberto Rivera in which he was accused of protecting an alleged pedophile priest, while the press published Church guidelines in which the clergy are asked to sign a letter releasing the archdiocese of responsibility in case of charges of sex abuse.
Gang Rivalry Grows Into Race War
 Sam Quinones
As the story goes, the East Coast Crips robbed a Florencia 13 drug connection of a large quantity of dope nearly a decade ago. Since then, the tale of how a black street gang ripped off a Latino rival has taken on mythic proportions. But to this day police are uncertain if the fabled heist ever occurred.
No Letup In Cartels' Violence
 Associated Press
Escalating violence by drug cartels and deteriorating security in Mexico will make this the most deadly year yet for that nation's drug-related crime as violence keeps spilling into the United States, according to a report released this week.
Path of Faith
 Julia Steinecke
Each Dec. 12, millions of pilgrims pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the `Mother of the Americas' and a powerful cultural and religious icon for almost 500 years.
Americans Ponder Actions on Illegal Residents
 Angus Reid Global Monitor
Most people in the United States agree that their government should take specific actions to deal with the country’s millions of undocumented immigrants, according to a poll by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research released by National Public Radio.
Vatican Slams ‘Neo-Marxist’ Rise
 Agence France-Presse
The Vatican has condemned what it called growing "neo-marxist" influence in Latin America which threatens the Roman Catholic Church. The Synod of Bishops for America said it was worried by the "development of an ideological tendency, often a neo-marxist inspiration," that was influencing Latin American countries’ home and international relations.
Mexican Troops Aiding Smugglers, Says Report
 Mason Stockstill
A report outlining hundreds of incursions into the United States by Mexican armed forces over the past 10 years supports what many officials have known for a long time: The corruption once thought endemic only to Mexico's police forces has spread to its military.
Who Killed Brad Will
 John Ross
Those of us who report from the front lines of the social justice movement in Latin America share an understanding that there's always a bullet out there with our names on it. Brad Will traveled 2,500 miles, from New York to this violence-torn Mexican town, to find his.
Does Race Still Play a Role in Capital Punishment Sentencing?
 Kent State University
According to a 2005 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, 56 percent of inmates sentenced to death are white and 42 percent are black. Such numbers may lead observers to believe race no longer plays a role in capital punishment, but that is far from the case.
Microloans Find Homes in America
 William F. O'Brien
In 1976 an American-trained economist named Muhammed Yunnis in Bangladesh visited a rural village in that South Asian nation where a group of women made furniture. He was curious as to why the women and their families were not prospering despite the fact they were producing quality goods. He found out it was the high rates of interest charged by the local moneylenders that kept them in poverty.
Historic Chance to Get Rid of Hunger
 Daniela Estrada
High economic growth rates, political will and laws aimed at ensuring the right to food will not be enough to eradicate hunger in Latin America by 2025, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which calls for ongoing investment, improved coordination of programmes and support for family farming.
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