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North-South Divide on Border ID
 Ellen Creager
I don't know how to tell you this, but we've been duped. While we in Michigan have been dutifully toting birth certificates, driver's licenses and even passports for tough scrutiny at the U.S. border as we drive home from Canada, Americans down south are still waltzing back and forth to Mexico as easy as pie. Even with no ID.
Abortion Is Out of the Shadows In Mexico City
 Héctor Tobar
In Mexico City, legalization is bringing a profound, if quiet, change to the way thousands of women lead their lives. In a country where unwanted pregnancies often strip women of their independence and ambitions, the extraordinary number of legal abortions taking place every day is beginning to diminish the procedure's considerable cultural stigma.
MEX-US Anti-Drug Plan Shrouded in Suspicion
 Diego Cevallos
Doubt, mistrust and political friction have arisen over the so-called Merida Initiative, negotiated virtually in secret by the governments of Mexico and the United States. Although it is being touted as an anti-drug assistance programme, it also includes measures for tighter border security and action against terrorism.
North America, EU Officials Discuss WTO Differences
 Truth About Trade & Technology
Consideration of sustainable agriculture issues under the scope of world trade talks brought sharp disagreement last week at the 33rd North American and European Union Agricultural Conference in the Czech Republic.
Bush Announces $1.4 Billion Drug Plan For Mexico
 Laurence Iliff
A proposed $1.4 billion aid package to Mexico announced by President Bush on Monday would provide helicopters and planes to fight drug traffickers, but most important, would create a new security relationship between the two nations, U.S. and Mexican officials said.
 Mexico Drug War Victims Mourned on Day of the Dead
 Catherine Bremer
Musicians in black sombreros serenaded a tomb where women in designer sunglasses and gold jewelry dabbed their eyes with tissues as relatives mourned victims of Mexico's drug war on the Day of the Dead.
The Conspiratorial Urban Legend of the Evil NAFTA Superhighway
 Clay Risen
According to libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, a conservative Republican Congressman from Texas running for president (and a firm opponent of the superhighway), the plans to link Mexico, the United States and Canada by a monster highway will be the sleeper issue of the 2008 election.
Offshoring Farms
 Julia Preston
California farmer Steve Scaroni looked across a luxuriant field of lettuce in central Mexico and liked what he saw: full-strength crews of Mexican farm workers with no immigration problems.
Their Turn
 Stephen Kiehl
On a major holiday in Mexico, girls dance to keep a formerly all-male tradition alive in a village depleted of boys.
Presidential Nominee Moore Polarizes Iraq War Issue
 Stewart A. Alexander
Today, there are two sides on the Iraq War debate; on the left there is Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee, Brian Moore, and on the right there are the Democrats and Republicans.
Guns: The Bloody US-Mexico Market
 Sam Logan
With over 2,100 deaths between January and October 2007 related to drug trafficking and the use of weapons purchased in the US, Mexico pins its hopes on the future success of the Merida Initiative to combat drug and gun trafficking.
US Justices Stay Execution, a Signal to Lower Courts
 Linda Greenhouse
Moments before a Mississippi prisoner was scheduled to die by lethal injection, the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution on Tuesday evening and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block all executions until the court decides a lethal injection case from Kentucky next spring.
Teachers Union Leader Reflects on Lessons of Oaxaca Uprising
 John Tarleton
Raquel Cruz, a primary school teacher and a leader in Oaxaca’s state teachers union, shares her thoughts with The Indypendent on the past and the future of a movement that has been suppressed but is, by no means, over.
Former Mexican President Says Americans Wrong on Immigration
 Associated Press
Americans have the wrong idea about immigration, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday before a speech to a mostly Syracuse University audience.
Wildfires Raise Questions With No Easy Answers
 dpa
In an era when global warming is mixing hotter summers with drier winters, what could be more foolhardy than promoting a building boom in one of the most wildfire prone zones in the US? Plenty, it turns out.
Mexican Truckers Cite Years of Driving Deep Into US, Say Pilot Program Nothing New
 Lisa J. Adams
The American truckers, environmentalists and politicians who are sounding the alarm about the potential dangers of allowing Mexican tractor-trailers onto U.S. interstate highways rarely mention an important fact: hundreds of Mexican-plated trucks already deliver cargo all over the United States, and have done so for years.
Mexico's Drug-Control Initiative Reflects More Trust In US
 Chris Hawley
When Mexico's foreign minister laid out her proposal for a U.S.-Mexican military and police alliance against drug lords last spring, veteran U.S. diplomats in the room realized it was a break from the past.
U.S. Guns Fuel Bloody Mexican Drug Wars
 Keach Hagey
The U.S. isn't the only country struggling with the effects of what's coming illegally over the U.S.-Mexico border. The Washington Post reports that 100 percent of drug-related killings in Mexico are carried out with smuggled American weapons. About 2,000 enter Mexico each day, according to a Mexican government study.
Do Mexicans Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead?
 Allan Wall
Do Mexicans celebrate Halloween? Should they? At this time of year these issues are discussed, raising questions and controversies over Mexican identity, heritage, religion and commerce.
Mexico: US Aid Should Include Human Rights Conditions
 Human Rights Watch
The US Congress should oppose counternarcotics assistance to Mexico unless it includes strong conditions aimed at ending abuses by Mexican security forces, Human Rights Watch said.
Small Mexican Towns Try to Create Jobs at Home
 Sara Miller Llana
Adriana Cortes believes the locals can help curb migration in Tamaula, Guanajuato, and in rural towns like it throughout the country. Her plan: create small cooperative enterprises to make communities self-sustaining.
Billionaires Up, America Down
 Holly Sklar
When it comes to producing billionaires, America is doing great. Until 2005, multimillionaires could still make the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. In 2006, the Forbes 400 went billionaires only. This year, you'd need a Forbes 482 to fit all the billionaires.
Document Details U.S. Aid Proposed For Mexico
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
More than a third of the Bush administration's proposed counternarcotics aid package for Mexico would be spent on aerial surveillance and the rapid deployment of troops, according to a breakdown of the plan.
Hugo Chavez: The Revolution Still Needs a Quarter Century to Achieve Its Dreams
 Susana Hayward
On a hot afternoon seven years ago, Vicente Fox went to Oaxaca to celebrate his presidential victory, which ended 71 years of one-party rule in Mexico. Thousands of Indians from Zapotec villages came to see the new president, who appeared in the plaza flanked by world leaders also hailed as champions of democracy, including Poland’s Lech Walesa and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
Gay Mexican's Asylum Denied
 Arthur S. Leonard
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, based in New York City, has ruled in an unpublished decision that the current level of anti-gay persecution in Mexico is not sufficient to justify granting a withholding of removal for a gay immigrant who claimed to fear persecution if returned to that nation.
End Of the Line Isn't End Of Their Journey
 Héctor Tobar
A freight train once ran through this town near the Guatemalan border. It carried cattle feed, cement and steel. Every day, a hundred or more men and women jumped on its rattletrap cars and hitched a free ride northward.
Brad Will - Presente! US Eyes on Oaxaca
 John Ross
On the the first anniversary of the assassination of New York-based Indymedia photojournalist Brad Will, an interview with filmaker Jill Freidberg, whose "Little Bit of So Much Truth" is the first feature length documentary on the struggle in Oaxaca.
Former President Fox: Nations Would Benefit From Female Leader
 Henry C. Jackson
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday his native country and the United States would benefit from electing a female president. The reason, Fox said, is that women in leadership have different characteristics than their male counterparts.
FEMA's Fake Press Conference Backfires
 Capitol Hill Blue
Officials of the embattled emergency management agency openly admit they screwed the pooch by holding a fake "news" conference, filling the room with staff members posing as reporters.
Suspect in Mexican Mutilation Killings Courted Clerks, Sought Inspiration in Writing
 Mark Stevenson
An aspiring writer who left a horror scene of body parts in his apartment was arraigned on Thursday on charges of murder and desecrating a corpse after he allegedly cut up and ate part of his girlfriend's body.
Western Governor Considered 'Dark Horse' for Presidential Nomination 
 Jim Fry
All this year, three well-known presidential candidates have led in public opinion polls among likely voters in the Democratic Party. Yet there is a tradition in the U.S. of a so-called "dark horse" candidate emerging to challenge for a party's nomination. This year, the one considered most likely to catch fire among Democrats is Bill Richardson.
Former Mexican President Decries U.S. Immigration Policies
 Timothy Roberts
Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, speaking late Thursday to a Northern California business group with a strong interest in immigration issues, called on the United States to tear down the wall it has been building on the Mexican border and to reject isolationist policies.
Predators Move In As Fires Move Out
 NBCSandiego.com
rooks in various guises have outraged San Diegans as they ply their criminal trades in the wake of the San Diego Firestorm.
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