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Mexico Fears Drug Gangs Seeking Political Influence
 Noel Randewich
Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged politicians and government officials on Friday to close ranks to stop powerful drug gangs intimidating or buying candidates to control the outcome of elections.
World Aids Day: Racism, Gov't Apathy Fuel US Epidemic
 Adrianne Appel
The United States has slashed the AIDS death rate among white and wealthy U.S. citizens, but the disease continues to ravage the black community at full force, leaders say.
Pew Says Age, Education Help Hispanic Immigrants Learn English
 Hispanic Business
How quickly foreign-born Hispanics in the United States learn to speak English depends largely on their education levels and their ages of arrival, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Research Center.
U.S.-Mexico Anti-Drug Plan Sparks Uproar
 Emile Schepers
A hullabaloo has arisen over a secretly negotiated anti-drug proposal that would include new U.S. funds for Mexican and Central American security forces.
Brazil: Gang-Raped Girl in Men’s Jail Just the Tip of the Iceberg
 Fabiana Frayssinet
The case of a 15-year-old girl who was held for a month in a jail cell with 20 men in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is just an extreme example of the problems plaguing a prison system in crisis.
Did Bill Sell Out Hillary on Iraq?
 Agence France-Presse
Ex-president Bill Clinton's latest campaign trail appearance for his wife Hillary's Democratic White House bid threw an unwelcome spotlight Wednesday back on her vote to authorize the Iraq war.
The Old Man's Last Gasp
 Jose De La Isla
Fidel Castro was calling by cell phone during Hugo Chavez's final remarks at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, after King Juan Carlos of Spain had told Chavez, Venezuela's president, to shut up.
US Veterans Face Two Headed Monster "DODVA"
 David Lord
What do Veterans face when seeking the benefits they are entitled to for Military Service? A two-headed monster, The Department of Defense and The Department of Veterans Affairs, the 1st and 2nd largest agencies in the United States Government.
SPP 'Dead,' Says Insider
 Jerome R. Corsi
An insider who presented a paper at a recent North American Forum meeting in Mexico is concluding that the Security and Prosperity Partnership plan has failed.
World AIDS Day: Seeking Leadership From the Bush Administration
 Infectious Diseases Society of America
This World AIDS Day, HIVMA is celebrating the good news from UNAIDS that the global case count is lower than previous estimates. However, in the US, this good news is tempered by President Bush’s veto of the annual funding bill that provides resources to fight the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic—programs.
Just Say We Won and Leave Iraq
 Martin Schram
The Democratic presidential pack is desperate. Five senators, a governor and a representative are seeking one surefire way to capture hearts, minds and votes whenever they are asked what should be done about Iraq now that post-surge statistics show violence there has at least temporarily declined.
Beat a Woman? Play On; Beat a Dog? You're Gone
 Women's eNews
Football superstar Michael Vick is in big trouble for his role in a dog fighting ring. Sandra Kobrin agrees he's in the wrong, but wonders at the outrage deficit when it comes to the guys who beat their wives and girlfriends and stay in the game.
Undocumented Hispanics Less Likely to Use U.S. Health Care Services
 HealthDay News
Undocumented Mexican/Hispanics in the United States are less likely to use health care services and report poorer health care system experiences than U.S.-born Mexicans/Hispanics, a U.S. study says.
Why Mexicans Would Rather Live in Fear Than in Mexico
 Martín Martínez
Elena Poniatowska, a well-known Mexican journalist and author, denounced Mexico’s reliance on remittances instead of job creation in a recent visit to the University of California, Davis.
Flow of Migrant Money to Mexico Stalls
 Elisabeth Malkin
A dragging U.S. economy and a campaign against undocumented workers are key reasons why Mexican migrants' remittances home have leveled off.
Mexican Truck Stop
 Mary Anastasia O'Grady
It's hard to say who came out on top in the Nov. 15 debate among Democratic presidential candidates held in Nevada. But we do know that free trade took a beating.
Expect Exodus of Broke Retirees
 Scott Burns
Suppose you can find a place where the cost of living is about 75 percent of the cost in the United States – some beach town north of Puerto Vallarta or south of Manzanillo. What happens to your standard of living when you move to Mexico?
Immigration: A Defining Issue?
 Alain Jean-Robert
One of the trickiest tightropes being walked by the 2008 US presidential candidates, all of them descended from immigrants, is how to tackle illegal immigration as they bid for the White House.
Border Plan Deserving of Consideration
 Midland Reporter-Telegram
Several Texas mayors along the border think it might be wiser to widen and deepen the Rio Granderiver instead of building a border fence with Mexico. In short, they believe that such a move will be more effective in keeping out illegal immigrants.
Fooled Once, On a Mission Now
 Rebecca Catalanello
Meredith Gavin knows people think she's stupid. She's heard them say she's a gold digger, a whore, that she got what she had coming to her. But she doesn't care.
All this 31-year-old single mother cares about is that you hear her story.
Failing US Senior Care System Burdening Families
 Stewart A. Alexander
Today, most seniors can not survive on the income they receive from social security or retirement pensions. As a result, working class families are taking on a heavier financial burden to care for seniors and aging parents.
Keeping Migrants Alive Goes Beyond Politics
 Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger
Every day 3,000 Mexican and other Latin American migrants begin the grueling journey on foot through the desert, hoping to make their way to the United States for a better life, and face heat exhaustion, starvation and severe dehydration.
After Fatal Floods, Many Wonder Where Money for Levees Went
 Washington Post
Petroleos Mexicanos was donating hundreds of thousands of dollars for flood abatement projects long before this month's disastrous flooding in the state of Tabasco. But a crescendo of questions about whether the oil money was ever used for the intended projects is raising the possibility that corruption and incompetence might have played as much of a role in the tragedy as historically torrential rains.
Richardson's Resume, Hispanic Heritage Hold His Hopes
 Lesley Clark
Some 35 years after his father's death from Alzheimer's disease, Bill Richardson acknowledges his father's influence as he campaigns for president, striving to crack into the top tier of Democratic contenders by convincing voters that his extensive experience trumps his better-known, better-financed rivals.
Mexicans Jittery About Raids, Deportations
 Diego Cevallos
Panic has taken hold of the six million Mexicans who live in the United States without residence permits, because of the ongoing crackdown on "illegal aliens", which has involved an increasing number of raids and deportations.
Mexico Holding 500 Political Prisoners, Says Rights Body
 Mudassir Rizwan
More than 500 political prisoners are in jails across Mexico without access to their legal rights, according to an NGO, Spanish news agency EFE reported Thursday.
Former Aide Confirms: Bush Lied
 Agence France-Presse
A former White House press secretary has accused President George W. Bush of misleading the public over a CIA leak which blew the cover of one of their spies and rocked the US administration.
Immigration Issues Abroad
 Sada Farah
There's no doubt that immigration has been getting national media coverage in the United States for at least the past few years. The central issue being what to do to prevent Mexican immigrants from illegally entering the United States across the southern border.
Obama Admits Drinking, Drug Use
 Philip Elliott
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.
When AWOL Is the Only Escape - a Patriot's Story
 Sarah Olson
Facing redeployment last April, this time to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sergeant James Circello asked himself if he could tolerate replicating the disaster he'd been part of in Iraq. When he answered no, a friend drove him to the airport, he flew to the United States and has been AWOL ever since.
Mexico Spends Nearly $4 Billion To Eliminate Violence Against Women
 Annie Simoy
With its goal to eliminate violence against women in 2008, the Mexican government will spend 43.4 billion pesos (3.95 billion U.S. dollars) said the National Women's Agency (Inmujeres) on Tuesday.
Why U.S.-Mexican Relations Matter
 Alex Sherbany & Carlos Bortoni
The issues that continue to dominate the U.S.-Mexico relationship, as they have for most of the last decade, are immigration and economic development. And while the two nations come at these issues from somewhat different perspectives, they are beginning to realize quite how intertwined their economic destinies truly are.
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