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Bill O'Reilly: Ron Paul Campaign Encourages Conspiracy Theorists
 myhat2u
Fox News yesterday criticized GOP primary candidate Ron Paul for referring to an alleged NAFTA superhighway system in a recent debate. The criticism first came from talking head Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor." Other Foxheads echoed the theme as the day progressed.
Mexican Judicial Reforms Draw Praise for Oral Trials, Criticism for New Police Powers
 Associated Press
Mexico is steps away from the most significant overhaul of its justice system in 100 years — constitutional changes that will increase accountability and guarantee the presumption of innocence, but also enable police to enter homes and search private records without warrants.
Mexico Pledges to Control Flow of Illegal Immigrants
 Hugh Dellios
As the U.S. Senate focuses this week on the issue of illegal immigration, Mexico has launched a campaign to convince Americans that it will do more to stop the flow of undocumented workers into the U.S. and prevent violence along the border.
Tape Destruction Proves Torture
 Agence France-Presse
The CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects gives more reason to fear that detainees face torture, a UN human rights expert said Thursday.
Mexican Attorney General Denounces Cuban Adjustment Act
 Periódico 26
Mexico’s Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, said on Tuesday that Mafia networks based in Miami, tied to drug trafficking, control the smuggling "of undocumented Cubans" that takes place from Mexican territory.
Mexico Prepares to Overhaul Justice System
 Jason Lange
Mexico's government is pushing a landmark reform through Congress to give police sweeping powers to pursue drug-smuggling mafias while offering defendants some new protections.
A Double Standard on Migrants?
 Peter Costantini
Just beyond the horizon of the immigration reform controversy in the United States, a storm is brewing over exactly what rights are guaranteed to non-citizens under international human rights agreements.
The Effect of "In Your Face" Political Television on Democracy
 American Political Science Association
Television can encourage awareness of political perspectives among Americans, but the incivility and close-up camera angles that characterize much of today’s “in your face” televised political debate also causes audiences to react more emotionally and think of opposing views as less legitimate.
Guatemala: New Law to End Adoption Business
 Inés Benítez
The Guatemalan Congress approved a new law Tuesday that will regulate adoptions in the framework of the Hague Convention, which goes into force in this Central American country on Dec. 31.
Radio Realidad: The Popular Voice in Honduras
 Kari Lydersen
“What motivates youth to abandon the countryside and their homes, for the city or other countries?” asks Samuel, sitting in a small radio studio in a misty, mountain town in Honduras.
VA 2008 Compensation Rates
 David Lord
Veterans are being pulled deeper into poverty but, according to the US government's calculations, Veterans entitled to military retirement, service-connected disability or pension payments are entitled to an increase of only 2.3% in 2008.
Bill Says Hillary 'Was Always the One'
 Mike Glover
Campaigning for his wife, former President Clinton says that when they were starting out he was so struck by her intellect and ability he once suggested she should just dump him and jump into her own political career.
EPR Guerrilla Unnoticed by Many Mexicans
 Angus Reid Global Monitor
Many Mexicans are not aware of the existence of an illegal armed group, according to a poll by Ipsos-Bimsa published in El Universal. Only 36 per cent of respondents are familiar with the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), while 63 per cent know about the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).
Tales of Terrorists Breaching Border Overblown - So Far
 David Mclemore
The story sounded plausible: sixty Afghan and Iraqi terrorists smuggled in by a Mexican drug cartel to attack an Army post in Arizona As quickly as the story spread from a report last month in the Washington Times and reverberated around talk radio and conservative blogs, it died.
For Some, Childhood Is Rubbish
 Sabina Zaccaro
"When I thought of my future, I saw my whole life picking through this rubbish dump," says 20-year-old Julia Castillo. "I never thought I'd get away." Like thousands of other children, Julia grew up picking garbage for sale on the rubbish dump in Guatemala City.
A Sense of Panic Amid a Wave of Violence
 Pablo Jaime Sáinz
The wave of violence that's sweeping through Mexican regional music will change the face of this genre that's so often linked to drug trafficking. The industry has been shaken to its core, creating a feeling of panic among performers and audiences alike.
Anti-Immigrant Surge Tramples Int'l Norms
 Peter Costantini
Fifty years ago in the southern United States, a system called "Jim Crow" denied African-Americans their civil rights. Now, some immigrant advocates are using the term "Juan Crow" for nativist ideologies that deny human rights to undocumented immigrants, most of whom are from Latin America.
Capitol Hill Pages & 'Monica Cocktails'
 Capitol Hill Blue
They call it the "Monica Cocktail," oral sex named in a reference to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who performed the same act on President Bill Clinton during the infamous Oval Office affair that led to impeachment proceedings.
Sex Change with Public Money
 California Catholic Daily
The Social Democratic Coalition - the group of political parties which last April approved unrestricted abortion in Mexico’s Federal District, and in November 2006 approved the “Gay Marriage” initiative - is now proposing to reform the district’s civil code and health law in order to provide sex-change services.
Wall Street and Immigration: Financial Services Giants Have Profited from the Beginning
 Peter Cervantes-Gautschi
Life began to get hard for most Americans beginning in the late 1990s due to increased family debt. During the same period, life got a lot harder for most Mexicans for the same reason. The same financial institutions created and profited from much of the family debt in both countries.
Is Infant Male Circumcision an Abuse of the Rights of the Child?
 Emma Dickinson
Circumcision is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed on males. Opponents argue that infant circumcision can cause both physical and psychological harm, while recent evidence shows that circumcision is medically beneficial. Two doctors debate the issue.
CIA Destroyed Evidence of Torture
 Capitol Hill Blue
First rule of a criminal conspiracy and coverup: Destroy the evidence. Which is exactly what the Central Intelligence Agency did with videotapes showing torture of suspects. CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted this week the tapes were destroyed.
Pope Out of Step With Most Catholics on Condom Issue – Poll
 National Secular Society
Even in the face of an AIDS epidemic that costs millions of lives, the Vatican has stubbornly refused to lift its ban on condoms. A new multinational poll, however, shows that Catholics the world over believe that using condoms is pro-life because it prevents the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Iran-Mexico Meeting Deepens Ties to Islam
 Jerome R. Corsi
In a little notice meeting reflecting growing ties between South America and the Islamic world, Mexican President Felipe Calderon welcomed former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami to Mexico City.
US Congressional Pages: 'Kids Gone Wild'
 Capitol Hill Blue
Sex among young Congressional pages has become so rampant that two youngsters were recently sent home for engaging in oral sex in front of, and with encouragement from, other pages.
Mexican Ambassador Visits Jailed Canadian
 Charles Rusnell
A Canadian woman jailed in Mexico for nearly two years is furious that consular officials are now offering her unsolicited legal advice after they failed to ensure her rights under international law were respected.
Oaxaca: All Quiet but It's a Changed City
 Ceci Connolly
The last time I was here, I was frantically trying to improvise a gas mask. The city was a war zone: anti-government protesters packing spray paint, rocks and Molotov cocktails; police in riot gear tossing canisters of black tear gas into the crowd.
Lessons for Mexico in Brazil’s Boom
 Charles Upton Sahm
As Mexican president Felipe Calderón considers reforming Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, he would do well to reflect on how Brazil became a world leader in energy production.
North American Union Agenda Exists
 Steve Watson
Despite official maps, documents, plans and bills in Congress the reality of the NAU and trans border superhighway is still denied as Ron Paul is attacked for speaking out about it.
Mexico: A Guerrilla Group's Latest Threat
 Strategic Forecasting
The Mexican guerrilla group Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) issued a communique Dec. 3 saying it is resuming its campaign of violence in the country.
‘Ameripol,’ a Latin America Regional Police Force, is Being Formed
 Sam Logan
atin America's first regional police force is now on its way to becoming a reality thanks to a number of accords signed by 18 countries on 14 November in Bogotá, Colombia, breathing life into a potentially promising but shaky new institution, Ameripol.
World Faces Food Shortages, Price Rises - Report
 Emma Graham-Harrison & Ben Blanchard
The world is eating more than it produces and food prices may climb for years because of expansion of farming for fuel and climate change, risking social unrest, an expert and a new report said on Tuesday.
US National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute
 Associated Press
Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day - or nearly $1 million a minute. What's that mean to you? It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.
Canadian in Mexican Prison Denied Basic Rights: Lawyer
 Charles Rusnell
A Canadian woman imprisoned for nearly two years in Mexico was denied basic legal rights and the Canadian consulate is to blame, Brenda Martin's new lawyer said.
Paul Believes in Threat of North American Superhighway
 Stephen Braun
The GOP presidential candidate says U.S. sovereignty is at risk. Highway and trade officials and transportation consultants say there are no plans for such a project.
Mexico Drivers Deliver Across The Border
 Associated Press
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.
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