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Security In Latin America - 2007 Wrap Up and a Peek at 2008
 Samuel Logan
Overall, 2008 promises to be another interesting year in Latin America. For now, and through the end of 2007, we will simply observe...
Gay Immigrants Fight to Join Movement
 Antonio Olivo
Chicago's immigrant rights movement was on the verge of making history, and Nicole Perez was ready to lend her voice when she was told, with an angry sneer, that she was not welcome.
Beware the NAFTA Super Highway!
 Christopher Hayes
The NAFTA Superhighway is just the beginning, the first stage of a long, silent coup aimed at supplanting the sovereign United States with a multinational North American Union.
The Undocumented Hesitate to Enter a Less-Alluring U.S.
 Marla Dickerson
A recent survey by Mexican authorities shows that fewer Mexicans say they are planning to seek work outside the country, due to stepped-up workplace raids, deportations, and a slowing in the US construction industry.
Who Is Killing Mexico's Musicians?
 Ioan Grillo
Investigators have yet to solve any of the 13 musicians that have been killed — gunned down, burned or suffocated to death — since June 2006. Nor have they revealed any suspects, although they have said that drug gangs could be responsible.
Ten Years Later, Massacre Still Haunts Mexico
 Marc Lacey
It was 10 years ago that gunmen crept down the hillside into this impoverished Indian village in Chiapas state. By the time they fled hours later, the attackers had littered the ground with bullet casings and killed 45 innocent people, including 21 women and 15 children.
Minister Accused of Politicking in the Case of Canadian Imprisoned in Mexico
 Charles Rusnell
Supporters of a Canadian woman imprisoned without trial in Mexico for nearly two years were astonished when they learned that a federal cabinet member is publicly claiming she and her government have worked hard behind the scenes to expedite Brenda Martin's case and to ensure her legal and human rights have been respected.
Richardson Outlines His Plan for Ending the War
 John Jennings
This was the fourth time Richardson has visited Iowa during his presidential campaign, and this time he took the opportunity to outline his plan for ending the war in Iraq, and emphasize his commitment to affordable, quality behavioral health care for all Americans.
The 12 Myths of Christmas
 Emily Klein & Stacey Becker
Many American families have navigated store aisles this holiday season for candy canes, wreaths, mistletoe and anything red and green without wondering what makes these symbols of the season so significant - and why exactly they appear in homes year after year.
Zapatista Code Red!
 Naomi Klein
Nativity scenes are plentiful in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a colonial city in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. It is high season for "Zapatourism," the industry of international travelers that has sprung up around the indigenous uprising here, and this is ground zero.
Number of Conflicts in the World No Longer Declining
 Uppsala University
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,” and the findings worry the researchers.
Eyes On Arizona As It Turns Off Immigration Magnet
 Frank James
Arizona's get-tough approach on immigration is being watched closely around the nation, and here in Washington, by federal immigration enforcement officials, policymakers, lawmakers immigration advocates and opponents, just about anyone with any interest in the issue.
Personal Touch for Richardson in Envoy Role
 Jodi Kantor
Bill Richardson, 60, is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, running not only on his years as an elected official - he was a congressman from New Mexico and is now governor - but also on his parallel career, as a self-appointed and official diplomat.
NAFTA a Disaster for Mexican Producers
 Prensa Latina
The National Farmer Confederation (CNC) said the opening of borders to tariff-free US, Canadian food as of January 1st will mean a disaster for Mexican producers.
Lowering Mexico’s Drawbridge to US Maize and Beans
 Diego Cevallos
On Jan. 1, the Mexican market will be thrown wide open to imports of maize, beans, powdered milk and sugar from the United States, completing a process that began 14 years ago, in which its impoverished rural sector must compete with a powerful and heavily subsidised foreign rival.
Home of the Meek, Land of the Fee
 Les Blumenthal
The Bush administration is trying to hide its mismanagement of federal lands by using new permit requirements and fees to limit filming and photography in national parks, forests and wildlife refuges, a congressional leader charges.
Another Watergate in the Wings?
 Tom Raum
Administration officials refuse to shed light on whether White House lawyers talked to the CIA about whether to destroy interrogation videotapes of two terrorism suspects but bristle at questions into the affair and complain about news coverage.
Less News is Good News for Bush's War
 David Morgan
A recent decline in U.S. news coverage from Iraq coincides with improved public opinion about the war just as the 2008 presidential campaign heads to an early showdown, a study released on Wednesday said.
Mexican 'Subcomandante' to Withdraw
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Mexico's famed masked rebel, Subcomandante Marcos, says he is withdrawing again to the shadows, ending nearly two years of public appearances meant to bolster a grass-roots leftist movement.
Global Food Supply is Dwindling Rapidly, UN Agency Warns
 Elisabeth Rosenthal
In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned this week.
Mexico Remembers 1997 Indian Massacre
 Eduardo Verdugo
It's been nearly a decade since pro-government villagers armed with guns and machetes slaughtered 45 men, women and children in the neighboring hamlet of Acteal — a massacre that remains emblematic of Mexico's human rights failures.
US-Mexico: Bad Year for Immigrants
 Diego Cevallos
More than one Mexican a day died this year while attempting to cross the U.S. border, and there are no prospects for that number to drop over the next year. In the last three years alone, nearly 1,500 people have died this way.
Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Sheriff Arpaio in Racial Profiling Suit
 Bill Weinberg
A Mexican citizen who is legally in the United States has filed the first lawsuit challenging the aggressive immigration-enforcement efforts of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona's Maricopa County, charging unlawful detainment and racial-profiling.
A Town Against the Wall
 Miguel Bustillo
Granjeno is a frontier town of about 400 people, where everyone seemingly lives a door down from their uncle and descends from the same rancheros. It outlasted the rule of Spain, Mexico and the independent Republic of Texas. But it might not survive the U.S. government's plan to build 370 miles of steel fencing along the border with Mexico.
Death of "Cannibal Poet" Highlights Crisis in Mexican Prisons
 Allan Wall
On December 11th, Jose Luis Calva Zepeda, the "Cannibal Poet," was found hanged in his cell in a crowded Mexico City prison. Aside from ending a morbid and grisly saga, the Calva case highlights serious problems in the Mexican prison system.
Mexico’s Rich and Powerful are Leaving Science Behind
 Patrick Corcoran
One of Mexico’s (and Latin America’s) perennial curses is that its universities pump out so many social scientists and so few physical scientists. Given that, the dearth of Mexican Einsteins is no surprise, but it is nonetheless discouraging.
In Mexico, Dwarf Bullfighting a Spectacle and a Staple
 Chris Hawley
Although some activists worry that they propagate stereotypes, the troupes — known as cuadrillas — provide steady jobs in a country where employment discrimination is rampant and people with disabilities have trouble getting work.
No Escape From Poverty
 John Keilman
It has been 11 years since Olivia and Juan Francisco Casteñeda left the poverty of Zacatecas, Mexico, for the poverty of the Quad Cities. Despite their struggles, they have no doubt that they made the right decision.
Musician Killings Highlight Unrelenting Violence in Mexico
 Jeremy Schwartz
Mexico is reeling from the gruesome executions of three popular musicians this month in a record year for drug violence, despite a yearlong military operation against Mexico's major drug cartels.
Lives Are Growing Harder, Hispanics Say in Survey
 Julia Preston
After a year of stepped-up enforcement against illegal immigration and polarized debate on the issue, about half of the Hispanics in the United States now fear that they or a relative or close friend could be deported, a report released this week by the Pew Hispanic Center found.
Brenda Martin's Friend and Defender
 Brian Caldwell
Debra Tieleman is certain her friend Brenda Martin is innocent: "There isn't a shred of evidence against her." Now she's working on getting Martin out of the Mexican jail she's been held in since February 2006.
US: Gangsters Without Borders
 Samuel Logan
Weeks ahead of the first round of presidential primaries in the US, for what are already hotly-contested campaigns, immigration remains a top domestic issue, however, there is not one candidate that has focused on an important element of the national immigration debate: street gangs.
The Man Who Insists He's the President of Mexico
 Chris Hawley
Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not really president of anything, not after losing a 2006 presidential election that was marred by allegations of fraud. But to the throngs of poor Mexicans who crowd around his podium in towns nationwide, the leftist ex-candidate is still commander in chief.
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