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Scholar: NAFTA Has Helped Mexico, but Not Enough
 David Gaddis Smith
Gustavo Vega, director of the Center for International Studies at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, said that while NAFTA has helped create more jobs for Mexicans, it has not helped create enough of them.
US Working to Help Contain Drug Violence in Mexico
 David McLemore
U.S. officials are warily watching Mexico's fierce response to the escalating drug violence plaguing border cities, fearful that the bloody gunbattles erupting in places like Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez may soon break out on the U.S. side.
Mexico's Narco-Insurgency
 Ioan Grillo
The alleged cartel hitmen were paraded before the media like captured soldiers of an enemy state. Dressed in white vests, jeans and casual shirts, the eight men stared straight ahead, chins held high in defiant poses as the photographers snapped away.
"Hispanic Panic" as Arizona Immigration Crackdown Bites
 Scott Seckel
One month after Arizona introduced a law cracking down on businesses which employ illegal immigrants, Latino workers are fleeing the state and companies are laying off employees in droves, officials and activists say.
U.S. Race Captures World’s Eye, and Holds It
 Alan Cowell
To look at the reams of coverage in newspapers outside the United States or to follow the hours of television news broadcasts, you might conclude that foreigners had a vote in selecting an American presidential candidate — or, at least, deserved one, so great is America’s influence on their lives.
Controversial Proposals Expected at WEF Gathering
 David Cronin
The seemingly incongruous presence of Bono, a pop singer rarely spotted without his wraparound sunglasses amid the sombre suits of business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF), should ensure that the question of how to end African poverty features prominently in media coverage of the January 23-27 event.
The First Zapatista Women's Encuentro: A Collective Voice of Resistance
 Cory Fisher-Hoffman, Tessa Landreau-Grasmuck, Kaya Weidman, & Mandy Skinner
In late December, women of the world were invited into the mountains and jungles of Chiapas which are home to the Zapatistas. Just after midnight on January 1st, was the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration.
US Immigration Officials Detaining, Deporting American Citizens
 Marisa Taylor
The story of how immigration officials decided that a small-town drifter with a Southern accent was an illegal Russian immigrant illustrates how the federal government mistakenly detains and sometimes deports American citizens.
World's Aging Population To Defuse War on Terrorism
 Greg O'Neill
Changing demographic trends will impact the future of international relations, according to the latest issue of Public Policy & Aging Report (PP&AR). Several hotbed areas in the world that offer the motive and opportunity for political violence are due to stabilize by the year 2030.
Canada's Mining Continuum: Resources, Community Resistance and "Development" in Oaxaca
 Dawn Paley
In Oaxaca, Mexico, the struggle against a Vancouver based mining company is unifying an isolated Zapotec community, and bringing their struggles to state and nation-wide attention.
Disabled US Veterans Need to Know it All
 David Lord
Benefits become a real necessity for Veterans in this economic turn down of the USA. I am amazed at some of the mail I receive telling of the benefits gained for disabled veterans by your efforts to help after reading my articles.
A Dark Cloud Settles Over America
 Capitol Hill Blue
As America heads into perhaps its most pivotal Presidential election in modern times candidates for the highest office in the land face an angry, disillusioned, depressed electorate that fear hard times now and see harder times ahead.
Mexico Rights Official Says Army Tortured, Raped
 Miguel Angel Gutierrez
Mexican soldiers tortured, raped and murdered civilians last year while fighting a war across the country against violent drug gangs, the nation's top human rights official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Mexico Could be a Factor
 Jose de la Isla
An unexpected factor in the US presidential election this year might not come from a primary. Instead, Mexico President Felipe Calderon might play that role. Calderon's mid-February visit to the United States could set the stage.
Mexico Might Turn Back on Cuban Opposition
 Andres Oppenheimer
What irony! Mexico's center-right President Felipe Calderón, a man who made his political life fighting for democracy, may become his country's first leader in 15 years to improve ties with Cuba's dictatorship and to turn his back on the island's peaceful opposition.
Border Insecurity: Mexico Sends Military to Guard Juárez Roads
 Louie Gilot
The Mexican government has cracked down on drug cartels along the Texas-Mexico border, sending soldiers to Juárez, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Reynosa.
Study Finds an Equal Level of Commitment
 American Psychological Association
Same-sex couples are just as committed in their romantic relationships as heterosexual couples, say researchers who have studied the quality of adult relationships and healthy development.
Mexico's Split, Rancorous Left Risks Being Merely Left Behind
 Oscar Avila
As months pass since its near victory and failed leap from third-party status, the Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, finds itself fraying as it weighs Lopez Obrador's confrontational model against a more moderate approach.
In Mexico, 'People Do Really Want to Stay'
 Peter S. Goodman
Even as his village emptied, Pedro Martin stayed behind. His schoolmates abandoned the scrub-covered hills of central Mexico for the land they called El Norte - the North. They mopped floors in Fresno, poured concrete in Tempe and tended other people's children in Galveston, measuring their lives in dollars.
Mexico Hits Drug Gangs With Full Fury of War
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
These days, it is easy to form the impression that a war is going on in Mexico. Thousands of elite troops in battle gear stream toward border towns and snake through the streets in jeeps with .50-caliber machine guns mounted on top while fighter jets from the Mexican Navy fly reconnaissance missions overhead.
Discards Give Insight into Border Crossers
 Miriam Jordan
Valarie James looks for art in the desert. On a recent evening stroll with her three dogs, she gathered up a soiled bandage, a discolored hand-stitched cloth and ripped jeans. She recognized it all as items abandoned by people sneaking into the U.S. on foot.
US Faces 'Grave Threat' in Drug Fight
 Jerry Seper
Mexican military efforts to crush heavily armed drug-smuggling operations in five cities along the U.S.-Mexico border pose a "grave threat" to U.S. authorities and a half-million Americans in the area, according to former U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service officials.
Is True Meaning of King's Legacy Lost?
 Deepti Hajela
Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message.
The Gun Fight at Tamaulipas, Mexico
 James Dunnigan
The kind of terror we associate with Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia can show up a lot closer to home. Take, for example, the recent "Tamaulipas Drug War" just south of the U.S. border in Mexico.
Stolen Pickups: A Trafficker's Vehicle of Choice
 James Pinkerton
Hundreds of Houstonians who purchased one of Ford's two popular and expensive pickup models — the Super Duty F-250 and Super Duty F-350 — and have since learned that their rugged trucks are increasingly favored by gangs of auto thieves.
NYT Column Supporting Free Trade Draws Sharp Criticism
 Korea Times
A U.S. economist's support for free trade and opposition to compensating Americans hurt by it drew broad criticism on Sunday, possibly indicating that congressional ratification of pending trade agreements, including one with South Korea, may be tougher than expected.
New Generation of Homeless US Vets Emerges
 Erin McClam
For as long as the United States has sent its young men - and later its young women - off to war, it has watched as a segment of them come home and lose the battle with their own memories, their own scars, and wind up without homes.
Loss of News Talk Show Dismays Mexicans
 Reed Johnson
Supporters of journalist Carmen Aristegui say the cancellation of her radio program poses a threat to the country's move toward greater democracy.
Changing Deadly Artisan Customs
 Oscar Avila
As U.S. consumers worry about lead in imports from China and elsewhere, some communities just beyond America's borders struggle with the dangers of lead in the products they create.
Violence Spikes in Mexico
 Mark Stevenson
A federal agent and a gunman died and four officers were wounded in the latest outbreak of violence across the border from San Diego. The gunbattle and killings shocked even crime-weary Mexico.
Jesus 'Tomb' Controversy Reopened
 Tim McGirk
When the Discovery Channel aired a TV documentary last year raising the possibility that archeologists had found the family tomb of Jesus Christ in the hills behind Jerusalem, it caused a huge backlash among Christians. The claim, after all, challenged one of the cornerstones of Christian faith.
Project Gunrunner ATF Fact Sheet
 ATF Office of Public Affairs
In partnership with other U.S. agencies and with the Government of Mexico, ATF is deploying its resources strategically on the Southwest Border to deny firearms, the "tools of the trade," to criminal organizations in Mexico and along the border.
Cross-Dresser Gets Second Shot at Refuge
 Tom Godfrey
A transgender Mexican who claims he'll be killed in his homeland for dressing like a woman is getting a second shot at refugee status in what may be the first case of its kind in Canada.
More Lies About US Troop Levels in Iraq
 Capitol Hill Blue
Look beneath the Bush Administration spin on planned troop drawdowns for the failed Iraq war and you will find the truth about U.S. presence in that civil war-torn country: American troops will be there for the next decade. Or probably longer.
Erotic Politicians Fund Sex Abstinence Studies
 Maggie Van Ostrand
According to a congressionally ordained study, students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, reports the Associated Press. My mother could've told that to Congress and she would've done it for nothing.
Fleeing to Mexico Thwarts Death Penalty
 Michelle Roberts
The reason: Mexico refuses to send anyone back to the United States unless the U.S. gives assurances it won't seek the death penalty — a 30-year-old policy that rankles some American prosecutors and enrages victims' families.
While Criticizing Arizona, Mexico Ignores Its Own Hiring Law
 Chris Hawley
Though the Mexican government has blasted Arizona's new employer-sanctions law in the past week, Mexico, too, has federal rules specifically barring companies from hiring illegal immigrants.
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