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LatAm: Men Have Gender Issues, Too
 Dalia Acosta
Although it may seem obvious, the need to involve men in the effort to attain gender equality is not clear to everyone in Latin America and the Caribbean, where quite a few people think it is an issue that mainly concerns the women’s rights movement.
One in 100 Americans in Prison: Study
 The Globe and Mail Canada
For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.
Nobel Laureate Estimates Wars' Cost at More Than $3 Trillion
 BYLINE
When U.S. troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, the Bush administration predicted that the war would be self-financing and that rebuilding the nation would cost less than $2 billion. Coming up on the fifth anniversary of the invasion, a Nobel laureate now estimates that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing America more than $3 trillion.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez: NAFTA a Success, Should be Strengthened
 Jessica Bernstein-Wax
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday that NAFTA has been a boon for the United States, Mexico and Canada, but the three signatory countries should help small Mexican farmers who have suffered from the pact.
 US Parents Seek Answers in Mexico Death
 Jessica Bernstein-Wax
The parents of slain American journalist, Bradley Roland Will, said Wednesday they were unsatisfied with the progress Mexican authorities have made in the case and will have outside investigators review video footage and forensic evidence.
Mexico City's Smoking Ban Draws Praise, and Fire
 Dudley Althaus
Mexico, where an estimated 16 million to 18 million people smoke and some 53,000 die each year from tobacco-related diseases, may be about to go cold turkey.
Liberals Accuse Feds of Abandoning Canadian in Mexican Prison
 Canwest News Service
In a heated question period exchange Tuesday, Liberal MP Dan McTeague blasted the "ineptitude" of efforts by Secretary of State Helena Guergis on behalf of a 51-year-old Brenda Martin of Trenton, Ont.
Mexican Orgs Defend Sovereignty
 Prensa Latina
Over 40 Mexican rural and trade organizations inked a pact to defend national food and energy sovereignty prior to a meeting with the government. The document includes revising the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), rejecting the privatization of the oil industry and repudiating neo-liberal policy.
What is PEMEX, and Where is it Going?
 Allan Wall
Mexico's state oil monopoly, PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos), is protected from competition in Mexico, where it enjoys a legal monopoly on the exploration, processing and sale of petroleum. Its privileged status in national mythology affords it a certain immunity from criticism.
Mexican Chamber Approves Legal Reforms
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Mexican lawmakers on Tuesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence, even as lawmakers deleted a proposal to allow police to search homes without a warrant.
Internal Division Stalks the Mexican Left
 Jeremy Schwartz
Some were predicting it as far back as the summer of 2006, when losing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador brought hundreds of thousands into the streets to protest what he called a fraudulent election. Two years later, the Mexican left is consumed by division, an internal fight that threatens to spill out of control.
Feed the World? We Are Fighting a Losing Battle, UN Admits
 Julian Borger
The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a "new face of hunger".
Democrats See a Train Wreck Coming
 Dan Walters
Remember the political teeth-gnashing eight years ago when Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote for president only to lose to Republican George W. Bush in the Electoral College after weeks of disputed vote-counting in Florida and contradictory decisions by the Florida and U.S. supreme courts?
Spotlight on Mexican Massacre
 Reed Johnson
It was like Chicago '68, only much bloodier, or Tiananmen Square '89, only more shrouded in secrecy. Even today there is no definitive count of how many pro-democracy demonstrators were slaughtered by Mexican army troops in the Tlatelolco zone of this capital on Oct. 2, 1968.
Latinos' Influence in Primaries More Important Than Ever
 Dianne Solís
Politics is full of theater, but few were quite prepared a week ago when state legislator and corporate lawyer Rafael Anchía burst into a reggaetón chant at a rally for his presidential candidate: Sen. Barack Obama.
Mexico is Refuge for World's Persecuted Writers
 Chris Hawley
When the paramilitaries burst through his door, beat him and pointed a Kalashnikov rifle at his chest, poet Xhevdet Bajraj knew it was time to get as far from Kosovo as possible.
Violence Against Border Agents Viewed As Sign of Success
 Terence P. Jeffrey
Violence against Border Patrol agents - including attempts to run them over and behead them with wire - increased by almost a third in 2007, says Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Black President? Mexico Has Been There, Done That ... in 1829
 Rose Ybarra
If Barack Obama wins the presidential election, he will be the first black president in U.S. history - but he wouldn't be the first black president in North America. That honor belongs to Vicente Ramon Guerrero, the second president of Mexico and one of the most fascinating figures in Mexican history.
Study Finds Recidivism No Higher Among Deportable Immigrants
 Warren Robak
Deportable immigrants released from the Los Angeles County jail system were no more likely to be rearrested than similar nondeportable immigrants released during the same period, according to a RAND Corporation study issued recently.
Nader Launches Another Presidential Run
 Capitol Hill Blue
Ralph Nader, the aging consumer-activist whose independent run for President in 2000 cost Al Gore the Presidency, wants to be the spoiler again.
US Mortgage Crisis Triggers Walk-Aways
 Mary Kane
To understand why the next phase of the nation's housing crisis might mean financially troubled owners just give up and walk away from their homes, look no further than the winding roads and carefully tended lawns of the Piedmont subdivision in the once-booming exurbs of Washington.
Crack Offenders Set for Release Mostly Nonviolent, Study Says
 Darryl Fears
Most of the more than 1,500 crack cocaine offenders who are immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons under new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission are small-time dealers or addicts who are not career criminals and whose charges did not involve violence or firearms.
No Longer in Race, Richardson Is a Man Pursued
 Mark Leibovich
Mr. Richardson quit the presidential race on Jan. 10 and has since gone from courting voters at the grass roots to being courted himself at the highest levels.
Rights Groups Accuse US of "Persistent and Systematic" Racial Discrimination
 Agence France-Presse
The United States is guilty of "persistent and systematic" racial discrimination across all aspects of society from Guantanamo Bay to the justice and school systems, rights groups charged on this week.
Catholic Immigrants Go Protestant
 Pablo Jaime Sáinz
There are thousands of Latin American Catholics that, when they migrate to the United States, leave Catholicism to join a different Christian denomination.
Alfred Nobel: Controversial Man, Controversial Awards
 Ivan Simic
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mexico Left Eyes New Street Protest Over Oil Sector
 Catherine Bremer
Mexican leftists, who paralyzed the capital with election protests in 2006, will go back to the streets this weekend to fight any attempt to let private capital into the oil sector.
 Clinton's Debate Moment: Turning Point or End Game?
 Jeff Mason
Was it a pivotal moment that could change the campaign, or the swan song of a candidate who may be nearing the end of her U.S. presidential bid? Hillary Clinton's concluding statement in a televised debate on Thursday drew a standing ovation from the audience and plaudits from analysts.
Drug Czar Says U.S. Use Fueling Mexico Violence
 Alfredo Corchado
American drug users are paying ruthless Mexican kingpins nearly $14 billion annually for their meth, heroin, cocaine and especially marijuana – monies that are helping fund an unprecedented bloody turf war that's threatening Mexican institutions, the White House drug czar said.
Mexico Bomb Seen Too Amateur for Cartel Campaign
 Catherine Bremer
A botched bomb attack aimed at a Mexico City security chief looks more like a vendetta by small-time drug peddlers than the start of a wider bombing campaign by big cartels, experts say.
Gender Stereotypes Still Firmly Entrenched, Despite Progress
 Dalia Acosta
Constructing gender equality in Latin American societies remains an apparently arduous task. The issue is still confined to the ivory towers of academia, far away from the media, and is seldom included in the debates that really capture people’s attention.
Conspiracy Buffs May Feast on JFK Documents
 Ed Stoddard
The Dallas County district attorney said this week that he could not categorically dismiss as fake a transcript of an alleged conversation between Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby.
Socialists: Iraq War Still Number One Issue
 Stewart A. Alexander
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently announced that he is supporting a pause in U.S. troop reduction in Iraq; it is a decision that is strongly opposed by socialists throughout the nation and a vast majority of the U.S. population.
Negative Campaigns Bother Young Voters
 Jackie Frank
They may be all fired up and ready to go, but the young voters who have helped propel Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to front-runner status might stay home if the race turns nasty.
Mexico Rights Group Probes Army Killing Near Border
 Jason Lange
Mexico's human rights commission is investigating a shooting in which troops on an anti-drug mission near the U.S. border killed a man and wounded an American, the organization said on Wednesday.
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