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Brenda Martin Overjoyed To Be Home
 Charles Rusnell
The anger and bitterness that consumed Brenda Martin during more than two years in a Mexican prison disappeared the moment she landed on Canadian soil.
Ethics - The Best Weapon Against Domestic Violence
 Helda Martínez
Domestic violence, which is widespread in Latin America as in the rest of the world, makes it imperative to recover ethics as the core value for practices and efforts aimed at creating more equitable and just societies.
Central American Immigrants Seek Rights in Mexico
 Chicago Tribune
While Mexican immigrants led the charge in Chicago and other cities Thursday to push the U.S. government to treat illegal immigrants more humanely, the same demands for immigrant rights are festering in Mexico, which is facing mounting international criticism for how it treats Latin American migrants.
Indigenous Hunger Strikers in Mexico Released From Prisons
 Rick Kearns
After years of asserting their innocence, a group of indigenous Zapatista advocates are free, for now. The Mexican government released 149 political prisoners in the first two weeks of April, including 37 hunger strikers, almost all of whom were indigenous people from Chiapas.
Cheney Lawyer Claims Congress Has No Authority Over Vice
 Elana Schor
The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed this week that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.
UN Taskforce to Tackle Global Food Crisis
 Allegra Stratton
The UN secretary general today said he would head a special taskforce to address food shortages and price rises around the world. Ban Ki-moon said the move was an attempt to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale."
Proposals Unlikely to Improve Mexico's Oil Output
 Jim Landers
Petróleos Mexicanos doesn't have the tools, talent or money to go after the billions of barrels of oil that lie in its deepwater zone in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico's constitution bars any other oil company from doing the work.
Exploiting Real Fears With ‘Virtual Kidnappings’
 Marc Lacey
“Virtual kidnapping” is the name being given to Mexico’s latest crime craze, one that has capitalized on the raw nerves of a country that has been terrorized by the real thing for years.
The Food Crisis Begins to Bite
 Jerome Taylor & Andrew Buncombe
Rioting in Haiti. Rationing in America. Queues in Egypt. Protests in Afghanistan. As the price of food continues to soar, the impact is being felt by people around the globe.
Latin America: Eliminating Poverty at Low Cost
 Mario Osava
The success of pioneering efforts to reduce inequality and poverty using relatively few resources has led to an expansion in Latin America of direct aid, targeting the most vulnerable families, especially in rural areas.
Suicide by American Veterans
 David Lord
In recent training, a topic that literally brought some Veteran Service Officers to tears was the report on Suicide and the Collateral Damage to Family, by the tour of duty policies placed on the military troops fighting the "War on Terror."
Senator: VA Lying About Number of Veteran Suicides
 Les Blumenthal
The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who've attempted suicide, a senator charged this week, citing internal emails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800.
 BBC Anchor Who Reported on WTC7 Collapse: ‘Conspiracy’ a Possibility
 Aaron Dykes
Members of We Are Change UK questioned ex-BBC reporter Phil Hayton about the early reporting of WTC 7’s collapse during a speaking appearance.
UN Secretary-General Calls Food Price Rise a Global Crisis
 Veronika Oleksyn
A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late this week. An estimated 40 percent increase in food prices since last year has sparked violent protests in the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia.
Q&A: "Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe"
 Tierramérica
Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jesús León Santos, an indigenous man who is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize.
US Appeals Court Stays Execution of Sea Lions
 Adam Tanner
A U.S. federal court gave a stay of execution on Wednesday to 85 sea lions slated to be killed starting on Thursday to help boost salmon stocks below a dam connecting the states of Washington and Oregon.
In the End, Superdelegates Will Still Decide It All
 Stephen Collinson
The "superdelegates" who can vote how they like at the party's August convention came under a glaring spotlight after Clinton defied Obama's latest bid to bundle her out of the contest with a 10-point triumph in Tuesday's vote.
Brenda Martin Despairs of Being Freed
 Charles Rusnell
For the more than two years now, Brenda Martin has not felt in control of her destiny. A day after she was sentenced to five years in prison for a crime she denies committing, Martin said she does not believe the Mexican justice system will ever set her free.
US Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cause, Appeals Court Rules
 Ryan Singel
Federal agents at the border do not need any reason to search through travelers' laptops, cell phones or digital cameras for evidence of crimes, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, extending the government's power to look through belongings like suitcases at the border to electronics.
Mexican Journalists Still Under Siege in 2008
 Frontra NorteSur
Despite the creation of a special federal prosecutor and protests from virtually all international press organizations, new attacks against journalists in Mexico continue to mount while old ones go unpunished.
Clinton's Win in Pennsylvania Leaves Obama Battered, Party Reeling
 David Lightman
Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania victory means that the Democratic Party's eventual nominee will be badly bruised and could have a tough time rallying the party in the fall.
In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants
 David Bacon
n March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the US.
Drug Wars Slashing Mexico Tourism
 Sean Mattson
The last thing Debra Fassold's travel business needed was another warning to tourists about violence in Mexico But it came last Monday, when the State Department updated its travel alert for Mexico, telling U.S. visitors to be cautious due to continued narcotics gang violence south of the border.
Mexico Media: NAFTA Harms Workers
 Prensa Latina
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has only benefited a handful of agricultural exporters and impoverished the countryside, the Mexican newspaper "La Jornada" reported Tuesday.
Mexican Ordeal Lets Martin's Estranged Dad Find Daughter
 CBC News
Brenda Martin's father said he may never have reconnected with his long-lost daughter had she had not gained attention over her legal case that has left her in a Mexican jail for 26 months.
Mexico Army Ops Allow Crime Surge in Border City
 Ignacio Alvarado
Mexican troops are failing to provide basic security in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, residents say, testing support for President Felipe Calderon's army-led assault on drug gangs.
Students Should Study Human Rights Violations of Mexican-Americans, US Lawmaker Says
 Susan Jones
State Sen. Gil Cedillo, a Los Angeles Democrat, has introduced a bill (SB 1214) that would require the California Education Department to incorporate the "unconstitutional deportations" of the 1930s into the Social Studies curriculum for public school students in 7th through 12th grades.
US News Media's Latest Disgrace
 Robert Parry
After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.
Brenda Martin Reflects on Life Behind Bars
 Charles Rusnell
Brenda Martin stands in the burning midday sun behind a wire fence inside the Puente Grande Women’s Prison — waiting, just as she has for more than two years.
Hitler Ad Fans Tensions Over Mexico Oil Reform Plan
 Catherine Bremer & Miguel Angel Gutierrez
A political row in Mexico over an oil reform plan intensified at the weekend as a TV ad compared a firebrand leftist leading a siege of Congress to 20th century dictators Hitler and Mussolini.
Mexico Draws Dire Picture for Migrants
 Chris Hawley & Sergio Solache
In a new effort to dissuade people from crossing the border illegally, Mexico's top human-rights agency has published two comic books packed with tales about the horrors that migrants may face. The tone is very different from previous government publications that focused more on travel and safety tips.
Bush Seeks to Cement Legacy of Ties With Canada, Mexico
 Ben Feller
President Bush, joining the conservative leaders of Canada and Mexico for one final time, is eager to expand a trading relationship that has been lucrative for the United States and both of its neighbors. But he is up against rising anti-trade sentiment.
US Economic Slowdown Likely to Bring Mexican Workers North
 Franco Ordonez
As the U.S. economy heads south, Mexicans may have to head north. That's the fear of many workers here, where the slowdown in the United States already has cut production at manufacturing plants whose output is largely sold in the United States.
Mexico's Gulf Cartel Undaunted by Military Assault
 Robin Emmott
In one of its most audacious moves yet, Mexico's Gulf cartel drug gang this week openly advertised for army troops to desert and join it in a fight that has killed some 900 people this year.
Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger
 Marc Lacey
Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
In Mexico, War on Drug Cartels Takes Wider Toll
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
In nearly every state where the army has deployed, residents have accused soldiers of grave human rights violations that now number in the hundreds. Here in the western state of Michoacan, Calderón's home state, more than 100 such violations have been alleged.
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