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Mexico's Efforts to End Violence Against Women Stymied by Macho Culture
 Franco Ordonez
Every day thousands of Mexican women suffer physical and psychological abuse at the hands of their spouses, despite a federal law passed over a year ago to protect them.
Brazil's Activists Fear Death Squads Back
 Michael Astor
Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun - and not just because he admired Dorothy Stang.
US Woes, Anti-Immigrant Moves Hit Latin America
 Abid Aslam
Economic woes and hostility against immigrants in the United States are having a financial impact thousands of miles away, in the communities to which migrant workers send their hard-earned savings.
Mexico Divided Over Govt Energy Reform Plan - Poll
 Jason Lange
Mexican voters are split over a proposal by President Felipe Calderon to reform the energy sector, but a substantial slice of the population has yet to make up its mind on the plan, a poll showed on Monday.
Mexico Oil Privatization Dispute Rages
 Emile Schepers
While the rest of Latin America moves left, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is pushing hard in the other direction with a thinly disguised plan to privatize PEMEX, the huge state oil company that provides 40 percent of the Mexican government’s revenues. But resistance to privatization is very strong.
Hillary's Failure: How Did It Happen?
 Calvin Woodward & Nancy Benac
Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win. Many people believed her victory in the Democratic nomination battle was a sure thing. Her ultimate failing may have been in believing it, too.
Democrats Tout Shift in Hispanic Voting
 Beth Reinhard
Hispanic voters registered as Democrats have overtaken Hispanic Republicans in Florida, signaling a trend that, if it continues, could have far-reaching implications for the 2008 election and U.S. foreign policy.
Lawsuits Raise Questions About Private US Prisons
 Leslie Berestein
As immigration laws have become tougher, the federal government has found itself with a logistical challenge: where to house a population that has swollen to more than 30,000 detainees.
Behind the Food Riots: A Debate on How Best to Farm
 David Koop
Around the world, governments are trying every play in their books to stave off food riots - sending troops to hand out food in slums, ordering sweeping wage increases, banning grain exports. The United States is promising millions in emergency food aid. Some Asian countries want an OPEC-style rice cartel.
Mexican Officials Vow To Continue War On Crime
 Los Angeles Times
Mexican officials vowed last week to press their war on organized crime despite the brazen killing a day earlier of the country's a top federal police official by a gunman believed working for a drug cartel.
 President Urges Citizens to Join Forces Against Organized Crime
 Presidencia de la República
Mexican President Felipe Calderón said that rather than cowering in the face of crime, Federal Government will redouble its efforts to combat organized crime.
Up In Arms Over Oil In Mexico
 Reuters
Thousands take to streets in Mexico City to protest plan for private investment in state run oil industry.
US Immigration Raids are About to Get Ugly
 David Hendricks
Letters listing millions of Social Security “no-match” workers are ready to mail to employers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded. All that is lacking is clearance from the courts.
Poet Fined for Insulting Mexican Flag, Calls Ruling Threat to Free Speech
 Associated Press
Mexican poet Sergio Witz Rodriguez, has been fined about US $5 for desecrating the country's flag by writing a poem in 2000 about using it to wipe up urine and excrement.
2,000 Soldiers Can't Stop the Bloodshed in Juarez
 Jay Root
Under the guard of machine-gun-toting Army soldiers - sent here to quell a record outbreak of gang shootouts, kidnappings and unsolved murders - the father of four died in the hospital from multiple gunshot wounds before midnight Tuesday.
Child Labor in Mexico Puts Food on Tables of Americans
 Chris Hawley
About 300,000 youngsters work illegally in Mexico's fields, the U.N. Children's Fund says, making child labor a major link in the chain that increasingly supplies American dinner tables.
Luis Posada Carriles, a Terror Suspect Abroad, Enjoys a 'Coming-Out' in Miami
 Carol J. Williams
A dinner with 500 fellow Cuban exiles honors the militant and former CIA operative, now 80 and still wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges.
Election Dispute Threatens Breakup of PRD
 Kevin Kearney
The results of the March 16 election for president and general secretary of Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) are still unknown, and it is increasingly unlikely that the final results will ever be determined.
Leftists Slow Mexico Energy Reform Plan
 Jason Lange
A heated debate over the future of Mexico's oil industry will drag on for months, delaying President Felipe Calderon's plans to give foreign companies a bigger say in the country's sagging energy sector.
Pemex Oozes Corruption
Diego Cevallos
Funds belonging to the Mexican state oil monopoly, Pemex, have paid in recent years for liposuction treatment for the wife of the company’s chief executive, a presidential candidate’s campaign, contracts with firms facing legal action, and the whims of trade union leaders who are not required to account for their expenses.
Who Wants Rogaciano Alba Dead? Massacre of Mexican Strongman's Family Breaks All the Rules
 Mark Stevenson
Somebody wants to kill Rogaciano Alba. Dozens of gunmen attacked the house of the local political boss, killing his sons and kidnapping his daughter in a weekend rampage that left 17 dead. With Alba in hiding, the motive remains unclear.
US Border Patrol Lets Some Illegals Go – Over and Over Again
 Alicia A. Caldwell
Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her a lift home. Gonzalez and a group of other women and children have no interest in staying in the United States. All they want to do is panhandle outside El Paso businesses, using the children as lures.
Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored?
 JR Raphael
It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. The same technology that lets you stay in touch on-the-go can now let others tap into your private world — without you ever even suspecting something is awry.
Mexico Lawmakers Will Reach Into Pockets to Fight Oil Proposal
Adriana Lopez Caraveo & Jens Erik Gould
Mexican opposition lawmakers plan to fork over part of their salaries to fight President Felipe Calderon's plan to loosen the state monopoly on energy.
US Death Penalty: Another Mexican on His Way to the Scaffold in US
 Diego Cevallos
The Mexican government’s aggressive strategy to prevent the execution of Mexican citizens in the United States has so far failed to bear fruit, despite a landmark international court ruling.
Mexican Drug Cartels Making Audacious Pitch for Recruits
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
The job offer was tempting. It was printed on a 16-foot-wide banner and strung above one of the busiest roads here, calling out to any "soldier or ex-soldier." "We're offering you a good salary, food and medical care for your families," it said in block letters. But there was a catch: The employer was Los Zetas.
As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness
 Shaila Dewan
The release of the third death row inmate in six months in North Carolina last week is raising fresh questions about whether states are supplying capital-murder defendants with adequate counsel, even as an execution on Tuesday night in Georgia ended a seven-month national suspension.
Richardson Keeps Up His Envoy Work
 Leslie Wayne
Is Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico still running a campaign of his own? On his mind may just be Secretary of State in the cabinet of the candidate he endorsed, Barack Obama.
Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
 Bill Berkowitz
These days, while you can still pick up a newspaper or turn on a radio or television gabfest and read, hear and see the issue of immigration batted around, it has become less of a hot-button political issue in the United States.
May Day Rallies Losing Strength
 Chad Groening
Immigration reform activist William Gheen believes the recent May Day rallies by illegal immigrants across the country demonstrate once again that many of them are more loyal to their country of origin than to the United States.
Hispanic Voters: Waking the Sleeping Giant
 Karoun Demirjian
Since 2006, when explosive rallies against restrictive House-sponsored crackdowns on immigration brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the heart of major American cities, organizers have been bedeviled in efforts to make good on the "tomorrow we vote" pledge - and not simply because the nation's contingent of roughly 12 million undocumented workers is unable to vote.
Brenda Martin's Fraud Case, the Sequel
 Joanna Smith
As the saga of a Canadian woman jailed in Mexico draws to a close, another woman dealing with a similar nightmare waits her turn away from the spotlight.
Parole Board Won't Consider Martin's Guilt
 Jennifer Macmillan
When the National Parole Board considers the case of Brenda Martin, it will weigh whether the 51-year-old cook will pose a threat to others once released, but it won't consider the question that has been most in dispute during the two years Ms. Martin has been in a Mexican prison: Is she guilty?
America's Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
 Clayton Dach
Armed with potent drugs and new technology, a dangerous breed of soldiers are being trained to fight America's future wars.
Cinco de Mayo Diluted by U.S. Liquor Industry
 Finding Dulcinea
The Cinco de Mayo holiday celebration marks Mexico’s victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Traditionally, only two Mexican cities celebrated the event — Puebla and Mexico City. Today, the cultural value of Cinco de Mayo has changed as the American liquor industry cashes in on the holiday.
The Right's America-Hating Preacher
 Robert Parry
One of the advantages that the American Right has achieved from investing tens of billions of dollars in media, is the ability to define what is and what isn't a "scandal," a powerful factor in determining who wins national elections.
CIA Chief Sees Unrest Rising With Population
 Joby Warrick
Swelling populations and a global tide of immigration will present new security challenges for the United States by straining resources and stoking extremism and civil unrest in distant corners of the globe, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in a speech this week.
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