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Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control
 Patrick Cockburn
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
Mexico's Poor Seek Relief From Tortilla Shortage
 Lorne Matalon
Tortillas are filling - Mexicans eat up to ten every day - but a dramatic rise in the cost of corn flour has driven up the cost of a dozen tortillas from the equivalent of 30 U.S. cents to 50 cents or more in some stores.
Euthanasia Tourists Snap Up Pet Shop Drug in Mexico
 Robin Emmott
Clutching photos of the bottled drug to overcome a lack of Spanish, they have maps sketched by euthanasia activists to locate back-street pet shops and veterinary supply stores near the U.S. border. There they can buy a bottle for $35 to $50, enough for one suicide, no questions asked.
"Extreme Poverty Must Become a Thing of the Past": Felipe Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón stated that extreme poverty in Mexico must disappear, which is why he considered that every effort must be made to ensure that more and more people overcome this condition.
Mexico's Drug War Has Many Players
 Daniel Borunda
Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city's lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes.
Mexico Army Marches Into Drug War - Again
 Ken Ellingwood
Troops have been deployed to a greater extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the military.
Rights-Americas: Slow Progress Along a Difficult Road
 Constanza Vieira
Although it is proceeding "at a very slow pace," the current trend in the Americas is towards a "strengthening of human rights," said activist María Victoria Fallon ahead of the 38th general assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS), taking place in Colombia.
Energy Reforms are Constitutional: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón declared that the energy reform bill serves as a guarantor for constitutionality, as a result of which he urged Congress to approve it once the months of debate and discussion previously agreed on have elapsed.
History Stands Against Troops
 Dudley Althaus
Frustrated with the rising death toll from a resilient criminal insurgency, President Felipe Calderón seems ready to make a stand in the sprawling northern city of Culiacan that's long been an incubator for Mexico's drug gangs.
Drug Massacre Leaves a Mexican Town Terrorized
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the past year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying residents and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves.
Tracks of Destructive Turf War Scar Juárez
 El Paso Times
Multimedia reporter Leela Landress and photographer Adriane Jaeckle got first-hand looks at the violence unfolding on the streets of Juárez when they were sent on assignment there Thursday. Here is Landress' first-person account.
She's Spent Two Years In a Mexican Prison - Now They Want 23 More
 Margie Boulé
Just when things looked the darkest for Oregonian Rebecca Roth, sitting in a prison in Mexico . . . they got even darker. More than two years ago Rebecca and a Canadian woman named Brenda Martin were arrested by Mexican authorities and thrown in an overcrowded prison. They were charged with organized crime and money laundering.
Cannabis: Cancer Research’s Most Surprising Story
 Bruce Mirken
Once again the cancer diagnosis of a well-known national figure - in this case Sen. Ted Kennedy - has sparked a flurry of interest in efforts to treat and cure this frustrating, complex and deadly illness. One of the most promising areas of research involves a group of chemicals whose origins may seem shocking: cannabinoids.
Elderly Often Left Behind When Relatives Cross Border
 Codie Sanchez
Grandmothers and grandfathers are often left behind when family members illegally cross into the United States. The elderly can't make the harsh and dangerous trip across the desert. The result: senior citizens' homes all along the Mexican border, filled with elderly residents, many of them long forgotten.
Dwindling GOP Hispanic Vote May Cost McCain, Says Liberal Strategist
 Josiah Ryan
Sen. John McCain may lose the presidential election if he fails to win as many Hispanic votes as George W. Bush did, says Simon Rosenberg, who is president of the liberal New Democratic Network and a veteran of the Dukakis and Clinton presidential campaigns.
Mexico's Drug War Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines'
 Ioan Grillo
The man honored by the shrine to Jesus Malverde in Culiacan, so often packed with locals, is no ordinary Mexican saint — Malverde was a Sinaloan bandit who has been adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers.
 Carter Says Israel Has 150 Nukes
 The Real Network
Former US President Jimmy Carter has again come under fire in the US mainstream media, since publicly saying that Israel has 150 or more nuclear weapons in its arsenal.
Mexico Takes Economic Gamble to Keep Fuel Cheap
 Michael O'Boyle & Noel Randewich
A $19 billion fuel subsidy, meant to shield Mexicans from spiraling world oil prices, could swallow a chunk of Mexico's precious crude oil export windfall revenue this year, and may only delay an inflation spike.
 Peru Guards Its Guano as Demand Soars Again
 Simon Romero
The worldwide boom in commodities has come to this: Even guano, the bird dung that was the focus of an imperialist scramble on the high seas in the 19th century, is in strong demand once again.
Engaging Cuba, 50 Years Later
 Marcela Sanchez
Probably no event could stand as better proof of a U.S. foreign policy failure than the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, to be marked on Jan. 1. Nineteen days later, a new U.S. president - the 11th since Fidel Castro toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime - will inherit that policy.
New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere
 Jeremy W. Peters
Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.
Why is Peace Not Patriotic?
 The Real Network
The Washington chapter of Veterans For Peace tried to take part in this year's National Memorial Day parade. The coordinators of the parade refused their application.
A Peek Inside Bush's House of Lies
 Dale McFeatters
Scott McClellan, President Bush's famously loyal and tight-lipped press secretary, recalled that "I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew." Did he ever. He was not just blowing smoke.
U.S. System of Deportation Inhumane
 Real News Network
Each day, over 30,000 people are housed within detention centers across the United States. The New York-based Detention Watch Network says that last year, over 276,000 immigrants were deported.
Latin America: Governing Leftist Parties Discuss 'Change of Era'
 Ana Artigas
Supporting leftwing parties in government, strengthening democracy, redirecting the state towards its role in redistributing resources and promoting Latin American integration were major points of agreement at the 14th Sao Paulo Forum, which took place in the Uruguayan capital.
Mexico Says Bloodshed Shows Progress Vs Drug Cartels
 Cyntia Barrera Diaz
Mexico's attorney general said on Wednesday a surge in drug gang killings, marked by murders of police and decapitations this month, showed an army crackdown on cartels is working.
Mexico's Steps Against Food Inflation Draw Mixed Response
 Paul Kiernan
A set of measures decreed by President Felipe Calderon to mitigate the impact on Mexico of rising global food prices has drawn a mixed bag of responses from opposition politicians and special interest groups.
Remittances: Slowdown Has a Long Reach
 Greg Brosnan
Villages across Mexico depend on money from migrant workers in cities like Houston. But now, as the U.S. economy slows, relatives in industries like construction are increasingly limited in what they can give.
Bad Moon Rising: The Crisis in Ciudad Juarez
 Frontra NorteSur
By last weekend, what began as a public safety crisis earlier this year had evolved into a broader political-economic one as well. Stirred in with the narco war are rising street crime and kidnappings for ransom, all of which creates a generalized sense of insecurity. Talk is emerging of a “Nuevo Laredo Effect.”
In Mexico Town, Icon of Death Inspires Worship and Worry
 Oscar Avila
Practically overnight, Santa Maria Cuautepec has gone from a forgotten small town to a religious mecca where pilgrims travel hundreds of miles to seek answers to their prayers.
Mexico’s War Against Drugs Kills Its Police
 James C. McKinley Jr.
The assassination was an inside job. The federal police commander kept his schedule secret and slept in a different place each night, yet the killer had the keys to the official’s apartment and was waiting for him when he arrived after midnight.
'Mexican Kidnappers are Operating in the United States'
 Julieta Martínez
Organized crime gangs have exported the kidnapping industry to the San Diego, California area, where they have kidnapped at least 15 people who were then taken to safe houses in Tijuana.
Cardinal's Slaying Still Haunts Mexico
 Jaime Septien
On the 15th anniversary of the slaying of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo in the parking lot of Guadalajara's international airport, Mexican bishops lamented that "investigations of the case have not advanced sufficiently to be able to know and clarify the masterminds and perpetrators of the crime."
PEMEX Reform Debate Entrenched in Dogma
 Diego Cevallos
The debate in the Mexican Congress over the government’s proposals to reform the state oil company, PEMEX, has placed the oft- amended constitution of 1917 and the elusive concepts of nationalism and sovereignty squarely at the centre of the controversy.
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