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What's Next After US Supreme Court's Gun Decision?
 Michael Doyle
The Supreme Court's landmark decision Thursday striking down the District of Columbia's gun ban will have wide-ranging legal, political and public safety consequences. Most immediately, the court's 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller poses myriad questions for which answers are still a work in progress.
From Mexico, Immigrants or Refugees?
 Frontra NorteSur
For the moment, it’s difficult to determine the precise role of violence in encouraging emigration to the United States. One indicator is a sudden upsurge in home sales in El Paso at a time of a depressed U.S. real estate market.
Cold Calculation Predicts Death Row Executions
 Paul Marks
Which inmates on death row will eventually be executed? Many never make the final journey from prison cell to execution chamber - but nobody really understands who will be spared. Until now.
Bible Thumpers Don't Trust McCain
 Philip Elliott
If Christian conservatives stay on the sidelines during the fall campaign, presidential hopeful John McCain probably stays in the Senate.
Confrontation Over Mexican Oil Privatization Plan Intensifies
 Alan Benjamin
Proposals to privatize Mexico’s state-owned oil industry have sparked a powerful movement in the streets, led by a leftist political leader who narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election.
Kindling Hope in Mexico City’s Homeless
 Florida Baptist Witness
Of the 9 million people jammed into the centro area of Mexico’s vast capital city, about 80 percent are poor. At least 50,000, according to estimates, live on the streets — because of drug or alcohol abuse, or joblessness, or both.
US Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape
 David Stout
The Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Wednesday that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional, assuming that the victim is not killed. "The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court.
Remittances to the Rescue?
 Alissa Thuotte
Remittances - the money sent home to families by migrants living in foreign countries - have been gaining attention in the last few years from international institutions such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
Canada: Reprieve for Abused Mexican Women
 Lesley Ciarula Taylor
In a series of stunning decisions, the Federal Court of Canada has jumped to the defence of Mexican women trying to stay in Canada to escape violence and abuse.
Government Determined to Help Poorest Live Better
 Presidencia de la República
On tour in the state of Campeche, President Felipe Calderón declared that government will continue promoting public policies with a high social content and building works that will really help people, and above all, supporting the poorest families in the country.
Returning Immigrants Report Beatings by Tijuana Police
 Jose Luis Jiménez
Nearly 200 illegal immigrants sent back to Mexico from the United States were falsely arrested by Tijuana municipal police who beat or robbed some of them, according to a study that a human rights group released last week.
Reclaiming Corn and Culture
 Wendy Call
For 14 years, NAFTA has displaced farmers and spurred migration. The answer from Mexico’s grassroots: co-ops and fair trade. “The fatal date has arrived,” announced one of Mexico’s largest newspapers, El Universal, on New Year’s Day 2008.
The Real McCain
 The Observer/Guardian UK
To his fans he's a lovable patriot with a maverick streak. But to his critics he's an anti-abortion Creationist who surrounds himself with religious extremists. Paul Harris uncovers the dark side of John McCain.
U.S. Has Central America’s Northern Triangle in Its Sights
 Thelma Mejía
Drug trafficking, migration, high crime rates and even a supposed Iranian presence was the cocktail of concerns raised by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on his recent tour of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Mexico City Mayor Cites 'Grave Errors' in Fatal Raid
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard acknowledged Saturday that "grave errors" were committed in a drug raid that sparked a stampede at a dance club late Friday, leaving 12 people dead.
Analysts Disagree on Whether America Faces Imminent Decline
 Kevin McCandless
Analysts in the United States and Britain are challenging the notion that America's dominant position on the international stage is under threat.
Scant Compassion for Migrants with HIV
 Am Johal
Even as people who migrate from their homelands run a higher risk of contracting the HIV virus, they also are far less likely to receive adequate healthcare, and often face deportation or other harsh treatment in destination countries, activists say.
EU Lifts Cuba Sanctions
 Aljazeera
The European Union has agreed to lift its sanctions on Cuba, diplomats have said. Benita Ferrer-Waldner, EU external relations commissioner, said the decision was made in the hope of encouraging more reforms by Raul Castro, the Cuban leader, and moves toward democracy.
Mexico: Latest Measures Against Food Crisis Called Ineffective
 Diego Cevallos
Observers in Mexico say the price freezes announced by the government for more than 150 food products are deceptive and could even foment unhealthy eating habits.
US Arrests for War Resistance Increase Again
 Bill Quigley
There have been over 15,000 arrests for resistance to war since 2002. There were large numbers right after the runup to and invasion of Iraq. Recently, arrests have begun climbing again.
Death Penalty-US: Charges of Racism Offer New Evidence
 Michael J. Carter
Race played a "real" role in deciding who was sentenced to death in hundreds of capital trials over a seven-year period in one Texas county, according to new academic research to be published shortly.
Mexico's Calderon Bogged Down in Bloody Drug War
 Catherine Bremer
President Felipe Calderon has staked his reputation on wiping out Mexico's drug violence but his campaign is in trouble as trafficking gangs murder ever more people, target police and openly recruit hitmen.
On the Trail of Mexico's Drugs Gangs
 Duncan Kennedy
So far this year more than 1,400 people have died in Mexico as drug cartels battle one another for control of the illegal drugs trade to the US, and battle the authorities trying to stop them.
US Vets: Homeless, Broken and Alone
 Michelle Roberts
Nearly 20,000 disabled soldiers were discharged in the past two fiscal years, and lawmakers, veterans' advocates and others say thousands could be facing financial ruin while they wait for their claims to be processed and their benefits to come through.
 G.I.s Used As 'Guinea Pigs'
 Washington Times
The US government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington Times/ABC News investigation has found.
Signing of Constitutional Reform Decree on Penal Justice and Public Safety
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón signed the Constitutional Reform Decree on Penal Justice and Public Safety, which will provide better legal tools for fighting crime and modernize the institutions responsible for administering justice on the basis of oral trials and the establishment of a new public safety model that will protect citizens.
The $300 Billion Betrayal
 American News Project
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal of enormous proportions that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials.
Mixed Reactions to Mexico's Overhaul of Legal System
 Diego Cevallos
The Mexican government began Tuesday to usher in a series of constitutional reforms aimed at revolutionising, in eight years, the country’s opaque criminal justice system, which leaves 97 percent of all crimes unsolved and often victimises the poor. But human rights activists warn that there are risks.
Ex-Rivals' Merge to 'Megacartel' Intensifies Brutality in Mexico
 Alfredo Corchado & Laurence Iliff
Until recently, the map showing control of key drug cartel hot spots in Mexico was something like the red states and the blue states in the U.S. Now, everything is up for grabs as three powerful wings of once rival trafficking groups fuse into a "megacartel," unleashing an unprecedented blood bath, according to U.S. officials and analysts.
Latin America's Poor Provide Rich Pickings
 Oliver Balch
After decades targeting society's richest sectors, companies across Latin America are beginning to cotton on to the hidden potential among the poor.
Losing the Race
 American News Project
Obama. The Reverend Wright. Immigration. Race is taking center stage in America and, as a result, the groups that try to heighten racial divisions are on the rise. ANP explores the phenomenon of "white nationalism."
If Not Hillary?
 The Real Network
As Hillary Clinton's campaign wound down, many wondered if her core supporters - women - would rally behind Barack Obama... or perhaps even John McCain.
"Worst Massacre in Argentine History" Goes to Trial
 Sam Ferguson
Victims of Argentina's Dirty War were tortured and subject to complete sensory deprivation. The "disappeared" were blindfolded and kept in total silence, intermittently tortured and beaten before they met death. The whereabouts of many of the victims remains unknown.
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