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Reasons For Rescuing the Rich Refugees
 Strategy Page
With kidnappings are up 9 percent over last year, many affluent Mexicans, including many managers and professionals, are moving their families to the United States.
Mexico Gangsters Waive Press Freedom Rights
 Lucy Popescu
Barely a week goes by in Mexico without a journalist being harassed, persecuted or even killed for attempting to do their job. The situation has become so bad that the Committee to Protect Journalists now cites Mexico as the most dangerous country in Latin America for media professionals.
Zapatista Solidarity Protests at Edinburgh, Bournemouth and European Airports
 Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group
Passengers hurrying into the main check-in at Edinburgh international airport on 22 August were greeted by an unusual sight. A massive banner proclaimed: “ MEXICO... Sun... Fun... Bloomin’ Nice Beaches...”, alongside a painting of a palm tree. A somewhat eccentric Mexican tourist board initiative perhaps? Not exactly.
Mexicans Deported From U.S. Face Shattered Lives
 Julie Watson
All along the border, shelters once full of people trying to cross into the United States are now home to thousands of deportees who sleep on mattresses strewn inches apart on cement floors.
Mexico City Struggles With Law on Abortion
 Elisabeth Malkin & Nacha Cattan
When Mexico City’s government made abortion legal last year, it also set out to make it available to any woman who asked for one. That includes the city’s poorest, who for years resorted to illegal clinics and midwives as wealthy women visited private doctors willing to quietly end unwanted pregnancies.
 As Federal Agency Declares 'New Phenomenon' Downed WTC 7, Activists Cry Foul
 Stephen C. Webster
According to a federal agency report released this week, a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.
US Latino Leaders Holding Rally in Support of Marriage and the Family Ahead of DNC
 CNA
With the fate of the traditional family hanging in the balance, Catholic and Evangelical leaders from around the country are meeting in Denver ahead of the Democratic National Convention to show their support for marriage and the family.
Anti-Crime Pledges - This Time with Teeth?
 Diego Cevallos
In response to the growing public outcry over Mexico’s soaring crime rates, the president, state governors, lawmakers and judges agreed to a broad new anti-crime plan, characterised by a number of old promises, but also by one novel aspect: precise timeframes, targets and follow-up mechanisms.
Setting an Important Precedent for Indigenous Lands
 Marta Caravantes
An imminent decision by Brazil's Supreme Court on the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous reservation in the Amazon jungle region has the country's native communities on edge, because of the precedent it will set.
Mexico's Fox Chastises US, Pushes Democracy
 Liza Gross
Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter's playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home and abroad.
Light At the End of Iraq
 Dale McFeatters
The Bush administration, which has adamantly opposed timetables and a date for withdrawal from Iraq, has reached tentative agreement with Baghdad on both. The deal calls for U.S. forces to be withdrawn from Iraq's cities by next June and to leave the country by 2011.
Mexico City's Abortion-Rights Law Faces Constitutional Test
 Kevin G. Hall
More than a year after abortion was decriminalized in this capital city, abortion opponents hope the Mexican Supreme Court will reverse the legislation in a decision that could reverberate across Mexico and Latin America.
Mexico Outraged Over Corrupt Police, Kidnappings
 Mark Stevenson
The suspicions of police involvement in kidnap-killings have moved a nation where many had grown numb to kidnappings and the drug cartels' beheadings and midday shootouts. Mass street protests are planned in several cities, and some lawmakers are even changing their minds about opposition to capital punishment.
More Emails Missing from White House
 Pete Yost
The White House is missing as many as 225 days of email dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press.
President Calderón Assures Media Owners and Directors of His Continued Commitment to Freedom of Expression
 Presidencia de la República
Mexican President Felipe Calderón held a working meeting this week at the official Los Pinos residence with Mexican media owners and directors, during which he repeated his government’s firm commitment to defending freedom of expression and the free exercise of journalism.
Mexican Prelates Defend Editorial Calling for Women to Dress Modestly
 NZ Catholic
An editorial in an online publication from the Archdiocese of Mexico City urging women to don more conservative attire has generated headlines across the country as Catholic leaders defended their call for modesty as a method of promoting dignity and reducing incidents of sexual harassment and assault.
Bush Defends Failed War on Terror
 Richard Lardner
President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech to a major veterans group.
43 Dead in Three Days as Mexico Violence Escalates
 Agence France-Presse
At least 43 people died in violent attacks in the last three days in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, the scene of ongoing drug gang turf wars, police said Monday.
The State of the Empire
 The Real Network
In the first part of his interview with Pepe Escobar, David Harvey talks about competing capitalist blocks, the US-China relationship, the neoconservative global project and Barack Obama as the new face of US neoliberalism.
Tortuous Road to Justice in Inter-American System
 Raúl Pierri
Financial costs and lack of information are the main hurdles that public defenders must overcome in order to bring cases before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, which ended its XXXV extraordinary period of sessions Friday in the Uruguayan capital.
Inside America's Death Chamber
 John Ross
When the reporter from the Mexican news weekly Proceso was ushered into the death chamber, the condemned man was already strapped down on the gurney with several clear plastic tubes inserted in his arms. The straps were yellow. The walls were green, the color of life. He was swaddled in a white hospital gown. White is the color of death.
Mexico Pays the Price of Prohibition
 Mary Anastasia O'Grady
Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O'Grady tells Kelsey Hubbard how the U.S. War on Drugs and the demand for narcotics is taking its toll on Mexico.
Raza Studies Director Defends Controversial Program
 The Arizona Republic
Augustine F. Romero's Mexican American/Raza Studies program has recently come under attack from Arizona school Superintendent Tom Horne, who believes it to be racially divisive and hypercritical of American history and culture. Horne wants the program halted.
Mexico Probes Missing Rebels Linked to Bombings
 Istra Pacheco
The Mexican government said that two missing members of a small rebel group were the victims of a “forced disappearance” and not a kidnapping, indicating the government may have been involved.
US Court Rules Saudi Arabia Immune in 9/11 Case
 Edith Honan
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Fifth Circuit Rules on Jurors Using Bible During Sentencing Deliberations
 Jurist
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus to convicted murder Khristian Oliver, who had argued that his Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights were violated when the jury took Bible passages into account when deliberating on his eventual death sentence.
Study: Mexican Migrants Engage in More High-Risk Sex in U.S.
 Laurence Iliff
Mexican workers in the United States generally engage in more high-risk behaviors for the HIV virus than they did before leaving their home country, according to a study presented at the 17th International AIDS conference.
Mexico Criticizes Shooting at Border
 Debbi Baker, Kristina Davis & Sandra Dibble
The shooting of a Mexican man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a rock-throwing incident west of the San Ysidro border crossing drew a rebuke yesterday from the Mexican Consulate in San Diego and a demand that U.S. authorities conduct a “thorough investigation.”
Organized Crime, Drug Lords and the Mexican Hydra Effect
 Southern Pulse Network
The Mexican state of Michoacan has long been a battleground for opposing members of organized crime. Both the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Federation have fought over this important territory in the middle of Mexico, where cocaine supply from Colombia or precursor chemical supply from Asia can be received and quickly moved north.
Illicit Drug Retail Sales up with Ever More Mexican Users
 Patrick Corcoran
In regard to drug policy, the dominant image of Mexico is a trampoline, bouncing tons of cocaine and marijuana across the border to eager American users. There’s more than a kernel of truth to this picture; the combination of American demand and Mexican supply has turned the latter nation into the most violent trampoline on earth.
Edwards is Political Toast
 Gary D. Robertson
John Edwards lost a prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention. He likely blew a chance at a possible Cabinet post in a Barack Obama administration. And he may very well have lost any hope of being the voice for America's poor and forgotten.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the Resurrection of the PRI
 Frontera NorteSur
Once the most reviled man in Mexico, former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari presses ahead with his political comeback. On a July 31 visit to Chihuahua City, Salinas was given a VIP welcome by high-ranking members of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and a good portion of the state's political class.
Cindy Sheehan Tries a New Act
 Dale McFeatters
Last May, ubiquitous activist Cindy Sheehan, perhaps sensing that her act was growing old, announced that she was retiring from the antiwar movement and going home to Berkeley. It didn't last.
Mexico Mourns Another Kidnapping Death
 Jane Bussey
A father's pain over his son's death at the hands of abductors has reverberated across a nation overwhelmed by the rising violence of a brutal drug war, sparking a public outcry and leaving the government scrambling to clean up its discredited security forces.
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