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Suspected Drug Dealers in Mexico Leave Exotic Pets Behind
 Chris Hawley
Mexico's war on drugs has swept up a new breed of innocent victim: hundreds of exotic animals, from monkeys to white tigers, which are kept by drug cartel bosses as flashy pets but then become homeless when their owners are thrown in prison.
 Police Torture Still Remains in Mexico
 Prensa Latina
Two out of three Mexican police torture during investigation process of any criminal event, revealed a research made by the national and state commission of Human Rights.
Some Mexicans Leaving US, Planning Never to Return
 Ivan Moreno
Many are leaving Colorado in time for Christmas — joining a traditional holiday migration that will number almost 1 million people, says Mexico's interior ministry. But they have no intention of returning to Colorado, a place that promised prosperity.
Mexico Kidnapping Death Stokes Outrage
 William Booth
Her mother asked that mourners wear white, so the memorial service Saturday for Silvia Vargas Escalera seemed less grim than the circumstances surrounding one of Mexico's most notorious kidnappings.
Straw Man? Historians Say Obama is No Lincoln
 Harris Alexander Burns & John F. Harris
Obama's frequent invocations of Abraham Lincoln — a man enshrined in myth and marble with his own temple on the National Mall — would not at first blush say much about his own instincts for modesty or self-effacement.
Bush's Farewell Hallelujah Chorus
 Michael Winship
With all the interviews President Bush has been giving out lately, you'd think he has a new movie coming out for Christmas.
Mexico: Attempt To Revive Death Penalty Doomed
 Diego Cevallos
A proposed constitutional amendment introduced in the Mexican Congress to reinstate the death penalty stands virtually no chance of approval. But it has generated a broad public debate that is expected to grow more heated.
Two Years After Its Launch, Many Question President Calderón's Drug War
 Christian Science Monitor
Reporter Sara Miller Llana talks about narcotics-related violence in Mexico, two years after a government program to stamp it out began.
GMO Contamination in Mexico's Cradle of Corn
 Joëlle Stolz
Raise the alarm for Mexican corn's biosecurity: a molecular study conducted by Mexican, American and Dutch researchers demonstrates the presence of genes from genetically modified organisms (GMO) among the varieties of traditional corn cultivated in the remote regions of Oaxaca State in the southern part of the country.
What's Next for Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
 David Agren
Andrés Manuel López Obrador marked the second anniversary of his "legitimate government" - a symbolic opposition shadow government - with a rally in Mexico City, Nov. 23. But the mood was hardly festive, as the scorned 2006 presidential runner-up suffered a series of crushing setbacks in the preceding weeks.
Mexico Watchdog Says 15,000 Kidnapped Since 1986
 Agence France-Presse
More than 15,000 people have been kidnapped in Mexico since 1986, an independent watchdog said Thursday, as prosecutors said they had identified the remains of a girl abducted last year.
World Bank’s ‘Wrong Advice’ Left Silos Empty in Poor Countries
 Alison Fitzgerald & Helen Murphy
About 40 million people joined the ranks of the undernourished this year, bringing the estimate of the world’s hungry to 963 million of its 6.8 billion people, the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said yesterday.
On Human Rights Day, U.N. Declaration Is "Alive and Well", in Theory at Least
 Wolfgang Kerler
Despite a motley record of government respect for the 60-year-old U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, a new poll of citizens in 25 countries around the world shows strong support for the broad principles of freedom and equality it champions.
Prosecutor: Mexico Not so Dangerous for Reporters
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Only three of 25 reporters who died violently in the last two years in Mexico were killed because of their work, the country's special prosecutor for crimes against journalists said Tuesday.
Indiscriminate Drug Killings Sow Terror in Mexico
 Lizbeth Diaz
Gunmen are deliberately killing innocent people with random shootings at bars, restaurants and shopping malls in the city of Tijuana in a new scare tactic that takes Mexico's drug war to new depths.
In Venezuela, Santería Scams?
 Humberto Márquez
In a ritual that includes sacrificing goats or fowl, a "babalawo" priest of the Yoruba religion in Venezuela can "mount a saint" on an initiate willing to pay up to 10,000 dollars, and sometimes even more.
Children Paid to Strip at Rural Fair
 Diego Cevallos
Four indigenous boys took their clothes off for money in front of a large crowd at a rodeo, who laughed and made fun of their genitals. The mayor of the farming town in the Mexican state of Puebla where the incident occurred was in the audience.
 A Lifestyle Distinct: The Muxe of Mexico
 Marc Lacey
Mexico can be intolerant of homosexuality; it can also be quite liberal. Nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca. There, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight.
Mexico Fails to Win Drug War
 Aljazeera
Drug-related deaths in Mexico have so far claimed more than 4,500 lives in 2008, amounting to double the number of those killed in 2007, El Universal, one of the country's leading newspapers, has reported.
Death Penalty Divides Mexico
 Marion Lloyd
With kidnappings and drug slayings terrorizing the nation, Mexican legislators are opening the way for what promises to be an emotional debate on whether to reinstate the death penalty.
Journalists Become Targets in Mexico's Drug War
Julie Watson
Mexico is the deadliest place in the Americas to be a journalist, and among the deadliest in the world. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 24 have been killed since 2000, and seven have vanished in the past three years.
23 Seconds of the Mexican Drug War
 Sam Quinones
When four people in a Monterrey jewelry store were killed by gunmen who took nothing, few doubted that it was a message.
Nobel Winning Economist: Financial Crisis a Distraction
 Agence France-Presse
The global financial crisis is distracting attention from other pressing issues such as high food and energy prices, and environmental damage, Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus told AFP this week.
Some in Mexico Want the Death Penalty Reinstated
 Tracy Wilkinson
Anger and frustration over rampant killings and kidnappings have ignited an improbable debate here over legalizing the death penalty, a punishment that has been effectively banned in Mexico for nearly half a century.
Hospitals Now a Theater in Mexico’s Drug War
 Marc Lacey
With alarming speed, Mexico’s violent drug war is finding its way into the seeming sanctuary of the nation’s hospitals, shaking the health care system and leaving workers fearing for their lives while trying to save the lives of others.
A New U.S. Emphasis In Latin America
 Mike Ceaser
Under President Barack Obama, Latin Americans can expect Washington to shift resources from military to social programs and show more willingness to talk to such hostile governments as Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia. At the same time, the fundamentals of U.S. foreign policy will hold steady, most analysts predict.
Pain and Protest on the Day of the Butterflies: Violence Persists Against Women in Mexico
 Frontera NorteSur
In Mexico, more than 200 women's and human rights activists kicked off a cross-country caravan in Ciudad Juarez to protest femicide and ongoing violence in all its forms against women.
Appointment of Richardson Could Help Border Economy
 Ramon Bracamontes
The nomination of Bill Richardson as secretary of commerce should help spur economic development in the Borderland because the New Mexico governor has been working to improve business ties among El Paso, Southern New Mexico and Northern Mexico, officials said.
Colombia: Where Homophobia Totes a Gun
 Mario Osava
Homosexuals can remain in the closet and not be noticed, but that is not an acceptable alternative for transgender people who suffer violence to a greater extent in Colombia, where armed combatants in the conflicts too often turn prejudice into murder.
Obama Free to Change US-Cuba Policy
 Anita Snow
Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba, and the foreign policy team he announced this week seems predisposed to make it happen.
House of Shattered Dreams: US Deports More Mexicans
 Khaleej Times
The United States is not only sealing its southern border with a fence in order to stem the inflow of Mexicans and Central Americans. They have also tightened legislation in order to send back Latinos who have already reached the United States illegally.
It's Official: US in a Recession
 Capitol Hill Blue
For the past 12 months, President George W. Bush has assured a skeptical nation that America's economy is strong and that we're not in a recession. Bush lied.
Dealing with Killers and Kidnappers: The High Cost of Free Trade
 Cyril Mychalejko
President Bush is using his final days in office to push through a free trade agreement with Colombia that would reward one of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abusers.
Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened?
 NPR
In the summer of 1968, Mexico was experiencing the birth of a new student movement. But that movement was short-lived. On Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza.
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