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 Editorials | At Issue
Mexico's Booming Business of Soccer
 Jörg Kramer
Mexico's economic rise is powering a self-sufficient football industry. Soccer in the country is undergoing a renaissance, as players enjoy big salaries and stay at home in Mexico rather than head for Europe's top leagues.more »»»
UNDP Representative Urges Mexico to Improve Gender Equality
 Xinhua
A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) representative, Thierry Lemaresquier, called on Mexico to improve equality between men and women on Wednesday. According to a UNDP report called "Human and General Development Indicators," there was serious sex discrimination in Mexico City and the state of Chiapas.more »»»
Mexico's Lopez Obrador: A Common Man Bent on Change
 Héctor Tobar
The candidate has a certain sex appeal. Imagine a mestizo Bill Clinton: cappuccino-colored skin, a full head of white hair and a charismatic stage presence. Sometimes, his arrival at a campaign stop will provoke a scream from a woman who, a second later, realizes she's too old to be acting that way.more »»»
US High Court Backs Police No-Knock Searches
 Fred Barbash
A divided Supreme Court ruled today that evidence can be used against a defendant even when seized in violation of a long-standing rule requiring a knock on the door before executing a search warrant.more »»»
A New Extortion Scheme Along the U.S.-Mexican Border
 stratfor.com
A construction company owner operating in Matamoros, Mexico, became a target of an extortion scheme that involves paying off criminal gangs in order not to be kidnapped.more »»»
America's Image Slips, But Allies Share U.S. Concerns Over Iran, Hamas
 PewGlobal.org
America's global image has again slipped and support for the war on terrorism has declined even among close U.S. allies like Japan. The war in Iraq is a continuing drag on opinions of the United States, not only in predominantly Muslim countries but in Europe and Asia as well.more »»»
Not Quite Measuring Up at Mexico's Gas Pumps
 Marla Dickerson & Carlos Martinez
If you think paying $3.50 for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. is a hardship, consider Mexico, where nine in 10 gasoline stations have rigged their pumps to dispense less than what their meters promise.more »»»
Old-Style Taint Shadows Election in Mexico
 Richard Boudreaux
Fox and his conservative followers rode into office in 2000 on a wave of popular revulsion against the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had monopolized federal power for seven decades. But their campaign to perpetuate PAN's rule appears to mirror many of the PRI's unscrupulous uses of incumbency.more »»»
Fear of Leftist has Mexican Middle Class on Edge
 Greg Brosnan
For a decisive win in July's upcoming elections, Lopez Obrador may have to overcome middle-class fears, however irrational they may be, that a victory for the left would ignite an egalitarian apocalypse which could spark economic chaos, street protests and land grabs.more »»»
Human-Rights Group Decries Fox's Record
 Hector Tobar
The government of President Vicente Fox has lacked the political will to complete the ambitious program of human-rights reform it first proposed six years ago, according to a recent report by the group Human Rights Watch.more »»»
Mother Ends Hunger Strike in Teen's Death
 Anna Cearley
For nine days, Sara Elena Ruiz Meza held a hunger strike to protest what she and her supporters believed was a failure by authorities to solve her daughter's mysterious death.more »»»
The War Next Door
 CBS
Acapulco, Mexico, is a popular beach resort that draws tens of thousands of U.S. tourists each year. But as CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports, the streets of Acapulco and other cities near the U.S. border look more like a war zone these days.more »»»
Mexico Catholics Fear Church Influencing Election
 Lorraine Orlandi
A group of Mexican Catholic community groups said on Thursday the church may be using hot-button issues like abortion to sway voters in favor of the conservative ruling party candidate in the presidential election. They said workshops and other forums arranged by church leaders could illegally interfere in the July 2 election.more »»»
Mexico Divided As Ever After TV Election Debate
 Alistair Bell
Communist flag-waving, a combative television debate and a shooting have turned up the heat in a nasty presidential campaign that has polarized Mexican politics but failed so far to point to a clear winner.more »»»
Immigration Reform Remains Vague for Those Crossing the Border
 Hugh Dellios
As they contemplate when and where to scale the border fences, Mexicans often are at a loss to figure out what we Americans are up to on the other side.more »»»
Mexico's PRI Dinosaur Hurt, Still Dangerous
 Alistair Bell
Hit by infighting, a dark history and a weak candidate, the party that ruled Mexico for most of last century has put its faith in hard core supporters to help avoid its worst presidential election ever.more »»»
Resist This US Backlash
 Ian Gibson
Faced with a loss of influence in Latin America as a result of the shift to the left, the US government has been furiously lobbying sympathetic European states to create political leverage on Washington's behalf.more »»»
In Mexico, Pushing Big Banks to Lend Small
 Adriana Arai
Every March, Mexican bankers fly to the coastal resort of Acapulco for a two-day conference to discuss financial issues - and to throw a party. But there is one item on the agenda the executives do not look forward to: the tongue-lashing they must endure from Guillermo Ortiz, the governor of the Bank of Mexico.more »»»
Decent Pay Beckons in the U.S.
 Katherine Corcoran
Everyone's watching the same TV shows and seeing the same things on the Internet. Everyone knows what you can make in San Jose vs. what you can make in Guanajuato. For 63 cents a fare, Juan Perez drives the rutted dirt roads between Oaxaca and nearby villages a dozen times a day, sometimes piling six or seven people into his taxi, other times making the run with just one passenger.more »»»
Prodded by the Left, Mexico's Richest Man Talks Equity
 Ginger Thompson
Most everyone is familiar with the occupants of the first and second spots on Forbes' list of the world's wealthy - Gates and Buffet. But the planet's third-richest man - Carlos Slim of Mexico - is known to far fewer people. And that is the way he has always liked it, until now.more »»»
Blix Says US Impedes Efforts to Curb A-Arms
 Warren Hoge
Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, said today that American unwillingness to cooperate in international arms agreements was undermining the effectiveness of efforts to curb nuclear weapons.more »»»
Mexico is Changing Attitude Toward Issues of Migration
 S. Lynne Walker & Sandra Dibble
The hardening of the U.S. line on illegal immigration is forcing Mexico to look inward at a tacit public policy that encourages unemployed Mexicans to sneak across the border for work and send billions of dollars home to their families.more »»»
Latin Leaders Discover a Chavez Embrace can be Toxic
 Bernd Debusmann
Bolivia's President Evo Morales calls him "my brother" but elsewhere in Latin America, political leaders are finding out that being seen as a close ally of Hugo Chavez can be harmful for their careers.more »»»
Hispanic Coalition Blasts Mexican President Vicente Fox
 Jim Kouri
A new coalition of American Hispanic Americans opposed to the US Senate's illegal alien amnesty is condemning Mexican President Vicente Fox's overt effort to meddle in the internal affairs of the United States and exert influence over US immigration policies.more »»»
Few in Mexico Think Border Fencing will Stop Workers from Crossing
 Katherine Corcoran
While U.S. politicos work on ways to stop poor Mexicans from migrating to better-paying jobs in the United States, few here think those efforts will ever be successful. Other factors are much more likely to weigh on Mexican migration.more »»»
Jobs Could Solve Some Mexico Woes
 David J. Lynch
Of all the ways to curb unauthorized human traffic across the USA's southern border, there's one remedy that few people are even discussing: creating more jobs in Mexico.more »»»
The Haditha Massacre
 Marjorie Cohn
On November 19, 2005, Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton allegedly killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in a three to five hour rampage. more »»»
Memorial Day Reflections
 David Lord
This Memorial Day, as I watched the President laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on my TV here in Puerto Vallarta, my heart cried for all those killed in action or lost in war, and I vowed to remember and honor their sacrifice by increasing my effort to educate Veterans on their benefits and veterans' rights.more »»»
Mexico Leftist's Character Key for Election Aftermath
 Alistair Bell
With campaign rhetoric turning nasty, labor unrest simmering and a peasant riot near the capital in early May, concerns are growing that Mexico's election could end in political chaos or even violent demonstrations.more »»»
Is U.S. Shaping Mexican Presidential Campaign?
 Alfredo Corchado & Laurence Iliff
Conservative Felipe Calderón opened his campaign for president with slogans focusing on honesty ("Clean Hands") and patriotism ("Passion for Mexico"), but the nice-guy image wasn't working. So the Harvard-educated lawyer embraced a U.S. style of political attacks against his top rival.more »»»
Visas Take Back Seat in Immigration Debate
 May Wong
Amid the heated debate in Washington over border enforcement and citizenship for illegal immigrants lies a Senate bill provision that would significantly raise the number of annual visas for highly skilled foreign workers.more »»»
Chavez Denounces Conspiracy in Bolivia
 Prensa Latina
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez charged on Friday that the United States has given the green light to a conspiracy to overthrow Bolivian President Evo Morales.more »»»
Amnesty Compares Bush to Pinochet
 Associated Press
Amnesty International says President George Bush's tactics in his fight against terrorists have made the United States comparable to Augusto Pinochet's Chile and Hafez Assad's Syria in its acceptance of torture and disregard of legal restraints.more »»»
Has Poverty in Venezuela Fallen or Risen Under President Hugo Chavez?
 Mark Weisbrot
Over the past year, the statement that poverty in Venezuela has increased under the government of President Hugo Chávez has appeared in scores of major newspapers, on major television and radio programs, and even journals such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. These statements have only rarely been contested or corrected. more »»»
Mexican Candidate Warns of Effects from Campaign
 Adam Thomson
Whoever becomes Mexico’s next president will have to overcome intense social instability as a result of recent “negative” campaigning, a top aide to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftwing candidate, has warned.more »»»
A Statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs
 David Lord
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently learned that an employee, a data analyst, took home electronic data from VA, which he was not authorized to do. US Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the VA Inspector General's office, have launched a full-scale investigation into this matter.more »»»
Mexico Elite Sees Leftist as a Danger
 Héctor Tobar
An insidious force is threatening the collective peace of mind in Lomas de Chapultepec, the Beverly Hills of Mexico city: the possibility that a certain leftist politician with a tropical accent might be elected the next president of Mexico in July.more »»»
Mexican Migrants Heading North
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Before Israel Morales boarded a plane from Mexico City to Tijuana, his mother slipped a tiny plastic bag containing a coin, lentils and an image of Christ into his pocket, so he wouldn't be without money, food or faith.more »»»
CNDH: 23 Women Were Abused
 Liliana Alcantara
Top officials from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said on Monday that 23 cases of sexual abuse and rape have been documented following the violent clash between protesters and police in San Salvador Atenco earlier this month.more »»»
US Immigration Reform Question of Justice: Fox
 Reuters
Mexican President Vicente Fox, on the eve of a visit to the United States to lobby for immigration reform, said on Monday legalizing the status of millions of Mexican workers is a question of justice.more »»»
Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility
 Caryle Murphy & Alan Cooperman
The religious left is back. Long overshadowed by the Christian right, religious liberals across a wide swath of denominations are engaged today in their most intensive bout of political organizing and alliance-building since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam movements of the 1960s.more »»»
Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs
 Mark Stevenson
If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.more »»»
John Edwards: Bush Worse than Nixon
 Ed O'Keefe
Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime," and "absolutely" worse than Watergate-tainted President Richard M. Nixon.more »»»
Migrants Forgo Smugglers to Enter US
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Migrants with money hire smugglers to lead them across the border, especially since 1994 when the United States increased its border patrols and began erecting fences. But some lack the cash to pay fees of up to $2,500 and must rely on their own wits to get across.more »»»
Amnesty International Worried about Rape, Brutality Allegations against Mexican Police
 MSN-Mainichi Daily News
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International expressed concern about reports of police brutality during a violent protest earlier this month outside Mexico City, including allegations that officers raped seven female detainees and sexually abused 16 more.more »»»
On US-Mexico Border, a Well-Organized Crossing
 Sam Enriquez
Those who believe that the United States-Mexico border is out of control might be surprised by the orderly manner in which the business of illegal immigration is conducted here.more »»»
Bush's Speech May Benefit Mexican Leftist
 Andres Oppenheimer
President Bush's let's-get-tough immigration speech earlier this week will have an unintended effect in Mexico - revitalizing the ailing campaign of leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.more »»»
Mexico Voters Fear Nation on Edge of Chaos
 Julie Watson
Less than two months before Mexicans elect their next president, many fear the country is teetering on the edge of chaos — a perception that could hurt the ruling National Action Party's chances of keeping the presidency and benefit Mexico's once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party.more »»»
Important Veterans Review
 David Lord
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced a special outreach campaign to inform veterans about VA's disability compensation program. VA emphasized that all veterans with the same degree of disability should receive the same amount of VA compensation, regardless of where they live.more »»»
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