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 Drug Violence in Mexico Presents Threat at US Backdoor
 David Montero
Mexico suffered one of its worst days of drug violence this year Tuesday, highlighting that, even as the Obama administration turns its sights to Afghanistan and Pakistan, a major policy challenge is burning right on the border.
Obama's Surge and the Afghan Heroin Trade
 UPI Asia
As America surges in Afghanistan, it has created its own stirring in the heroin trade, which has come back to life after NATO forces took over the country from the Taliban.
US Government to Maintain List of People Who Aren't Terrorists
 David Kravets
The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren't terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway.
Pentagon Clashes with Media Over Control of Information
 Chris Tomlinson
The black-and-white video starts with a mini-van locked in the crosshairs and the sound of a missile launching. A ball of fire suddenly consumes the van and a palm grove somewhere in Iraq. Critics say the purpose of such violent material is not to inform the public about what the military is doing, but to promote it.
Mexico Cited Among Most Brutal Places for Journalists
 Sandra Dibble
The power of criminal groups and the corruption of law enforcement agencies has made Mexico one of the most hazardous places in the world to work as a journalist, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
President Calderón Hails Honest Behavior of Soldiers that Refuse Bribes from Criminals
 Presidencia de la República
At the Santa Lucía Military Air Base in the state of Mexico, the President hailed the upright, loyal, patriotic behavior of the soldiers who refused bribes from criminal organizations to ensure the rule of law and the sovereignty of the country.
US Vietnam Vets - Get Agent Orange Exam NOW!
 David Lord
All Vietnam Veterans are urged to get an agent orange exam, NOW! Colon cancer and diabetes are just two of the eleven diseases that may be in the Dioxin exposed body health system. We start dying long before our time and it does not have to be.
Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse
 Paul Joseph Watson
Giant flames engulf every floor of 44-story building and it remains standing, yet limited fires across just 8 floors of WTC 7 brought down the building within 7 seconds on 9/11. How can NIST’s “new phenomenon” explain this one?
New Take on US Immigration
 NBCSanDiego
One political activist in Sacramento believes America is ready for a fresh take on immigration. But are Americans ready to send money to create jobs in Mexico to help resolve the illegal immigration problem here in the U.S.?
Night of the Golden Iguana: Land Conflicts Riddle Mexican Tourism Development
 Kent Paterson
Certain events transform the world. For the residents of the small, bayside community of Mismaloya near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, their world changed dramatically when John Huston, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and company came calling in 1963.
The World Social Forum Returns to Brazil
 Marc Becker
After an absence of 4 years, the World Social Forum (WSF) returned to Brazil during the last week of January 2009. More than 100,000 people descended on the city of Belem at the mouth of the mighty Amazon river to debate proposals and plan strategies for making a new and better world.
In a Mexico State, Openness is the New Order in the Courts
 Ken Ellingwood
Far-reaching legal reforms have brought U.S.-style trials to Chihuahua, providing a glimpse of the kind of change that experts say is needed throughout Mexico to rescue an opaque and graft-laden justice system besieged by organized crime.
Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist
 Jonathan Hutson
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico's investigation into the shooting death of American video-journalist Brad Will has presented a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR's conclusive findings, including the discovery that one of the bullets was a ricochet.
In Mexico, Economic Decline Lifts the Prospects of a Vocal Populist
 Elisabeth Malkin
As the year began, the dominant political figure of Mexico's left appeared to be heading swiftly toward irrelevance. But Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not dead yet.
Latin America Breaks Free: Washington No Longer Calls the Shots
 Benjamin Dangl
In varying degrees, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela are demonstrating that the days of U.S.-backed coups, gunship diplomacy, and Chicago Boys' neoliberalism may very well be over for South America.
World Social Forum: Resolution and a Plan of Action
 Alejandro Kirk
The World Social Forum ended its ninth edition Sunday in Belém with its "Assembly of assemblies" adopting dozens of resolutions and proposals to be the subjects of a programme of mobilisations around the world in 2009.
Mexican Military on Drug War's Front Lines
 Sandra Dibble
As civilian law enforcement agencies in Mexico struggle to rebuild amid internal corruption and heavily armed criminal gangs, the military has stepped in as never before in northern drug-trafficking corridors from Chihuahua to Baja California.
Mexico Collapse Unlikely: Experts Say Government Stable Despite Mounting Border Violence
 Diana Washington Valdez
A chorus of current and former U.S. officials are sounding alarms about Mexico, warning the war-zone conditions in cities like Juárez could lead to the government's downfall. But Mexico's ambassador to the US denies his country is on the verge of collapse.
Mexico: Two Years On: The Law to Protect Women has had no Impact at State Level
 Amnesty International
On the second anniversary of the passing of the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free From Violence, Amnesty International said the law has had no impact in the majority of Mexico’s 32 states.
Alexander: Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan Offers too Little, too Late
 Peace and Freedom Party
Within the past two years, Democrats in Washington DC have spent more than $1.5 trillion to help rescue the struggling U.S. economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression; now, both Houses of Congress are fast-tracking a stimulus package for President Barack Obama that will likely cost the nation more than $1 trillion.
Mexican Journalist Released from US Custody
 James Rainey & Ari B. Bloomekatz
U.S. immigration authorities surprised press-freedom activists Thursday when they released a journalist - fleeing alleged Mexican government persecution - who had been held in a Texas detention center for seven months.
Supreme Court Rules that it is OK to Frisk Passengers
 Associated Press
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers have leeway to frisk a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation even if nothing indicates the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so.
Dirty Business, Dirty Wars: US-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century
 Cyril Mychalejko
Much is being made across the political spectrum in the United States about Washington's waning influence in Latin America.
Mexico Crisis Response Linked to US, Carstens Says
 Jens Erik Gould
Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said the economy’s ability to mitigate the global financial crisis this year will depend largely on the U.S. stimulus plan and how quickly financial markets stabilize.
Activists Gather for World Social Forum
 Bradley Brooks
Some 100,000 activists of all stripes converged on this steamy Amazon city Tuesday, opening the World Social Forum with a rambunctious march to the beat of samba drums.
Barack Obama's Public Diplomacy
 Martin Schram
Faster than a command to "lock-and-load," President Obama this week swiftly deployed and targeted a powerful but little-used weapon that could be crucial to winning what America once called its war on terror.
The Adjudicators Stopped by Court Order
 David Lord
One of the most irritating facts about the Veterans Administration is the unchecked power used by Adjudication Bureaucrats to override doctors' statements that are used to support a claim for disability.
Bolivia Sets New Global High Mark for Indigenous Rights
 Sara Miller Llana
Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, easily won his campaign for a new constitution Sunday - promising vast new powers to the country's indigenous majority and bolstering his political clout.
Drug Gangs have Mexico on the Ropes
 Mary Anastasia O'Grady
A murder in the Mexican state of Chihuahua last week horrified even hardened crime stoppers. Police Commander Martin Castro's head was severed and left in an ice cooler in front of the police station in the town of Praxedis with a calling card from the Sinoloa drug cartel.
US Immigrants Scapegoated as Economy Teeters
 Nastassja Hoffet
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics, from 2003 to 2007, anti-Latino hate crimes increased by 40 percent.
'Stewmaker' Stirs Horror in Mexico
 William Booth
As the nation's drug war rages on, with its weekly tallies of headless torsos, it is getting harder to produce a shock wave in the Mexican media. But the gruesome recipes of "The Stewmaker" have gripped public attention here.
Lopez Obrador Continues His Challenge to Mexico's Status Quo
 Kent Paterson
At a Jan. 23 rally attended by several hundred people in El Pitillal, Jalisco, a working-class suburb of Puerto Vallarta, Lopez Obrador told supporters he sent President Obama a letter a few days ago that warned against cutting off the movement of people from Mexico to the U.S.
Darkening Days in Juarez
 Dudley Althaus
In this carnage-racked border city of 1.3 million, more than 80 murders have been clocked in the past three weeks, and kidnappings, extortions, robberies and rapes further bedevil an already rattled population.
Calderon Seeks to Dispel Talk of 'Failing State'
 Ken Ellingwood
Two recent U.S. reports paint a dire picture of Mexico as its battle against drug crime grows more bloody, but Mexican officials say that though some cities are in trouble, the state itself is strong.
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