29May2015 | The Risky Life of Guerrero's Poppy Farmers Is a Hard Habit to Break in Mexico Financial Times The FT’s Mexico correspondent Jude Webber meets farmers in the mountains of Guerrero and hears why some are still farming the poppies that go to make heroin, and why others have given up. |
29May2015 | Amnesty International: 10 Reasons We Still Desperately Need the Human Rights Group Metro Since 1961, Amnesty has made a stand speaking up about atrocities around the globe. The organization stands for justice, equality and, essentially, everybody’s right to live in peace. Here’s 10 reasons we still need the human rights group. |
29May2015 | Attorney General Reports Illegal Sawmills Shut Down Near Mexican Butterfly Reserve Yahoo! News Mexico's environmental protection agency has shut down six illegal sawmills in an area near important wintering grounds for Monarch butterflies that migrate between Mexico and the United States. |
28May2015 | A Drug War Made in Mexico? America's Drug Policy Has Meant Nothing But Trouble Al Jazeera Obviously, NAFTA didn't create the drug business in Mexico. But it's a prime example of how a century's worth of US policies and cross-border machinations have exacerbated narco-activity under the pretense of curbing it. |
28May2015 | 'A Bit of a Fiasco': Hundreds of Millions In Cost Overruns on New US Embassy in Mexico CBS News It is an embassy that was supposed to cost $577 million to build, but the construction estimate has gone up by one third - and the State Department hasn't even broken ground yet. |
28May2015 | Imprisoned Indigenous Police Commander Nestora Salgado Escalates Hunger Strike FSRN.org A naturalized U.S. citizen held in a maximum security prison in Mexico has escalated her weeks-long hunger strike by announcing she will no longer drink liquids. |
28May2015 | Forensic Experts Lead Families to Remains of Missing Migrants on US-Mexico Border Fronteras Brooks County, Texas has seen at least 365 migrant deaths since 2011. Forensic anthropologists in Texas and Arizona are working to identify these migrants and repatriate their remains. |
28May2015 | Stunning 36 Percent Rise in American Visits to Cuba The Epoch Times The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba has led to a stunning 36% increase in visits by Americans to the island, including thousands who are flying into Cuba from other countries like Mexico in order to sidestep US restrictions on tourism. |
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