14Apr2015
From Ballrooms to Concert Halls, Mexico Kept This Cuban Style Alive
NPR.org
The music is called danzon, and it was born in Cuba in the late 1800s. By early in the next century, it had couples gliding in set patterns in a kind of formal square dance. It was huge.

14Apr2015
Excelsior Denounces US Blacklisting of Mexican Companies Trading with Cuba
Cuban News Agency
According to Mexico´s Excelsior newspaper, although Washington and Havana have begun a process towards the normalization of relations, the White House keeps Mexican companies on its black list for their relations with Cuba.

14Apr2015
Researcher Sylvia Earle's Wish: Protect Our Oceans
TED Talks
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle says we should all stop eating fish before it is too late.

13Apr2015
Garcia Marquez Tops Best-Selling Authors in Mexico
Prensa Latina
The Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez leads this week's list of the 10 best-selling authors in Mexico, with his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'

13Apr2015
Relatives of Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students Begin Tour Across Canada
La Jornada
A delegation of the families of 43 disappeared students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School will tour several cities in Canada through May 2, carrying out various information activities with legislators, students, academics, trade unions and NGOs.

13Apr2015
Tijuana Officials Mandate Drug Treatment for Hundreds of 'El Bordo' Homeless
KPBS.org
Hundreds of people who were living in makeshift homes in a Tijuana river canal are now in rehabilitation centers across the city. Most were deportees who turned to methamphetamine and heroin after losing hope of returning to the U.S.

13Apr2015
Are You Ready? Race Week Has Started for SCORE Innaugural Baja Sur 500
Off-Road.com
Mexico’s majestic Baja California peninsula is prepared to host the first SCORE race entirely run on the southernmost part of the peninsula.

13Apr2015
An Indigenous Community's Long and Remarkable Road to Self-Rule in Mexico
Global Voices
The story of Cheran's resistance goes back centuries to when it held off the Aztec empire, a foreshadowing of the spirit of independence that enabled it to take on organized crime and successfully re-establish political self-governance and self-defense in 2011.


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