26Mar2015
Latin America Journalists Launch New Database of Controversial Figures
OCCRP
Journalists in Mexico and Central America have created a groundbreaking new database compiling information on leading controversial figures, or persons of interest to the media, including persons involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other organized crime activities.

25Mar2015
Draft Water Bill Threatens Mexico's Biodiversity
La Jornada
The public response to what had seemed to be imminent approval of the General Water Law by the full Chamber of Deputies shows that this is one of Mexican society's most sensitive and worrisome issues.

25Mar2015
Transvestites Wrestle for Spot in Mexico Lucha Libre
Raw Story
Although their category of lucha libre emerged in the 1970s with the pioneering wrestler “Ola Lila”, exoticos are still fighting to be taken seriously inside and outside the ring of the popular Mexican sport.

25Mar2015
Sea of Cortez Cruise Ship Home Port Progressing in Rocky Point, Sonora
Mexico News Daily
There have been a few setbacks for the 1.4-billion-peso cruise ship facility in Puerto Penasco, but they appear to have been resolved and the first cruise ship is expected to arrive in the first half of next year.

25Mar2015
Guide Aims to Help Donors to Push Funds to Women
Thomson Reuters Foundation
With only 0.01 per cent of all global grants addressing climate change and women’s rights together, the GGF, INWF and Alliance of Funds have launched a research guide that aims to help donors effectively fund gender-sensitive projects.

25Mar2015
Baja California's 'Disposable' Farmworkers Strike for Better Conditions
Associated Press
Workers at large, export-oriented farms in the Mexican border state of Baja California have led a week of violent protests over low pay, abuses and poor conditions, threatening a harvest that supplies millions of dollars worth of crops to the United States.

25Mar2015
Mayor Says Women Should Be Watching Mexican Soap Operas, Not the News
The Huffington Post
The mayor of the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua is taking heat for urging a crowd of women to watch soap operas instead of the news during a speech delivered this week.

25Mar2015
US to Ease Restrictions on Commercial Drone Use
teleSUR
The United States Federal Aviation Administration plans to make it easier for companies to use drone aircraft, something that has been strictly regulated up to now.


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