23Mar2015
'Bordered Lives': Transgender Portraits from Mexico
Amazon.com
Renowned photographer Kike Arnal's photo book 'Bordered Lives: Transgender Portraits from Mexico' shows us the everyday lives of seven trans people in and around Mexico City.

23Mar2015
UCLA Students Provide Free Health Clinic to a Defiant Tijuana Squatter Town
LA Weekly
Every other Saturday, UCLA students trek hours south to set up a free health clinic in a squatter village in eastern Tijuana. They have no medical training and operate without the supervision of the university. That doesn't stop the lines from forming.

23Mar2015
216 Mexican Companies Linked to Organized Crime
El Universal
According to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department, 216 legitimate companies somehow linked to organized crime have been detected in 16 of the 32 states of Mexico.

23Mar2015
Mexico Poet Susana Chavez Castillo Paid a Heavy Price for Her Verses
PEN International
Mexico remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to exercise one's right to freedom of expression. At least 67 print and internet journalists, bloggers and writers have been murdered in the country since 2004.

23Mar2015
Sacked Mexican Journalist in Censorship Row Says Bosses Tried to Block Story
World Bulletin
A Mexican broadcast news journalist, fired after helping to reveal a conflict of interest scandal that embarrassed the country's president, said her former employer tried to suppress the report before she published it on her own website.

23Mar2015
Tourists Are Flocking to Cuba in Droves 'Before the Americans Come'
The Associated Press
The recent boom is just one sign that the rush is on to see Cuba now - before, as many predict, McDonald's claims a spot in Old Havana and Starbucks moves in on Cubita, the island's premium coffee brand.

23Mar2015
Rebecca Gordon: It Didn't Work in Afghanistan, So Let's Do It in Mexico
TomDispatch
While hysteria and panic reign over the barbaric acts of the faraway Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, U.S. involvement in the “war on drugs” in a neighboring country gets just passing attention here.

23Mar2015
It's Lights Out for Climate Change This Earth Hour
Earth Hour
What starts as a simple flick of the light switch for Earth Hour brings us all together in a collective display of our commitment to creating a better future for the planet.


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