18Mar2015
Team from Mexico Develops Wearable 'Smash-a-Ball' Game for Visually Impaired Kids
TechCrunch
A Mexican educational psychologist duo has teamed up to build toys for blind or visually impaired kids. The first device they’re building is a wearable game called Smash-a-ball, which is being designed to help kids’ cognitive development.

18Mar2015
Mexico Pays Millions to Enhance Image in Bond Film
CBS This Morning
Mexico has been dealing with an image problem after reports of drug-related violence in the nation's capital. Now, the country is reportedly trying to change its image by dictating how it's portrayed in the upcoming James Bond movie.

18Mar2015
Why Firing of Dissident Journalist Carmen Aristegui Is Bad News for Mexico
Forbes
Radio station MVS fired popular journalist and talk show host Carmen Aristegui and her assistants, the reporting team responsible for exposing scandals that hurt the reputation of Mexico’s president Enrique Pena Nieto. Now, with the firings at MVS, Aristegui has become the story.

18Mar2015
Legislation Creates Commissioner for Forced Disappearances and Other Measures
Mexico News Daily
Although the Mexican government and the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearance were at odds last month, some key recommendations by the latter are likely to become law.

18Mar2015
Green Urban Gardening Increases in Mexico City
CCTV Africa
Mexico City has set itself an ambitious target its trying to get city residents to produce between 25 and 30% of the greens they consume. How? Through urban gardening.

18Mar2015
Mexico Reigns as Top Spring Break Destination Despite US State Department Warning
Fox News Latino
Bathing-suited, margarita-swilling spring breakers are expected to hit Mexico in droves, despite warnings of violent drug-related activity from the federal government and from Texas.

18Mar2015
On St. Patrick's Day, Mexico Remembers the Irishmen Who Fought Against the US
PRI's The World
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world - even in Mexico. The story here is pretty complex and goes back to the Mexican-American War, from 1846 to 1848.

18Mar2015
200 Indigenous Farmworkers Rescued from Subhuman Conditions in Mexico
Agencia EFE
More than 200 farmworkers living in subhuman conditions at a farm in Comondu, a city in Baja California Sur state, have been rescued, the Mexican Labor Secretariat said.


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