24Feb2015 | Obesity Weighs on Latin America After Successes in Fight Against Hunger Fox News More than 56 percent of Latin American adults are overweight or obese, compared to a global average of 34 percent, according to a report by the Overseas Development Institute last year. |
24Feb2015 | Mexico Complains After Pope Francis Warns of 'Mexicanization' of Argentina Buenos Aires Herald Mexico's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade said his government had expressed concern that the country was being "stigmatized" as a land of drug traffickers in an email attributed to Francis. |
24Feb2015 | How Mexican Drug Cartels Launder Their Money Business Insider While many cartels take the risk of smuggling profits back to Mexico in bulk, more sophisticated groups launder money to avoid seizures by border patrol. To do that, they use two basic methods. |
24Feb2015 | Becoming Experts in Forensic Science, Genetic Bank Opened By Families of Missing Mexicans IANS/EFE The lack of response by the Mexican government on the issue of missing people in the country has pushed many of the victims' families into becoming genuine experts on research and forensic science so much so that they are now operating a genetic bank without government intervention. |
24Feb2015 | Hip-Hop Rappers Promote Mayan Language, Heritage The Associated Press A group of Guatemalan musicians is on a mission to breathe life into a pre-Columbian language and heritage through a thoroughly modern genre: hip-hop. |
24Feb2015 | Family Seeks Justice for Mexican Farmworker Killed in Pasco, Hires Ferguson Civil Rights Attorney New York Daily News The family of an unarmed Mexican man who was fatally shot by Washington state police said they are seeking justice - with the help of the civil rights attorney who represented Michael Brown’s family in Ferguson, Mo. |
24Feb2015 | Profepa Seizes Over 100 Abused Animals from Private Zoo in Puebla The Associated Press The Federal Environmental Prosecutor’s Office says an inspection of the Club de los Animalitos zoo in Tehuacan, Puebla state, found everything from bears and big cats to buffalo and dromedaries living in tiny enclosures. |
23Feb2015 | Avocado Orchards in Mexico Compete with Forests Fronteras Desk Demand for avocados in the United States has quadrupled in the last 20 years. America's growing love for the fruit may be harming the fragile habitat of the monarch butterfly, whose winter home is in the forests of central Mexico. |
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