25Jan2015 | Mi Valedor: Mexico City to Launch New Street Paper - for the Homeless Street Roots News 26-year-old artist Maria Portilla is leading a team of six brave young women - all in their mid-20s, and without any prior experience in the magazine industry - to bring her home country its first street paper. |
25Jan2015 | Microfinance Not a Quick Escape from Poverty - Study ScienceBlog.com Microcredit has been both celebrated and vilified as a development tool. Six new studies from four continents bring rigorous evidence to this debate, finding that while microcredit has some benefits, it is not a viable poverty alleviation tool. |
25Jan2015 | Team Stand Up Mexico Takes 2015 Painkiller Cup The BVI Beacon Team Stand Up Mexico paddled away from the competition during the third annual Painkiller Cup this month. |
25Jan2015 | Emilio Godoy: Forced Disappearances Are Humanitarian Crisis in Mexico Inter Press Service Twenty-six human rights organizations have sent the U.N. Committee 12 submissions on the problem of forced disappearance, one of the worst human rights issues facing this Latin American country, where at least 23,000 people are registered as missing. |
24Jan2015 | Painter Diego Rivera's Colorful Ties to Acapulco The Washington Post Those familiar with Rivera probably know his epic murals inside Mexico City’s National Palace better than his mosaics scattered across Acapulco. Most of them are found at Casa de los Vientos, where Dolores Olmedo cared for the famed artist at the end of his life. |
24Jan2015 | Citizen Security in Mexico: Is it Starting to Get Better or Is it Still Getting Worse? Woodrow Wilson Center Alejandro Hope and David Shirk review efforts to improve citizen security in Mexico in 2014. They also look ahead to what we can expect in 2015. |
24Jan2015 | Here's Where a Record Number of Americans Will Travel in 2015 VOA News Emerging from a recession that kept many grounded for the past few years, Americans are venturing abroad again. Euromonitor International, a market research company, estimates Americans will make about 64 million trips to foreign countries in 2015. |
24Jan2015 | Monday Marks 4-Month Anniversary of Disappearance of #Ayotzinapa Students Television del Sur Monday marks the 4th month anniversary of the kidnapping and forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. The Mexican Federal Attorney General's Office says the students are surely dead, while family members and social organizations are demanding concrete evidence. |
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