13Jan2015
Drone and CCTVs for Everyone: Surveillance Tech Expands Across Latin America
Electronic Frontier Foundation
By leaping so confidently into a surveillance state, Latin America's pioneers of drone and CCTV technology risk the civil liberties of their citizens, and setting a terrible precedent for their neighbors and the rest of the world.

13Jan2015
Mexican Wrestling Is the Most Fun You'll Ever Have Wearing Tights
Yahoo! Travel
I came for the interview but stayed for the matches, which included a lot of hair pulling, women in bikinis, screaming, and vows of vengeance. Basically, a bar brawl in Kentucky. But with masks.

13Jan2015
Poverty in Mexico Not Decreasing Despite Many Government Programs
La Jornada
Household incomes have not risen since 1992 and poverty has not dropped despite the increase in basic supports in education, housing and health. Programs for economic production lack adequate results and those for social development are unfocused.

13Jan2015
#JeSuisCharlie? No, I'm Really Not Quite Charlie Hebdo: Here's Why
First Post
The spontaneous outpouring of the #JeSuisCharlie hashtags elides over the really thorny issue of free speech. While we want free speech to be absolute, in the real world, it is not. And even as we stand with Charlie Hebdo we cannot pretend not to understand that.

12Jan2015
US and Mexico in Joint Bid to Protect Workers
FruitNet.com
FPAA and CAA sign up to project aiming to prevent labor abuses highlighted by recent expose in LA Times.

12Jan2015
PAN Chairman Ricardo Anaya Says His Party Will Regain Mexico's Presidency
GlobalPost
The chairman of the opposition National Action Party said during a rally that the party would regain the presidency because it was growing and "is ready" to set the course for Mexico's future.

12Jan2015
InSight Crime Analysis: Were Missing Mexico Students Burned in Army Crematorium?
InSight Crime
Researchers in Mexico have theorized that the bodies of the students who disappeared in Iguala may have been burned at an army crematorium, casting further doubts on the official version of an attack that has sparked protests around the country.

12Jan2015
Fewer Monarchs Surviving Winter Migration to Mexico
The Star
Declining by more than 90% in the past two decades, the monarch butterfly may soon exist as nothing but memory.


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