11Jan2015
Baja's First Same-Sex Wedding Forcibly Cancelled After Complaints of 'Madness'
Advocate.com
What would have been the first legal same-sex wedding in Baja California, a city hall ceremony carried that was mandated by Mexico’s Supreme Court, was thwarted again yesterday, according to Mexican news reports.

11Jan2015
Teixobactin: Powerful New Antibiotic Against Superbugs May Come from a Pile of Dirt
CBS This Morning
An unusual method for producing antibiotics may help solve an urgent global problem: the rise in infections that resist treatment with commonly used drugs, and the lack of new antibiotics to replace ones that no longer work.

11Jan2015
Sixty Percent of Mexico's Aspiring Teachers Fail Competitive Selection Exam
Latin American Herald Tribune
Well over half of the 16,283 applicants for more than 5,000 open teaching positions in Mexico’s public schools received failing scores in the second round of competitive examinations.

11Jan2015
Copper Canyon Zip-Line Is One of World's Longest
Metro
Pray that harness is secure, because you don’t want to fall off of this zip-line. The 2.4 km long line extends across a valley in the Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, southwest Mexico.

11Jan2015
Government Afro-Descendant Initiative Seeks to Combat Discrimination in Mexico
La Jornada
The International Decade for People of African Descent, which began January 1st, is an opportunity to bring about social and cultural change through respect for and recognition of the populations in this sector of the Mexican population.

11Jan2015
FOMIN Supports Economic Growth in Oaxaca, Mexico
FOMIN Member of the IDB Group
The Multilateral Investment Fund is a laboratory for testing pioneering, market-based approaches to development, and an agent of change that seeks to broaden the reach and deepen the impact of its most successful interventions.

11Jan2015
Prosecutors in Veracruz State to Interrogate Mayor Over Journalist Abduction
PressTV
Prosecutors in Mexico are set to interrogate a mayor as part of a criminal probe into the recent abduction of a local journalist by unidentified gunmen a week ago.

11Jan2015
OjoVoz App Helps Underrepresented Communities Go Digital with Their Storytelling
Global Voices
It is true that there are many mobile apps on the market that allow users to take photographs, record audio, or both, but the Android app 'EyeVoice' is specifically designed with underrepresented and marginalized communities in mind.


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