20Dec2014
More Central Americans Apprehended Than Mexicans Crossing Northern Border
CNN
For the first time since detailed records began being kept in 1992, undocumented immigrants from Mexico made up less than half of those apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

20Dec2014
Robert Valencia: Is a Citizens' Awakening the Cure for Mexico's 'Cancer'?
Global Voices
In November, I had the opportunity to meet Reed Brundage, formerly of the Americas Program in Mexico City. Reed offered this analysis of what’s happening in Mexico: “It as if somebody grabbed a knife and cut its insides open to discover a cancer that’s eating this country from the inside.”

20Dec2014
Hopes for Increase in Mexico Monarch Migration
BBC News
Mexico, the US and Canada have all made efforts to increase butterfly numbers including developing an organic fertilizer which has been spread through the Oyamel Fir Forests of Mexico to protect the monarchs.

20Dec2014
The Wonderful and Terrifying Implications of Computers That Can Learn
TEDxBrussels
Get caught up on a field that will change the way the computers around you behave... sooner than you probably think.

20Dec2014
Court Upholds Mexico's Constitutional Ban on Political Proselytizing from Pulpit
Fox News Latino
Mexico's top electoral court has upheld the constitutionality of a law the prevents priests and ministers from favoring a candidate or party over another or urging citizens to abstain from voting.

20Dec2014
Victims of Sex-Trafficking Find Sanctuary in Tijuana's Garden House
The Globe and Mail
La Casa del Jardin is one of three group homes for victims of child sex-trafficking in the country, and the only one that exists along the border between Mexico and the United States, where the need is high and growing.

20Dec2014
Protest and Paint: What the #Ayotzinapa Resistance Art Looks Like Right Now
Brown Political Review
Protest artwork, much like the protests themselves, is meant to be broadcast and consumed widely - the voices of the artists are uniform yet individual, each one echoes national exhaustion and frustration. But the forums that broadcast this message differ greatly.

20Dec2014
The Winter Solstice Viewed from 'Hill of the Star' Pyramid in Mexico City
Somos Nomadas TV
Just 7 miles from historic downtown Mexico City, in the midst of one of the most densely populated areas, is the Cerro de la Estrella, a natural elevation upon which the ancient Aztecs built a pyramid to watch the skies.


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