24Aug2014
What It's Like to Walk with Zombies: Why You Should Visit Mexico for Day of the Dead
The Daily Telegraph
This isn’t Halloween. It’s much more important than that. It’s the Day of the Dead – a national holiday for Mexicans and a time to eat, drink whole vats of tequila and dress in costumes that make the trick of treating their amigos across the border seem rather mundane.

24Aug2014
Does Penis Size Really Matter? It's Complicated
The Huffington Post
As this AsapScience video explains, there's a fascinating evolutionary history behind the human penis - how it became the largest of any primate's both in absolute terms and in proportion to body size.

24Aug2014
Mexican Microbreweries Confront Beer Giants
Al Jazeera
Craft breweries see rising sales, challenging large corporations for a bigger taste of Mexico's $20 billion beer market.

24Aug2014
Sinaloa State Legislators Drop Media Restrictions to Report on Crime
Agencia EFE
Lawmakers in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa repealed a measure that barred reporters from crime scenes and otherwise limited their ability to cover issues of public safety and criminal justice.

24Aug2014
Why They Flee: Life in the Murder Capital of the World, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Fusion
San Pedro Sula has - for the last two years - had the highest murder rate of any city in the world, according to the Mexican think tank Citizen Council for Public Security, Justice, and Peace.

23Aug2014
Mexico on Alert as 8th Hurricane of Season Marie Threatens Pacific Coast
Agence France-Presse
Six Mexican states were on high alert on Saturday for Hurricane Marie, warning that torrential rain could trigger mudslides and cause rivers to break their banks.

23Aug2014
Randal C. Archibold: Familiar Flaws Seen in Mexico's New Elite Police Force
The New York Times
President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday swore in a new gendarmerie for Mexico, an offshoot of the federal police aimed at quelling outbreaks of violent crime. But even before the new division hits the streets, criminologists have panned the idea as akin to prescribing “aspirin for a cancer.”

23Aug2014
Supreme Court Upholds Hike in Mexico's Border States' Sales Tax
Latin American Herald Tribune
Mexico’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that raised the sales-tax rate in border states from 11 percent to 16 percent to bring it in line with the rest of the country. That measure was part of a broader 2013 tax overhaul.


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