18Aug2014 | Mining Company's Toxic Chemical River Spill to Keep 88 Sonoran Schools Closed The Financial Express Eighty-eight schools in a northern Mexico state will not open Monday along with the rest of the country because of the danger of water contaminated by the spill of 10 million gallons of acids from a copper mine into two rivers this month. |
18Aug2014 | Colombian President Santos Backs Medical Marijuana Fox News Latino President Juan Manuel Santos last week endorsed newly introduced legislation that would legalize marijuana for medicinal and therapeutic use in this drug war-afflicted Andean nation. |
17Aug2014 | Mexico City's Art Walk Weekend Stirs ' New Awakening' for Art in Residents Latin Post This weekend, creative minds have brought art to Mexico City with the Art Walk held in the Roma district of the city. |
17Aug2014 | Indigenous, Mestizo Mexicans Five Times More Likely to Develop Type 2 Diabetes Latin Times An important genetic study of type 2 diabetes among the Mexican population identified a gene present in the country's mestizos and indigenous population which suggests they maybe five times more likely to of develop the disease compared to other populations of the world. |
17Aug2014 | Abuse of Older Women Overlooked and Underreported, Hampering Efforts to Fight Violence Inter Press Service Violence directed against younger women has long overshadowed that against the elderly, who in some cases are more vulnerable. There has been so little research into the issue that activists said they do not know its full scope yet. |
17Aug2014 | Narcocorridos: Mexican Drug Ballads are Big Business in Los Angeles Fusion Live Narcocorridos, or songs that describe in graphic detail Mexico’s drug wars, have been a part of Mexican regional music for decades. But now they’re finding big commercial success in the United States. |
17Aug2014 | How DNA Barcodes Can Beat Plant and Animal Traffickers Worldwide The Guardian Researchers are using cutting-edge techniques to catalog species from tiny sections of genetic material. And these DNA 'barcodes' are now being used to catch plant and animal smugglers worldwide. |
17Aug2014 | Acceso Latino: Mexico's Carlos Slim Urges Young US Immigrants Into the Workforce Bloomberg News Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who ranks as the world's second-richest person, has introduced the 'Acceso Latino' campaign to integrate about half a million young immigrants into the U.S. workforce. |
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