06Aug2014
Vaquita, the Mexican Porpoise, Nears Extinction
AAAS
An international team of scientists says that the critically endangered vaquita, a species of porpoise found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California, is fast approaching extinction and that all gillnet fishing in the animal’s range must be banned.

06Aug2014
At Indigenous Congress, Mexico's Zapatistas Confirm Solidarity with Palestinians
The Narcosphere
Zapatistas affirmed their solidarity with Palestine, during the opening of the National Indigenous Congress in the Zapatista Stronghold of La Realidad, Chiapas, near Mexico's Guatemala border.

06Aug2014
Crime Reporting No Longer Illegal in Violent Mexican State of Sinaloa
Vocativ
Making it a crime to report on crime: It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. But in Sinaloa, a state in northern Mexico known for being a drug lord’s paradise, it was also briefly the law.

05Aug2014
Just Eat It: Filmmaker Grant Baldwin Looks at How Much Food We Toss Out
FoodWasteMovie.com
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?

05Aug2014
Director of Mexican Youth Shelter 'Completely and Absolutely' Denies Abuse
Agencia EFE
The founder of the shelter in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, where authorities found some 500 children living in squalid conditions last month, "categorically" denied sexually abusing the kids there.

05Aug2014
Cancun's Mindblowing Underwater Museo Subaquatico de Arte Is Open to Visitors
Jaunted
Cancun's Museo Subaquatico de Arte is the world's first underwater museum created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor with the idea to make art and the marine environment interact.

05Aug2014
Talking to Deported Immigrants Through the US-Mexico Border Fence
VICE News
At the most western point of the US-Mexico border, is a place called Friendship Park. Here, a fiercely sturdy 20-foot steel wall slips from the land into the ocean, marking in no uncertain terms the line between the two countries. It’s rife with unsettling symbolism.

05Aug2014
Disabled 'Serial Plaintiff' Who Sued 800 California Businesses Deported to Mexico
The Raw Story
A notorious Southern California “professional plaintiff” who made almost $1.2 million by suing local business owners over 800 times has been deported to Mexico.


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