17Jul2017
It’s Time to Get Serious About LatAm Child Marriages
Human Rights Watch
Mexico is among eleven countries where between 20 and 30 percent of girls marry before age 18.

16Jul2017
Protestors March on Lack of Progress in Probe of Sinaloa Journalist’s Murder
Latin American Herald Tribune
Family and colleagues of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez blockaded the Sinaloa state Attorney General’s Office on Saturday to protest the slow pace of the investigation into the May 15 murder.

16Jul2017
With the Rise of Neoliberalism, Is It the End of an Era for the Latin American Left?
Al Jazeera
Instead of learning from past mistakes and seeking a different political direction, political elites in Latin America have started pursuing again those same neoliberal policies that failed so miserably in the past.

16Jul2017
Hackers, Activists Team Up to Create App to Help Mexican Independent Candidates
Agencia EFE
Hackers and political activists have banded together to develop an app aimed at helping independent candidates gather the signatures needed on a petition to get on the ballot in Mexico.

15Jul2017
Mexico’s Police are Overworked, Underpaid and Understaffed, INEGI Reports
InSight Crime
New statistics on Mexico’s police paints a picture of an overworked, underpaid and understaffed force that is not concentrated where there are the most public security threats.

15Jul2017
Immortalized by Woody Guthrie, Mexican ‘Deportees’ Who Died in Plane Crash Are Nameless No Longer
KQED
So many artists — from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Dylan — have recorded Woody Guthrie’s famous ballad “Deportee,” about one of the worst airplane disasters in California history. But a big piece of the story was missing. Until now.

15Jul2017
Grandparents Win Reprieve from Trump Travel Ban
Associated Press
In another setback for President Donald Trump, a federal judge in Hawaii has further weakened his already diluted travel ban by vastly expanding the list of family relationships with U.S. citizens that visa applicants can use to get into the U.S.

15Jul2017
Acapulco Hotel Owners Unite Against ’Unfair’ Airbnb
PanAm Post
Airbnb, the online housing rental service, may be charged a new tax in Mexico’s tourist destination of Acapulco. Airbnb offers approximately 250,000 properties in Acapulco alone, dwarfing the 20,000 hotel rooms offered by the formal hotel industry.


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