03Mar2014
Central American Women Put Their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
The Guardian
IM-Defensoras is a three-year-old effort to provide women rights defenders in the region with protection mechanisms that are gender-sensitive and adapted to different contexts.

03Mar2014
Culiacan Police Fail to Stop Second Demonstration Supporting Captured Druglord
Al Jazeera
Police in northern Mexico have detained about 100 people in a failed attempt to stop a second demonstration in less than a week to voice support for the world's most wanted drug lord, who was captured last week.

03Mar2014
Mexican Rights Commission Investigates Negligence in 2 Indigenous Childbirths
Associated Press
Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights is investigating two possible cases of negligence involving indigenous woman giving childbirth, one of whom died.

03Mar2014
Latin Pride Swells with 3 Oscars Bagged for 'Gravity,' '12 Years a Slave'
ChicagoNow
Alfonso Cuaron is the first Mexican and also the first Latin American director to win an Oscar for best director.

02Mar2014
Homeland Security Reviewing Use of Controversial Force Policies on Mexico's Border
The Associated Press
Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, has been criticized by civil rights groups and others for allowing border agents to use deadly force against people blamed for throwing rocks at them.

02Mar2014
Itinerant Vendors to Get 2000 Pesos a Month to Stay Off Mexico City Subway
Aristegui Noticias
The Government of the Federal District will pay US$152.00 per month to “vagoneros” so that they stop carrying out their activities in the Metro Public Transport System

02Mar2014
A Vaporizer Marijuana Users Will Spend $600 On, and a Health-Minded Pot Head Who Created It
Quartz
With marijuana legalization spreading in the US, the cannabis industry is booming. One company set to reap the benefits is VapeXhale, makers of a high-tech vaporizer, a device used to extract the active ingredients in marijuana and other smokable substances.

02Mar2014
Poor Showing at Protest Rally Against Mexican Drug Lord in His Home State
Agencia EFE
Hundreds of people turned out last Wednesday for a protest to demand that the government release "El Chapo" Guzman and not extradite him to the United States - less than 100 people participated in Saturday's march against drug trafficking in Culiacan.


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