10Feb2014
Mexican Community Raises Its Fortunes with Oregano
Grist
Tired of people leaving their community in Hidalgo Mexico for the US in search of farming work, this is the story of one community's efforts to keep people home... using oregano.

10Feb2014
Coca-Cola's FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour Makes an Impact in Mexico
FIFA.com
On the most recent stop of the worldwide adventure, the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola is making a great impact in Mexico.

10Feb2014
Tijuana Prisoner Says He Was Forced to Dig Drug Tunnel to San Diego
NPR.org
17 men are being held on charges they were digging a drug-smuggling tunnel from Tijuana to the U.S. border at San Diego. Carrie Kahn talks to one of the men who say they were kidnapped and forced to do the work.

10Feb2014
Mexico City Cathedral Receives John Paul II Relic
CNA
The Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico City will opened its Holy Door on Feb. 9 to receive a first-class relic of Blessed John Paul II, as well as a painting and a skullcap used by the late pontiff.

10Feb2014
United States Expulsion Policy Toward Migrant Mexicans Carries a Big Human Cost
The Economist
They are flown down to the Mexican border by the planeload, and then released across the bridge at night. They shuffle into Mexico wearing the look of defeat. Their shoes are untied and their trousers hang down; their laces and belts are in a plastic bag. Often these are all they carry.

10Feb2014
Net Neutrality Ruling May Impede LatAm Startups
VOXXI
The Internet as we know it may change drastically in the next few years. Last month a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided “net neutrality” is unconstitutional, and that Internet service providers have the right to manage online traffic.

10Feb2014
Life-Threatening Chagas Disease Still Overlooked Among North America's Impoverished
The Global Dispatch
A leading cause of heart disease remains overlooked in North America’s most impoverished communities. Chagas disease has rendered a heavy health and economic toll, yet insufficient political and medical support has impeded much-needed breakthroughs.

10Feb2014
Sour, Smelly and Slimy: Aztec Brew Takes Mexico's Hipsters By Storm
GlobalPost
Long the province of peasants and poor townfolk, pulque has been reborn this century as a buzz of choice among young, forward-leaning and better-heeled urbanites.


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