31Jan2014 | New Pet Food Tax in Mexico Could Lead to Increase in Animal Abandonments Fusion As 2014 gets underway, Mexicans are discovering that they have a lot more more taxes to pay. But there is one particular tax that has angered thousands of people here and could do some serious damage to the country’s dogs and cats: A 16% sales tax on pet food. |
31Jan2014 | Mexican President Pena Nieto Calls Meeting with Fidel Castro 'New Page in History' InSerbia Following a thaw in the freeze in relations between Cuba and Mexico, the new diplomacy between the two Latin American nations seems to have reached new heights as the current Mexican leader met with Cuba’s most famed revolutionary. |
31Jan2014 | Quippi Raises $2M for Money Transfer Gift Cards Aimed at Mexican Market socalTECH Quippi has received funding from Avalon Ventures to further a service which allows people in the U.S. or Mexico to buy gift cards, and share those gift cards via a PIN number with friends or family in Mexico. |
31Jan2014 | Obesity Is Found to Gain Its Hold in Earliest Years The New York Times A major new study of more than 7,000 children has found that a third of children who were overweight in kindergarten were obese by eighth grade. |
31Jan2014 | Carlos and the Crime of Smoking Marijuana in Mexico CounterPunch Carlos faces a criminal sentence for smoking marijuana. He’s the embodiment of the consequences of Mexico’s contradictory public drug policies. |
31Jan2014 | Senators Take Important Step Toward Ending United States Drug War The Huffington Post Republicans and Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee came together this week to pass a landmark bill aimed at overhauling the federal government’s drug sentencing laws. |
31Jan2014 | Mexican Sailor Survives 8,000 Miles and 16 Months Adrift on the Pacific Ocean Daily Mail An emaciated man whose boat washed up on a remote Pacific atoll this week claims he has survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific. |
31Jan2014 | Hike from Mexico to Canada 3 Seconds at a Time The Daily Dot Last summer, Tyler was dropped off in Campo, California near the border between the United States and Mexico. From there, he headed north along the scenic Pacific Crest Trail, recording three seconds of video on each day of his journey. |
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