22Jan2014 | 25 Percent of Sharks and Rays Face 'Alarming' Threat of Extinction: Study The Huffington Post A staggering percentage of the world's sharks and rays are now "alarmingly" close to the brink of extinction, according to the a new study spearheaded by the Shark Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. |
22Jan2014 | Mexico Worries: Is Michoacan Violence Causing 'Cucaracha Effect'? The Los Angeles Times It is known here as the “cucaracha effect,†the possibility that a heavy government crackdown in one part of Mexico will simply send the bad guys scurrying off, cockroach-like, to some other place and cause new trouble. |
22Jan2014 | This Amazing Invention Is Saving Countless Lives After Typhoon Haiyan TakePart Behold the M-100 Chlorine Generator, a football-size water filter that allows survivors to produce up to 10,000 gallons of potable water per day. |
22Jan2014 | 20 Years After Nafta, Drugs Displace Maize on Mexico's Small Farms Inter Press Service As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes its 20-year milestone, Mexico is seeing the displacement of traditional crops like maize by marihuana and opium poppy as a result of falling prices for the country’s most important agricultural product. |
22Jan2014 | The Crime of Being a Woman in Mexico and a Legal System Biased Against Them Reforma Like Elena Azaola wrote more than 10 years ago in "The Crime of Being a Woman", society is less willing to forgive the mistakes of women. They are judged more severely and with less empathy. |
22Jan2014 | President Pena Nieto Promises Expanded Human and Economic Aid in Michoacan The News President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Tuesday that the federal government will provide human and economic resources to troubled regions of Michoacan, saying that this aid will help attack the problem of violence in the state at its roots. |
22Jan2014 | Will 2014 Be The Year Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim's Telecom Empire Crumbles? Forbes 2014 could be the year that Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim sees his telecom empire disintegrate. At the end of 2013, Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute said the process of opening up Slim’s monopoly on the phone market has begun. |
22Jan2014 | Mesoamerican Working Group: Rethinking the Drug War in Central America and Mexico The Mesoamerican Working Group U.S. security policy in Mexico and Central America, focused on militarized counter-narcotics efforts known as the war on drugs, has had severely negative effects on the region. This report analyzes the effects in four areas - militarization, drug policy, violence against women and forced migration. |
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