17Jan2014
Nonprofit Changing Lives with Microloans in Oaxaca
Fundacion En Via
Fundacion En Via is a non-profit organization located in Oaxaca, Mexico, committed to supporting social and community development through the combination of three main programs: microfinance, responsible tourism, and education.

17Jan2014
Marijuana Legalization Will Hurt Mexican Cartels, But How Much?
StopTheDrugWar.org
As attitudes in America begin to shift in favor of outright legalization, it increasingly seems possible that more states might follow. But what does this mean south of the border, where Mexican cartels make enormous profits by trafficking this illegal commodity?

17Jan2014
INEGI Reports 69% of Mexicans Disapprove of the Police Despite Purging
CNN Mexico
Almost 70% of Mexicans feel that, despite exams to control trustworthiness, that have been used to purge police departments since 2009, the performance of state and local police is "a little" or "not at all effective."

17Jan2014
Mexicali Has Become 'City of the Deported' as US Dumps More People There
The Washington Post
Once, border cities like Mexicali were flooded with newcomers trying to go north. Today, they are filling with obstinate deportees, adrift in a kind of stateless purgatory that is beyond the United States but not really in Mexico either.

17Jan2014
Viva Aerobus Files for IPO as Mexico Air Travel Soars to New Records
Bloomberg News
Grupo Viva Aerobus filed for what would be Mexico’s second initial public offering of shares by an airline since September as passenger traffic sets annual records.

17Jan2014
The Evolution Revolution: Religious or Not, Most Hispanics Agree It Happened
TakePart
Whether Americans came from Adam and Eve or primordial goo, a new study suggests this country has come down on the side of science, not faith.

17Jan2014
Neil Young Blasts Tar Sands & Harper Government
The Canadian Press
Canadian rock icon Neil Young launched a blistering attack on the Harper government and Alberta's oilsands at a news conference this week, saying that he was "shattered" after visiting a Fort McMurray industrial site he compared to the atomic bomb-devastated wreckage of Hiroshima, Japan.

17Jan2014
Mexican High Court Judges Approve Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
Agencia EFE
Mexican prosecutors can order cellphone companies to provide tracking data on suspects without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.


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