13Jan2014
Aging US-Mexico Border Infrastructure Costs Economy Seven Billion
California Forward
According to a San Diego Association of Governments study, a staggering $7 billion in economic activity is lost annually on both sides of the border due to border congestion and long wait times.

13Jan2014
Top UN Official Says Latin American Prisons Have Abandoned Rehabilitation
InSight Crime
Prisons in Latin America have abandoned any notion of rehabilitating inmates, warned the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture, highlighting how penitentiary systems fuel insecurity and criminal groups across the region.

13Jan2014
Mexico's Masked Marxists: Meet the Zapatista Front of National Liberation
The Conversation
Mexico’s Zapatistas are one of the world’s longest running active revolutionary groups. But who are they, and what are they fighting for?

13Jan2014
Biodiversity Project Seeks to Tackle Mexico Poverty without Damaging Natural Resources
La Jornada
A policy of ‘biological corridors’, which can be integrated with the National Crusade Against Hunger, will be established in Mexico. Already 300 of the municipalities included in the Crusade are areas of high biodiversity.

13Jan2014
Mexican Director Alfonso Cuaron Nabs the Golden Globe for Best Director
VOXXI
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Director at the 71st edition of the Golden Globe awards for his directing work on the film “Gravity”.

13Jan2014
Left Calls for Government Pact to End Violence in Western Mexico's Michoacan
EFE
The government should craft an agreement among all of Mexico's political parties to deal with the surging violence in the western state of Michoacan, Party of the Democratic Revolution chairman Jesus Zambrano said.

13Jan2014
Mariachi Music Gains Popularity Across Ethnic Lines
Voice of America
Among Mexican-Americans in the U.S. mariachi music has maintained its popularity for more than a century. But there are groups in all parts of the United States and in some European and Asian nations as well.

13Jan2014
Death Penalty Puts Texas at Odds with Mexican Government, Human Rights Groups
The Latino Post
The court system in Texas is at odds with the Mexican government and the International Court of Justice over the execution of Mexican nationals.


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