12Dec2013
Efforts Continue to Free Washington State Woman from Mexican Prison
RentonReporter.com
Nestora Salgado was arrested Aug. 21 in the state of Guerrero, where she had been leading a vigilante group targeting police corruption and drug cartel violence. To pressure the Mexican government, several organizations protested this week in favor of Human Rights and for Salgado’s release.

12Dec2013
Mexico Lower House Passes Oil Overhaul to End 75-Year State Monopoly
Bloomberg
Mexico’s lower house passed an energy bill that ends Petroleos Mexicanos’s 75-year oil monopoly in a bid to attract foreign investment and boost growth.

11Dec2013
Human Rights Groups Repudiate Law Against Demonstrations in Mexico City
Proceso
More than 70 organizations around the country as well as Amnesty International and lawmakers from the PRD, PT and MC, demanded that the Chamber of Deputies does not pass the Law on Demonstrations in the Federal District.

11Dec2013
Watch This Woman Smoke Pot to Become Better Mom
TakePart
Watch the video to understand how profoundly cerebral palsy affects her daily life - and keep on watching for the revelation that one thing makes her life better every day: marijuana.

11Dec2013
Mexico City Mobile-Phone Users Lose Voice Service for 81 Minutes
Bloomberg
Mobile-phone customers in Mexico City, North America’s largest city, lost voice service for 81 minutes yesterday after the country’s dominant carrier America Movil suffered an outage.

11Dec2013
Armed Conflicts Casualties 2012: Mexico Places Second Behind Syria
Latin Times
A new study of war casualties in 2012 has placed Mexico second only to Syria in the number of deaths reported last year. A total 95,000 people died last year as a result of armed conflicts, most of whom were civilians.

11Dec2013
Catholic Church Has Little Influence Among Mexicans
La Jornada
Although 90 percent of the Mexican population accepts a belief in God, neither the Catholic Church, nor the clergy, nor the Virgin Mary, nor faith have been decisive factors in their lives as Catholics, according to the first results of the National Survey on Culture and Practical Religious Belief in Mexico.

11Dec2013
NSA Uses Google Cookies and Location Data to Pinpoint Targets for Hacking
The Washington Post
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.


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