12Nov2013
Knights Templar Cartel Spending Millions in Bribes to Michoacan Officials
The Mazatlan Messenger
The Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel is paying 325 million pesos in bribes annually to different officials in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, Milenio reports.

12Nov2013
Tomato-Farm Workers Toil in 'Circle of Poverty' in Mexico's Poorest States
The Los Angeles Times
Landowners make big money on tomatoes, but the hard work falls to armies of workers from Mexico's poorest states, who labor for paltry wages.

12Nov2013
Latin Americans Combat Crime with Smartphones and Social Media
The Guardian
With crime rates soaring and distrust in the state's ability to tackle it, people have taken to social media to boost security.

12Nov2013
Mexico's Energy Privatization Will Proceed
Proceso
The plan is underway: Energy reform will be passed with the votes of PRI and PAN, partners who have been driving Mexico during the most recent quarter century. The plan was revealed by The Wall Street Journal through a government "leak."

12Nov2013
Media Doubts President's Claims of Monterrey's Crime Rate Reduction
Al Jazeera
The government claims the murder rate in Monterrey has been cut by half, but local journalists accuse the government of manipulating statistics.

12Nov2013
Survey Reveals Latino's Shifting Religious Affiliations
PRRI
A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute showed the shifting religious identifies of Latinos and Hispanics.

12Nov2013
How Climate Change is Destroying Cancun Beaches
GlobalPost
Cancun’s perfect tropical beach is its principal selling point. Yet the only reason the resort still has a beach is thanks to a $70 million project in 2010 to replenish it by dredging up more than 1 billion gallons of sand from the seabed.

12Nov2013
Peasant Leader Who Fought for Hurricane Manuel Relief Gunned Down
Hispanically Speaking News
Mexican police found a grassroots leader and his wife fatally shot inside their home in the southern state of Guerrero.


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