31Oct2013
All Set For Riviera Maya's 11th Annual Jazz Festival
LatinoSongs
The annual Riviera Maya Jazz Festival is set to celebrate its 11th edition when it gets underway in the popular Mexican Riviera Maya destination in Playa del Carmen.

31Oct2013
What It's Like to Sneak Across the US/Mexico Border to Harvest Food
Mother Jones
For most anthropologists, "field work" means talking to and observing a particular group. But for Seth Holmes, it also literally means working in a field: toiling alongside farm workers from the Triqui indigenous group of Oaxaca, Mexico, in a vast Washington State berry patch.

31Oct2013
Say Adios to Paper Invoices in Mexico
The Mazatlan Messenger
Beginning January 1, 2014, paper invoices will no longer be accepted in Mexico. For that reason, SAT said all businesses which provide invoices must switch to electronic invoices within the next two months.

31Oct2013
'Highly Sophisticated' Drug Tunnel Found Linking San Diego, Tijuana
CNN
Investigators have shut down a newly-completed, "highly sophisticated" drug tunnel running under the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

30Oct2013
Amnesty Calls for Review of Unfair Trials After Indigenous Teacher Pardoned
Amnesty International
The Mexican President’s decision to pardon indigenous teacher Alberto Patishtan who was imprisoned for more than a decade following an unfair trial is a long overdue recognition of the injustice done to him, but it should spur a complete review of countless unfair trial cases.

30Oct2013
Carlos Slim Gives $74 Million To Make Genomic Research Less Ethnically-Biased
Forbes
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, the world’s 2nd-richest man, is giving an additional $74 million to a genomics center in Boston in order to right a bias in the field - a kind of scientific racism, you might call it.

30Oct2013
Survivor of Violence in Mexico 'Pedaling for Justice' Across Texas
KHOU.com
A cyclist on a 701 mile bike ride across Texas is “Pedaling for Justice” to raise awareness about Mexican citizens fleeing violence and seeking a safe haven in the US.

30Oct2013
United Nations General Assembly Again Votes Against US Cuba Embargo
Associated Press
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly this week to condemn the U.S. commercial, economic and financial embargo against Cuba for the 22nd year in a row.


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