21Sep2013 | Could Your Next Pair of Jeans Be Made from Recycled Water Bottles? TakePart An innovative clothing company has come up with a pretty cool way to use all of your old plastic: turning bottles into jeans. |
21Sep2013 | Lack of University Spots Cut Short the Dreams of Many in Mexico NBC News Some 26 million children and young adults hit the books again in Mexico this fall, striving against the odds for the education they desperately want. |
21Sep2013 | Deborah Bonello on Location: Why So Many People in Mexico Still Go Missing GlobalPost The federal government says 26,000 people have been reported missing across Mexico since 2006, and yet just two states have a local prosecutor's office dedicated to the investigation of such cases. |
21Sep2013 | Mexican Micro-Lender Compartamos Gets a Facelift WSJ.com Mexican micro-finance company Compartamos SAB is changing its corporate name to Gentera, which it expects will give it greater clarity and flexibility as it continues to pursue expansion, company executives said this week. |
21Sep2013 | Anabel Hernandez's 'Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers' PRI's The World In her new book Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their God Fathers, Hernandez explores how Mexico has become a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America, and the links between the cartels and government and business complicity at the very highest levels. |
21Sep2013 | Here Are All the Countries Where Children are Sentenced to Die in Prison The Huffington Post There are about 2,500 youth offenders serving life sentences without the possibility of parole in prisons worldwide. HuffPost has come up with a map showing all of the countries where they are incarcerated. |
21Sep2013 | Migrant Workers from Mexico March Across US for Back Pay Ends in Washingtom DC infoZine/Scripps Howard Foundation A group of elderly migrant laborers ended a cross-country protest this week outside the White House, hoping the U.S. would prod Mexico to pay money owed to them for work they did decades ago. |
21Sep2013 | Health Tourists Head to Mexican Dental Bargain Boomtown of Los Algodones Al Jazeera With the cost of dental treatment soaring and insurance often unavailable, many Americans are heading across the border to Mexico for treatment. |
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