23Aug2013
Female Officers Achieve High Ranking Positions in Latin American Security Forces
VOXXI
In a sign of a shift towards greater gender-equality in Latin America, in recent months female officers have achieved high-ranking posts within their country’s security forces both in the armed forces and police.

23Aug2013
Grave Near Mexico City May Hold Clues to 12 Youths Missing Since May
Al Jazeera
The authorities in Mexico have found a mass grave east of Mexico City and are testing to determine if it holds some of the 12 people who were abducted from a bar in an area of the capital in May.

23Aug2013
Sea of Cortez Shrimp Farms Struggle Under Their Own Toxic Burden
Harper's Magazine
According to news reports, a combination of heavy-metal pollution and widespread disease in the hundreds of thousands of acres of shrimp farms lining the Sea of Cortez has torpedoed this summer’s crop.

23Aug2013
Mexican Catholic Bishop Raul Vera Says Homophobia is 'Mental Illness'
The Bilerico Project
In an interview with Terra Mexico posted this week, Jose Raul Vera Lopez - the Roman Catholic bishop of Saltillo, Mexico - spoke out forcefully against homophobia.

23Aug2013
Gay Targeting in Mexico May Block Deportation from United States
Courthouse News Service
Immigration officials must reconsider the plight of an HIV-positive gay man who claims that he will be persecuted if deported to Mexico, the 7th Circuit ruled.

23Aug2013
Festival of Terror 2013 at Six Flags Mexico
SixFlagsMexico
This year's Festival of Terror at Six Flags Mexico pushes the terror level with 7 attractions of extreme terror that promise to raise your fear to the maximum.

23Aug2013
Honduras to Form New Police Force to Battle Mexican Drug Cartels
Reuters
The Honduran Congress approved on Thursday the creation of a new military-style police force, which is aimed at countering violence spawned by Mexican drug cartels that use the country to transport cocaine.

23Aug2013
VUHL Secures Enough Orders To Produce New Mexican Sports Car
TopSpeed
As a result of its highly successful world public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Mexico's innovative VUHL 05 is due to enter production this November.


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