21Aug2013
Stone Carving Skills Revived at Mexico's First National Sculpture Park
The Art Newspaper
Artists have donated works to be installed in a new public space, due to open in time for the Mayan Cultural Festival in October.

21Aug2013
Legislators in Mexico Seek to Change Freedom-of-Information Law
The Los Angeles Times
Availing themselves of a relatively new freedom-of-information law, journalists and ordinary citizens have been able to learn facts that the government sought to hide. But this week, Congress was poised to change the law governing the Federal Institute for Access to Information.

21Aug2013
Teachers in Mexico Add School Textbook Errors to Their List of Complaints
Associated Press
As Mexican children trooped back to school this week, they had already learned one lesson: You can't believe everything you read in your textbook.

21Aug2013
What Conspiracy Theories Say About Us: Jesse Walker on The United States of Paranoia
ReasonTV
ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie sat down with Jesse Walker to discuss his book, the deep history of conspiracy theories in America, and how he became fascinated with the topic.

21Aug2013
Prematurity, Teenage Births Common on Both Sides of US-Mexican Border
CDC.gov
Hispanic women living in border regions of the United States and Mexico struggle with low rates of prenatal care and high rates of preterm birth and births to teenaged mothers, according to a study published online in Preventing Chronic Disease. Here is the abstract of that report.

21Aug2013
Samsung to Introduce Watch-Like Phone Next Month
Bloomberg News
Samsung Electronics will introduce a wristwatch-like device named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the Web and handle emails.

21Aug2013
Afro-Mexicans Demand Answers in Response to Death of Malcolm Latif Shabazz
NNPA
It’s been three months since the May 9 murder of Malcolm Latif Shabazz in the capital city of Mexico, and there remains no resolution for the Shabazz family about the crime.

21Aug2013
'Queen of the Pacific' Arrested on Return to Mexico After US Release
EFE
A Mexican woman known as the "Queen of the Pacific" was arrested Tuesday on returning to her homeland from the United States, which deported Sandra Avila Beltran after a federal judge sentenced her to time served as an accessory after the fact to drug trafficking.


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