12Aug2013
Making You 'Comfortable' with Spying Is Obama's Big NSA Fix
Foreign Policy
Barack Obama held a press conference supposedly to announce reforms of the NSA's far-flung surveillance programs. But the president offered no proposals to fundamentally change the programs, because as far as he's concerned, they don't need to be changed.

12Aug2013
Mexican Government Favors Decriminalizing - Not Legalizing - Marijuana
Latin American Herald Tribune
Mexico should continue on the path to decriminalizing marijuana but not shift course and legalize the drug, a step that could lead to increased consumption, a senior government official says.

12Aug2013
Watch This Mini-Documentary and You'll Never Text and Drive Again
TakePart
Xzavier, Chandler, Debbie, and Reggie all know the horrors of texting & driving firsthand. Watch their stories in this It Can Wait Documentary.

12Aug2013
Release of US Agent's Killer Puts Mexican Leader in Tricky Position
The Los Angeles Times
The release of a major drug trafficker who killed an American official is a tricky case for Pena Nieto and will pose a new challenge to his efforts to reform the PRI's image.

11Aug2013
True Stories of Love Across America's Borders
Amazon.com
Amor and Exile is the story of American citizens who fall in love with undocumented immigrants only to find themselves trapped in a legal labyrinth, stymied by their country's de facto exclusion of their partners.

11Aug2013
Huichol indigenous People and Desert Dwellers Unite in Defense of Sacred Land
CIP Americas Program
Mining companies are telling landowners in the desert region of central Mexico that the Huichol indigenous people want to take their land. They want to stir up a confrontation between the desert population and the tribe and to convince the population of the “benefits” of the mines.

11Aug2013
Queretaro Art Exhibition 'Visible Invisibilization' Shines Light on Mexico's Violence
Hispanically Speaking News
An international contemporary art exhibit is scheduled to kick off this week in Queretaro, providing a space for reflection and debate on one of the issues that most afflicts present-day society: violence and the different ways it is concealed.

11Aug2013
People Are Being Told to Use 'Key Words' to Cross Mexico Border to US
Fox News
At the Otay crossing near the San Diego border last Monday, about 200 people coming from Mexico gained entry to the United States all using the same key phrase; they claimed they had a 'credible fear' of drug cartels.


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