31Jul2013
Growing Social Violence in Mexico Undermines the Right of Children to Play
La Jornada
The high rates of crime in the cities, the violence, the unrest in communities and on the streets, are some of the risk factors discovered by the Committee of the Rights of Children, which prevent minors from exercising their basic right to play and recreation.

31Jul2013
Health Consumers Seek Info and Advice, But Don't Give Back Online
LiveScience
People consulting the Internet for health information and advice take what's presented, but rarely give back by posting their own reviews or experiences, new research finds.

31Jul2013
Car Manufacturing Booms in Mexico
Al Jazeera
Mexico's president is hoping to accelerate the economy by putting some room into his country's car production. And he says the industry has already clocked up hundreds of millions of pledges from outside investors.

31Jul2013
Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo: Begging Under the Influence of Violence
Psych Central
I decided to study the elderly women beggars of a small colonial Mexican town in central Mexico. I wondered why they wandered the streets alone. I wondered where their family was. I wanted to understand if begging was a clear choice.

31Jul2013
NASA Climate Change Video: This is the US in 2100
LiveScience
Scientists hope that the drastic results of CO2 emissions will provide motivation for Americans to start thinking about adaptive strategies to prepare for change.

31Jul2013
Mexico's Peyote Casts Mind-Bending Spell on Tourists
Agence France-Presse
Every year tourists from all over the world go to the Wirikuta desert, a place in the center of Mexico considered magical by the Huichols indigenous people. Visitors come to find the peyote, a protected cactus with hallucinogenic properties.

31Jul2013
National Disaster Prevention Center Keeps Constant Eye on Popocatepetl Volcano
Associated Press
In a clean, hushed room in the south of Mexico City, cameras, computer screens and scrawling needles track the symptoms of a special patient, as they have every second of every day for the past two decades.

30Jul2013
Overcrowded Central American Prisons Reflect Failed 'Iron Fist' Policies
InSight Crime
Central America's immensely overcrowded prisons with poor human rights conditions are a reminder of failed repressive anti-crime measures, say experts.


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