18May2013
View the Ghost Pueblos in the Costa Grande Region of Guerrero State
BBC News
Leopoldo Soberanis, a local fruit businessman, takes the BBC's reporter Linda Pressly, and photographer Richard Fenton-Smith, on a tour of the deserted villages of the Sierra de Tecpan de Galeana.

18May2013
Want to Make Friends? Don't Moan About Your Weight
The Daily Mail
Study finds women who obsess over their weight and constantly criticise themselves are unlikeable.

18May2013
World Bank Says Mexico Middle Class Vulnerable to Return to Poverty
Milenio
The World Bank says that Mexico performed poorly in increasing the population that has moved from poverty to the middle class, largely because of the impact of the financial crisis of 2008 on its economy.

18May2013
Mexican Communities Sue for Environmental Justice
Inter Press Service
Fed up with oil spills from facilities belonging to Mexico’s state oil company Pemex, residents of two communities in the southeastern state of Tabasco are taking the country’s largest company to court in a bid for compensation for damage to the environment and agriculture.

18May2013
Scientists Engineering Tobacco Plants to Produce Biofuels of the Future
The Fix
Researchers have already developed an extraction method, and envision that tobacco could be used to make airplane fuel, automobile fuel, and diesel fuel.

18May2013
Mexico to Create Special Police Unit to Search for the Missing
Associated Press
Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine days.

18May2013
OAS Drug Report Envisions Growing Legalization in Western Hemisphere
The Huffington Post
The Organization of American States on Friday released a report laying out a future in which more countries in the Western Hemisphere legalize marijuana.

18May2013
Enrique Pena Nieto: 'Education Will Not Be Privatized or Concessioned'
Presidency of the Republic
Let no-one attempt to mislead society: Education will not be privatized or concessioned. Education is, and will remain, a public and irrevocable function of the Mexican state.


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