27Feb2013 | Slow Growth in US, Zero Immigration Hurt Remittances to Mexico SmartPlanet The money Mexican immigrants working in the U.S. send home amounts to more than all foreign direct investment here. So what does it mean for the Mexican economy if immigration to the U.S. from Mexico slides to zero, and remittances fall flat? |
27Feb2013 | Attorney General Arrests 'Most Powerful Woman' for Stealing Millions from Teachers' Union Associated Press One of Mexico's biggest political kingfish sits in a women's prison in the capital, accused of embezzling millions in funds from her teachers' union to pay for property, private planes, plastic surgery and her Neiman Marcus bill. |
26Feb2013 | Mexico Reverses Foreign Investment Flows Associated Press After decades of depending on inflows of foreign capital to develop its economy, Mexico turned a corner and become a net exporter of direct investment capital in 2012, according to a report released Monday. |
26Feb2013 | US White House Mulls New Global Food Aid Approach: Send Cash Reuters The White House may soon propose the biggest change in U.S. food aid since the programs were created during the Cold War - donating cash for hunger relief instead of shipping American-grown food thousands of miles to global trouble spots, say farm groups and charities. |
26Feb2013 | Mexico Begins Training Federal Police Officers for New Gendarmerie Associated Press Deputy Interior Secretary Manuel Mondragon says that 10,000 newly vetted officers will fight common crime in parts of Mexico where local authorities request them. |
26Feb2013 | Remains of a River: A Story of Friendship, Adventure and Environmental Degradation NRS Films From October 2011 to January 2012, Will Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore hiked and paddled from Wyoming's Wind River Mountains to Mexico following the Colorado River system from its farthest inland source to the sea, filming and narrating on the fly. |
26Feb2013 | INEGI Survey: Three Million Children Workers Exploited in Mexico Prensa Latina Three million Mexican children and adolescents are exploited, work under dangerous situations with low pay and even without wages, the newspaper Informador reports. |
26Feb2013 | Mexico and Colombia Victims Laws: Broad Enough to Bring Justice? InSight Mexico has followed Colombia's footsteps by passing a sweeping law that aims to compensate victims of the country's drug war. Both projects are incredibly ambitious, and may yet heal some of the wounds left by years of violence - if implemented correctly. |
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