20Feb2013
In Mexico, a 'Crisis of Enforced Disappearances,' Human Rights Watch Says
Human Rights Watch
Describing what it called “the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades,” the U.S. organization Human Rights Watch issued a new report Wednesday with grim implications for the thousands of Mexican civilians who have gone missing in the country’s shadowy drug fight.

20Feb2013
Why is Mexico Asking the US Senate for a Registry of US Gun Owners?
TheBlaze
Mexican lawmakers will ask the U.S. Senate to create a registry of all commercialized firearms in border states, which includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Mexico says it will make it easier to trace guns used in violent attacks.

20Feb2013
Brian Jenkins: Drug Cartels an X-Factor for Presidents Obama and Pena Nieto
OC Register
The war on Mexico's criminal cartels dominated the presidency of Felipe Calderon. If the country's new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has his way, it will not dominate his administration.

20Feb2013
Matt Damon Goes on Toilet Strike for Clean Water
Water.org
At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.

20Feb2013
Community Self-Defense Group UPOEG Releases Last 20 Prisoners
EFE
A community policing group in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has released the last 20 people it had been holding "under guard" since Jan. 5 for allegedly committing crimes, a spokesman for the self-defense force told Efe.

20Feb2013
United Nations Calls for Deep Tax Reforms in Mexico
The News
Mexico needs “the mother of all tax reforms,” according to United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (UNECLAC) executive secretary, Alicia Bárcena.

20Feb2013
Experts Forecast Increase in LatAm Cyber Attacks
Infosurhoy.com
An upsurge in the number of malware devised to corrupt mobile communications and for corporate espionage is expected in 2013.

20Feb2013
Indigenous Celebrate International Mother Language Day in Mexico
Mexico Voices
The UN's International Mother Language Day is annually held on February 21 to celebrate languages spoken worldwide. As part of the celebration, the INALI will hold a ceremony attended by indigenous representatives of eleven linguistic families spoken in Mexico by almost 7 million inhabitants.


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