09Feb2013
In 2011, 465 Mothers Between Ten and Fourteen Years Old Were Reported in Jalisco
Proceso
According to data from the National Institute of Statistic and Geography (Inegi), in 2011 11,512 children between the ages of ten and fourteen became mothers and, of those, 318 were only ten years old.

09Feb2013
Mexican Victims Get Law That 'Should Not Even Have to Exist'
Inter Press Service
Twenty months have passed since the MPJD demanded a law to help relatives left behind by violence in Mexico. The law, backed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was promulgated Jan. 9. The big challenge is for it to be enforced and produce results, everyone agrees.

09Feb2013
Lending a Fin: Dolphins Help Tired Seal Pup Swim
Daily Mail
Heartwarming video shows kind dolphins rescuing a stranded seal pup as it struggles to stay afloat.

09Feb2013
Tim Johnson: Mayor Luis Walton's Big Blunder on Acapulco's Playa Bonfil
McClatchy Newspapers
No one’s had a worse week than the six Spanish tourists who were gang-raped by masked men in their bungalow in Acapulco’s Playa Bonfil early Monday morning. Mayor Luis Walton dismissed the rape initially, saying such attacks happen “anywhere in the world.” In political terms, Walton’s also had a rotten week.

09Feb2013
Girls Now Reaching Puberty at Age Nine, Thanks to Chemicals in the Food Supply
NaturalNews
The average age of puberty in girls is now nine, in a phenomenon increasingly being blamed on rising obesity and exposure to hormone-disrupting pollutants in the food supply.

09Feb2013
Vigilante Group Turns 11 Detained as Suspected Criminals Over to Authorities
Associated Press
Mexican farmers who took up arms against drug-gang violence and other crime in the mountains of southern Mexico have turned over to authorities 11 of 53 people that the vigilantes have put in improvised jails over the last month as suspected criminals.

09Feb2013
The End of the Latin American Left: Will Hugo Chavez's Revolution Die with Him?
Foreign Policy
Several Latin American leaders would like to succeed him, but no one meets the necessary conditions to allow him or her to devote major time to permanent revolution away from home.

08Feb2013
Real-Life Wolverine Helps Save People During Catastrophic Explosion in Mexico
Gizmodo
He may not be a mutant with regenerative healing powers, animal senses, superhuman agility, but 22-year-old Ricardo Fuentes is a hero just like the Wolverine. One who, instead of running away in panic, helped people during last week's deadly explosion at Pemex's headquarters in Mexico D.F.


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