23Dec2012
In Latin America, Women Are Breaking Barriers To Entrepreneurship
TechCrunch
The lack of women in technology in Latin America is an issue whose cause has deep roots. Women generally are not expected or encouraged to enter the hard sciences and engineering. Despite the barriers, there are examples of women disrupting not only businesses, but entire societies all over the continent.

22Dec2012
Central America Edges Out Mexico for Leader in Undocumented Immigrants to US
Fox News Latino
A study released earlier this year by the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based think tank, said the illegal migration of Mexicans to the United States is at its lowest level in decades.

22Dec2012
For Boat Captain, Rescuing Maritime Smugglers is Part of the Job
Fronteras Desk
Authorities are confronting a rise in maritime smuggling of illegal immigrants and drugs from Mexico up the California coast. From the KPBS Fronteras Desk, Jill Replogle introduces us to one man with a unique view of the trend.

22Dec2012
Hockey Sticks: Made-in-Mexico Evolution of a Canadian Icon
Toronto Star
While hockey’s previous century was dominated by wood sticks made in factories in small-town Ontario and Quebec, the shift to composite sticks has transplanted the manufacturing process to places where the game’s roots are nonexistent.

22Dec2012
President Enrique Pena Nieto Announces High-Speed Rail Project in Yucatan
EFE
Mexico's government has announced a high-speed rail project in the Yucatan Peninsula aimed at unlocking that region's full economic, tourist and social potential.

22Dec2012
Al Jazeera Listening Post on Latin America's Media Battlefields
Al Jazeera
From Argentina to Venezuela and Mexico, some of the year's most compelling media stories have come from one continent. As the year comes to an end, we have put together a special edition with three very different stories.

22Dec2012
'Night of the Radishes' Marks Christmas in Oaxaca
NPR.org
While the rest of the world was in a tizzy over the Mayan apocalypse that wasn't, the residents of Oaxaca, Mexico, were busy preparing for the very real Coming of the Radish People, who will descend upon Oaxaca's zocalo this Sunday.

22Dec2012
Mexico Nominates NAFTA Negotiator for WTO Top Job
Expatica
Mexico has nominated a former minister who led the country's negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement to take over the helm of the World Trade Organization.


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