07Dec2012
After 20 Years, North American Free Trade Agreement Draws Praise and Controversy
Texas Tribune
Two decades after a pact initiated here created the world’s largest free trade area, economists are calling NAFTA a resounding success, crediting it for fueling trade and creating jobs in the United States. But unions and consumer-advocacy groups say NAFTA has had negative effects in Mexico and the U.S.

07Dec2012
A Date with Time Lords in San Cristobal de las Casas
Telegraph UK
Superstition runs deep here - as deep, indeed, as el inframundo, the underworld, which underpinned the beliefs of the old Mayan civilization of Mexico and Central America.

07Dec2012
Mexico's Julieta Venegas Brings Cuba the Fight Against Gender Violence
EFE
Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas brought to Havana the United Nations' worldwide campaign to end violence against women.

07Dec2012
New Video Highlights Navajo and Hopi Perspectives on Clean Air
National Parks Conservation Association
Two remarkable women inspired the video when they realized that rural Navajo and Hopi families are sorely affected by pollution from coal-fired power plants, yet their concerns are not heard by decision-makers in their tribal capital or our nation’s capital.

07Dec2012
Si Se Puede: Mexico's Brightest Dawn is Now on the Horizon
The Maneater
“Sí se puede” isn’t just the famous line from a Disney Channel original movie; it means so much more. It’s a motto by which Mexico has been striving to achieve for the past couple decades. The phrase literally translates as “yes we can.” And, yes you can, Mexico.

07Dec2012
HIV/AIDS Afflicts Migrants in Wealthy Countries
VOA News
To mark this year's World AIDS Day, the International Organization for Migration focused on the plight of migrants who, it says, are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in high-income countries.

07Dec2012
What Howler Monkeys Can Tell Us About the Role of Interbreeding in Human Evolution
ScienceDaily
A University of Michigan-led study of interbreeding between two species of modern-day howler monkeys in Mexico is shedding light on why it's so difficult to confirm instances of hybridization among primates - including early humans - by relying on fossil remains.

07Dec2012
Mexico's Pena Nieto Inherits an Underperforming Relationship with Canada
Global Insider
In an email interview, Duncan Wood, director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discusses Canada-Mexico relations.


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