21Nov2012
Latinos, Be Careful What You Wish For
Hispanic Link News Service
There is growing doubt today whether our political system is able to deal with the realities that confront us and significantly impact our futures. U.S. voters were uneasy with the two presidential candidates they had before them. The turnout, lower than in 2008, reflects this disconnect.

21Nov2012
Gourmet Baja Cuisine is Booming South of Tijuana
San Diego Union-Tribune
Tijuana is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to good food and drink south of San Ysidro. In fact, the renaissance of Baja’s culinary scene has been in full swing for quite some time.

21Nov2012
US Border Agency Looks to Expand Drone Fleet
California Watch
U.S. Customs and Border Protection last month received its latest unmanned aircraft, but it’s a new sole-source contract that could approach a half-billion dollars that offers the latest insight into the agency’s vision for its controversial eyes-in-the-sky drone program.

21Nov2012
Canada's Mexican Farm Laborers Discouraged From Raising Concerns: Advocate
Vancouver Sun
Temporary workers from Mexico who come to work in B.C.'s agriculture industry put their future employment at risk by raising concerns about living or working conditions, according to a Fraser Valley labor advocate.

21Nov2012
Facing a Diabetes 'Disaster' in Mexico as Obesity Levels Soar
McClatchy Newspapers
With each bite into a greasy taco and slurp of a sugary drink, Mexico hurtles toward what health experts predict will be a public health crisis from diabetes-related disease.

21Nov2012
Environmentalists Warn Mexico Risks Corn Damage if GM Maize is Planted
Agence France-Presse
Environmentalists are warning that Mexico, the cradle of corn, risks damaging its staple if the government gives US firms the green light to plant genetically-modified maize in huge swaths of land.

21Nov2012
Mexico Inks Pact with US to Crack Down on Tax Evasion and Trade Manipulation
Reuters
Mexico's finance ministry said it has approved an agreement with the U.S. Treasury Department that aims to help stamp out tax evasion. The agreement took two years to negotiate and was signed by representatives from both governments in Washington.

21Nov2012
Man's Poetic Expression of Homelessness Brings Him to United Nations
Mercury News
Poetry had long played a role in the life of Juan Fernandez Rua. When he worked as a banker. As a drug counselor. And most especially when he was homeless, or "living out in the open," as he prefers to call it. But it was the poetry that always kept him going.


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