28Oct2012
Monarch Butterflies Travel Across North America's Borders Without Visa's
ABC/Univision
Monarch butterflies cover thousands of miles throughout North America each year, spending summertime in Canada and always returning to a few mountaintops in Mexico for their winter holiday. Until recently, however, the butterflies' Mexican refuge was a complete mystery.

28Oct2012
Indigenous Tarahumara Settlement Faces Food Crisis
Chron.com
Known for their prowess at long-distance running, resistance to assimilation and dependence on subsistence farming, the Tarahumara have survived in Mexico long after other native people vanished. In recent times, unforeseen dangers have reached the Sierra Tarahumara.

28Oct2012
Google Chromebook: Insights on 'Cheap' Laptop
IBTimes.com
Google Chromebook is getting mixed reviews, but so far the downside is on the fact that it is not made for everyone. That is not so bad, considering its $250 price tag.

28Oct2012
Cultural Center in Mexico City Seeks to Dignify Mariachi Music
Associated Press
A new mariachi school in Mexico City is seeking to revive a music that's lost ground over the years and that sometimes seems relegated to commercial jingles and elevator Muzak.

28Oct2012
Mexican Caravan for Peace Promotes Necessary Conversation About the War on Drugs
TruthOut
The "war on drugs" in Latin America has always been an excuse for continued US intervention and repression in the region. Activists in this country need to organize to get Washington's boot off the rest of the world.

28Oct2012
Have Passport, Will Travel: Notes From a Globetrotter
New America Media
Two passports - one new, the other old - arrived in the mail the other day. In the old passport, I am a young man looking out to customs officers everywhere with a kind of trusting optimism. In the new passport, the photo shows someone else entirely.

28Oct2012
Military Offering Journalists Training Courses for Self-Defense
Indiablooms.com
The Mexican military is offering journalists training courses for self-defense that go far beyond what's usually on offer to the press - journalists are taught to fire automatic weapons and take part in a simulated shootout.

28Oct2012
Controversial Mexico Labor Overhaul Bill Won't Be Fast-Tracked
EFE
A Mexican labor overhaul bill will not be fast-tracked through the lower house on the second go-around, but it is not "frozen" and will be handled like a standard piece of legislation, a lawmaker said.


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