12Oct2012
Muxes In Mexico: A Third Gender Embraced By the Zapotec People
Huffington Post
In Oaxaca, one of the southernmost states of Mexico, the indigenous Zapotec people have embraced a third gender within their communities: the muxes.

12Oct2012
Tijuana to be First in Mexico With Digital TV
San Diego Union-Tribune
This city of more than 1.7 million residents next year will become the first in Mexico to make the switch from analog to digital television, President Felipe Calderon announced Thursday during a visit to Baja California.

12Oct2012
On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization
In These Times
In both Mexico and the United States, schools are an ideological battleground. Corporate-minded school-reform groups promote curbing teachers' unions, tiering their pay schemes, and running schools more like businesses in an educational "marketplace."

12Oct2012
United States Cracks Down on Latin America's MS-13 Criminal Gang
Al Jazeera
For the first time, the US government has listed a street gang as an international criminal organization.

12Oct2012
Archaeologists Discover 1,300-Year-Old Tomb in Southern Mexico
EFE
Mexican archaeologists discovered the tomb of a person who may have led a region in what is now the southern state of Oaxaca approximately 1,300 years ago.

12Oct2012
Poll Shows Global Economy to Weigh Heavy on Latin America in 2013
Reuters
Latin America will face a tougher 2013 than previously thought as the global economy heads toward another poor year, stifling demand for the region’s exports, a Reuters poll shows.

12Oct2012
Amnesty International Raps Mexico on Drug War Human Rights Abuses
Amnesty International
The Mexican authorities must take decisive action to tackle the systemic and widespread use of torture and ill treatment documented across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report.

12Oct2012
Mexico Advances in Science and Technology to Increase Food Production
FreshPlaza
President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa this week inaugurated the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, which will identify the genome of the species from Mexico, and thus capitalize on the enormous value of our biodiversity.


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