12Jul2012
Preventing Child Labor With Your Smartphone
Co.Exist
A new app in Colombia lets concerned citizens identify child laborers, so that they can be brought back to school.

12Jul2012
A Sensible Marijuana Policy, From Uruguay
Palisades Hudson Financial Group
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has a plan to reduce crime related to illegal marijuana trafficking in his country: get rid of the illegal trafficking by making marijuana sales legal.

12Jul2012
Post-Election Mexico Faces Key Reforms
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Labor, fiscal, education, social security and energy reforms are all seen as vitally important to allow the country to move forward, and Mr Pena Nieto has promised progress on these issues.

12Jul2012
Mexican Drug Cartels' Stake in the US: One Trillion Dollars
New America Media
Recent media reports of money laundering activities involving US banks and Mexico's drug cartels point to a disturbing trend. NAM contributor Louis Nevaer says that everything taken into account, the amounts involved rival investments made by some of the US's largest trade partners.

12Jul2012
Mexico Inflation May Stay Above 4% This Quarter
Bloomberg News
Mexican inflation may not slow within policy makers' target range this quarter as forecast by central bank Governor Agustin Carstens, the Finance Ministry's top economist said.

12Jul2012
Mexico Border City Killings Plunge This Year
Associated Press
Killings by criminal gangs in the drug violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez fell by 42 percent in the first six months of this year from the same period of 2011.

12Jul2012
Universal Health Care Saves Lives, Sign of Civilized Society
marysvilleonline.net
Why do many people want universal health care? Because it's the civilized thing to do. It saves lives, avoids disability and prevents personal and family financial disasters.

12Jul2012
Migrant Shelter Shuts Its Doors Amid Discord
Catholic News Service
A Catholic-run shelter serving the masses of migrants stealing rides on trains passing through the rail yards north of Mexico City closed its doors July 9 after enduring endless quarrels with its neighbors.


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