15Dec2016
App Links Donors in Mexico to People Needing Blood
Mexico News Daily
Altruistic blood donation in Mexico is uncommon and usually occurs when a patient in need turns to relatives. But an entrepreneur is changing that mindset with a mobile app.

15Dec2016
Controversial Pipeline Continues Push Through Indigenous Land Despite Moratorium
GlobalVoices
A new pipeline under construction in northern Mexico has become a major controversy involving the local Yaqui indigenous community that is less than pleased about the pipeline's route. The Agua Prieta pipeline would go straight through Yaqui territory.

15Dec2016
Political System in Mexico Has Become a Violent Symbiosis of Organized Crime and Politics
Al Jazeera
In those days of a one-party rule, there was no space for organized crime groups to compete with each other and even less space to challenge an all mighty one-party authoritarian regime.

15Dec2016
New Hope Fertility Center Mexico Plans 20 'Three-Parent' Babies in 2017
New Scientist
Many more three-parent babies will soon be on their way. A clinic in Mexico is planning to use the technique in 20 pregnancies in the first half of 2017, according to its medical director.

15Dec2016
58 Percent of Mexicans Work in Informal Economy
The Associated Press
A new study finds that about 58 percent of jobs in Mexico are in the informal sector including categories such as unregistered vendors, artisans and domestic workers.

15Dec2016
Searching for Our Missing Children: 'It's Been Six Years. It Feels Like Yesterday'
The Guardian
Each year, in a bid to find their lost loved ones, a group of women from Central America travel together across Mexico, raising their voices in protest, publicizing photographs of the missing and sharing each other’s pain.

15Dec2016
Drug 'War with No End in Sight' Puts Spotlight on Mexican Military
CNSNews.com
Ten years after former Mexican President Felipe Calderon more than doubled the number of troops fighting Mexico’s drug cartels, supply routes to the U.S. “remain open,” and Mexico’s military is bogged down in a “war with no end in sight.”

14Dec2016
Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill by 98-7 Margin; Then Sent It to Lower House
Agence France-Presse
Mexico’s Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing medical marijuana after a national debate on narcotics policy in a country mired in brutal drug violence.


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