22Sep2016
Women in Small Town in Oaxaca State Vote in Local Elections for First Time
BBC News
Women in a community in southern Mexico have voted in local elections for the first time, after winning a three-year battle for the right to choose a mayor and councillors alongside their male relatives.

22Sep2016
Want to Airbnb Your Luxury Home? These Companies Will Handle Everything
WSJ.com
The rapid growth of third-party management services and tools is enticing more high-end homeowners to try short-term renting - for the right price.

22Sep2016
How the Mexican Government Saves Its Citizens from Executions in the U.S.
The Atlantic
The Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program pays American lawyers to track potential death penalty cases around the country - all the way through the last minute scramble before an execution - and advise poorly resourced American defense lawyers.

22Sep2016
Crackdown Under Southern Border Plan Sends Migrants Into Dangerous Territory
Texas Observer
According to a new report, Mexico has provided few protections for refugees fleeing violence in the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Instead, Mexico has set up a massive deportation system that rarely offers political asylum.

22Sep2016
Walmart Being Sued for Bribing Mexican Government
Fortune
Walmart must face a class-action lawsuit accusing the world’s largest retailer of defrauding shareholders by concealing suspected bribery to help it expand faster in Mexico, a U.S. judge said.

22Sep2016
Practitioners and Researchers Seek to Preserve Medicinal Plants in Yucatan
TYT Newsroom
Specialists of the Center for Scientific Research of Yucatan along with doctors of traditional Mayan communities developed a plan to install orchards featuring the main varieties of plants that are considered medicinal for their study and conservation.

22Sep2016
Crossing Point: The Rise of Mexican Dance Culture
FACTmagazine
In Crossing Point, a new FACT documentary, Geoff Kirkwood and others try to unravel exactly what it is about the burgeoning club culture that is so magnetic.

22Sep2016
Where Is Mexico Going? The Obstacles in Its Rocky Road to Democracy
Oxford Research
Despite on-going changes, crime and corruption - both real and perceived - remain serious issues in Mexico.


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