23May2016
Threatened by Violence, This Woman Found Refuge in a UN Refugee Center in Mexico
UN Dispatch
This is a powerful story of a woman who was turned into a refugee because of gang violence in her Central American country.

22May2016
Bitcoin Available in Mexican Convenience Stores
The Merkle
Bitso and Zmart Group have teamed up to offer the digital currency at retailers across Mexico.

22May2016
Mysterious Roar and Light in the Sky Wake Residents of Mexican City
Agence France-Presse
Residents in a Mexican city woke in fright before dawn on Saturday to bright light in the sky and then a thunderous noise, fearing a nearby volcano had suddenly erupted.

22May2016
Tough-Talking Former Top Cop Wants to be Tijuana's Next Mayor
San Diego Union-Tribune
A year after an assailant’s bullets left him paralyzed from the waist down, the tough-minded ex-police chief Julian Leyzaola Perez is back in the public eye. But instead of chasing suspects, he’s pursuing votes.

22May2016
GPS Provision of Torture Law Unlikely to Limit Mexico Police Abuses
InSight Crime
Mexico's proposal to use GPS tracking to prevent torture by security officials is another example of unnecessarily elaborate fixes to simple but intractable problems.

21May2016
El Chapo Escaped Prison with Help from 'Highest Levels of Mexican Government'
PanAm Post
The “Queen of the Pacific” Sandra Avila Beltran said in an interview this week that she was not surprised Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman managed to escape the Altiplano prison in July 2015, as “money buys everything in Mexico.”

21May2016
Virtual Reality Investigation Reveals the Horrors of Mexico Factory Farms
Green Is the New Red
Through the technology of VR we get a fuller range of sight into the life of an animal raised for slaughter.

21May2016
Government Fires Thousands of Striking Teachers, Force from Protest Camp
teleSUR
Mexico's secretary of education said that more than three thousand teachers from the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan would be fired for missing three consecutive days of work without justification, despite the fact the teachers have missed work as a result of being on strike.


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