24Apr2016
Do Mexico's Gender Alerts Do Anything to Reduce Violence Against Women?
El Daily Post
Mexican states can declare so-called gender alerts to implement enhanced protection and investigation efforts when violence against women and girls, especially femicide, reaches crisis proportions. Sounds like a good idea, but there are questions.

23Apr2016
Deputies Approve Law Allowing Military Searches of Private Homes, Government Offices
Aristegui Noticias
The Chamber of Deputies approved an amendment to the Code of Military Justice, where in cases of organized crime, homicide or serious and violent crimes with firearms and explosives, can issue a search warrant for private homes, government offices and the two chambers of Congress.

23Apr2016
Dinosaurs Were Declining Long Before Asteroid Hit on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Associated Press
Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the asteroid impact that finally wiped them out, scientists have found.

23Apr2016
A Protestant Awakening in Mexico: Movement Focused on Material Needs Is Displacing Catholicism
PanAm Post
The recent expansion of Protestantism throughout Latin America has been of great interest to anthropologists studying religion, as Protestantism in all its forms has increasingly become a formidable contender in the “market” for Latin Americans’ souls.

23Apr2016
With One Vote, the UN Entrenches an Illegal Global Drug Trade Worth Billions of Dollars
Antillean
For a brief moment, it appeared that good sense would prevail, and the international community would ditch the failed ‘war on drugs’ policy. But all hopes were dashed at the United Nations General Assembly special session on drugs in New York.

23Apr2016
Company Tries to Bring Gender Equality Into Mexico's Construction Industry
Agencia EFE
In five years, a construction company in Mexico was able to raise the participation rate of women in its workforce to 8 percent.

23Apr2016
Rebuilt Rippin' Rooster Returns to Mexican 1000
Hot Rod
In 2015, the Baja peninsula nearly destroyed Jim Riley’s 1957 Chevy, but it’s rebuilt and he’s back for the 2016 Mexican 1000.

23Apr2016
Human Rights Defenders Say They Are Target of Mexican Smear Campaign
ProPublica
On the eve of the release of a report investigating a student massacre in 2014, its authors and other human rights advocates fear an attempt to pre-empt the findings and discredit the work.


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