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MEXICO: Risk of Exotic Pets Morphing into Invasive Pests
Turtles, frogs, toads and many kinds of birds are imported into Mexico as pets by the thousands every year, but they constitute an environmental and economic threat when they are invasive exotic species.MEXICO: Local Media in the Line of Fire
It is open season on local media in states and cities in the interior of Mexico, which are virtually unprotected against violent attack and have been the worst hit by the murders of at least eight journalists this year.MEXICO: Autonomous Triqui Community Wary of New State Government
The autonomous indigenous Triqui community of San Juan Copala, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, is maintaining a cautious attitude towards the state government to take power after winning Sunday's elections.AMERICAS: We Need Sustainable Development Banks, Say NGOs
Non-governmental organisations from across the Americas are demanding that the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank institute policies that favour sustainable energy and help mitigate climate change.MEXICO: Laws Criminalising HIV Transmission Are Discriminatory
In 30 of Mexico's 32 states there are laws penalising transmission of HIV, the AIDS virus, which are regarded by experts as discriminatory and ineffective in curbing the epidemic.MEXICO: More Soldiers in the Streets, More Violence
The Mexican army's participation in the counternarcotics war led by the government of conservative President Felipe Calderón has triggered a jump in violence in the areas where the troops are on the ground, according to an analysis by a U.S. statistics expert.MEXICO: Torture – Routine and Uninvestigated
While the Mexican government defends the use of the military in its counter-drug offensive, human rights organisations report that the use of torture against local police officers and others arrested in the war on drugs has become routine.
Ixtoc Disaster Holds Clues to Evolution of an Oil Spill
On a spring day in the Gulf of Mexico, a pipe issuing from the sea floor ruptured, sending an explosion rippling up to the drilling platform above and spewing oil into the surrounding waters. Experts scrambled to seal off the ever-increasing mass of oil by capping the pipe, clogging it or covering it. Nothing worked.LATIN AMERICA: Predatory Harvests
Industrial-scale monoculture farming is violating the human rights to adequate food and housing, as well as labour, territorial and environmental rights in Latin America, according to a report released Monday in the Mexican capital.MEXICO: Playing Political Football
The Mexican government and capital city authorities are making the most of the national football team's participation in the FIFA World Cup beginning Friday in South Africa, by using the sport's power to distract public attention away from the economic crisis and the violent battle against drug trafficking.MEXICO: Humanitarian Convoy Braves Risk of Attack
Despite the threat of armed attack, a second humanitarian convoy is attempting to break through a paramilitary blockade of the Triqui indigenous village of San Juan Copala in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.MEXICO: Civil Society Divided Ahead of Climate Summit
With less than six months before Mexico hosts the next global climate change summit, Mexican environmental organisations hosting the parallel civil society forum are divided on how to carry it out -- which some fear could ultimately weaken their role at the negotiating table.Mexico’s Papagayo River Still Flowing
The Papagayo river in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero is still flowing, and local communities opposed to construction of a massive hydroelectric dam are making every effort to keep things that way, as reflected in a documentary about their struggle.MEXICO: Parents’ Fight for Justice Continues a Year After Nursery Fire
From the moment he wakes up each morning, Abraham Fraijo feels the absence of his daughter Emilia, one of the 49 children who died Jun. 5, 2009, in a fire at the ABC child-care centre in the northwestern Mexican city of Hermosillo. It is the battle for justice that keeps him going.RIGHTS: Mexico Ignores Inter-American Court Rulings
Six months after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down two sentences against the Mexican state, one of them linked to the wave of murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, little has been done to comply with the rulings.
Banning Junk Foods in Mexico’s Schools to Fight Obesity
Consumer organisations and experts say the Mexican government's plan to remove junk food from schools is a step in the right direction in the fight against obesity in this country, which has the highest rate of childhood obesity in the world, and the second highest rate for adults, after the United States.MEXICO: Optimism and Unease as Census Begins
The 100,000 pollsters who will begin knocking on doors throughout Mexico Sunday for the national census will likely face a population hesitant to provide personal information. They may also run into the drug violence that plagues some areas of the country.MEXICO: Murders Strengthen Resolve of Autonomous Indigenous Community
"We feel defenceless, but we're going to return to San Juan Copala and accompany the family of our dead friend and colleague," Jorge Albino, spokesperson for his autonomous village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS Friday.MEXICO: O’odham Nation Fights Toxic Waste Dump
The Tohono O'odham indigenous people are counting the days to the October expiry date of the permit granted to a toxic waste management company for a landfill dump in their territory, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
Can Amaranth Fix Mexico’s Dual Dietary Disasters?
Supporters of amaranth have been trying for decades to bring this millennia-old grain back from oblivion. Known for its high nutritional content, it is now being promoted as a way to help modern-day Mexico confront two of its dietary ills: malnutrition and obesity.Football Fortunes for Mexican TV
Horacio Ramos is not bothered about paying an extra 50 dollars on his television subscription so that he can watch the entire FIFA World Cup, which kicks off Jun. 11 in South Africa.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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