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MEXICO: Acrobatics for At-Risk Children
Learning to do aerial acrobatics has not only helped 13-year-old Atenas Padilla overcome her fear of heights, but also to become more tolerant and creative.MEXICO: “They’re Killing Us Anyway”
"Fuera Ecoltec!" (Get out Ecoltec!) protesters chanted in a demonstration Sunday in the Mexican town of Apaxco, one year after the start of a community blockade of a toxic waste processing plant run by a Swiss company.MEXICO: Oil Spill Fuels Debate on Environmental Safety
The spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has highlighted the urgent need for stricter environmental rules and standards for deep sea oil rigs.Pope Rewrites Epitaph for Legion of Christ Founder
The Vatican's decision to appoint a special delegate to run the Legion of Christ and to set up a commission to look into the order after more than a decade of allegations of sexual abuse by its founder has shaken the powerful ultraconservative Catholic order established in Mexico.MEXICO: Terror Returns to Oaxaca
A violent incident in which two activists were killed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has raised fears among human rights groups of a return to the unrest and severe clashes between protesters and police that virtually paralysed the state in 2006.Mexico, Journey of Terror for Central American Migrants
"The fifth time I tried to get to the United States I left Guatemala, crossed the border into Mexico, and on a bus I was assaulted by five police officers," Guatemalan migrant José Donis said Wednesday.Mexico on the Alert Over Massive Oil Spill
Mexico is gearing up for the environmental effects of the oil spill caused by last week's sinking of a BP-owned deepwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana.Bitter Taste in Mexican Coffee Farmers’ Mouths
A Turkish proverb says "coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." But growers of the more expensive arabica coffee beans in Mexico are more concerned with a government plan to promote the cheaper robusta beans than with poetic maxims.MEXICO-US: Shrimp Caught Up in Environmental Restrictions
By the time the shrimp season opens again in the fall, Mexico's fleet hopes to have regained certification to export shrimp harvested on the open sea to the United States, which it lost Tuesday. To do so, shrimpers will have to prove they meet sea turtle protection standards.MEXICO: Rights Activists Face Threats, Arbitrary Detention – and Worse
Francisco Jiménez, a member of the National Committee of Rural and Fishing Unions (CONORP) was arrested on Apr. 7 in the Mexican capital by agents from the southern state of Chiapas in what activists say is another case of arbitrary detention.MEXICO-CHINA: Trade Winds from the East
China has replaced Mexico as the top supplier of goods to the United States, and experts say that a specific trade strategy is needed for this Latin American country to compete successfully with Beijing in the U.S. market, the world's largest.TRADE-MEXICO: Steely Protectionism Duel with U.S.
In spite of all the talk about free market policies, the U.S. and Mexican governments have imposed anti-dumping penalties on each other in attempts to protect their metal working and steel industries.LATIN AMERICA: Controversial ‘Man Jesus Christ’ Pulls in Followers
"Abba, father," call out the people gathered in the meeting hall. They raise up their hands and stare enraptured at a television screen, where they are addressed by their spiritual leader, José Luis de Jesús Miranda, or as he calls himself, "the Man Jesus Christ."MEXICO: Soundtrack to Violence
"What a sad childhood Juanito had/ when shooting started in his barrio/ he was left lying on the ground/ so young/ he went to his grave".HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Complains of Scant Progress by Mexico
Mexico has failed to make significant progress on human rights issues like violence against women, abuses by military troops involved in policing work, and attacks on journalists, the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated Friday.LATIN AMERICA: IDB Agrees to Reforms, But NGOs Will Keep Up Pressure
Although social organisations in the region got the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to agree to a process of internal reforms, there are still doubts about how the changes will be reflected in the multilateral lender's new strategy.MEXICO: Kidnapping – A Growing Risk for Central American Migrants
The increase in kidnappings of Central American migrants crossing Mexico on their way to the United States will be brought up at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) current session next Monday.LATIN AMERICA: NGOs Demand Transparency, Reforms in IDB
Dozens of civil society organisations in the Americas are demanding greater transparency and accountability as well as structural reforms in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), ahead of the multilateral lender's annual meeting of governors that starts Friday in the Mexican resort of Cancún.MEXICO: Music and Dance Classes Foster Tolerance, Self-Esteem
Ten-year-old Jessica Algoneda leaps in the air, raising her arms and spinning around at her primary school in the Mexican capital, as if in honour of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and poetry.MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive
Mexican consumers are currently facing a combination of price rises, economic recession and lack of legal protection in the face of abuses committed by providers of goods and services.ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder
Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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