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RELIGION-MEXICO: Legion of Christ Scandal Escalates
A new scandal has increased the pressure on the conservative religious order Legion of Christ, one of the most influential in the Catholic Church, to compensate the victims of alleged sexual abuse by its founder, Mexican priest Marcial Maciel, and carry out internal reforms.LATIN AMERICA: Canada Moves to Oversee Mining Firms
Amidst allegations that Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America have been complicit in the murders and harassment of activists, several positive developments in Canada are seen as a source of hope that firms may begin to be held accountable on human rights and environmental questions.RIGHTS-MEXICO: “Yes, I Do” Want a Same-Sex Marriage Licence
Emma Villanueva and her partner lined up at the civil registry office in the Mexican capital to register for a marriage licence Thursday, the day that Latin America's first same-sex marriage law went into effect.MEXICO: Ecological Smoke from Fuel Efficient Stoves
The lives of many rural women and children in Mexico are changing, and the country's high deforestation rate could be reduced, as inexpensive fuel-efficient cook stoves are being distributed by non-governmental organisations with corporate and government support.LATIN AMERICA: Mexico Dusts Off Leadership Role
Below the surface, discussions about the international aid effort for Haiti hide undercover jockeying for position between Latin American countries wishing to consolidate or attain dominance in the Caribbean region.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Glass Half Empty
The countries of Latin America have made progress in terms of access to clean water and sanitation, but have failed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, says a new United Nations report.RIGHTS-MEXICO: Reporters, Activists Demand State Protection
Journalists and human rights activists in Mexico are frantically seeking a mechanism to protect them from attacks related to their work, but the state has been slow to respond. The Colombian model might provide a solution.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun’s Rays
It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.MEXICO: Street Stalls, Web Visible Face of Neo-Nazism
Street stalls in the centre of the Mexican capital openly display books and publications that are sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, indicating that there is public demand for such items.MEXICO: Women – Casualties in Army’s Counternarcotics War
Human rights organisations in Mexico and the United States sounded the alarm about abuses against women by the Mexican armed forces in the context of the government's all-out offensive against drug trafficking in the border state of Chihuahua.MEXICO: Journalists’ Options – Silence, Exile or the Grave
Journalists are the target of such violence in Mexico that many have been forced to seek refuge in the United States, or to give up their profession. And the outlook at the start of this year is even grimmer for media workers in this country.MEXICO: Activists Worried About “Secret” Internet Treaty
An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn.ECONOMY-MEXICO: A Tough Year Ahead
Steep price hikes for goods and services and higher taxes foreshadow a new year fraught with economic difficulties for most Mexicans.MEXICO: Green Light for Gay Marriage, Adoption in Capital
The Mexican capital's local parliament has authorised marriage between same-sex partners, a measure covering the eight million people in Mexico City proper. Adoption by gay couples will also be allowed.MEXICO: Rights Court Holds State Responsible in Forced Disappearance
Tita Radilla's last memory of her father Rosendo was when he came to say good-bye, because he was leaving for a nearby city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The next day he disappeared at a military checkpoint. That was in August 1974.MEXICO: Military Anti-Drug Offensive Is “War Against the People”
"They came to my house and spent an hour going around from neighbour to neighbour, drilling them for information, knowing full well there was nothing there. They just wanted to harass us," Mercedes Murillo told IPS, describing a night raid by soldiers.CULTURE-IBEROAMERICA: Women MisPrized
"The judges are usually men, and they tend to prefer men's writing," Mexican journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska, a perennial candidate for the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, said with a note of resignation in her voice.LABOUR-MEXICO: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
A group of workers in Honduras managed to prevent the closure of an assembly plant manufacturing sportswear for the U.S.-based sports apparel maker Russell Athletic, thereby saving 1,200 jobs.RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juarez Killings
The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.MEXICO: DNA Tool to Trace Missing Kids
Andrea C. was eight years old when two unidentified women took her from her home in a neighbourhood on the north side of the Mexican capital, in September 2005. Four years later, she is still missing.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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