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MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.RIGHTS-MEXICO: Military Abuses Brought to Inter-American Commission
A case of rights abuses allegedly committed by the Mexican armed forces is coming up for a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), where it joins a long list of accusations against the army in this Latin American country.MEXICO: Int’l Tribunal ‘Scandalised’ by Denials of Workers’ Rights
On the day his trade union section held elections for officials, "our offices were occupied, damaged and ransacked" by thugs from the executive committee of the National Teachers Union (SNTE), said Mexican teacher Gerardo Cruz, a leader in the CNTE, a dissident caucus seeking reform within the union.MEXICO: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack, UN Warns
Gustavo de la Rosa, head of the Ciudad Juárez office of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission in northern Mexico, was forced to flee to El Paso, across the border in the United States, and take refuge there for nearly a month, because of death threats related to his work.
MEXICO: Indigenous Enterprises Unite
Mexico is about to become the first Latin American country with an indigenous chamber of business, dedicated to promoting and representing more than one million micro and small enterprises that are on the frontline in the fight against poverty.
Indigenous Enterprises Unite
In two years an inventory will be complete, tracking the economic and social status of indigenous businesses in Mexico, which will soon have their own umbrella organization.MEXICO: Fair Trade Will Become Major Trend, Say Growers
Thanks to fair trade, Jorge Cetz - a lemon and mango grower from the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche - has gained access to markets and organised his cooperative better. But in order to enhance results under this form of sustainable production and alternative marketing, more support is needed, he said.ENERGY: Crisis Has Hurt Investment in Renewables
In Latin America, Brazil is the leader in the development of renewable energies, while nations like Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina are taking slow steps to change their energy mix.
MEXICO: Rural Poverty Has a Woman's Face
Some transformations occur so imperceptibly that people only become aware of them when the new reality has set in. That’s exactly what happened in Mexico’s countryside, where economic and social conditions have combined to put rural production largely in the hands of women.MEXICO: Black Minority Invisible in Bicentennial Plans
Mexico has big plans for celebrating its 200th anniversary of independence from Spain next year. But Mexicans of African descent are as invisible in those plans as they are in everyday life.
ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Drowning in Garbage
The same thing could happen to the people of Mexico City as in the Pixar blockbuster Wall-E, where the human species has abandoned earth because it is covered with garbage, and a trash collecting robot has been left to clean up.
MEXICO: The Goal: Not a Drop Wasted
In his novel "México sediento" (Mexico in a Drought), author Francisco Moreno postulated that drought would lead to war in 2010, just as water shortages helped trigger the fight for Mexico's independence from Spain in 1810 and the Mexican Revolution in 1910.RIGHTS-MEXICO: Wrongly Imprisoned Native Woman Released
"I cried a lot, I couldn't believe I was in prison. The day I was put in jail, I never thought I would be there for a long time," an indigenous market vendor, Jacinta Francisco, said Thursday in Mexico after she was released from prison, where she spent three years for a crime she did not commit.
The Goal: Not a Drop Wasted
A variety of new methods for making best use of rainwater are being tested in Mexico, which faces water shortages that will only grow worse in the coming decades.LATIN AMERICA: "The More Guns, the More Violence"
Traffic in light weapons and small arms is one of Latin America's major disarmament concerns, because they fuel urban violence, especially in countries like Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil.MEXICO: Priests Targeted in Drug-Related and Other Violence
The priesthood has joined journalism as one of the most dangerous occupations in Mexico, according to a report by the Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference.
MEXICO: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
Mexico is beginning to take on the environmental debts left by the oil industry, applying biological techniques to break down alcohols, solvents, glycerines, gasoline, benzene and acetone, turning them into carbon dioxide and water.RIGHTS-MEXICO: Slow Progress Against Human Trafficking
Despite progress in bringing Mexican law into compliance with the international treaty against human trafficking, little has been achieved so far in this country in terms of prosecutions and convictions of traffickers, protection of victims and prevention of this increasingly widespread crime, says a new report released in the Mexican capital Thursday.
Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
Biological remediation costs 80 to 150 dollars per cubic meter of soil in Mexico, where such methods are increasingly studied and applied to clean up contaminated land.MEXICO: Rights Groups Protest Release of US Anti-Drug Funds
Human rights groups criticised the decision by the U.S. Congress to release a portion of the funds for the Mérida Initiative – an anti-drug aid package – to Mexico despite concern over accusations that the army has committed serious human rights violations in the fight against drugs.MEXICO: States Tighten Already Restrictive Abortion Laws
Alejandra Gómez is facing prosecution in the southern Mexican state of Puebla for having an abortion. The 20-year-old's case is symptomatic of a wave of anti-abortion legal reforms adopted by a number of states in this country.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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