January 2010
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Lead Mexican Investigator In The Slaying of El... →
The lead investigator in the slaying in Mexico of El Monte educator Agustin Roberto “Bobby” Salcedo has been killed in an ambush, officials said today.
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FMF Exec De La Torre: Mexico's Friendlies Are...
On Thursday, Mexico’s schedule leading up to the World Cup was announced. Only one African team is on the schedule before facing South Africa in the opening game of the World Cup 2010 in a game that will take place in the United States. Games that have a yet to be determined rival only have a few details to figure out. According to Nestor de la Torre some of the games in the United States will...
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To Be or Not To Be a Drug Trafficker: Modeling...
Income inequality, wages, law enforcement and abilities distribution determine who and why people becomes a trafficker.
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Violent deaths, kidnapping and extortion have spiked in Mexico’s border towns since 2004. Using a formal model and case studies from Mexico, I argue that such phenomena are partially explained by changes in the composition of illegal labor markets. Government...
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Hay Decepción en el Tema Migratorio
Era un poco antes de las 6:00 p.m. y el salón ya estaba repleto. Jornaleros, trabajadoras de casa, estudiantes, padres de familia y algunos curiosos se dieron cita para presenciarlo juntos: el discurso del estado que guarda la nación pronunciado por el presidente Barack Obama.
Ahí estaba Cayetano López, panadero del Valle de San Fernando, “para escuchar todos reunidos lo que dice sobre...
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Timeline for Immigration Reform is in Congress'...
Last night, President Obama spoke for seventy minutes on the State of our Union. About two of those minutes focused on one of the greatest challenges facing it.
The President talked of health care and jobs and our economy. That was the right thing to do. But the President must acknowledge that fixing our economy, providing health care, putting people back to work and moving America forward cannot...
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Oakland to Mexico
This past summer I went to La Palma, Michoacan in Mexico. Michoacan is one of the central Western states in Mexico, but La Palma is kind of more in the middle of the country. I was glad to get out of Oakland for the summer and excited to spend time with my family that I haven’t seen for eight years. I was also looking forward to just getting out of the United States for a little while because I...
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President Mentions Immigration Reform in State of...
Here is what President Barack Obama had to say about immigration reform in his first State of the Union address. The mention was so brief that we quote it here in its entirety:
We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system — to secure our borders, enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nations.
The...
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U.S. War Veterans Fight Deportation
Not even the most decorated and honorable military service can protect U.S. war veterans from ruthless immigration laws, which consider a long list of non-violent crimes as grounds for deportation. More and more cases have come to light of veterans who, after serving in this country’s Armed Forces and armed conflicts, get in trouble with the law when they come home and end up in deportation...
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The Rise and Fall of the La Raza Unida Party
Mexican-Americans made political history 40 years ago when, on Jan. 17, 1970, they founded their own independent political party in Crystal City, Texas. They called it “La Raza Unida Party” — or, translated, “The United People’s Party.” A look back at this party can give us clues about where we need to go today.
The call for an independent political party came out of...
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Schwarzenegger Proposes Mexican Jails Take US...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested the state could reduce prison spending by housing undocumented inmates in Mexican jails.
In comments made during a question and answer session, he seemed to suggest the prisons would be specially built.
Mr Schwarzenegger said the costs of building and running the prisons in Mexico would be half of California’s.
The state has one of...
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Doing the Math on Mexican Drug Wars
I am at the toll. Mexico is in front of me: the neighborhoods where the walls go unpainted; the fence, the patrollers, the river. I want to cross it to eat pulparindos, horchata and frijoles; to call my mother using a payphone that takes my pesos and has a Spanish-speaking operator; to buy the local gossip magazine. Home is 10 meters away.
But I am scared to cross the border.
My friend and...
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El Paso Astronaut Danny Olivas Named Honorary...
Astronaut John “Danny” Olivas this morning became an honorary U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Olivas, an El Paso native, was in town for a Border Patrol ceremony. The event was dedicated to the return of a Border Patrol flag taken into space aboard shuttle Discovery in August.
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a retired Border Patrol sector chief, gave the flag to Olivas. The banner will remain...
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WatchLaredo, TX: No Bookstore For City With a Quarter-Million People?
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Mexico President Race Could Look Like Soap Opera
They appear on the covers of society magazines flanked by their partners, soap-opera bombshells. They use street parties, cheerleaders and slick televised productions to tout their state-level accomplishments to a national audience.
Neither the mayor of Mexico’s biggest city nor the governor of its most populous state have confirmed their 2012 presidential ambitions, but already they are...
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Loopholes in US Law are Strengthening Cartels in...
Published on April 15, 2009
John Phillip Hernandez, a 24-year-old unemployed machinist who lived with his parents, walked into a giant sporting goods store here in July 2006, and plunked $2,600 in cash on a glass display counter. A few minutes later, Mr. Hernandez walked out with three military-style rifles.
One of those rifles was recovered seven months later in Acapulco, Mexico, where it...
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Is The Calderon Administration Protecting El Chapo...
Outsmarted by Sinaloa - Why The Biggest Drug Gang Has Been Least Hit
It might seem incongruous to see Felipe Calderón, who has bet his presidency on fighting organised crime, accused of sheltering Mexico’s top drug lord. Yet across the country banners hanging from highway overpasses suggest he is in cahoots with Joaquín El Chapo (“Shorty”) Guzmán—the leader of the Sinaloa “cartel” and,...
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Mexican Ruling Party [PAN] Proposes Ban On Songs...
A new proposal from Mexico’s ruling party could send musicians to prison for performing songs that glorify drug trafficking.
The law would bring prison sentences of up to three years for people who perform or produce songs or movies glamorizing criminals.
“Society sees drug ballads as nice, pleasant, inconsequential and harmless, but they are the opposite,” National Action...
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Did The Dems' Loss In Mass End Hopes Of...
Tuesday’s historic election in Massachusetts could spell trouble for Democrats, but advocates of immigration reform say it’s not over yet. By capturing the seat held by former Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy who passed away last summer, Republican Scott Brown brings a different vision to the historically blue state. While Kennedy was known as a champion of health care reform and was co-author of...
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¿Eres Mexicano?
Para los quien nacieron fuera de Mexico:
- via El Instituto de Investigaciones Juridacas de la UNAM
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WatchContacto Deportivo interview with Bernardo de la Garza of CONADE
For More Information: http://conade.gob.mx/ or at @conade
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Mexico Looks to US [Mexicans] to Find Future...
Mexican sports officials are searching for potential Olympic athletes in the United States with family links to Mexico who might eventually compete for the Latin American country.
Mexico’s sports minister Bernardo De la Garza said Wednesday that the first step in the identification process would be the so-called Mexican Games being held in Los Angeles in March. Competitions will be held...
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23 Fatalities In Mexico Prison Brawl
A prison riot between members of rival drug gangs broke out at an overcrowded state penitentiary in northern Mexico on Wednesday and authorities said 23 inmates were killed.
The riot at the prison in the state of Durango was the latest in a string of violent flareups in Mexico’s penal system, overstretched by the government’s war against narcotics traffickers.
Police said the fighting broke out...
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Flashback News Story - Immigrants Fighting Back,...
Published: October 21, 1996
This will seem like a rude question, but do those candidates who are campaigning against immigrants know what they are doing? More to the point, are they looking ahead, past, say, Nov. 5?
Maybe. Maybe they have calculated the odds and figure the votes are with them in electoral perpetuity.
Or maybe what is happening now in this country will someday stand out as the...
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Who Said Mexicans and Blacks Don't Get Along? -...
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous and the Monterey County Branch of the NAACP have joined the North Monterey Chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Civil Rights Coalition to condemn a string of racial profiling episodes in the coastal California county.
At a December 26th press conference, the organizations decried a recent countywide anti-gang crime...
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"Where were the Mexicans?" #ThinkMexican
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Nostalgia and Reality Collide In Mexico
Bobby Salcedo’s killing shattered the romantic image many Mexican Americans shared about their homeland. Some say they won’t go back; others refuse to give up hope or sever ties.
Bobby Salcedo grew up in El Monte, his immigrant parents staking the family’s future in the working-class suburb that felt worlds away from the Mexican farming towns of their roots.
But like so...
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Thousands March Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Several elementary and high school teachers were among the more than 1,000 participants in today’s protest march over the immigration methods of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Tim Broyles, a social-justice teacher at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, said a few students from the school came out to support their peers.
“There are kids in this group who deal with this...
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Are Monopolies Holding Mexico Back?
When Nafta took effect on Jan. 1, 1994, there was optimism in Mexico that the free trade accord, along with a raft of other market-based measures, would usher in growth and chip away at the country’s social inequalities. That never happened. Average annual growth in the 15 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement has been about 3 percent.
What went wrong with those forecasts? For...
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"I Feel Like A Real Mexican" #ThinkMexican - As...
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"Between Dominant Genes, and No Condoms, Mexicans...
Let’s Hope So!
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Labor’s Last Stand? A grassroots movement grows...
A grassroots movement grows after Mexico shuts down a national electric company.
MEXICO CITY—Following the surprise liquidation order of a state-owned electrical utility and the firing of 44,000 electricians, Mexico could face an assault on unionism as President Felipe Calderon’s administration seeks to remove barriers to corporate profits and privatize nationalized electricity and oil...
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Mexico Corn Contamination: How Monsanto &...
‘I don’t want to be a martyr by any means, but I cannot avoid now realizing that this is a very, very well concerted and coordinated ad paid for campaign to discredit the very simple statement that we made.’ - Ignaco Chapela ‘Current gene-containment strategies cannot wok reliably in the field.’ - Nature Biotechnology, Editorial [1] In the autumn of 2000 a graduate...
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Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study...
In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.
According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Shake at Twilight Earth, “Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn - Mon 863,...