04Jul2013
More Meth from Mexico Being Seized at San Diego Ports of Entry
KPBS San Diego
More than 70 percent of the meth seized in the U.S. is made in Mexico. That’s despite Mexico’s own attempts to curb its production.

04Jul2013
Seth Holmes: On This 4th of July, Not Everyone Dreams the American Dream
New America Media
Most of us assume the American dream is universal, that everyone wants the specifically American rags-to-riches story told ubiquitously from Horatio Alger in the 19th century to contemporary soap operas. But who dreams this American dream and who does not?

04Jul2013
Mexican NGOs Launch Anti-Obesity Campaign
EFE
A coalition of civic groups is asking Mexicans to use social networks to condemn ads for junk food and sugary soft drinks that many blame for rampant childhood obesity in the Aztec nation.

04Jul2013
Pastors for Peace On the Road Again to Challenge US Blockade of Cuba
ACN
Nearly 100 activists from across the United States, Canada and Mexico will travel to Cuba onboard the 24th Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan, which will first tour 35 cities in the US, Canada and Mexico.

04Jul2013
Indigenous Oaxacan Political Prisoners Caught in the Drug War Prison Boom
Upside Down World
After spending nearly 17 years in the same prison cell just outside of Oaxaca City, seven indigenous Loxicha political prisoners were transferred this month - twice.

03Jul2013
2013 US Southwest Border Strategy Calls for More Cooperation with Mexico
InSight
The White House's newly released 2013 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy continues the Obama administration's shift towards training, institution building, and civil society investment, and calls for deepening cooperation between the two countries, despite recent tensions.

03Jul2013
Politics of Pot: Marijuana Goes Mainstream While Policymakers Reluctant to Deal with It
USA Today
Dramatic shifts in public opinion about marijuana legalization are forcing both lawmakers and the public to deal with clashing federal and state policies.

03Jul2013
If You Had to Live in a Mexican Dump, Wouldn't You Try to Flee, Too?
Diocese of Salt Lake City
The Nogales, Mexico, dump is not only a workplace, it is home for more than 100 people who live in shacks cobbled together from the garbage that surrounds them. It is a neighborhood with men, women, children, grandmothers all working the same job – sorting garbage for materials to sell.


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