23Apr2013
Solar-Powered Plane Completes Test Flight
Associated Press
A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe took to the skies last week over the San Francisco Bay area in a successful test flight.

23Apr2013
Parents in Guerrero Plan Own Classes as Teachers' Strikes Grow
WSJ.com
Parents in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero are setting up their own classes as thousands of teachers protesting a revamp of the country's education system have closed schools and taken to the streets, in the first significant challenge to overhauls undertaken by President Enrique Pena Nieto.

23Apr2013
The Plight of the 'Bravest Woman in Mexico'
World Policy
It was a Rosa Parks moment - a soft-spoken hero and mother standing up to violence. Just taking the job was a courageous act that said enough is enough. An international media frenzy followed.

23Apr2013
'Medical Repatriation': US Hospitals Send Hundreds of Immigrants Back Home
Associated Press
In interviews with immigrants, their families, attorneys and advocates, The Associated Press reviewed the obscure process known formally as "medical repatriation," which allows hospitals to put patients on chartered international flights, often while they are still unconscious.

23Apr2013
Teachers in Guerrero, Mexico Take to the Streets With Sticks and Pipes
The Global Mail
In many countries, teacher trade unions are seen as a less confrontational force than physical workers such as miners. But here in Mexico, educators are blocking roads, shutting shopping centers and taking on the police.

22Apr2013
President Obama to Find New Foreign-Policy Challenge in Mexico Next Week
McClatchy Newspapers
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico next week, the new government there looks to reboot a joint effort to combat violent drug traffickers, worries about piecemeal efforts in the United States to legalize marijuana and hopes to rebuild frayed relations with Cuba.

22Apr2013
President Enrique Pena Nieto Makes Time's Most-Influential List
The News
President Enrique Pena Nieto is one of the 100 most influential people of 2013, according to Time magazine. Time published its annual power list last week, dividing people into Breakouts, Pioneers, Moguls, Leaders and Icons.

22Apr2013
Breaking Down the Gang of Eight's US Immigration Bill (Infographic)
HuffPost Latino
The US Senate's "Gang of Eight" released details of its immigration reform legislation last week, so the Urban Institute updated its earlier infographic comparing the White House's immigration blueprint to the Senate bill.


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