10Feb2013
Poverty Increases, Capital Becomes More Concentrated in Mexico
Prensa Latina
As poverty increases, some 203,000 investors share 40 percent of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the newspaper La Jornada.

10Feb2013
Report Faults US Companies Use of Mexican Battery Recyclers
The New York Times
United States companies are sending spent lead batteries to recycling plants in Mexico that do not meet American environmental standards, according to an environmental agency created under the North American Free Trade Agreement, putting Mexican communities at risk.

10Feb2013
Food Insecurity: Five Ways to Help Fight Hunger Around the World
TakePart
Hunger, also known as food insecurity, is currently undermining the lives of people in almost every nation on Earth, including the United States. You can directly share food with someone who needs it, or pick one of five more ways to combat the global hunger crisis.

10Feb2013
Oft-Deported Mexican Migrants Keep Trying to Cross Along Tougher US Border
The Washington Post
For Mexican men with wives, children and former jobs in the United States, the “Whisper Trail” across a rugged stretch of border heavily patrolled by U.S. officers remains their best hope of resuming their former lives.

09Feb2013
Mexican Officials Ignore Commission's GMO Forum
The Yucatan Times
The Mexican Government plans to authorize the planting of millions of hectares of transgenic corn. Several communities and networks from Oaxaca, Mexico have declared 2013 the Year of Resistance Against Transgenic Maize and The Defense of Native Maize.

09Feb2013
Michael Costello: A Better Alternative to Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
stltoday.com
As Washington negotiates a tortuous path to citizenship for the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, the United States could consider a better alternative. Add a free movement of people provision to the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada.

09Feb2013
Mexican Left Calls on President Obama to Halt Raids and Stop Deportations
Hispanically Speaking News
Mexico’s left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, called on U.S. President Barack Obama‘s administration to halt raids and deportations while an immigration overhaul plan that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented migrants “is debated and approved.”

09Feb2013
Former Drug Addict Makes Film that Warns Teens About Drug Cartel Recruitment
The Fix
A Texas law enforcement official and former drug addict who once "ran with the Mexican drug cartels" has produced a film to caution American teens about the dangers of drug cartel recruitment.


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