04Feb2013 | Study Finds Incentive Price for Reducing HIV Risk Behaviors in Mexico Brown University Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved health care, increased HIV testing, and reduced sexually transmitted infections. |
04Feb2013 | Human Rights Activists Say Popular Trials in Indigenous Communities are Legitimate La Jornada Popular trials held in indigenous communities of the Costa Chica region of Guerrero is part of a process of recovering the traditional regulatory systems of indigenous peoples following the failure and corruption of the Western legal model, said activists of civil society organizations. |
04Feb2013 | Mexico City Rises Up Against GMO Corn Plantations The International Last week, a nation-wide peasant organization converged on Mexico City to begin a sit-in and hunger strike to protest two industrial corn plantation projects that have been proposed by U.S. based multinational agribusiness corporations Monsanto and Pioneer. |
04Feb2013 | Experts Say Widespread Corruption Amongst Mexican Police is Tolerated Hispanically Speaking News Police officers renting their patrol cars and uniforms to criminals, and paying supervisors for a particular beat are some of the common corrupt practices that occur in Mexico, where there is widespread social acceptance of corruption, experts said. |
04Feb2013 | Undocumented Migrants Back in Mexico Hope to Someday Return to US The Guardian UK They were raised in America but came of age in a broken immigration system. For many, long since returned to Mexico, change will come too late to build the lives they once planned. |
04Feb2013 | 12-Year-Old 'Assassin': Youth Involvement in Mexico's Conflict InSight A Mexican boy, speaking at a community tribunal, recounted his gang experience in the country’s Guerrero state, is just one example of Mexican youth’s vulnerability to involvement in violent organized crime. |
04Feb2013 | The Cool Kid in Cabo San Lucas: Capella Pedregal Forbes Capella Pedregal sits on the southernmost tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. Encompassing 24 spectacular mountainside and oceanfront acres, the luxury resort rests at the very point where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez, near the legendary rock formations known as Land's End. |
04Feb2013 | Dirty Energy: The Oil Spill Documentary that BP Definitely Didn't Sponsor Cinema Libre Studio The film explores the human cost of having millions of gallons of oil and toxic dispersant in the ecosystem, and exposes the management failure of BP and the U.S. Government in the clean up, which will affect the world’s oceans and rivers for generations. |
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