29Jan2013
Global Insider: Mexico's New Intelligence Agency Part of Changed Approach to Drug Violence
Global Insider
Mexico’s new administration recently announced it would create a new national intelligence agency as part of a broader reform of the country’s security sector. Agnes Gereben Schaefer explains the need for a new Mexican intelligence agency.

29Jan2013
Boy Scouts Set to Consider Lifting Ban on Gay Youths, Leaders in Their Organization
USA TODAY
As early as next week, the Boy Scouts of America may announce it will allow gay Scouts and troop leaders, a spokesman for the group has told USA TODAY.

28Jan2013
Frenchwoman Florence Cassez's Prison Release Sparks Anger in Mexico
BBC
A Frenchwoman jailed in Mexico in 2007 for 60 years for kidnapping has been freed, after the Supreme Court ruled her rights had been violated. But not everyone is celebrating the release of Florence Cassez, as the BBC's Will Grant reports from Mexico.

28Jan2013
US Senators Unveil Framework for Effective Immigration Reform
Immigration Impact
Today, a bipartisan group of eight Senators unveiled a new set of comprehensive immigration reform principles, adding to the growing body of evidence that legislation to fix our nation’s broken immigration system is not only necessary, but possible.

28Jan2013
Quarter of Mexican Junior High Students Want to Grow Up to be Gangsters
Maclean's
A recent survey of 1,400 junior-high school students in eight Mexican states found that more than 26 per cent of respondents aspired to careers as “narcos” (drug dealers) or “sicarios” - their toughs.

28Jan2013
Juarez Street Dog Finds New Life in San Diego as Charity Ambassador
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Pancho, a onetime street dog from Ciudad Juarez moved to San Diego last week, launching into his new life as goodwill ambassador for charities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

28Jan2013
New 'Stop and Frisk'? NYPD to Begin Testing High-Tech Device that Scans Weapons
DrugWar191
The Terahertz Imaging Detection machine reads terahertz, radioactive energy that people and inanimate objects naturally emit. This would allow police officers to view hidden weapons from a distance without having to conduct a physical search.

28Jan2013
The Los Angeles Times: Stem the Flow of Guns to Mexico
The Los Angeles Times
Lax controls allow the easy flow of guns across the border and undermine U.S. efforts to combat drug trafficking and transnational gangs, says the LATimes' editorial staff.


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