12Dec2012
New Report Finds Two-Thirds of Mexico's Workforce has Informal Jobs
Associated Press
A report by Mexico's government says that about 60 per cent of economically active people in the country are employed in informal jobs with no contract and few or no benefits.

12Dec2012
Mexican-American Superstar Jenni Rivera Fought For Women, Immigrants and LGBT Youth
ColorLines
Jenni Rivera was someone who stood up for what she believed in, most notably the rights of those who have experienced domestic and sexual abuse. She never held back and oftentimes she found herself in the center of controversies.

12Dec2012
Bill Clinton Joins World Leaders in Declaring Drug War Failure
ThinkProgress.org
Former President Bill Clinton and a number of other world leaders are declaring the “War on Drugs” a failure in a new documentary about the remarkable violence, illegal activity and mass incarceration caused by worldwide drug prohibition.

12Dec2012
Six Healthy Ingredients in Mexican Food
Care2.com
Low-fat Mexican recipes need not be an oxymoron! Ditch the salt, cheese and cream, and get more of these super-healthy ingredients on your plate.

12Dec2012
Parents of Ex-US Marine Jailed in Mexico Say He's Losing Hope
Reuters
The mother of a former U.S. Marine jailed in a notoriously violent corner of northern Mexico said on Monday that her son was losing hope after being arrested in August for possessing a shotgun that was a family heirloom.

12Dec2012
Maria Susana Flores Gamez: Mexico's Beauty Queens and Narcos
VOXXI
Maria Susana Flores Gamez, who was voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant, was killed in northern Mexico during a running gun battle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with. What was Maria Susana Flores Gamez doing with drug traffickers?

11Dec2012
Gay Rights Activists Celebrate Legal Victory in Streets of Oaxaca
VideoTopNews
Last week Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that a law banning gay marriages in Oaxaca was unconstitutional. The law paves the way for same-sex couples to marry in that state and elsewhere in the country.

11Dec2012
Environmentalists Want To Keep Oil Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Wait, What?
Smithsonian.com
Rather than being left to rot or become a source of dangerous debris in the wake of a storm, old oil rigs are to be pulled from the sea. The oil companies are okay with the plan. Fighting this plan, however, are the fishermen who work in the Gulf and the environmentalists who strive to protect it.


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