08Feb2016 | Indigenous Communities in Mexico Exercise Their Autonomy to Defend Their Lands Global Voices Like Cheran, Michoacan, and the Zapatista Caracoles of Chiapas, the Natho community of Huitzizilapan have exercised their sovereignty and voted to form their own communal assembly. |
08Feb2016 | 'The Revenant' Director Alejandro Inarritu Scoops DGA Award, as Oscars Near Euronews Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the Mexican director of Oscars favorite ‘The Revenant’, has become the first person to win the Director’s Guild Awards’ top prize two years in a row. |
08Feb2016 | Let Mexico's Narcos be Damned. Tequila Billionaires Plan a 5-Star Tourist Mecca Bloomberg The name says it. The town of Tequila in the state of Jalisco is where it all started. So why not turn it into a ritzy tourist attraction, with five-star hotels? The owners of the Jose Cuervo brands are looking to do just that. |
08Feb2016 | Luis Pazos: Mexico's Reform of Its Federal District Is 'Negative and Banal' MexiData.info The recent political reform, which involves creating another Constitution and changing the name to the Federal District (D.F.) to Mexico City, is another example of the ease the political parties have to tamper with the Constitution through pacts or protagonism, with no benefit to the citizenry. |
08Feb2016 | In Guerrero's Mountains, Villagers Sow the Opium Poppies That Feed the US Heroin Boom Agence France-Presse Deep in the southern mountains of Mexico, Jorge slices the bulbs with a razor blade, releasing a sticky paste - the raw material of a growing heroin epidemic feeding addicts in the United States and fueling violence in Mexico. |
07Feb2016 | Vigilante Protagonist of an Oscar-Nominated Drug War Movie Speaks from a Mexican Jail VICE News Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles, the leader of the Self-Protection Police of Tepalcatepec, Michoacan state, is currently languishing in prison, while the movie that he has never seen is in the running for an Oscar. |
07Feb2016 | Home Broadband Services Said in the Works in Cuba LatinOne Certain parts of Cuba are finally getting connected with the worldwide web, as the Central American government revealed plans on launching residential Internet services to homes in two areas in Havana. |
07Feb2016 | 'Blaxican' Afro-Mexicans Grab Unprecedented Spotlight NPR.org Until now, Mexican citizens were unable to officially recognize themselves as "Afro-Mexican" on national censuses. That is set to change in the upcoming 2020 census. |
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