21Nov2015
'In Defense of Life': Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
FIDH
Last year, 11 national and international organizations coordinated a Civil Observation Mission to Mexico in order to analyze the situation for human rights defenders in the country.

21Nov2015
Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Gay Man's Deportation to Mexico
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
A gay man who claims to have been physically abused in Mexico as a child because of his sexual orientation, but did not seek the protection of authorities there, is not entitled to asylum, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.

21Nov2015
Is Drone Racing the Next Big Thing in Extreme Sports?
The New York Times
Drone racing is a fast-growing extreme sport in which pilots compete head-to-head with small flying drones while wearing first-person-view goggles.

21Nov2015
NFL Evaluating Azteca Stadium for Potential 2016 Game in Mexico City
NFL.com
The NFL's desire to expand the International Series to Mexico City continues in earnest. Albert Breer reported this week that the league will send a contingent to Mexico City for further evaluations of the Azteca Stadium - the second time in a three-week span.

21Nov2015
Pet Blood Donations Welcomed in Mexico
New China TV
At Mexico’s first veterinary blood bank in sight-seeing city Merida on southern peninsula Yucatan, Director Martinez collects blood from kind-hearted pets in preparation to save their ailing peers.

21Nov2015
Mexico Raises Minimum Wage in Line with Inflation
WSJ.com
The Mexican minimum-wage commission on Friday determined to raise the country’s daily minimum wage by 4.2% - in line with current inflation - to about 70 pesos a day, less than $5 at current exchange rates.

21Nov2015
The War on Drugs as We Know It May be Coming to an End in Latin America
Business Insider
Several Latin American countries are taking drug policy into their own hands, and shunning the US’ practices, which have thus defined the war on drugs in Central and South America.

21Nov2015
Founder of Vigilante Group in Michoacan Gets 1-Year Sentence for Kidnapping
Latin American Herald Tribune
Hipolito Mora Chavez, the founder of the vigilante movement in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, has been convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to one year in prison.


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