Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with mexico www.salem-news.com 2013 As the hottest time of year descends on the borderland, a new report sheds fresh light on the mass deaths of migrants crossing the deadly Sonora-Arizona desert. Co-authored by the University of Arizona’s Binational Migration Institute and the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner (PCOME), the study examines the deaths of 2,238 migrants in the Tucson area between 1990 and 2012. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072013/border-deaths.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072013/border-deaths.php Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:41:00 PDT Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has a heck of a proposition, he wants to see medical marijuana legalized worldwide and he's starting with a chain of dispensaries in Washington state. The former political leader is serious and believes it will bring peace and prosperity to his nation and beyond. http://salem-news.com/articles/june042013/worldwide-pot.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june042013/worldwide-pot.php Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:00:00 PDT The Mexican state is trumped by the power of some casinos operating on the margin of the law. At least that’s the conclusion of two Mexican congressmen after hearing testimony from the Pena Nieto administration’s official in charge of regulating gaming. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/mexico-casinos.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/mexico-casinos.php Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:00 PDT In the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Mother’s Day 2013 had a prolonged calendar life because of cross-border family ties, work schedules and commercial promotions. An international fusion made for a long weekend of parties, sales events and musical tributes... http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/juarez-trafficking.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/juarez-trafficking.php Mon, 13 May 2013 23:06:00 PDT With the debate over immigration reform heating up and with all sides in agreement that any deal must include tougher security on the Mexican border. A new investigation by the Washington Monthly and the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute reveals an alarming truth about our already-militarized border... http://salem-news.com/articles/may062013/over-the-line-jcf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may062013/over-the-line-jcf.php Mon, 06 May 2013 20:45:00 PDT On the eve of May Day 2013, the drum beat of protest and revolt beats loudly in southern and southwestern Mexico. First beginning as a teachers’ strike against a new federal education law last February, the protest is now transforming into a broad popular movement... http://salem-news.com/articles/april302013/mexico-changing.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april302013/mexico-changing.php Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:56:00 PDT In the Paso del Norte borderland these days, an interested observer gets the distinct impression of the world being turned upside down. And the Great Upheaval isn’t necessarily due to immigration, drugs and border security-the flashy topics media typically pounce on to paint a caricature of a complex place. http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/mexico-border-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/mexico-border-kp.php Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:22:00 PDT The clock is rapidly ticking on the two towering smokestacks of the former American Smelting and Refinery Company (Asarco) plant on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. As workers ready the ground for the planned demolition on April 13, at about the break of dawn, local photographers are scurrying to get what may well be the last images of a historic symbol of the Paso del Norte borderland. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/rio-grande-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/rio-grande-kp.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:25:00 PDT Are U.S. and Mexican deportation and reintegration policies fomenting delinquency in Tijuana? According to a prominent academic researcher and immigrant rights activist, the answer is yes. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/tijuana-dillema.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/tijuana-dillema.php Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:45:00 PDT Last summer, Mexican rancher Abner Rios noticed a curious thing. Cows that were ready to give birth wandered off only to come back from pasture alone. “We began to notice that pregnant cattle were not returning with calves,” Rios told FNS. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/loggers-bureaucrats-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/loggers-bureaucrats-kp.php Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:33:00 PDT As budget cuts stare down from the so-called sequester agreement in Congress, El Paso officials are lobbying Washington for continued support of Fort Bliss. The campaign unfolded as a new University of Texas at El Paso study analyzing the local economic impact of Ft. Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center was released to the media. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/border-base.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/border-base.php Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:16:00 PDT Many colorful personalities have shared the shade of Acapulco’s Café Astoria. M Mayors, politicians, artists, famous singers, writers, tourists, journalists, and revolutionaries of all stripes have all sipped their Guerrero-grown coffee... http://salem-news.com/articles/march062013/acapulco-tree-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march062013/acapulco-tree-kp.php Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:13:00 PST Was last week's historic detention of long-time Mexican union leader and political broker Elba Esther "La Maestra" Gordillo a long overdue act of justice and a renewed commitment to the rule of law? Was it the climax of lingering conflicts between Gordillo and leaders of her former PRI party? http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/gordillo-arrest.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022013/gordillo-arrest.php Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:05:00 PST For more than four years, Lauro Salinas and Julian Magana have been on strike. http://salem-news.com/articles/february272013/capatalism-crisis-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february272013/capatalism-crisis-kp.php Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:40:00 PST There was something almost reassuring in hearing the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” rising from the bus sound system as the driver lumbered into what has now been tagged as the world’s second most murderous city. http://salem-news.com/articles/february242013/beatles-acapulco-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february242013/beatles-acapulco-kp.php Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:30:00 PST Recently approved by the Mexican Congress and ratified by a majority of state legislatures, the country’s new education law is touted as a centerpiece of the Pact for Mexico agreed to by the nation’s major political parties. Currently, an intense media campaign is underway to promote a law that reforms articles 3 and 73 of the Mexican Constitution. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/mexico-education.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/mexico-education.php Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:02:00 PST Clemente Perez remembered with fondness a pivotal moment in the development of modern Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Perez said that as a younger man he helped ferry by canoe the cast and crew of the 1964 John Huston classic “The Night of the Iguana” to the film shoot in nearby Mismaloya. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032013/puerto-vallarta-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032013/puerto-vallarta-kp.php Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:59:00 PST Frontera NorteSur now has our 2012 publications available in an easy-to-use package. By simply going to FNS’ home page, readers can click on 2012 Roundup and then scroll down month-by-month for last year’s articles and radio documentaries. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/fns-existence.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/fns-existence.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:49:00 PST Earlier this week, the Washington Post and a series of other mainstream media outlets breathlessly reported that the Pentagon has set up a US-based special operations center that is focused on helping the Mexican government track down “cartels.” The real nut-graph of the Post story, however, is buried at the end of the article... http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/msm-narco-news-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262013/msm-narco-news-bc.php Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:27:00 PST Mothers are demanding answers about their murdered and disappeared daughters. The 'Walk for Life' took place in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/mexico-moms-murder.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/mexico-moms-murder.php Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:05:00 PST Undeterred by the official rejection of his legal challenge to the July 2012 election results, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presses on with his opposition movement. Like he was still on the campaign stump, the left opposition leader is touring Mexico and building up his new political party, the National Movement for the Regeneration of Mexico (MORENA), as the latest political force on the scene. http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/morena-mexico.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/morena-mexico.php Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:55:00 PST With little opposition, the Mexican Senate ratified this week the nomination of Eduardo Medina Mora as Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States. In a presentation to the Senate’s foreign affairs commission broadcast on the Congress Channel, Medina sketched out his views on the parameters, problems and promises of the Mexico-U.S. relationship. http://salem-news.com/articles/january102013/mexico-nafta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january102013/mexico-nafta.php Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:57:00 PST The last scenes of Guadalupe Reyes are playing out in Mexico. A popular nickname for the holiday celebrations that commence on December 12, Virign of Guadalupe Day, and culminate on January 6, Three King's Day. http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/mexic-gas-cost.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/mexic-gas-cost.php Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:09:00 PST I saw a sign once that read "Bad ideas make for the best stories", and thinking how true that was. My bad idea for June 2012 was thinking I could hitchhike through California, from the Mexican border up to Oregon. I had done it 40 years earlier with no problems, so why not? http://salem-news.com/articles/january052013/city-homeless-vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052013/city-homeless-vp.php Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:44:00 PST Historically, New Mexico’s three counties sharing a border with Mexico have shown higher-than-normal rates of poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment. In the late 20th century, an absence of affordable housing for low-income workers coupled with rising real estate prices pushed the growth of colonias... http://salem-news.com/articles/january032013/new-mex-funds-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january032013/new-mex-funds-kp.php Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:59:00 PST Violence is down from previous months and years in northern Mexico's Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez. http://salem-news.com/articles/december312012/sierra-blood.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december312012/sierra-blood.php Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:43:00 PST An email from a group apparently representing the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, declares the innocence of particular individuals arrested during a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. We are choosing to publish the letter in its complete form. We have received contact from Mexican cartels in the past, but the information contained here is unusual. http://salem-news.com/articles/december242012/sinaloa-complaint.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december242012/sinaloa-complaint.php Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:17:00 PST But a new analysis by the Mexican Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Inegi) reports that six out of ten Mexican workers are employed in precarious circumstances. This means they lack contracts, benefits or retirement plans. http://salem-news.com/articles/december232012/land-bootstraps.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december232012/land-bootstraps.php Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:38:00 PST Marine veteran Jon Hammar, jailed in Mexico for carrying a shotgun across the border is expected to be released today, according to his lawyer. U.S. Senator Bill Nelson reportedly received word that the Mexican attorney general's office planned to release Hammar. http://salem-news.com/articles/december212012/hammar-down.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december212012/hammar-down.php Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:09:00 PST Jon Hammar, a former U.S. Marine, was going to surf in Costa Rica when he was arrested at the border going into Mexico. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/marine-mexico-prison.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/marine-mexico-prison.php Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:37:00 PST