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The New Free Trade Fever

Legal reforms promulgated by the Pena Nieto administration and approved by the Mexican Congress are encouraging a new look and possible fine-tuning of the 1997 accord.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - 20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, little interest has been shown until now by the governments of the signatory countries for reopening the trade pact.

But a similar agreement between Mexico and the European Union, signed in 1997 and enacted in 2000, is under review and could be expanded.

Baja California News: Deportees and Refugees Crowd Migrant Shelters

“They come fleeing the violence that is being registered in their states” - Father Patricio Murphy, director of Casa del Migrante

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - Like 20 years ago, migrants still come to Tijuana in need of food, warmth and a place to rest their heads.

But in important respects, the circumstances of newcomers have changed at two Roman Catholic Church-supported shelters in the northern Mexican border city.

Mexico`s Armed Self-Defense Forces Surge

With the latest gains, the Tierra Caliente self-defense movement has upwards of 10,000 armed members deployed in more than 30 municipalities.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - Questions, contradictory narratives and, above all, calls for calm energize the daily coverage and debate over the armed self-defense phenomenon sweeping parts of Mexico.

For their part, corporate media outlets like Televisa play up the deployment of federal police and soldiers to the Tierra Caliente of Michoacan, one of the epi-centers of the movement, graphically displaying the march of the federales in stark digital maps...

Women`s/Human Rights News: A Break in a Dutch Tourist`s Murder

Movement in the murder case was reported Friday, January 24, when Mexican authorities announced they had van Nierop’s probable killer in custody.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - For more than 15 years, the family of Hester van Nierop has struggled across oceans and continents for justice.

An architecture school graduate, van Nierop was traveling through Mexico when she decided to make a stop in Ciudad Juarez back in 1998. The Mexican border city was the last place the young woman would visit on earth.

Nation`s Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA

Written statements were provided to a U.S. District Court in Chicago, confirming the alliance between the DEA and Mexico's largest cocaine cartel.

(WASHINGTON, DC WHDT World News) - For decades, it has been rumored the United States government was secretly sponsoring the smuggling of cocaine into the country. Federal officials have long denied such speculation, pointing out the billions of dollars spent intercepting drugs.

Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.

Insecurity: The Achilles Heel of Mexican Reforms?

While the militarization of Michocan is grabbing the bulk of national media attention, the economic fall-out from insecurity is far from confined to the Pacific coastal state...

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - The security crisis in the Mexican state of Michoacan is smacking the economy, bringing higher costs, leaving shuttered businesses, encouraging capital flight, and causing employment reductions, according to different reports.

For instance, the Mexican Social Security Institute reported that the violence-ridden state, where crime syndicates, self-defense groups and government security forces are in a stand-off, lost 5,921 jobs in the formal economy from November 2012 to November 2013.

Reviewing NAFTA and the Environment

To put the budgetary numbers in perspective, the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California alone registered $34.5 billion in cross-border trade in 2012, according to the local chamber of commerce.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As possible, new trade agreements stir debate on the world stage, a North American citizen advisory panel is urging that a new emphasis be placed on the ecological costs of increased trade and money flows.

In a statement, the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), a trinational group consisting of representatives from the three member nations of NAFTA, called on the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico to demonstrate a “revival of political will” and undertake a “new mission” with enhanced public involvement in trade and environmental matters.

CIA Connection to DEA Agent`s Murder Too Hot for FOX News?

CIA connection to Enrique Kiki Camarena’s torture and death not reported by Fox’s “The Kelly File”

(SALEM) - Enrique Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent and former Marine, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985.

In October 2013, Luis Chaparro and J. Jesus Esquivel broke the news that Kiki was murdered on orders from the CIA. The motive for the murder was to prevent him from blowing the whistle on narcotrafficking...

Privatize Your Mother!

Expect a very hot Mexican political scene in 2014.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - In a week of unforgettable confrontations, soaring speeches, political showdowns and fisticuffs, Mexican Senator Layda Sansores San Roman of Campeche perhaps gets the prize.

Striding to the floor of the Mexican Senate, the woman senator from the Citizen Movement party posed an unusual challenge to supporters of the Pena Nieto administration’s initiative to reform articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution...

Drones over Tijuana

“It’s a strategy against delinquency. The public complains about home burglaries and robberies on mass transportation,” - Tijuana Mayor Jorge Astiazaran Orci

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - If Tijuana’s new municipal government has its way, drones will fly over the northern Mexican border city in 2014.

Tijuana Mayor Jorge Astiazaran Orci, a member of President Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, said his administration is working with a California firm to deploy small drones as a means of fighting crime and carrying out other public safety tasks like detecting fires.