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Mexican Census Numbers and Troubles

Although Mexico experienced tremendous spurts in population growth during the 20th century, the rate of population increase slowed dramatically in recent years.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In commemoration of World Population Day, July 11, Mexico’s National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics (INEGI) reported that the country counted 107.5 million inhabitants in 2009.

Growing in number of people by about eight times since 1900, Mexico is the third most-populated country in the Americas, falling behind Brazil and the United States.

Special Report - A Mexican Political Era Ends

Looking past the short-term political scorecard, unsettling and ominous trends resurfaced or strengthened in the July 4 elections that seriously call into the question the future of democracy in Mexico.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - On July 4, while oil continued to pour out of British Petroleum’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico and spread its contamination to new shores, a rupture of political sorts was consummated in Mexico.

In state and local elections, Mexicans ended one political era, sowed the seeds for the possible rebirth of an old one and cast new doubts about the future of a fresh one.

Highway Ambush: Mexican Political Assassination Called Worst in Years

Photographs of this terrible scene show a development among cartels that is unprecedented.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The most high profile assassination of a Mexican political official since 1994 happened Monday in Tamaulipas, when the man running for the governor's seat in this state, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was gunned down, along with his entourage, in a highway ambush.

Rodolfo Cantu was the animated and vibrant candidate for the PRI, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which governed Mexico for 71 years until 2000.

New Mexico State Takes on Immigration Issue

The Las Cruces gathering promises up-to-date information on legislative proposals for addressing the US immigration crisis.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As the immigration issue continues heating up and shaping US politics in the summer of 2010, New Mexico State University will once again play a role in the debate.

Sponsored by the school’s International Relations Institute and Center for Latin American and Border Studies, a summer institute on immigration will take place on the Las Cruces campus during the month of July.

Bloodthirsty Los Zetas are Striving for Control of Mexico

The Los Zetas strategic structure, their wealth, arms and fluid movement, have indeed succeeded in causing paralyses in the Mexican government.

(MIAMI) - Revolutionary conspiracy theorists within the southwest hemisphere could be getting closer to connecting the graphic dots of murder and violence with impunity, narcotics trafficking as revenue, and an ideology that seeks to go beyond just financial enrichment and wealth.

Gulf Oil `Hot Zone`

More detailed and transparent monitoring of the air, water and personal exposure is needed.

(GRAND ISLE, Louisiana) - Thousands of unemployed workers hired by BP for Gulf oil clean-up duties are housed in a tent city on Grand Isle, LA.

According to a report from Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit environmental health and justice organization, BP requires that all serious medical issues must be sent to the BP EMS.

Medical Marijuna Misinformation and Ignorance: the Cops are Full of It

Pleased to give the Boys in Blue factual information to correct the information obtained from phoney police & drug identification specialists using out of date misinformation.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - This Medical Marijuana business is really crazy. I guess this is where psychosis of ignorance really comes into play.

I had the grand opportunity to listen to Sheriff Tom Bergin of Clatsop County display more fake chutzpah than a used car auctioneer. He was talking at a conference about proposed changes in the marijuana laws.

Oil and the Falklands

In the long run, I would seriously doubt BP would do a risky deep sea drilling after the recent disaster that has been swarming all over news.

(SALEM, Ore.) - BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company, BP is Great Britain’s largest corporation.

Tamaulipas News: Mexico Moves on BP

Under the worst case scenarios, oil could reach Tamaulipas’ waters by December and the coasts of Veracruz and Yucatan state by early 2011.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - High-ranking Mexican officials revealed this week they will seek money from British Petroleum.

THe Governor of Tamaulipas said his government is looking at suing the international energy giant BP for current and future damages resulting from the massive oil leak.

Arizona Immigration Law & Senators John McCain & Russell Pearce

One source suggests that it is little more than a “publicity stunt.”

(LOS ANGELES) - One national report calls it, "Arizona's New Low" and it just might be; the latest idea of State Sen. Russell Pearce is to deny citizenship to people born in the U.S. if their parents happen to be here illegally.

There is no question that laws should be followed, they exist for a reason, but it is not that simple. People who were born in the USA are Americans.