Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with mexico www.salem-news.com 2010 In the U.S., evangelical leaders have been at the forefront of pushing prayer in public schools. But in Mexico, they are in the vanguard in opposing it. While the so-called narco war and economic distress are generally regarded as the top two issues in this year’s electoral races, fundamental issues of church, the state and religion are also swirling around the political scene. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/god-gays-ganga-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/god-gays-ganga-kp.php Mon, 21 May 2012 02:06:00 PDT Representatives of the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank scouted out downtown Ciudad Juarez last week in anticipation of a possible loan package. The tour was promoted by the Chihuahua state and Ciudad Juarez municipal governments as part of a $50 million investment drive to revive the Mexican border city’s long decaying downtown core. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/juarez-redevelopment.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/juarez-redevelopment.php Sat, 12 May 2012 17:06:00 PDT From Wikipedia: Lophophora williamsii better known by its common name Peyote is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. It is native to southwestern Texas and Mexico. It is found primarily in the Chihuahuan desert and in the states of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi among scrub, especially where there is limestone. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/mexico-peyote-vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/mexico-peyote-vp.php Thu, 10 May 2012 02:55:00 PDT Rio Grande irrigators in the Paso del Norte borderland are in for more bad news. Experts have noted that spring runoff forecasts for the Rio Grande into New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir are only 21 percent of normal flows. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/rio-grande.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/rio-grande.php Tue, 08 May 2012 12:54:00 PDT House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has distributed a staff briefing paper and draft of the contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder to Members of the Oversight Committee. The briefing paper explains what happened in Operation Fast and Furious, and the hardships faced by the family of fallen Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in getting truthful answers about his death... http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/issa-holder-atf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/issa-holder-atf.php Thu, 03 May 2012 15:09:00 PDT Revived in the United States on a mass scale by the immigrant rights movement six years ago, the annual commemoration of International Workers’ Day is fast becoming an established tradition across the country. And if anything captured the essence of the 2012 celebrations, it was the convergence of issues popularized by Occupy Wall Street-influenced movements with demands for justice long pushed by immigrant community organizations. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/may-day-winds-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/may-day-winds-kp.php Wed, 02 May 2012 18:48:00 PDT Descending down the long road that curves down from the heights of Lomas de Poleo, a panoramic view of the borderland dazzles the eyes. Below the now-paved Anapra highway sits the town of Sunland Park, New Mexico, with its big border landfill, racetrack and casino, El Paso Electric plant and scandal-ridden politics. http://salem-news.com/articles/april272012/lomas-de-poleo-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april272012/lomas-de-poleo-kp.php Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:25:00 PDT “From Mexico to Oregon: History, Culture and Identity,” a series of events presented by the University of Oregon’s Latin American Studies Program, will take place May 3 to May 5 at the White Stag Block in Portland. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, where the Mexican army defeated the French occupying forces on May 5, 1862. http://salem-news.com/articles/april262012/mexico-oregon-osu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april262012/mexico-oregon-osu.php Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:45:00 PDT Every night this week, a street in central El Paso will light up with the names of more than 10,000 people killed in the violence that’s ravaged Ciudad Juarez and Mexico since 2008. The nightly projection/vigil is part of a week-long series of activities that will culminate with a dinner honoring in person the Mexican poet and anti-violence activist Javier Sicilia. http://salem-news.com/articles/april262012/juarez-deaths-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april262012/juarez-deaths-kp.php Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:40:00 PDT My father was an imperialist. He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/republic-apology-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/republic-apology-ba.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:31:00 PDT It was a stunning political development. The often-fractious Sunland Park City Council took action by a vote of 3-2, with one abstention, to install 24-year-old New Mexico State University graduate Javier Perea as mayor. http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/sunland-park-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/sunland-park-kp.php Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:21:00 PDT Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index. The global index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/impunity-index-cpj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/impunity-index-cpj.php Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:20:00 PDT The new top law enforcement official for the northern Mexican border state of Coahuila said this past weekend that 1,700 people have been forcibly disappeared in the entity since 2000. At a press event attended by Coahuila Governor Ruben Moreira Valdez, the state’s newly-named attorney general announced that committees will be formed to investigate the disappearances. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/disappeared-people.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182012/disappeared-people.php Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:26:00 PDT Call it the Michoacan Plus Syndrome. Exposed during last fall’s elections in the Mexican state of Michoacan, kidnappings and other crimes against actual or potential political candidates are now surfacing in Mexico’s state and federal elections scheduled for July 1. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/mexican-elections.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/mexican-elections.php Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:44:00 PDT In a little-noticed decision with possible national repercussions, Mexico’s high court has come out in favor of an indigenous community in the state of Chihuahua. Mexican Supreme Court justices determined that the community of Huitosachi has a right to participate in the decision-making of an organization spearheading tourism development in Chihuahua’s Sierra Tarahumara region. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/indigenous-rights.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/indigenous-rights.php Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:19:00 PDT Mexican history is a little complicated for a gringo, but it's manageable once you realize that it's more religiously straitjacketed than American history and almost as hilarious as Canadian history. But it's necessary to decipher the past, at least that of the State of Guanajuato, because of the recent royal visit of Pope Benedict XVI, nee Joseph Ratzinger who first honed his disciple skills as a mere boy in the Hitler Youth. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292012/jesus-guanajuato-wha.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292012/jesus-guanajuato-wha.php Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:42:00 PDT More than four years after a so-called narco war exploded and then devastated Ciudad Juarez, a different atmosphere is perceptible on the streets of the border city. While still very high by historic standards, the rate of murders is way down from the height of the killing two years ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222012/juarez-turnabout-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222012/juarez-turnabout-kp.php Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:45:00 PDT The 7.6 earthquake struck southern Mexico today at 12:02 P.M. The epicenter was in Oaxaca, in the state of Guerrero,120 miles east of Acapulco. Tens of thousands of people experienced swaying buildings in Mexico City and beyond, but damage has not been determined and there have been no injuries reported at this time. http://salem-news.com/articles/march202012/mexico-earthquake.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march202012/mexico-earthquake.php Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:21:00 PDT As Mexico plunges into the crucial election season of 2012, the ongoing slaughter of young people continues to spark outrage, spill tears, destroy families and raise fundamental questions about the country’s future. This month, the murders of two young men in Ciudad Juarez and Monterrey were protested by friends and loved ones with emotional postings on Facebook and other social media networks. http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/mexican-generation.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march152012/mexican-generation.php Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:19:00 PDT The number of people murdered in the drug war inside the US between 2006 and 2010 exceeds the US-troop death toll in the Iraq War since it was launched in 2003, according to a Narco News analysis of FBI crime statistics. The US drug-war homicide tally is nearly 3 times greater than the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the first shots were fired... http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/drug-homicides-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/drug-homicides-bc.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:28:00 PDT The latest Mexico travel warning from Texas has set off a wave of criticism south of the border. Government officials and tourism industry lashed out against a Texas Department of Public Safety advisory that urged young springbreakers not to visit Mexico this vacation season. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102012/tourism-mexico-tourism.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102012/tourism-mexico-tourism.php Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:45:00 PST When Caritina Galeana Gomez was born, women did not have the right to vote and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century wasn’t even created. Born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Dona Cari, as she is known locally, grew up in the Costa Grande of Guerrero state before a highways and tourist resorts attracted people from all over the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/mexican-politics.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/mexican-politics.php Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:38:00 PST A handful of media groups are reporting over 100 members of Congress calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. It stems from Holder's tragic decision to have the ATF smuggle deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in the agency's 'Fast and Furious' operation. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/holder-teeters-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/holder-teeters-tk.php Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:11:00 PST The two high-tech workers laughed when asked if they could afford the smartphones made by their colleagues on Mexican production lines. “No, no, no,” chuckled Maria and Alma, two Guadalajara workers who have labored for years in Mexico’s Silicon Valley. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/mexico-tech-jobs-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042012/mexico-tech-jobs-kp.php Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:57:00 PST A retired Mexican general took charge of security this week in the troubled Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, even as violent incidents continued to bloody the landscape. On Monday, February 27, four men were reported slain in two gangland-style incidents in the state capital of Monterrey. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/monterey-today.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/monterey-today.php Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:06:00 PST In Guadalajara, two men recently played deejay in front of city hall. Strategically positioned across from the entrance to the old building, they directed a barrage of recordings at the staid government offices. Added to a play list of classic protest music from the Latin American New Song Movement of the 1970s, newer tunes with a socially-conscious tinge broke the brisk Tapatio morning. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/guadalajara-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/guadalajara-kp.php Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:36:00 PST U.S. troops deployed to the US/Mexican border last week may well be there, in part, to deal with the blowback from ATF's botched Fast and Furious gambit. The El Paso Times reported last week that “active-duty soldiers” from Fort Bliss, have been deployed to support the US Border Patrol in the Arizona and New Mexico border region. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/jtf-mexico-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/jtf-mexico-bc.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:38:00 PST Robert Plumlee and I enjoy watching the national media play catch-up with our reports from years ago. The game is on again as information about the U.S./Mexican military Joint Task Force continues to emerge. A new article in the El Paso Times illustrates the reason that officials from both countries have been hesitant to confirm the existence of this military border group; the 1997 shooting death of a young Mexican national by a U.S. Marine. http://salem-news.com/articles/february182012/jtf-mexico-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february182012/jtf-mexico-tk.php Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:50:00 PST Across the Rio Grande and over numerous desert land crossings, the golden scraps of U.S. throwaway society head south. Used clothes, appliances, cars and other commodities are shipped to the huge, second-hand Mexican market where low wages guarantee steady sales. And during the last five years or so, a new market has opened up for used lead-acid batteries. http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/battery-pollution.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/battery-pollution.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:38:00 PST In a February press conference, non-governmental human rights organizations demanded that Ciudad Juarez Police Chief Julian Leyzaola straighten out the behavior of officers or step down. Representing more than a dozen organizations, the activists announced they had documented 23 cases of alleged torture committed by local police during the month of January alone. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112012/border-police.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112012/border-police.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:28:00 PST