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Mother`s Day Victory for Ciudad Juarez Women

Among the latest victims was 18-year old Esmeralda Bretado Perez, 7 months pregnant, killed May 4 on a soccer field.

(CIUDAD, Juarez) - On the eve of Mother’s Day 2010, relatives of women murdered in Ciudad Juarez and their allies chalked up another victory on the international front.

By a vote of 359 to 235, with 17 abstentions, the European Parliament approved an amendment to its strategic plan for Latin American relationships that cites an international court verdict on the Ciudad Juarez femicides.

Juarez Chief Medical Examiner Gunned Down in Cold Blood Outside Home

The Medical Examiner Chief in Juarez is shot at nearly point blank range outside the door of his house

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - The Mexican news agency LaPolaka reports that a ministerial officer was shot dead Thursday night at his home.

It was learned that the victim is a crime scene expert, later identified as Angel Luis Gonzalez. Mr. Gonzalez was the head of the Forensic Medical Service.

Environment News: Mexico Goes for Gulf Oil

The Mexican navy has announced it is on alert and ready to participate in any actions needed to counter the oil slick.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A Delaware-sized oil slick contaminating the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t stopped Mexican plans to extract more of the black gold from ocean waters.

Even as the U.S. grapples with the environmental disaster spawned from last month’s oil spill, Mexico's Pemex announces plans to outsource as many as 14 new oil exploitation contracts in the Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. Consulate Worker in Juarez was Targeted for Assassination

Hit ordered because she refused to commit a fraud, law enforcement sources claim.

(JUAREZ) - The U.S. consulate worker murdered in Juarez in mid-March was approached in the days prior to her death by a man seeking to get her to sign off on an official document absent the proper paperwork.

Her refusal to cooperate with the man led to an order for her assassination from the top level of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization.

Olvera Street and the Threat from Los Angeles

LA's Monument Commission seems bent on destroying the city's most important history.

(LOS ANGELES) - The birthplace of Los Angeles is under threat of financial siege and elimination over a move from city bureaucrats who according to records, are operating in violation of a 1999 City Council Mandate.

Every day this is where old world entertainment meets Mexican and Spanish culture, and it has been happening consistently for almost 200 straight years.

An Insider`s View Into the Oil Spill Crisis

Before becoming an international war photographer, Dexter Phoenix followed his dad's steps in the oil industry.

(SALEM, Ore.) - My father and his father were involved in the oil industry, in both offshore and onshore drilling. Oil field work is one of the most dangerous occupations out there.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Provokes Panic and State of Emergency

“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” - Kurt Vonnegut

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - OK, all of you "Drill, baby, drill" imbeciles, where are you hiding right now, crawled back into whatever slimy, bitumen-encrusted asphalt sink hole you emerged from?

Still think drilling oil offshore is, like that traitorous Marine Colonel Ollie North said, a really neat idea?

Bloodshed in Juarez: 15 Killed in 11 Hours

How many have to die before something changes? The answer seems far away.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - Perhaps the term "drug war" has been so greatly abused in America that people fail to realize there is a real drug war taking place no more than a stone's throw from the U.S. border with Mexico.

The rate of death from the drug war in Mexico absolutely smokes anything taking place in the Mideast, at least on the average day.

Special Feature: Solidarity with a Besieged Sister City

Ciudad Juarez has an estimated population of 1-1.3 million people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico State University criminal justice Professor Cynthia Bejarano has long heard the painful stories and seen the sorrowful faces from the violence raging away in Ciudad Juarez just forty-five minutes south of her Las Cruces campus.

Lately, students have had loved ones attacked and normal back-and-forth family visitations disrupted in their binational community.

Special Report: The Arizona Effect

Mexico's President says the bill represents an obstacle for the solution of common problems in the border region.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a controversial move, Arizona’s state legislature and Governor re-injected the immigration question back into the center of US politics.

SB 1070 gives local police authority to demand documents from any individual suspected of being in the US illegally.