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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Diablo Azul (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting —
The U.S. Border Patrol has caught some border crossers in remote stretches of desert with a sophisticated sensor mounted on unmanned spy aircraft that can reveal every man, woman and child under its gaze from a height of about 25,000 feet.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a U.S.-led free trade agreement that would exempt multinational corporations from having to comply with policies governing industry in signatory countries, looks set to be rammed into law without comment or notice from much of the American media.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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Hundreds of armed vigilantes took control of a Mexican town in the western coastal state of Guerrero, arresting local cops and conducting searches and handing the accused over to state prosecutors in response to the killing of a vigilante leader Monday.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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Coal mining in Mexico’s Coahuila state, which borders Texas, is turning out to be more profitable for the country’s Zetas gang than trafficking in illicit drugs, and some of its product finds its way into the Mexican national electricity supply.
Posted on Feb 23, 2013
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Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama —
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer. The effort challenges a key tenet of U.S. clean water policy: Water far underground can be intentionally polluted because it will never be used.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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An alliance led by former Mexican President Felipe Calderon made a business case for the curbing of global warming to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, saying an unprecedented $14 trillion overhaul would be needed to ensure long-term growth that didn’t wreck the environment.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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AP/Andres Leighton
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“Mexicans want peace,” said new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as he announced the establishment of a national police force for combating crime, violence and drug gangs.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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As the “war on drugs” becomes increasingly militarized and violent, the symbolic phrase has become a bloody truth; more than 60 percent of Americans say that discrimination against the LGBT community is a serious issue; meanwhile, the NYPD thanks Occupy Wall Street for its help after Hurricane Sandy, albeit off the record. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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“Civil rights are for blacks,” conservative commentator Ann Coulter said on ABC’s “This Week” during a show on immigration and the Latino vote Sunday. That’s nonsense, says “Democracy Now!” co-host Juan Gonzalez, who along with filmmaker Eduardo Lopez directed a deeply informative film about the root causes of Latin American immigration to the United States.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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In one of the largest prison breaks in Mexico in recent years, 132 inmates escaped from a facility in the northern state of Coahuila on Monday, setting off a massive manhunt by police and soldiers near the U.S. border.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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Mexican-American poet, novelist and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea has made a career of writing about those who cross the border in search of better living conditions only to find a life of abuse and squalor.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Aug 11, 2012
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A special prosecutor testifying in Mexico said that 67 journalists have been killed and 14 have vanished in the country in the last six years.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
Drugs are all anesthesia from pain. The ruthless Mexican cartels crave money, which they make from the Yankee craving for numbness. They sell unfeeling, and we buy it, at tens of billions of dollars and thousands of Mexican lives per year.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jul 8, 2012
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Trying to sort out the status of Obamacare can be tricky thanks to our dysfunctional leadership class; Republican state Sen. Marty Golden wants to teach Brooklyn’s women “the art of feminine presence”; meanwhile, a group of Mormons quits the church in a mass ceremony in Utah. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto has claimed victory in the Mexican presidential election, but his main opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has not conceded.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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By Josh Kun —
With a boost from Twitter, music may re-emerge as a tool for raising political consciousness among the nation’s young.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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In addition to having produced 60,000 dead, 20,000 disappeared, hundreds of thousands displaced, wounded or on the run, and tens of thousands widowed or orphaned, Mexico’s drug war—which seems to be off the radars of that country’s presidential candidates—is a chain wrapped around the nation’s considerable industrial potential.
Posted on Jun 23, 2012
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The re-publication of the fact that Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico is outrageously meant to inspire distrust; some Mormons now identify as gay, yet suppress their sexuality in order to follow their religion; meanwhile, a mirror has been designed to eliminate blind spots on the road. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 16, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 21, 2012
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Freedom of the press is threatened every day in Mexico as journalists are tortured and killed; Obama’s support of gay marriage distracts the public from the impunities in Afghanistan; press freedom is also under attack in the U.S. as journalists are arrested for protesting. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
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Bill Moyers begins his latest show by saying, “There is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. ... ” And he’s right.
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A recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center revealed that Mexican repatriation from the U.S. between 2005 and 2010 doubled from the previous five years. Roughly 4.4 million immigrants were “deported, removed or returned.” Many were separated from their families.
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post Dispatch —
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Now that the immigration “crisis” has solved itself, this is the perfect time for Congress and the president to agree on a package of sensible, real-world reforms.
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In May 2010, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, a 32-year-old Mexican immigrant, was handcuffed, hogtied, kicked, beaten and tased five times before he died in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol officers, who justified their actions by claiming he resisted arrest. New eyewitness video says otherwise.
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Lucas Penati (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed after four decades of the largest rush of migrants from a single country in American history and may even be declining, a report by the Pew Hispanic Center says.
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Wikimedia Commons/Fern H. Logan
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By Paul Von Blum — The impact of her sculpture Target extends to the thousands of anonymous people of color, mostly but not exclusively younger males, who are routinely subjected to racist harassment and attacks by police and others throughout the United States.
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AP / Marco Ugarte
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To what length should governments enable crime in order to catch criminals? That’s the ethical issue raised by a New York Times article that reports DEA agents have laundered millions of dollars in drug proceeds to battle Mexican cartels. More than 40,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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World Economic Forum (CC-BY)
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Mexican human rights activists have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate President Felipe Calderon (above), senior Mexican officials and the country’s most-wanted drug kingpin for allegedly overseeing the capture, torture and killing of civilians in violence surrounding drug trafficking and the government’s effort to suppress that illegal trade. (more)
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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After a 17-month investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal, state and local authorities cracked down on a vast drug-smuggling network in Arizona that officials tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, making 76 arrests in three separate raids.
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Wikimedia Commons / Ratfinx (CC-BY-SA)
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As if relations between Tehran and Washington weren’t troubled enough, Tuesday brought news of a purported plan by Iranian government operatives to kill one Adel al-Jubeir (above), Saudi ambassador to the United States. The alleged bomb plot was shut down by American authorities after two agents apparently recruited the wrong … (more)
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Flickr / Brenmorado
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After Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s fifth state of the nation speech last week, more than 50,000 people gathered in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, to decry policies that have destroyed unions, privatized essential public industries, enriched a small elite and killed more than 50,000 people in the nation’s drug war. (more)
Posted on Sep 12, 2011
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Michael Saechang (CC-BY-SA)
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The Obama administration is punishing top officials for the failed ATF operation that placed American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. (more)
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Flickr / dherrera_96
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry points to his hyper pro-business policies to explain the fact that 37 percent of the nation’s new jobs created over the last two years were in his state. New York magazine has another suggestion though: the region’s multibillion-dollar drug trade. (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The unseemly love affair of some American politicians with the death penalty is bad for justice and bad for our country’s standing in the world. It inflicts a wholly unnecessary moral stain on a nation that rightly preaches the rule of law to everyone else.
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The Mexican resort city of Acapulco is a vacation destination for U.S. travelers and locals alike, but a short distance away from the beaches, a battle among Mexican authorities, drug cartels and indigenous communities is playing out.
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Flickr / Esparta
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For the future of unchecked global capitalism, look to the savagery of the drug war in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, says The Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy. (more)
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jun 19, 2011
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In one bloody 24-hour period in the industrial city of Monterrey, Mexico, drug-related violence claimed the lives of 33 people, most of whom were allegedly connected to local cartels, according to Mexican authorities.
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By Amy Goodman — The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia on either side of the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the problem.
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