Mexican politics: The PRI's long tail
Source: The Economist
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-09 09:04:09 -0700 | political-news
From the print edition ON MAY 7th Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's president, showed off some of the fancy political footwork that days before had earned him the gushing endorsement of his first visiting head of state, Barack Obama. Flanked in...
Hit legislators where it hurts
Source: Thousand Oaks Acorn
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 19:31:51 -0700 | political-news
Not only does Obamacare take billions from Medicare and we no longer get Social Security/ cost-of-living adjustments, but Congress is working to deduct an extra $30 from our Social Security checks. Individual Taxpayers ID Number, whereby illegal immigrants can claim...
Vatican: Mexico's folk Death Saint is blasphemous
Source: Boston.com
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-09 04:11:11 -0700 | political-news
The Vatican's culture minister says Mexico's folk Death Saint is a blasphemous symbol that shouldn't be part of any religion. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi says worshipping such an icon is a degeneration of religion. The Santa Muerte is a skeletal figure...
4 investigators go missing in northern Mexico
Source: The Boston Globe
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 18:46:08 -0700 | political-news
Mexico (AP) Authorities in northern Mexico say three police officers working for Interpol in Mexico and a federal investigator have been missing since Monday. Chihuahua state Gov. Cesar Duarte says state and federal police are searching for the four men,...
Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants
Source: Mother Jones
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 18:02:48 -0700 | political-news
Jason Richwine, who co-authored a Heritage Foundation study on immigration, didn't just argue that certain minorities are dumber in his scholarshiphe also said it at a public panel...PM PDT Jason Richwine, the co-author of the conservative Heritage Foundation's controversial study...
Obama pressed to do more on jobs, stagnant wages
Source: Boston.com
Costa Rica :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 15:10:28 -0700 | political-news
The nation's slowly improving jobs picture hides problems like stagnant wages and fewer working hours that strike directly at President Barack Obama's base of support young people, racial minorities and the less affluent. As the president launches a new focus...
Hundreds live underground along TJ canal
Source: 10 News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 07:53:37 -0700 | political-news
No matter where you stand on immigration reform, our long-standing debate and lack of resolve has become a major problem for our neighbors to the south. Deportations of Mexicans and South Americans who entered the United States illegally have caused...
Richardson's unfair slam vs. Cruz
Source: CNN
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 06:45:10 -0700 | political-news
Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Follow him on Twitter: @rubennavarrette San Diego, California (CNN) -- Oh no, he didn't go there. Even in a political climate where it...
Tanker erupts in Mexico; 20 die
Source: The Journal Gazette
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 00:05:55 -0700 | political-news
A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said....
Canadian tourist dies after falling from her hotel in Mexico
Source: The Globe & Mail
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 11:45:03 -0700 | political-news
Local media reports say the 21-year-old, identified as Sydney Taylor, died early Tuesday after apparently falling about 10 metres from the balcony of her second-floor hotel room...In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs confirmed that a Canadian had died in Mexico, but did...
Gustavo Madero shows a black cardboard in Mexico Pact
Posted by: rana1985
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-09 09:04:11 -0700 | political-news
Remove posters on a live transmission belts is not easy. Now PAN national leader, Gustavo Madero, who came to show a photo in an act of Mexico Pact held a black cardboard. PAN leader spoke of the use of social...
EU includes in its 'black list' eight partners 'El Chapo'
Posted by: rana1985
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-09 14:56:45 -0700 | political-news
The Treasury Department of the United States included in its list of drug traffickers to eight men pointing work directly for JoaquinEl Chapo Guzman square heads of the Sinaloa cartel, three of which have already been arrested by Mexican authorities...
Nicolas Maduro in Uruguay undertakes a mission of "union" in South America
Posted by: rana1985
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-10 20:03:49 -0700 | political-news
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Uruguay began Tuesday in his first regional tour that will also take him to Argentina and Brazil, two of its major trading partners. "Good morning, arriving in Uruguay, Artigas Homeland. We will consolidate the relationship of...
Governor Paramo brothers murder attributed to drug debt
Posted by: rana1985
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-08 18:46:09 -0700 | political-news
A debt of 10,000 pesos for the purchase of drugs led to the murder on Saturday of the brothers González Páramo, children of journalists and Martha Gonzalez Paramo David Nicholson, as the governor of Chihuahua, Cesar Duarte. At 35 hours...
The federal government and parties 'recover' the Alliance for Mexico
Posted by: rana1985
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-07 21:28:18 -0700 | political-news
The differences that led to suspend for two weeks the Mexico Pact negotiations were surpassed Tuesday after signing eight new commitments between the federal government and the leaders of the main parties to shield social programs and avoid using them...
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