Posts Tagged ‘Mexico’

Hurricane Karl Sends 30,000 from Vera Cruz

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 09/19/2010 @ 9:22:01 AM
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Reforma from Mexico City (pay-wall) reports some 30,000 evacuated from Vera Cruz following Karl’s drenching rains and wind…  It arrived on Friday as a Cat 3 hurricane with 115 mph … [Keep reading >>]

Elections in Mexico

Filed under: Latin America — by Will Kirkland 07/6/2010 @ 10:35:21 AM
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Unlike elections in the United States which the whole world follows with bated breath, Mexico’s election on Sunday took place with pitifully little interest anywhere despite some camera-fetching assassinations.  CNN … [Keep reading >>]

Slave Trade in Mexico

Filed under: Latin America — by Will Kirkland 04/21/2010 @ 11:51:43 AM
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One of the surprises of a recent trip to Mexico was to read that the country was high on the list of places involved in human trafficking.  I suppose I … [Keep reading >>]

Want Health Care? Move to Mexico

Filed under: Health & Welfare | Latin America — by Will Kirkland 09/1/2009 @ 8:42:12 PM
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It does occur to me to ask: how many of these American South Westerners, taking advantage of Mexico’s health system, would protest loudly in Tucson or Albuquerque over socialism … [Keep reading >>]

36 Waterless Hours in Mexico City

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 04/10/2009 @ 4:46:58 PM
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Water worries are world wide: Beijing, Perth, Sydney, Gaza City, Los Angeles. The list goes on and on. Mexico City has long been on it. This week-end … [Keep reading >>]

Drought: Mexico, California…

Filed under: California | Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 02/2/2009 @ 8:24:59 PM
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“Mexico City shut down a main water pipeline under a new conservation program, cutting service to more than 2 million residents Sunday after some reservoirs dropped to their lowest levels … [Keep reading >>]

The Environment: Severe Flooding in Tabasco

Filed under: Disaster | Environment | FrontPage | Water — by Bob Zuber 11/3/2007 @ 4:16:00 AM
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The English newspaper Bandaras News in Puerto Vallarta has published this written account from Luis Manuel Lopez of Reuters along with a chilling video focused on the devastating flooding in … [Keep reading >>]

Mexico Flooding

Filed under: Disaster | Environment | FrontPage | Water — by Will Kirkland 11/1/2007 @ 9:16:53 PM
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Update: I really can’t stand it. Of this massive flooding and dislocation of people in our neighbor to the south there is no news at all. Not even … [Keep reading >>]

Immigrant Nation: The Power of Stereotypes

Filed under: Critical Voices | FrontPage | Migration — by Bob Zuber 10/7/2007 @ 2:57:34 AM
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Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Brooke Medina explores a dark and personal side of the immigration debate: “I’ll never forget the day when I first realized my husband was, in … [Keep reading >>]

Mexico Gas Line Blasts

Filed under: FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 09/10/2007 @ 9:55:28 PM
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” A shadowy leftist guerrilla group took credit for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines Monday, rattling financial markets and causing … [Keep reading >>]

It’s the Oil, Stupid

Filed under: Energy | FrontPage | Migration | Peak Oil — by Will Kirkland 06/13/2007 @ 9:27:18 PM
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A couple of quick notes on oil. Think we’ve got 40 years? Think again.

Declining oil output in Mexico could spark a major fiscal crisis there, former Federal … [Keep reading >>]

Guestworker Programs

Filed under: FrontPage | Labor / Unions | Law | Migration — by Will Kirkland 05/7/2007 @ 4:35:06 PM
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Update below

The Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a report titled, Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.

Federal and federal/private programs have tried since at … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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