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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 12th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 10th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Traveling in Mexico despite drug violence, H1N1 flu

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

In Mexico, fears of a ‘lost generation’ – Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Welcomes Juan Garibay as a Community Ambassador

SoMoCoCAT Offers Latino Farmworker Communities Free Digital Media Training – California

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

New book gives author’s take on increasingly volatile relationship between United States and Mexico – In Wakeup Call From Mexico, first-time author Wilson Beck gives his analysis on how Mexico’s struggles with emigration, drugs, weapons and kidnapping are affecting the American economy and security

Domestic Violence and Latina Immigrants: Seven Reasons Why Some Are Reluctant to Seek Help Q&A With Monica C. Roldan, MSW Manager of Community Outreach and Supervising Supervisor Sanctuary for Families

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 28th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

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Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 1st, 2009 :: 5 minute to empowerment

Is Decriminalization Enough to Stop the “War on Drugs” Violence in Latin America?

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 12th, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 6th, 2009 – The Sonia Edition

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 14th, 2009

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Cuidad Juárez since the beginning of 2009 due to drug violence, Chihuahua state police reported Saturday.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 9th, 2009 (10 days worth)

Justice in the Rough – As a border town becomes a murder capital, Mexico pushes for dramatic rule-of-law changes

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 25th, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 22th, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 16th, 2009

In Juarez, A Trail of Drugs and Violence

Hispanic y Latino News for Friday June 5th, 2009

Mexican police found 11 bodies – most with their hands and feet cut off – inside an abandoned car in the border state of Sonora Thursday in violence attributed to drug traffickers battling for control of the region.

YouTube riddled with drug cartel videos, messages – The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It’s also spilling into gruesome online videos and chat rooms.

Mexico’s drug gangs drive film crew out of town – Escalating violence is forcing Hollywood and US tourists to stay away – roducers of a film about the murder of a cocaine smuggler, which would have starred Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett and Sir Ben Kingsley, have been forced to abandon filming on the Mexican coast after the movie-makers received death threats.

The drug war. Immigration reform. Escalating violence along the border. As if Hillary Clinton didn’t have enough to worry about on her first visit to Mexico as secretary of state, now some leading leftists are accusing the United States of stealing a city street in the nation’s capital.

President Barack Obama said last week that he wants to follow through on his promise to fix the immigration system. But that goal, always politically difficult, faces major hurdles: the crumbling economy, drug violence in Mexico, and a jam-packed agenda already facing Congress.

Mexican Drug Cartel Violence Spills Over, Alarming U.S.

US President Barack Obama will visit Mexico next month amid mounting US concern over Mexican drug cartel violence that is spilling over its southern border, officials said Wednesday.

U.S. Gun Industry Feeds Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, Violence Policy Center Analyst Tells Congress

Hillary Clinton and the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico

U.S. shares in blame for Mexico drug violence

President Obama weighed in Wednesday on the escalating drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that he was looking at possibly deploying National Guard troops to contain the violence but ruled out any immediate military move.

House subcommittees are considering spending requests for security along the U.S.-Mexico border and ways to help curb Mexican drug violence.

The rich flee Mexico drug violence – Fearing for their lives, affluent seek asylum in Houston, other Texas cities

HOUSTON — The drug cartels that have brought fear and crime to the U.S.-Mexico border are bringing violence to this city that has long been a major staging ground for illegal drug imports, authorities say.

Tourists weigh Mexico safety risk – Drug violence gives vacationers pause, concerns travel industry

As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U.S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point.

News Summaries for February 1st, 2009

News Summaries for January 28th, 2009

News Summary for December 19th-22nd, 2008

A yearlong epidemic of violence, the bulk blamed on drug-related viciousness, also killed the laughter and the music, decapitated a way of life, and shoved families and individuals on both sides of the Rio Grande into a perpetual state of sadness. The once-vibrant downtown nightclub and tourist district — the cultural corazón of Juárez — usually jammed with people this time of year, is now hauntingly silent.

News Summaries for Friday – December 12th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

News Summaries for Wednesday – December 10th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

Mexico’s bloody drug war – The drug violence in Mexico rivals death tolls in Iraq.

Microsoft Brings Holiday Cheer on a Budget to Hispanic Families With Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 Language Pack in Spanish

News Summary for Friday – December 5th, 2008

New Summary for Wednesday – December 3rd, 2008

News Summary for Thanksgiving Week 2008

Violence Against Journalists Grows in Mexico’s Drug War – Latest Victim Gunned Down in Front of Home

News Summary for November 7th – 11th, 2008

A beheaded man was hung from an overpass Thursday, a gruesome display even for this northern border city long used to drug-related violence. – Cuidad Juarez

News Summary for October 27th, 2008

For Tijuana children, drug war gore is part of their school day – Youths are increasingly exposed to the grisly violence that pervades the city.

Blogante News Summary for October 21st-23rd, 2008

Rice visits a Mexico fatigued by drug violence

Mexico’s spreading drug violence – The U.S. must help Mexico deal with rising drug violence before security problems spread.

Discovery en Espanol Presents ‘Silencio en Juarez’ – A Stunning Visual Expose that Sheds Light on the Vile Murders and Disappearances of Thousands of Innocent Women in Ciudad Juarez

Video: 2008 Siempre Mujer Siempre Inspiran Honorees Celebrated at Awards Reception and in the October-November Issue – Magazine Honors Myrka Dellanos, Mayte Prida, Laura Posada, Maria Elena Salinas, Ingrid Betancourt, Maria D. Roberts and Marisol Gonzalez, with a Personal Introduction by Adamari Lopez

Henry Dominguez of Anheuser-Busch Honored for Work with Los Angeles Youth

2008 Siempre Mujer Siempre Inspiran Honorees Revealed in October/November Issue – Magazine Honors Myrka Dellanos, Mayte Prida, Laura Posada, María Elena Salinas, Ingrid Betancourt, Maria D. Roberts and Marisol González

THE 2008 CONVENTION: Remarks by Miguel del Valle, August 25, 2008

News Summary for Wednesday – August 20th, 2008

News Summary for Sunday – August 17th, 2008

New Essentials for Sunday – August 17, 2008

Mounting drug-related violence and 800 murders so far this year have driven some 3,000 families from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into the United States, a border expert said Friday.

News Summary for Thursday – August 14th, 2008

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – July 29th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – July 29th, 200

U.S. Recession, Drug War Violence Cause Crisis in Mexico Tourism – Mexican tourism is worth $83 billion annually and helps support 2.4 million jobs

Blogante News Summary for Sunday – July 27th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Sunday – July 27th, 2008

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – July 23rd, 2008

Steelworkers Join Los Angeles Activists in Demanding Occidental Petroleum Stop its Complicity of Human Rights Abuses in Colombia

Blogante News Summary for Monday – July 21st, 2008

‘Flood’ of drugs from Mexico linked to area abductions – Georgia

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – July 17th, 2008

Narcocarridos sing of violence

Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

Tijuana’s painted ‘zebras’ threatened

Mexico’s drug war shows a virulent feminine side

The Long War of Genaro García Luna – Mexico’s top police official

Reporters covering Mexico drug wars risk their lives

More kids caught in Mexico drug-war crossfire

ICE doubles security efforts to ensure violence doesn’t spill over – El Paso / Juárez

Blogante News for Wednesday – June 11th, 2008

El Paso to ask feds for help treating wounded Mexican cops

Did You Know? Tuesday, the U.S. House authorized spending $1.6 billion over the next three years to help Mexico and other countries counter growing drug violence, including $74 million for the Justice Department to stem the flow of guns south. Funding, however, will have to come separately.

DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address

Texans head across the border to save on gasoline

Blogante News for Monday – June 9th, 2008

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