July 18, 2008 John Ross
	AS U.S. PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS SHOW THEIR STUFF SOUTH OF THE BORDER, MEXICANS SAY THEY WILL VOTE FOR -- MEXICO CITY (July 18th) - When presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought his road show to Mexico City on the eve of U.S. Independence Day, he had one mission in mind: to have his portrait snapped with Mexico's most popular pin-up, the Virgin of Guadalupe.
July 15, 2008 Reuters
	Drug smugglers bribing U.S. agents on Mexico border -- HARLINGEN, Texas, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Border Patrol agent Reynaldo Zuniga was arrested last month lugging a bag of cocaine up from the Rio Grande, one of a growing number of law enforcement officers accused of taking bribes from drug gangs.
July 14, 2008 Truthout
	The Right to Stay Home -- Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico - For almost half a century, migration has been the main fact of social life in hundreds of indigenous towns spread through the hills of Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states. That's made the conditions and rights of migrants central concerns for communities like Santiago de Juxtlahuaca.
July 09, 2008 Alternet
	Mexican Torture Training Raises Questions About U.S. Military/Police Aid -- Two videos of a torture-training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human rights under the Calderon offensive against organized crime.
July 08, 2008 The Guardian
	Free trade's false promises -- John McCain has just returned from his so-called "free trade tour" in Mexico and Colombia where he highlighted the success of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and showed his support for the stalled and controversial US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
July 08, 2008 The Dallas Morning News
	Both Obama, McCain avoid immigration policy discussion -- WASHINGTON – John McCain and Barack Obama will happily engage on Iraq, taxes or health policy. The economy? Anytime, anywhere. But when it comes to immigration, neither is enthusiastic to talk, even though they largely agree on the solutions.
July 03, 2008 The Mercury News [Mexico Program in the News]
	Trade deals' effect on U.S. immigration a problem for McCain -- This week John McCain is visiting Mexico and Colombia to burnish his foreign policy credentials by meeting with top Bush administration allies, Presidents Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderón of Mexico.
July 03, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy
	North America Doesn't Exist -- About every six months or so, the media provide a fleeting show of North American unity. Whether on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean, the forests of Quebec, or the hurricane-torn streets of New Orleans, the script is pretty much the same. It includes a lot of back-slapping and almost no public information.
June 23, 2008 YES! Magazine
	Reclaiming Corn and Culture -- “The fatal date has arrived,” announced one of Mexico’s largest newspapers, El Universal, on New Year’s Day 2008. The last trade barriers between Canada, Mexico, and the United States fell on January 1, completing the North American Free Trade Agreement’s 14-year phase-in process.
June 18, 2008 Dollars & Sense Magazine
	From NAFTA to the SPP -- While left activists and researchers in Canada and Mexico have been spreading the word about the SPP for several years, so far in the United States the SPP, which was officially launched in March 2005, has mainly caught the attention of the right wing, which sees it as a stealth plan to impose a European Union-style government on the continent.
June 18, 2008 Associated Press
	Mexico freezes prices on 150 food products -- Mexican leader has blamed high food costs on rising global energy prices, soaring food demand in China and India and the use of corn for ethanol production.
June 17, 2008 Alliance for Responsible Trade
	The Future of Mexico's Oil -- Mexico is in the middle of one the most intense processes of public debate in its modern history. The theme is: the future of its energy sector and the state oil company PEMEX.
May 29, 2008 In These Times [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Mexico’s Ghost Towns -- Cerrito del Agua, population 3,000, has no paved roads -- either leading to it or within it. No restaurants, no movie theaters, no shopping malls.
May 29, 2008 The Dallas Morning News
	U.S. conditions threaten Mexico anti-drug package -- MEXICO CITY – Mexico will tell the U.S. to keep its money, if the U.S. Congress insists on linking a proposed anti-drug aid package to a series of human rights and legal conditions along with whittling down its dollar value, Mexican politicians, analysts and a top law enforcement official said Wednesday. Both houses of Congress have passed the package but have not agreed on a final version.
May 23, 2008 The New York Times
	Congress Trims Bush’s Anti-Drug Plan for Mexico -- MEXICO CITY — The United States Congress has scaled back on President Bush’s anti-drug plans for Mexico and put human rights conditions on some of the aid, drawing fire from some Mexicans who accuse American lawmakers of meddling in their country’s internal affairs.
May 10, 2008 The Seattle Times
	Labor groups oppose Mexican aid package -- WASHINGTON — A major U.S. counterdrug aid package for Mexico is under attack by U.S. organized labor, which says Congress should reject the initiative unless tough human-rights conditions are included, according to a letter revealed Friday.
May 05, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP
	The Bush Administration Has Put Its Proposal to Militarize Mexico into the Upcoming Iraq Supplemental Bill -- On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses.
May 02, 2008 Huffington Post
	Two Years After the Big Immigrants Rights Marches, Where Do Things Stand? -- On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
May 01, 2008 USA Today
	North American trade deal has not helped Mexico's poor -- The spirited defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement by President Bush and his Mexican counterpart in New Orleans recently ignored an inconvenient fact — the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the USA from Mexico has risen dramatically since that trade agreement's inception
April 29, 2008 John Ross
	Bad Jazz Abounds in New Orleans as Three NAFTA Leaders Huddle for the Last Time -- NEW ORLEANS (April 29th) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon was not having a good day. His plan to arrive in New Orleans for the NAFTA Summit April 21st-22nd with a freshly minted law privatizing Mexico's oil industry in his pocket had been foiled by the opposition's takeover of congress.
April 28, 2008 Washington Post
	N.Va. Hit With Cost Of School Migration -- Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.
April 23, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	Dissecting the North American Summit Joint Statement: Bush's Last Stand -- On April 22, Presidents George W. Bush, Felipe Calderón, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded a trilateral summit in New Orleans. The three leaders reiterated their unconditional support for NAFTA and the SPP, urged passage of the Colombia FTA, and argued for passage of the Plan Mexico aid package.
April 22, 2008 Huffington Post
	Time to Renegotiate NAFTA, Not Expand It -- When President Bush meets his counterparts Felipe Calderon of Mexico and Stephen Harper of Canada in New Orleans this week for the fourth summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), NAFTA itself will not be on the agenda.
April 21, 2008 Global Exchange
	Statement on the Security & Prosperity Summit in New Orleans -- President Bush is meeting this week with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for the fourth summit of the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which has become known as ‘NAFTA-plus’. Rather than tackle problems that have roots in the NAFTA model—including growing income gaps and worker insecurity in all three countries, as well as dramatically accelerated migration from Mexico to the United States—these leaders hope to quietly extend its reach.
April 20, 2008 Truthout
	In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants -- Jackson, MS - On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't have legal immigration status in the U.S.
April 18, 2008 The Washington Post
	Mexicans Get Less Aid From Migrants -- LO DE LUNA, Mexico -- The effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the downturn in the U.S. economy have cascaded into Mexico, causing a sudden, precipitous drop in the flow of money sent home by Mexican immigrants and highlighting this country's dependence on its wealthier northern neighbor.
April 17, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy
	Two Chicken Stories: NAFTA's Real Winners and Losers -- Pedro Martin works on a chicken farm just outside the village of Pegueros, Jalisco. The state of Jalisco ranks among Mexico's top chicken-producing states, providing the nation with 11% of all chicken meat produced.
April 14, 2008 OneWorld US
	Rights Groups Applaud Trade Deal's Tabling -- SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.
April 12, 2008 Houston Chronicle
	Build Mexico instead of putting up a wall -- If the official minimum wage were 10 times higher in Chicago than in St. Louis, it's easy to imagine what would happen: Thousands of men and women would leave their homes and families and travel north in search of better wages and a higher standard of living. And Regardless of what Chicago did to "protect and defend" its borders, the city would find it impossible to stem the relentless tide of determined job-seekers.
April 08, 2008 Political Affairs
	Photos: The Men Who Live in the Canyon -- SAN DIEGO, CA - 31MARCH08 - Isaias, Alvino and Porfirio, three Mixtec men from Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Los Peñasquitos canyon on the north edge of San Diego.

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