November 20, 2008 The Indypendent [Dispatches From Mexico]
	The Rule of Impunity: Mexican Government Ignores Overwhelming Evidence, Charges Oaxacan Activists with Brad Will’s Murder -- On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and officials and members of the Oaxaca Peoples’ Popular Assembly, or APPO.
November 13, 2008 Rolling Stone
	The War Next Door -- The dead policeman is found propped against a tree off a dirt road on the outskirts of the city. He is dressed like a cartoon version of a Mexican cowboy, wearing a sombrero and wrapped in a heavy woolen blanket.
October 10, 2008 Sacramento Bee
	Candidates' silence on immigration irks Latinos -- Two presidential debates later, and still no comment from John McCain or Barack Obama on the issue of illegal immigration.
October 03, 2008 La Jornada
	Rethinking NAFTA After the Wall Street Meltdown -- Competing for the votes of industrial workers during last Spring’s Democratic Party primary, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement in order to add protections for workers and the environment.
September 20, 2008 Common Dreams
	A Violent Mexican “Independence” Day -- Throughout Mexican modern history, millions have gathered in the country's central squares every year on the eve of our Independence Day, September 16, to give out the traditional "shout" of independence. This year, the celebration turned into tragedy in the city of Morelia...
September 11, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor
	Is Mexico the new China? -- Mexico City - Just as Mexico was becoming the rising star of global manufacturing in the 1990s, China's even cheaper wages turned that country into the world's factory.
September 03, 2008 The Guardian
	Competing for America's business -- Even before the Olympics, China struck fear across the world. To westerners, China steals our shirts and jobs, pirates our technologies and pollutes "our" atmosphere. Developing countries are no stranger to such concern - particularly Mexico.
August 25, 2008 Huffington Post
	Obama on Latin America -- The great debate on how much – or how little -- Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere has the price of the Bush national security strategy been higher, as the violent deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers and 93,000 Iraqis attest.
August 21, 2008 Alternet
	Impasse: Are We Nearing the End of the Corporate Globalization Era? -- When the history of the seismic shifts occurring today in the global economy is written, the failure in July 2008 of corporate interests and some governments to expand the World Trade Organization (WTO) through the Doha Round will stand as a watershed moment.
August 03, 2008 The New York Times
	Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals -- JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
July 31, 2008 Democracy Now! [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico -- Listen to Democracy Now's War and Peace report featuring John Gibler on the US role in Mexico's growing drug war.
July 29, 2008 Common Frontiers
	THE BATTLE OVER PEMEX: -- On July 27 more than one and a half million Mexicans in nine states and the capital city voted on proposed legislation that would see Mexico's nationalized energy sector opened up to foreign investment.
July 28, 2008 The New York Times
	After Iowa Raid, Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries -- POSTVILLE, Iowa — When federal immigration agents raided the kosher meatpacking plant here in May and rounded up 389 illegal immigrants, they found more than 20 under-age workers, some as young as 13.
July 20, 2008 The New York Times
	Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact -- It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville suburb for a routine traffic violation.
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.
June 10, 2008 In These Times [Dispatches From Mexico]
	Death Squads in Oaxaca -- SAN JUAN COPALA, Mexico — Driving through the back roads of western Oaxaca state in southwestern Mexico, one could often hear 94.9 FM, Radio Copala, “The Voice that Breaks the Silence.”
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.

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