A new study from the Instituto Mexicano Para La Competitividad A.C. (Mexican Institute for Competitiveness) reveals potentially devastating consequences for a number of Mexican drug cartels should marijuana be legalized in a handful of the United States. The Mexican think thank believes the legalization measures on the ballot in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington could cut combined cartel profits by as much as 22 to 30 percent, and could severely cripple the infamous Sinaloa Cartel that operates in Western Mexico. source
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13 Mexican journalist have disappeared since 2003: here’s a map of their disappearances. These folks, as Atlantic Cities notes, were most likely killed, but unlike a number of their colleagues, their bodies have never been found. The map was made by Articulo 19. They also made an infographic of instance of attacks on the media with firearms and explosives.
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13 Mexican journalist have disappeared since 2003: here’s a map of their disappearances. These folks, as Atlantic Cities notes, were most likely killed, but unlike a number of their colleagues, their bodies have never been found. The map was made by Articulo 19. They also made an infographic of instance of attacks on the media with firearms and explosives.
Nothing sadder than knowing that hard-working journalists went missing on a hunt for the truth.
The investigation was launched by the DOJ’s Inspector General’s office, which recommended that the Justice Department consider disciplining the 14 agents named. Holder said today that the report would be reviewed with “consideration of potential personnel actions.”
Unconfirmed footage of a man killed Monday by U.S. Border Patrol on the banks of the Rio Grande.
By TED HESSON
In recent years, studies show that net migration from Mexico to the U.S. has slowed to nearly nothing, and perhaps even reversed. Yet the border remains fraught with tension and militarism, as evinced by the fatal shooting of a Mexican man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Monday in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.
Dangerous times along the border, as five people were killed by U.S. patrol agents last year, compared to just one death four years ago.
Tropical Storm Ernesto might miss the U.S., but … it just got done dropping heavy rains on Jamaica — just as they were cheering for Usain Bolt’s Olympic victory on Sunday. The storm is now making its way to Honduras. It’s currently moving westward at 12 mph and could be at hurricane-strength by the time it crosses the Mexico-Belize border on Wednesday. Another storm, Florence, is currently stalling in the Atlantic Ocean; that storm has stopped strengthening and is expected to degenerate. source
In case it wasn’t obvious, Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is not accepting the results of the presidential election, which gave Enrique Peña Nieto a win. Lopez Obrador stands behind his allegations of voter fraud. (photo by Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
With just over 99 percent of the ballot boxes counted as of 9 p.m., more than half of them double-checked due to the possibility of fraud, Pena Nieto had more than 38 percent of the vote. In second place was leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with more than 31 percent. That gave Pena Nieto a lead of more than 3.3 million votes.
Lopez Obrador alleges Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes toward the party that controlled virtually all Mexico’s institutions until it lost the presidency in 2000. Lopez Obrador has not specified exactly how many votes he believes were bought.
Expect runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and other candidates, however, to follow up with a legal challenge.
“There is no greater dishonor when reflecting on the death of a young journalist than by referring to them as aspiring.” Some important thoughts from freelance journalist Andrew Katz, writing in Time on the deaths of AP intern Armando “Mando” Montaño (above), who died earlier this week while working in Mexico City, and Marina Keegan, a Yale journalist who died in a car accident days after graduating.
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There is no return to the past. You have given our party a second chance and we will deliver results.PRI presidential candidate Pena Nieto • Discussing his party’s apparent victory in Sunday’s Mexican elections. It’s a fairly huge victory for PRI, also known as the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which fell from favor in 2000 after 71 straight years in power. It was a sizable victory — he received 38 percent of the vote, well ahead of the 31-percent second place candidate, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who refused to concede — but far from a mandate. Realizing he has a lot of work to do, considering his party’s prior reputation, Nieto, a centrist, tried to make it clear that even without the mandate, PRI wouldn’t act as it once did. “My gratitude tonight is for the millions of Mexican who voted for me,” he said. “I will work for all of Mexico … I will govern for everyone.”
This google map shows election results in Mexico, as they care counted by the country’s Federal Electoral Institute or IFE.
The two-year-old boy, from Mexico, is 26 pounds. The tumor removed from his body? 33 pounds. It took ten hours for doctors to remove — the first time they’ve removed a tumor bigger than the person who had it. Crazy. (photo by Mexican Social Security Institute/AP)
Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.
Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.
His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.
READ MORE: Romney’s birth certificate evokes father’s controversy
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