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Washington Post

I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled t

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AP

The money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, Mexico's central bank said --- part of a global trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis.

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Arizona Republic

Nearly 1 million Mexican migrants living in the U.S. are expected to head home for the holidays, but relatively few are returning loaded down with gifts and cash this year. Many are simply moving back after losing their jobs in the U.S. economic c

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Counterpunch

One day after Bush signed the $1.6 billion Plan Mexico into law giving Mexican military and police US training, armament, and resources videos surfaced showing Mexican police undergoing torture training by a man from a US security company.

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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com

by Tom Leonard - Mexicans are being encouraged to reclaim a piece of Texas, more than 150 years after they lost the Lone Star state to the United States. (Too bad you have to go outside the U.S. to find these things out...)

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Mexico Reporter

The Supreme Court judges who voted that the rights of Lydia Cacho were not violated enough when she was arrested, detained and tortured by Puebla’s police under the orders of Governor Mario Marin were paid off by Marin’s lawyers, according to the jou

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AP

A time capsule was found atop a bell tower at Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral, where it was placed in 1791 to protect the building from harm. The lead box — filled with religious artifacts, coins and parchments — was hidden in a hollow stone

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news.bbc.co.uk

Opposition protesters in Mexico have torn down a bronze statue of the former president, Vicente Fox, just hours after it was erected.

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USA Today

Douglas was shocked by the high cost and impersonal care at assisted-living facilities near her home. She joined a small but steadily growing number of Americans who are moving across the border to nursing homes in Mexico, where the sun is bright and

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AFP

The US government is closing in on a deal with Mexico to launch a major fight against the violent drug cartels there ... which would include telephone-tapping equipment and radars to track traffickers as they ship the drugs.

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Christian Science Monitor

A young man is shopping at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show [in Phoenix], and there's plenty to choose from. The cavernous hall is packed with tables loaded with long guns and pistols, some barrels etched with names like El Capitán and El Supr

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Arizona Republic

A weapon seized after a drug-war massacre last week at a Mexican border town was sold in Phoenix in another sign that southbound gunrunning and the firepower of drug cartels have accelerated in the last few months. "There is a war going on on th

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Arizona Republic

Chandler High senior Maria Duenas is going to have a difficult time cracking higher education after her high school graduation May 30. She may be deported. "I've been here for 16 years, so it feels like something is being taken away," t

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AP

Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than death since 2000, according to a government report released Thursday. Mexico's demographics agency found that an average of 577,000 people migrated to the U.S. each year betwee

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AP

Several thousand women marched through the Mexican capital in support of a bill to legalize abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church.

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