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Travel alert warns against unnecessary travel to Mexico
Alert has a negative impact in tourism By Mariana Martinez “A friend woke us up in a panic, begging for us to go back to US soil, and since then we have been swamped by emails and calls about the US travel alert,” tells 51 year old Seattle Washington truck driver, Dawn Rainmann. “But what we see [...]
Continue reading...Impacto Negativo para Mexico nueva alerta de viaje emitida por el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos
Friday, March 19, 2010
Por Mariana Martinez “Una amiga nos despertó con su llamada histérica ayer, pidiendo que volviéramos a suelo estadounidense, nos han inundado con llamadas, correos, alertas, advirtiéndonos de la medida de Estados Unidos”, cuenta Dawn Rainmann chofer de tráiler originaria de Seattle, de 51 años de edad. “Pero nosotros lo que hemos visto es una ciudad tranquila, con [...]
Continue reading...Memories of Jaime: Selena, Smiles and Serial Murder
Friday, March 12, 2010
International Women’s Day By Kent Paterson By most accounts, she was an outgoing girl who loved to sing and dance. Tejana legend Selena was her idol. The John Adams Middle School student loved sports, books and butterflies. And she was someone whose smile could lift a depressed person’s heart. That’s how relatives remembered 15-year-old Jamie Barela. On March [...]
Continue reading...“El Muletas” arrestado!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Por Mariana Martínez Tiene un narco-corrido con su nombre contando sus hazañas; una película promovida por él mismo, autos blindados, armas bañadas en oro portando su nombre en diamantes y hasta un ejército de más de 200 personas, con uniformes que muestran su total egolatría: Fuerzas Especiales Muletas. Era el encargado de entregar los cadáveres de las [...]
Continue reading...Rebuilding Shattered Lives
Friday, January 22, 2010
Frontera NorteSur A group of migrant farm-workers and their relatives is attempting to pick up the pieces of their lives after a deadly crash along the Mexico-US border. Early on the morning of January 2, a bus carrying 34 agricultural laborers and family members veered off a cliff near the settlement of La Rumorosa on the [...]
Continue reading...“El Teo” One of Mexico’s Most Wanted, Arrested
Friday, January 15, 2010
Por Mariana Martinez The guy was asleep in his room, no bodyguards around. Just before dawn an explosion was heard and over 50 masked police men entered his huge mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in quiet La Paz, Baja California Sur. That was the way police arrested one of the most renowned narcos from Tijuana. Teodoro García Simental [...]
Continue reading...“El Teo” Uno de los Más Buscados en Mexico, Arrestado
Friday, January 15, 2010
Por Mariana Martínez Dormido en su cuarto y sin guardaespaldas. Una explosión en la madrugada y media centena de agentes encapuchados entrando a la mansión de una zona exclusiva en la tranquila ciudad de La Paz. Así fue finalmente capturado uno de los narcotraficantes más nombrados de Tijuana. Teodoro García Simental mejor conocido como “El Teo” “El Tres [...]
Continue reading...Paisano Program: what do you need to travel to Mexico?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Mariana Martínez It is around this time of year when thousands of Mexican immigrants or Mexican-Americans prepare to go back to Mexico during the holidays, a trip that is eagerly expected but can turn into a disaster if you don’t comply with Mexican laws and take a few precautions. For the last 20 years, the Paisano [...]
Continue reading...Programa Paisano: ¿qué pasos hay que seguir para ingresar mercancía a México?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Por Mariana Martínez Es por estas fechas que miles de migrantes mexicanos y norteamericanos de origen mexicano vuelven a sus lugares de origen para celebrar la navidad, pero el viaje puede pronto convertirse en una pesadilla si no se cumplen los requisitos que piden las autoridades mexicanas. Desde hace 20 años el llamado Programa Paisano, impulsado por [...]
Continue reading...CBP Launches H2 Temporary Worker Exit Pilot Program in Arizona
Friday, December 18, 2009
WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched on Tuesday, December 8 a pilot program for exiting H-2A/B temporary workers. The program will be tested at San Luis and Douglas land ports of entry in Arizona and it is expected to last approximately one year. The goal is to ensure that temporary workers comply with [...]
Continue reading...International Court Holds Mexico Accountable for Ciudad Juarez Femicides
Friday, December 18, 2009
Frontera NorteSur In a ruling that could reverberate across the Americas, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has taken the Mexican government to task for the murders of three young women in Ciudad Juarez. In a historic decision published this month, the justices found the government incurred in violations of the American Convention on Human Rights [...]
Continue reading...UC San Diego Announces New Center for Migration and Health
Friday, November 20, 2009
Part of UC Institute to Address Global Health The University of California, San Diego will lead a new Center of Expertise on Migration and Health as one of three multi-campus initiatives launched by the University of California system under the auspices of the new UC Global Health Institute. The new center is headed by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, [...]
Continue reading...Janet Napolitano Predicts Immigration Reform in 2010
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Khalil Abdullah New America Media WASHINGTON — Timing is everything in the arts of war or politics, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Nov. 13 speech on the need for immigration reform. “Now, while everyone may agree that the status quo isn’t working, what everyone may not be aware of is how much the immigration landscape [...]
Continue reading...U.S. – Mexico celebrate joint Baja California air quality studies
Friday, November 6, 2009
TIJUANA, MEXICO — Today in Tijuana B. C., Mexico, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Mexican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the Environmental Protection Agency of Baja California, the California Air Resources Board and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission will initiate the Baja California Air Monitoring Network coverage assessment study and the Tijuana-Rosarito [...]
Continue reading...Gov. Schwarzenegger and Gov. Osuna Millán Sign MOU to Increase Collaboration Between California and Baja California
Friday, October 30, 2009
Build on Cooperative Efforts to Create a More Vibrant Economy, Healthier Environment in Border Region Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Baja California Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue to build upon their cooperative efforts on important issues in the California-Baja California border region. Specifically in the agreement, they [...]
Continue reading...Margarita Diaz saving the local beaches one clean-up at a time
Friday, October 16, 2009
Environmental activists to be recognized as the “Coastal Community Defense Champion” By Mariana Martínez Human borders have no meaning to air, earth, and water, something well understood by environmental activists, whom in the last decade have worked closely, shoulder to shoulder, with their counterparts in San Diego-Tijuana in the search of environmental justice needed for all. It has [...]
Continue reading...Margarita Díaz salvando las playas locales con limpieza
Friday, October 16, 2009
Por Mariana Martínez Las fronteras humanas no tienen mayor relevancia para el aire, la tierra o el agua, algo entendido bien por los activistas ambientales, que desde hace al menos una década han colaborado de manera cercana con sus contrapartes en Tijuana-San Diego en búsqueda de la justicia ambiental que merecemos todos. Esta ha sido exactamente la [...]
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