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By Louis Nevaer New America Media MERIDA, Mex. – The sudden death of Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, social critic and man of letters, last week at the age of 83, has cast a shadow over the nation just weeks before voters here will go to the polls to elect new leaders, including the president, in [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur In the United States, evangelical leaders have been at the forefront of pushing prayer in public schools. But in Mexico, they are in the vanguard in opposing it. While the so-called narco war and economic distress are generally regarded as the top two issues in this year’s electoral races, fundamental [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media LOS ANGELES — Javier Sicilia looks tired. The 56 year-old Mexican poet, essayist, journalist and novelist has been going non-stop since March 28th of last year, which is the day he acquired a distinction that is every Mexican’s nightmare: to be a member of one of the roughly [...]

By Laura Carlsen The starting bell rang for the Mexican presidential campaigns on March 30, and the candidates are out of the gates. As the nation faces an unprecedented crisis in levels of violence and lawlessness, one of the big issues is who will have to take the blame for the disastrous war on drugs. [...]

Frontera NorteSur As Mexicans took off from work and school for the long Holy Week-Easter holiday celebrations, the country’s presidential and congressional candidates inundated electronic media with new ads designed to win over the voters. A sampling of spots aired on Ciudad Juarez’s public radio station 106.7 FM over the Easter weekend zoomed in on [...]

Frontera NorteSur A Texas state senator is calling for an investigation of border security contracts granted to a private, Virginia-based firm. In a letter earlier this month, state Senator Jose Rodriguez requested that the Texas State Comptroller probe a series of no-bid contracts awarded by the administration of Republican Governor Rick Perry to Abrams Learning [...]

Note: In the 20th century and the first years of the 21st, women made a big mark in the public life of Mexico. Whether as educators, entertainers, entrepreneurs, activists or athletes, women have been an indispensable part of the national story. Journalists like Lydia Cacho and Carmen Aristegui became important interpreters of the national reality, [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras Machismo is dead in Mexico. The United States of Mexico has leapfrogged over the United States of America politically in a manner not a single human being could have ever expected of and in Mexico. Where women (Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Bachman) have failed in the United States of America, [...]

Frontera NorteSur  New fires are steadily igniting in different corners of the Mexican political system. As the country plunges head-long toward the July 1 elections, clashes over candidacies, bouts of negative campaigning and a new spying scandal are lighting up the political scene. A bizarre video game with a barely concealed subliminal message, “Super Ernesto,” [...]

By Salvador Guerrero WASHINGTON– The United States isn’t the only country facing a contentious presidential election this year. Mexico will elect a new president in July, and some experts think the National Action Party (PAN) will be ousted from office by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power for 71 years before the PAN [...]

Frontera NorteSur  It’s full-tilt political boogie in the US and Mexico. Media in both nations are saturated with interviews, profiles and satires of the candidates. Cable blasts virtually nonstop news of the Republican primaries and the ones for president and Mexico City mayor south of the border. In 2012 the neighboring countries will experience national, [...]

Se Anuncia Horario Especial del Módulo del Instituto Federal electoral en el Consulado para Registrarse en la Lista de Nominal de Electores residentes en el Extranjero  El Consulado General de México informa que el módulo del Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) que funciona en sus instalaciones tendrá un horario especial esta semana para atender solicitudes de [...]

Frontera NorteSur     What began as a chorus of loud denunciations ended in a round of resigned whimpers. The discourse of Michoacan gubernatorial candidate Maria Luisa “Cocoa” Calderon, who seriously challenged the legitimacy of the November 13 state election, soon took a radical turn when the sister of President Felipe Calderon and the standard-bearer of [...]

By David Bacon MEXICO CITY— Last week Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the nation speech since his (many say fraudulent) election in 2006. He didn’t have an easy time finding a positive spin for the escalating toll exacted by his war on drug gangs — 50,000 dead, mostly innocent civilians, in [...]

Por Mariana Martinez      Tres cuartos de la población de México dice estar descontento con el rumbo que lleva el país, menos de la mitad de los mexicanos creen que el gobierno este teniendo avances en contra del narcotráfico, y casi un tercio considera que no solo no hay avances sino serios retrocesos.     Esto [...]

Frontera NorteSur     In the closing days of the campaign for the key July 3 gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populated state, migration reemerged as one of the local issues. At a June 23 meeting in the Mexico state town of Tonatico, center-left candidate Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez agreed to a five-point action plan on migrant-related [...]

By Mariana Martinez     The black Maserati seemed on a quest to reunite with his owner.     He followed his saga all Tuesday long and didn’t rest until he was back at his mansion by the Caliente Race Track.     All night long the black Maserati was parked in the dusty road leading to Hongo [...]