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By José Luis Sierra New America Media     Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that “nobody is going to be able to stop drug trafficking” from Mexico to the United States. He insisted that the only way to solve the problem would be for his country to legalize the consumption of drugs, while the [...]

Commentary: By John Flores    Late on the night of March 31, 1911—100 years ago this spring—the great Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata led a group of armed men in commandeering a police station in Villa de Ayala, a small town in southern Mexico. The group disarmed the police and held an emergency meeting in [...]

Commentary: By Laura Carlsen    The presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what [...]

Frontera NorteSur     As recent comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reaffirm, the Obama administration is wagering that Mexican President Felipe Calderon can largely dismantle powerful organized crime groups in the 22 months the conservative leader has left in office. But in Mexico, the calendar operates in [...]

Frontera NorteSur     While the US busied itself preparing for the annual Thanksgiving feast, Mexico took a step back into its own history. November 20 marked the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the world’s first great socio-political upheaval of the last century, as well as the beginning of a process that shaped the identity [...]

México del Norte Jorge Mújica Murias   … pues del gobierno de México, ¡quién más!     Ora resulta que el que ha fallado para que haya reforma migratoria en Estados Unidos es el gobierno mexicano. Si se hubiera puesto las pilas, desde hace chico rato ya hubiéramos tenido reforma de este lado. Eso parece decir el [...]

Editorial: Southwestern Community College has had some tough issues to deal with and it would be naive of us not to recognize this. The number one issue is accreditation, but there has also been the issue of the budget and how the college has changed the way it does business. Perhaps the most volatile issue [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz     A former president wants to return to Southwestern College –as board member.     Norma Hernandez, who worked at Southwestern College (SWC) in different positions until she retired in 2006, is running for Seat 4 against incumbent and current board president, Yolanda Salcido.     Hernandez said she wants to become a [...]

Por Mariana Martínez     El cielo nublado en una mañana de sábado que parece triste aunque sea pleno agosto, el muro penetrando al mar como es costumbre y poco a poco vamos llegando todos los reporteros, saludando, reconociéndonos mientras dejamos nuestras herramientas de trabajo en el suelo: libretas chorreadas de café, cámaras, grabadoras, celulares, plumas, [...]

Por Mariana Martínez Esténs Video: Ceremonia TKT La caravana de activistas, rescatistas y reporteros avanza bajo los intensos rayos del sol que calientan el aire hasta que se hace difícil incluso respirar. A una distancia se apostan elementos de la policía estatal, a quienes se les pidió resguardo por miedo a asaltantes en esta transitada [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media As the political jockeying begins in the wake of last week’s state and local elections, executions continue all over the country with no clear signs of change. Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mex. — A kid was killed this past Thursday night while buying bread at a bakery, along with [...]

 Analysis  By Mariana Martinez     Baja California held elections for mayors on Sunday, but only 30% of those who could vote actually did, and it was only to give a sweeping win to PRI Party, who ended up putting mayors in all the five cities in the state.     This is a symptom of the [...]

 Analysis  Por Mariana Martinez     En las elecciones de Baja California solo un 30% del patrón electoral salió a las urnas, y fue solo fue para darle el triunfo al PRI en todas las alcaldías del estado, demostrando un enojo generalizado con la clase política y los partidos, pero también una critica directa a las [...]

By Daniel Muñoz      The story of Don Quixote is that of a man who takes up the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. In the race for County Supervisor, District 4, Juan del Río very much fits [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz     Muchos electores en el Distrito 8 de la Ciudad de San Diego se pueden identificar con la historia de vida de David Álvarez: viene de una familia de clase trabajadora en Barrio Logan, sus padres trabajaban en empleos mal pagados como conserje y en la comida rápida; fue el primero [...]

By Mariana Martinez Estens     Mexican President Felipe Calderon has publicly condemned the passing of SB 1070 in Arizona, a law that will allow any authority to ask for immigration status of those who “appear to be undocumented.”     Calderon has publicly said this change in the law is tainted by an electoral process and [...]

Por Mariana Martinez Estens     El presidente Calderón ha condenado públicamente los cambios de ley 1070 en Arizona que exigen a autoridades locales pedir documentos migratorios a todo aquel que les parezca “bajo sospecha” de ser indocumentado.     El presidente de México advirtió que ésta ley legislada con fines electorales afecta los lazos de amistad, [...]