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By Kent Paterson Fronter NorteSur It might be called Puerto Vallarta’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Climbing up a double row of steps and fronting white homes with red-tiled roofs, the cobble-stone heights of Iturbide Street offer a magnificent view of blue Banderas Bay and its population of wintering humpback whales and playful dolphins. From the high [...]

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, [...]

Story and Photographs by David Bacon OAXACA, MEXICO — The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants, and its director Rufino Dominguez, called for a new era of respect for the rights of migrants, in commorating the International Day of the Migrant in the Palacio del Gobierno, Oaxaca’s state capitol building. Representing the newly-elected state government, [...]

Occupy movement finds its roots in Mexico By David Bacon     When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp “Planton Seattle,” camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the detention center [...]

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 Louis E.V. Nevaer New America Media MERIDA, Mexico – In less than nine months, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect a new president, and already the tantalizing question has set social media here all abuzz: Is Mexico ready to elect a woman?     Mexico has had a black president in Vicente Guerrero, [...]

Frontera NorteSur     In a Ciudad Juarez ceremony, a mid-level Mexican official asked forgiveness for the Mexican state’s negligence in the murders of three young women a decade ago.     “Because of its non-compliance in investigating and guaranteeing the rights of victims, and for violating access to justice and protection, the state recognizes its responsibility,” [...]

    The offices of the Mexican daily El Buen Tono in the city of Córdoba in the south-eastern state of Ver-acruz were almost totally destroyed in an early morning arson attack two days ago, barely a month after it was launched.     “A description obtained by Reporters Without Borders from the newspaper’s publisher, Julio Fentanes [...]

Story and Photos by David Bacon   If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. In Oaxaca, 18% of its 3.7 million people have left for other parts of Mexico, and especially for [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media JUAREZ, Mexico – A recent ruling by Mexico’s supreme court on right-to-life amendments in two northern states has pro-choice supporters fearful of a dangerous precedent that could fly beneath the radar of the country’s upcoming presidential elections. The decision by the eleven-member court, after just two days of [...]

By Valeria Fernández New America Media PHOENIX, Ariz. – The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise.     Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths.     The report, “A [...]

By Mariana Martinez     Mexico is in turmoil this week over the start of deliberations on the constitutionality of reforms made to 18 state constitutions regarding the right to life from conception. The rejection of such reforms is seen as success for human and reproductive rights of women.     The discussion is centered on two [...]

Por Mariana Martinez     Esta semana inicio la discusión en la suprema corte que podría dar marcha atrás a las legislaciones de 18 estados de México que prohíben el aborto en todas sus formas, lo que significaría un triunfo de los acuerdos internacionales firmados por México en materia de derechos humanos y reproductivos.     La [...]

 Frontera NorteSur     A slew of press reports offers glimpses at a few of the trends that have transformed the Mexican economy during the past decade, a time when the future of the national petroleum industry saw the writing on the wall and the factory employment boom promised by the North American Free Trade Agreement [...]

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 [...]