Mexico
Mexico Edition.
MONDAY, JULY 25 PROGRAM # 7842 12:00 PM PST. Mexico Edition. While Barack Obama congratulates Mexico’s president Peña Nieto for blocking Central Americans from crossing into the United States, activists report that migrants constitute the largest group of missing persons in Mexico. Even so, the Mexican government refuses to create a law that would help […]
Mexico Edition.
MONDAY, JULY 18 PROGRAM # 7837 12:00 PM PST. Mexico Edition. The tributary of the Ajajalpa River, and the springs and streams of towns surrounding it, were licensed to the company Comexhidro, which started construction of a hydroelectric plant to supply the transnational company WalMart with electricity. This is the first of 14 self-sufficient projects […]
Mexico’s Heroin Market.
FRIDAY, JULY 15 PROGRAM # 7836 12:00 PM PT Mexico’s Heroin Market. A conversation with journalist and writer José Reveles about his new book Echale la Culpa a la Heroína. In his investigative work, Reveles reveals that Mexico has emerged as the second heroin producer in the world, and Guerrero state is the top market […]
Mexico’s Teachers’ Movement Gains Support from Indigenous Authorities
Almost a hundred municipal authorities from the Mixtec region of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are organizing a caravan to Mexico City to demand a peaceful solution in the conflict between the government and teachers who are protesting education reform.
“Sweet Poison.”
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 PROGRAM # 7834 12:00 PM PT “Sweet Poison.” Mexico is fourth in soft drink consumption in the world, and at the same time among the most obese and diabetic countries on the planet. Aware about the connections, a group of artists, consumer advocates and media activists came together to produce an album […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JULY 8. PROGRAM # 7831 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Scientists, businessmen and lawyers, led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been meeting in secret to plan the construction of a totally synthetic human genome, using a technique known as CRISPR, with gene drivers, according to ETC Group, an organization […]
Mexico Edition.
THURSDAY, JULY 7 PROGRAM # 7830 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Family members and former U.S. military personnel who were deported are asking for humanitarian visas at the border in San Isidro to allow them to return to the United States. Most of them lost their residency because of crimes for which they already paid. […]
(Español) Pierden el miedo maestros de la CNTE. Gobernación decide reanudar mesa de diálogo
(Español) Hay expectativas de que se abrogue dicha reforma, o al menos se suspenda temporalmente, según dio muestras el gobierno.
Mexico Edition.
TUESDAY, JUNE 28. PROGRAM # 7814 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Although discussions are underway between the protesting teachers and the federal government, Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto reiterates that his administration’s education reform is “not negotiable.” Teachers are still protesting in four states and have 37 barricades of highways in Oaxaca, where police repression […]
Mexico’s Government Responds To Teacher Protest with Brutal Violence
Videos and photographs show police shooting at protesting teachers.