Foster Care, Uncertain Futures Loom for Thousands of Immigrant Children

America's Wire, News Report, Marjorie Valbrun, Posted: Jan 30, 2012

Thousands of immigrant children are languishing in state foster care nationwide, their parents having been detained or deported by federal immigration authorities.


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Calif. Investigates Skin-Lighteners for Dangerous Mercury

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Jan 27, 2012

Starting next week, California health officials will collect and test a sampling of skin-lightening products in the Bay Area for possible mercury contamination.


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Can the Triquis Go Home?

New America Media, News Report, David Bacon, Posted: Jan 19, 2012

It looks similar to the U.S. Occupy protests, but rather than fighting to remain in their tents, Triqui families have been fighting for the right to go home.


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Elections for End Times: Mirror Races in U.S. and Mexico

Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Kent Paterson, Posted: Jan 18, 2012

The last time major U.S. and Mexican elections coincided, the results led to unimaginable events in both countries.


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Mexican Media Question Secret U.S. Military Actions

Hispanic Link, Op-ed, José de la Isla, Posted: Jan 15, 2012

Two op-eds in Mexico City's Excelsior and Reforma newspapers take a skeptical look at U.S. military policy in Latin America.


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Iran’s Ahmadinejad Visits Four Latin American Countries

Council on Hemispheric Affairs, News Analysis, Christina Gordon, Olga Imbaquingo, Lauren Paverman, Alex Sanchez , Posted: Jan 12, 2012

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas on Sunday night in the first stop of a four-nation tour of Latin America.


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Ecuadorean Columnist on Chevron, Money and Nature

El Comercio, News Report, Posted: Jan 09, 2012

Columnist Milagros Aguirre writes for Quito's ElComercio.com that the 18-year case against the Chevron Corporation marked what she called "the trial of the century."


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As Brazil Booms, So Do New Drug Routes

New America Media, News Report, Louis E.V. Nevaer, Posted: Jan 09, 2012

As Mexico’s Drug War drives out the cartels, drug rings are now shipping to the U.S., Africa and elsewhere with Brazil at the epicenter of activity.


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Immigrant Left Disabled In Work Accident Dies After Deportation

ColorLines, News Report, Jorge Rivas, Posted: Jan 05, 2012

Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, who was deported to Mexico by a Chicago-area hospital in 2010, passed away on Sunday.


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New York Struggles to Educate Indigenous Mexican Immigrants

New America Media, Commentary, Louis E.V. Nevaer, Posted: Jan 05, 2012

NAM contributor Louis Nevaer argues that New York is experiencing firsthand what has been Mexico's long struggle to educate its indigenous population.


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Will Migrants Matter in the Mexican Election?

Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Kent Patterson, Posted: Jan 04, 2012

Since they got the power to vote in 2006, few Mexican migrants have participated in their country's elections.


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