`MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN.- Las autoridades de Estados Unidos inaugurarán el próximo martes un puente fronterizo de más de cinco kilómetros en la frontera con México que unirá las ciudades de Reynosa (Tamaulipas, México) y Mission (Texas, EU), informó hoy el Consulado de ese país en Monterrey…`
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`WASHINGTON, EU.- La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de EU, Janet Napolitano, y el secretario de Hacienda de México, Agustín Carstens, firmaron un acuerdo para mejorar la seguridad en la frontera y facilitar el turismo y el intercambio comercial…`
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MIAHUATLÁN, Mexico — During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr. Salcedo finds himself doing what he never imagined he would have to do: wiring pesos north.
Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/world/americas/16mexico.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=americas
Reporting from Mexico City – In the middle of his country’s worst economic crisis in a generation, Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday nominated a close political ally, Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, to replace the well- respected head of the central bank.
Carstens, a University of Chicago-trained economist, has serious creds in the financial world too. But he is also seen as someone willing to be more collaborative with the president than the fiercely independent outgoing Bank of Mexico director.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-mexico-central-bank10-2009dec10,0,2346636.story
TIJUANA — In the year since Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola Perez became Tijuana’s top cop, drug traffickers have gone to great measures to force him out.
They’ve gunned down his officers; left him taunting, handwritten messages at crime scenes; and more than once plotted his assassination.
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http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/06/tijuana-has-new-weapon-war-drug-gangs/
By Reed Johnson
December 7, 2009
Mexico’s second-biggest city gets major touristic props for its tequila, baroque architecture and mariachi music. The United States’ second-biggest city is famous (or infamous) as the world capital of cars, indolent pleasures and the film industry.
But in the course of last week’s Guadalajara International Book Fair, two metropolises with growing cultural and intellectual ties discovered there was more to each other than Hollywood movies or agave-distilled spirits.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-guadalajara7-2009dec07,0,6994116.story
`CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.- El Gobierno federal pedirá al de Estados Unidos detener la construcción del muro fronterizo en las zonas comunes de Janos, Chihuahua, para permitir la migración natural de los bisontes puros que se liberaron para repoblar esa pradera…`
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`TUCSON, Arizona, EE.UU. (AP) — Una jueza amenazó con sentenciar a 25 días de prisión a un hombre de Arizona que dejó envases con agua en el desierto para los inmigrantes indocumentados…`
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http://www.elnuevoheraldo.com/articles/hombre-40292-agua-indocumentados.html
`El Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos ha estimado que 800 mil hombres, mujeres y niños son traficados alrededor del mundo cada año.
Y muchas de estas víctimas de esclavitud de los días modernos pasan por el Valle del Río Grande, dijo un vocero de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés)…`
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http://www.elnuevoheraldo.com/articles/mil-40302-estimado-mujeres.html
`In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively under martial law. Is this evidence of a creeping coup by the military? A war between drug cartels? Between the president and his opposition? Or just collateral damage from the (U.S.-supported) war on drugs? Nobody knows: Mexico is where facts, like people, simply disappear. The stakes for the U.S. are high, especially as the prospect of a failed state on our southern border begins to seem all too real…`
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