Maura Kelly, Comment Is Free. August 15, 2008. Jeff Wood was sentenced to death under Texas' draconian Law of Parties for a murder that he did not plan or witness. He faces execution next week.
Laura Carlsen, Huffington Post. July 14, 2008. Videos depicting torture-training sessions with Mexican police raise alarm over human rights under Calderon's US-assisted war on crime.
Kent Paterson, CorpWatch. July 14, 2008. Cruise business is booming at the expensive of the environment, local communities, their own workers, and even the safety of their customers.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. May 29, 2008. While water shortages are getting worse in areas of increasing urbanization, Coke is digging in their heels there to make more money.
Tony Newman, AlterNet. May 16, 2008. Lou Dobbs talks nonsense to explain Mexican drug violence. Face it: Drug prohibition creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for.
Todd Tucker, Eyes on Trade. April 4, 2008. Mexico stands to lose an amount equal to 3 percent of their GDP due to the over-reliance on the U.S. export market.
Trish, Pensito Review AlterNet: PEEK. March 7, 2008. Maybe they only want to protect our border singular. You know, the brown border. The one with Mexicans on the other side.
Marcy Bloom, RH Reality Check. February 25, 2008. Anti-choicers panic over "abortion tourism," but only the most privileged women can escape local "pro-life" laws. The rest simply suffer.
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2008. Also, has anybody calculated the cost of deporting 12 million people, housing them, processing them and then shipping them across the border?
Claudia Núñez, New America Media. December 27, 2007. Women are active participants, and often the masterminds, behind the world's third most lucrative illegal activity: people smuggling.
Melissa McEwan, AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2007. Melissa McEwan: Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, derided his political friend as a "windshield cowboy"
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. August 23, 2007. In almost every measure, the United States is past its zenith. A look at the challenges that are bringing the heyday to a halt.
Sterry Butcher, Texas Observer. August 4, 2007. The talk in West Texas this summer is La Entrada al Pacífico, and it's either a great opportunity to develop an international trade route, or it's a wretched plan that would ruin the pristine Big Bend region of Texas.
Mary Jo McConahay, Texas Observer. June 11, 2007. As border security tightens, South Texas has become a graveyard for the weak and unlucky immigrants making the crossing from Mexico.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. May 3, 2007. A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.
Kavita N. Ramdas, Maria Luisa Sanchez, AlterNet. April 23, 2007. On Tuesday Mexico City, one of the most progressive governments in Latin America, may make a dramatic policy shift to legalize abortion.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. October 31, 2006. Joshua Holland: At least four dead in "massacre"; thousands of "Federales" descend on the city; more violence could come; call for action.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2006. Deanna Zandt: Left-wing protesters in Oaxaca were attacked by pro-government forces, and videographer Brad Will was caught in the crossfire.
