New Poll on Calderón’s Performance (in Spanish)

Consulta Mitofsky, 8/31/2009
While achieving an approval rating of 62 percent and his fourth consecutive quarter with an approval rating above 60 percent, President Calderón suffered his third worst decline in approval ratings this quarter since assuming office. For the second consecutive quarter, his disapproval ratings increased, rising to 35 percent. Comparatively, Calderón’s approval [...]

8 Killed at Street Party in Mexico

Los Angeles Times, 8/31/2009
It was a street party at a popular gathering place, typical of Saturday nights in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Drinks, a musical band, a joining together of the mostly young.
Then, shortly before midnight, a white double-cabin pickup screeched to a stop on Palm Tree Street in the town of Navolato. At [...]

Art Museums Struggling in Mexico

Los Angeles Times, 8/31/2009
Reporting from Mexico City – California-based multimedia artist Mike Rogers was finishing his photographs for an exhibition in Mexico City when he got an urgent e-mail from the curator: The show had been called off. The capital’s contemporary art museums were broke and shutting down.
The message was exaggerated. Museums are not closing [...]

CEMEX and Urbi Celebrate 10 Years of Advancing Housing Development in Mexico

PR Newswire, 8/31/2009
Following a unique model of operations and innovation, the productive alliance between CEMEX,
the global company in construction products, and Urbi, the leading housing developer in Mexico, ratified their agreement as they celebrated 10 years of working together advancing the housing industry in Mexico.
In an event that brought together the management of both companies, [...]

500 Groups Urge Obama to Halt Immigration Police Program

Los Angeles Times, 8/31/2009
A coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to President Obama last week demanding that the administration end a program that allows local police to enforce federal immigration law.
The program, known as 287(g), deputizes police to turn over suspects or criminals to immigration authorities for possible deportation.
Immigrant rights groups said the program [...]

Mexico Needs to Find New Revenue Sources, S&P Says

Reuters, 9/02/09
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon must create new sources of revenue to offset declining oil income if the country is to avoid a downgrade of its debt rating, Standard & Poor’s analyst Lisa Schineller said.
S&P may cut Mexico’s BBB+ status before the end of the year, depending on how Calderon and [...]

Did Mexico Beat It? Fans Go For ‘Thriller’ Record

The Associated Press, 8/30/2009
They say they beat it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they broke the record for most people dancing to “Thriller” simultaneously in one place on Saturday, which would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday.
“We did it!” organizer Javier Hildago shouted to thousands of people wearing black fedoras, white gloves, aviator shades and ghoulish [...]

Mexico: Anti-Mexican Discrimination in US Growing

The Associated Press, 8/29/2009
A Mexican official says discrimination against Mexicans in the United States is growing and is most pronounced in areas where immigration is relatively new.
Director of Consular Affairs and Protection Daniel Hernandez says that “where we are seeing the most complex, hard and deep-seated discrimination is in areas where immigration is new, where [...]

Valley Sheriffs Ponder Federal Immigration Enforcement Program

The Moniter, 8/31/2009
Many Rio Grande Valley law enforcement officers cringe when someone talks about working with the federal government to identify and arrest illegal immigrants.
But when U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano brought up the idea during an Aug. 11 speech in El Paso, some Valley peace officers listened.
The law in question, Section 287(g) of [...]

Feds to Consider Protections for Desert Tortoise

KPBS, 8/28/2009
The federal government has agreed to consider whether the Sonoran desert tortoise, a Southwest icon whose population has declined by half in the past 20 years, warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Two environmental groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the tortoise, found in southwest Arizona and northern Mexico, [...]