Category: News Briefs
January 29, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Two Confirmed Dead as Latest News on Mexican Maternity Ward Explosion Emerges
An explosion caused by a gas leak at a Mexico City maternity and children’s hospital killed two people and injured dozens more, according to the Borough Chief of Cuajimalpa, where […] Read More >
January 26, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Missing Mexican Journalist Found Dead, Mayor Accused of Orchestrating His Death
The body of Veracruz journalist José Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, missing since Jan. 2, has been found on the outskirts of Medellín de Bravo, Mexico, state prosecutor Luís Angel Bravo announced […] Read More >
January 22, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
In the year since TIME magazine billed him as the savior of Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto has watched his public image unravel. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spent this […] Read More >
January 14, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
As World Looks to Paris, Violence Against Journalists Rages on in Mexico
On Jan. 2, sometime after 7 p.m., a group of heavily armed men stormed the modest house of journalist José Moisés Sánchez Cerezo in Medellín de Bravo, in the Mexican […] Read More >
December 17, 2014 > Staff
Transcript: Obama’s Cuba Speech
Below is a full transcript of President Obama’s speech on Cuba. A video of the speech can be found following the transcript. OBAMA: Good afternoon. Today, the United States of […] Read More >
December 17, 2014 > Staff
U.S., Cuba to Restore Diplomatic Ties, But Embargo Remains
The U.S. and Cuba will work to normalize diplomatic relations for the first time since 1961, President Obama said Wednesday, a major shift in policy that nonetheless falls short of […] Read More >
December 14, 2014 > Nicki Fleischner
Cuban Laws May Have Changed, But the Jokes Haven’t
In 2010, I found myself among hundreds of heeled and hairsprayed Cubans in Havana’s Teatro Karl Marx waiting for the start of the Premios Lucas — a sort of MTV […] Read More >
December 12, 2014 > Camila Osorio
Latin American Environmentalists Call For End To Fracking
Latin American environmental activists called for an end to fracking this week, as international leaders gathered in Lima, Peru, for the United Nations summit on climate change. Researchers and protestors […] Read More >
December 1, 2014 > Dusty Christensen
On the Eve of U.N. Climate Summit in Lima, Concerns Over Climate Change in Latin America
U.N. negotiators will meet this week in Lima, Peru, to begin the latest round of talks aimed at stopping climate change, and diplomats are expressing increasing optimism that a legally […] Read More >
November 25, 2014 > Camila Osorio
As The World Looks To Mexico, News From Another Massacre Goes Unnoticed
The world has been focusing for almost two months on the disappearance and reported killing of 43 Mexican students by a drug gang — an act in which government forces […] Read More >