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MEXICO: Record Protest Vote Amid Sweeping PRI Gains

MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, Jul 6 (IPS) - The centre-right governing party and the leftwing opposition in Mexico were dealt a major blow in the midterm congressional and local elections on Sunday, in which the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  6 Jul 2009

CULTURE-MEXICO: "New Seven Wonders" Win Falls Flat

CULTURE-MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, Jun 28 (IPS) - The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the "new seven wonders of the world" in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  28 Jun 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  UNESCO

CLIMATE CHANGE: Bolster Natural Carbon Absorption, Says UN

CLIMATE CHANGE: MEXICO CITY, Jun 5 (IPS) - Expanding the capacity of natural areas for capturing and storing carbon is one of the keys to curbing climate change, and would be a relatively low-cost solution that would also improve the ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  5 Jun 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Achim Steiner,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

MEXICO: Indigenous Rape Victims Fight Military Impunity

MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, May 29 (IPS) - The aberrations of Mexican justice were clearly visible in the cases of rape and torture allegedly committed by soldiers in 2002 against two indigenous women, Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosendo. But ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  29 May 2009

ECONOMY-MEXICO: Crisis Drives Up Poverty Rate

ECONOMY-MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, May 23 (IPS) - Between 1994 and 1996, the poverty rate in Mexico climbed from 52 to 69 percent due to a deep but short-lived global economic recession that broke out in this country. Now this country is ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  23 May 2009
Related Topics: Susan Parker,  United Nations,  International Monetary Fund

MEXICO: Avalanche of Anti-Abortion Laws

MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, May 22 (IPS) - In the last 13 months, 12 of Mexico's 32 states have approved amendments to their state constitutions defining a fertilised human egg as a person with a right to legal protection, and seven other state ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  22 May 2009

SCIENCE: Questions Surround Mexican Genome Project

SCIENCE: MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Tierramérica) - In Mexico scientists are seeking volunteers who are obese, diabetic or suffering from cancer or other diseases, in order to study their genes. The results will help fill in a genetic map of the ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: UNESCO,  Johns Hopkins University,  United Nations

HEALTH: Science on the Trail of New Flu's Secrets

HEALTH: MEXICO CITY, May 12 (Tierramérica) - Scientists around the world are trying to decipher the influenza H1N1 virus in order to develop a vaccine, while others are tracking its origins to fight its spread more effectively. Laboratory ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  12 May 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  UNESCO

HEALTH-MEXICO: Shunned Abroad, Negligence at Home

HEALTH-MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, May 7 (IPS) - The Mexican government is complaining about measures taken by other countries to protect themselves against possible contagion from the new H1N1 flu virus, which is widely seen as having originated ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  7 May 2009

MEXICO: Congress Closed to Indigenous Women

MEXICO: MEXICO CITY, Apr 30 (IPS) - No indigenous woman has ever held a seat in the Mexican Congress. But two of them, one belonging to the conservative ruling party and the other representing the leftwing opposition, are trying to change ...

From DIEGO CEVALLOS, Inter Press Service,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Margarita Zavala

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