Health workers to go on a diet in Coahuila state
Vanguardia reports that employees of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the state of Coahuila will be "submitted to a rigorous diet" as part of a program to combat obesity. The institute runs Mexico's public hospitals and health …
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Commercialism and corruption: look-alike vices in Mexican and UK newsrooms
In 2006, a violent, months-long protest by a teachers' union forced the government of Oaxaca into hiding. Government services in Oaxaca City ground to a halt as cabinet secretaries and their entourages moved silently from hotel to hotel. If you read the Imparcial newspaper, …
Xalapa students attacked with machetes by masked men in police uniforms
The neighbourhood surrounding the Humanities Department of the Universidad Veracruzana is leafy and quiet. The ground floors of many houses have been turned into makeshift diners, serving satisfyingly cheap and greasy meals. Upper floors hold poky one room apartments where …
Leader of parents of disappeared students accuses Rigoberta Menchu of trying to derail movement
Milenio.com reports that the leader of parents of 43 children who disappeared last year after an altercation with police in Guerrero State, has accused Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu of trying to derail his movement. At a protest rally in …
Journalist's assailant shot
The NGO Article 19 says that every 10.5 hours, a Mexican journalist is attacked. It is easy to think of this supression of free speech as a vast Orwellian plot. In fact, most of it occurs at a local …
Mother of murdered child takes chat show host for legal counsel
The mother of a six-year old boy who was tortured and murdered by five other schoolchildren in Chihuahua State, Mexico, has fired her lawyer and taken the legal assistance of a chat show host. The mother, Tania Concepcion Mora, was …