Watch an interesting video about prostitution in Mexico City.
On Location: Mexico City Vice

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PRI Deputies warn of the risk Mexico runs of coming undone by social unrest due to the rise in the price of basic products such as tortillas as a consequence of the two increases in the cost of gasoline authorized by the Federal Government.Fernando Morales and Jorge Herrera, in separate interviews, acknowledged that this situation [...]

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Ever since Mexico became a major world oil producer in the mid-1970s, with the discovery of the super-giant Cantarell offshore field, the country has depended heavily on petroleum revenues to fund government spending. Today Pemex, the state-run oil monopoly, provides more than one third of the government’s total tax take. But oil production has dropped [...]

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Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky’s actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it’s 2010, Mexico’s bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating itself. Mexico’s 1910 centennial, after all, saw the start of the bloody, decade-long Mexican Revolution, which killed [...]

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GlobalPost joins the Mexican army on the front lines as it tracks down drug cartels.
SINALOA, Mexico — One of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords was killed Wednesday in a gun battle with Mexican security forces.
Arturo Beltran Leyva — who called himself the “boss of bosses” — headed a powerful cartel based on the Pacific Coast. The [...]

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The U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute has published a disturbing research paper written by Professor Max Manwaring. Titled A “New” Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas and Other Private Armies, the paper discusses how Mexico’s drug cartels and the private armies they finance are systematically displacing legitimate state authority [...]

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In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the [...]

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But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well. Most press accounts focus on the drug-related violence that has migrated north into the United States. Far less widely reported is the infiltration and corruption [...]

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Hurricane Rick, the strongest eastern North Pacific storm in more than a decade, weakened slightly over open seas Sunday as forecasters said it could veer into resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula by midweek.
The track of the Category 5 hurricane threatened to disrupt a major sport fishing tournament scheduled to start Wednesday [...]

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U.S. police have known for several years that the cartels were gaining strength in the meth trade, taking over a business that used to be run by American biker gangs that cooked up crystal in buckets and bath tubs.
But a recent series of raids by the Mexican military revealed that the cartel meth factories have [...]

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