Mexico City approves gay marriage

"Mexico City: Mexico City's legislature has approved gay marriage, an aide to a city lawmaker told agency, in the first such law passed anywhere in Latin America. "It was approved overall by 39 votes in favour...

Busted: Clayton Roueche of United Nations Gang Gets 30 Years

The Founder of the United Nations Gang, Cayton Rouche, will be serving a 30 year sentence in a US prison for his leadership role in the massive cross-border drug-smuggling scheme. He has been convicted with...

Killed: Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva

Arturo Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug cartel chief dubbed the "boss of bosses" has been shot down by Mexican officials.  200 Mexican sailors raided his upscale apartment complex and killed Arturo Leyva and 3...

The End of the War, And Then What?

     The recent news, while President Obama is across the pond accepting his award of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, like it or not, is that the U.S. is in for another buildup...

107 slave laborers freed in Mexico City

"Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center." This piece comes with a trigger warning - the details contained within are sickening and harrowing. ...

Drug and people-trafficking tunnel is found

Another underground, well actually under border, tunnel has been discovered under a building in Tijuana, Mexico.  The incomplete, elaborate walkway measuring a completed length of almost 1000 feet was just...

Gays will never enter heaven according to Cardinal Barragan

Gays and trans people will never enter heaven according to leading Catholic Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan. Cardinal Barragan, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers...

Blue Footed Boobies Taking a Year Off Are More Sexy

Researchers studying the blue footed boobies in Mexico have concluded that males taking a year off from breeding are more sexy to the female boobies.  A key to attraction in the blue footed booby community is...

Berlin Wall Gone but Separation Walls are Growth Industry

The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was one week ago today. With that behind us, it is now time to acknowledge that the construction of separation walls throughout the world is on the increase. According to l’Observatoire de géopolitique...

Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Nicaragua, Heads To Honduras

Tropical storm Ida became hurricane Ida overnight, making a category 1 hurricane landfall near eastern Nicaragua early Thursday morning. It is now heading for Honduras where it is expected to weaken. There are now speculations Ida might be headed for Mexico's resort town of...

Japan’s dolphin tragedy

Mercury Contamination Found In Stranded Victorian Dolphins ScienceDaily (June 11, 2008) — Monash University research into heavy metal contaminant levels in dolphins from Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes...

Swine Flu Mortality Rate Climbs to 5 000

WHO has reported that the swine flu mortality rate has now climbed to 5 000 deaths.  The 5 000 deaths are those that have been reported to WHO and as many countries have stopped reporting deaths from Swine...

Busted: Mexican American Drug Cartel "La Familia Michoacana"

Nearly 12,000 arrests have been made in a series of drug raids across the USA.  The arrests were made on people who are connected to Mexico's rapidly expanding and dangerous drug trafficking cartels, La Familia Michoacana.  Los Angelas and Atlanta were the largest...

US raids hit Mexican drug cartel -Breaking News

" More than 300 people have been arrested in a series of drug raids targeting a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US, American officials have said. The two-day operation, which involved thousands of police...

Vegetarian Spider Discovered in Mexico

The first vegetarian spider ever discovered lives in Mexico.  A research team led by Christopher Meehan of the University of Arizona, Tucson has painstakingly uncovered this unusual spider's habits.  This...

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