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Struggle And Survival In Juarez

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Photography, Border Crossing, Video, Hope, Human-Stories, Violence, Mexico, Borders, Immigration, Female Artists, Juarez 3.11, Slidepollajax, Juarez, Arts News

Cuidad Juarez, Mexico has gained a reputation as one of the most violent cities in the world, and yet the most trying circumstances often bring about ...

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'Riding The Dog': Coast-To-Coast By Greyhound Bus

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: El Paso, Coast-to-Coast Travel, Dc, Bus Travel, Road Trips, Grand Canyon, Greyhound Bus, Adventure Travel, Phoenix, Mexico, Flagstaff, Little Rock, Juarez, Los Angeles, Ca, Dallas, Blythe, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Why would you ride on Greyhound instead of driving -- or grabbing a train or plane?

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Women's Activist Shot Outside Juarez Home

AP | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Norma Andrade Wounded, Norma Andrade Shot, Recommend, Norma Andrade, Juarez Activist Shot, Mexico, Mexico Murders, Mexico Activist Shot, Juarez, World News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Associated Press) — An activist representing relatives of women slain or missing in the border city of Ciudad Juarez was shot...

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MIT Promotes 'Positivism' In Mexico Cities Associated With Drug Violence And Despair

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Cultura, Video, Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tijuana, MIT Center for Civic Media, Juarez, Mit, Latino Voices News

It’s not everyday you hear good news, and lately, it feels like good news is especially in short supply coming out of Mexico. Luckily for the citize...

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PHOTOS: Touring Juarez, Murder Capital Of The World

Karen Curley | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Dangerous Travel, War on Drugs, Mexico Travel, Slideadbigshot, Travel Blogs, Mexican Border, Juarez, Mexico, Travel News

People looked happy and relaxed. I only saw the cops twice and they didn't look like the ruthless thugs that newspapers make them out to be.

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PHOTOS: Touring Juarez, Murder Capital Of The World

Karen Curley | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Dangerous Travel, War on Drugs, Mexico Travel, Slideadbigshot, Mexican Border, Juarez, Mexico, Travel News

People looked happy and relaxed. I only saw the cops twice and they didn't look like the ruthless thugs that newspapers make them out to be.

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Cisco To Cut Workforce By 11,500 Employees

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Employees, Unemployment Rate, Annual Expenses, Great Recession, Foxconn, Cisco, Early Retirement, Jobs, Manufacturing, Mexico, Economic Recovery, Juarez, Video, Business News

Cisco Systems plans to cut its workforce by 11,500 employees as part of its plan to cut annual expenses by $1 billion and revive its business. ...

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Mexico Drug War a Lost Cause as Presently Fought

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Council on Foreign Relations, Failed State, Mexico, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug Cartels, Drug Legalization, Mexico Drug War, Obama Drug War, Ciudad Juarez, Obama Drug Policy, Mexico Wikileaks, Juarez, World News

There's a powerful new piece of evidence that the war on drugs on the Mexican-American border is a lost cause.

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Denver Drug Bust: 35 Accused Of Cocaine Trafficking

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Drug Trafficking, Coach, Cocaine Trafficking, Mexico, Gang Members, Drug Ring, El Paso, 35 People, Firefighter, 40 Pounds of Cocaine, Denver, Cocaine, Juarez, Denver News

DENVER — Gang members, a retired Denver firefighter and a college team coach were among 35 people accused of transporting more than 40 pounds of...

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Q&A: Inhale Director Baltasar Kormakur

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fool for Love, Sam Shepard, Inhale, True West, Iceland, Baltasar Kormakur Interview, Dermot Mulroney, Juarez, Reykjavik 101, Diane Kruger, Marshall Fine Interview, Bjork, Entertainment News

At 44, actor-director Baltasar Kormakur may soon be Iceland's most famous export since Bjork. And now, with his first American film, Inhale, reaching theaters today, his profile could expand.

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The F Word: Is the Drug War a Class War?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Poverty, Clinton, Violence, Molly Molloy, Jobs, Obama, War on Drugs, Grit Tv, Nafta, El Diario, Charles Bowden, Bush, The F Word, Frontera List, Laura Flanders, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Grittv, Drug War, Security, Juarez, Politics News

The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts. Like the war on terror, the war on drugs racks up one ...

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Weekly Diaspora: Will $600 Million Border Security Bill Target Innocents?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: El Paso, Dhs, Mexican Border, Joe Arpaio, Immigration, Border Network for Human Rights, Arizona, Maricopa, Immigration Policy Institute, Ice, Russell Pearce, Department of Homeland Security, Detention Centers, Washington Independent, Colorlines, Janet Napolitano, Sb 1070, Border, Border Patrol, Ciudad Juarez, Secrure Communities, Militarized Border, Juarez, South of the Border, New America Media, Drug War, Border Control, Texas Observer, Home News

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Anti-immigrant forces have adeptly shaped the ongoing immigration debate into an issue of crime and...

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Mexico Murder Capital Claims One-Fifth Of Drug War Deaths

GlobalPost | Ioan Grillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juarez Cartel, Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mexico Murder, Juarez, Mexico Drug Cartel, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexican Drug Wars, War on Drugs, World News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- If Dante had ever been to Juarez he would have placed it squarely in the seventh circle of hell, the one housing "violence" a...

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Dancing for Rain in the Eye of a Hurricane

Dean Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Network, Ciudad, El Paso, Drug, Juarez, Truth, Home News

I'm fed up to here! The logic of the drug war has been proven to be lacking in countless ways, yet it continues. More than 22,000 are now dead in Me...

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Sinaloa Takes Over Ciudad Juarez

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL and MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sinaloa Cartel, Sinaloa, Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mexico Drug War, Joaquin Guzman, El Chapo, Mexican Federal Police, World News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico's most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted ...

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Cannabis and the Christian Science Monitor

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, Obama White House, Richard Nixon, Alcohol, Christian Science Monitor, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Policy, Tobacco, Narco-Terrorism, Acapulco, Juarez, American Consulate, Media News

When the government rejects rational, research-driven, evidence-based approaches to drug policy, and our safety, it's time for the people to act.

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Education: unfulfilled dream for children of Juarez

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Poverty, Mexico Drug Cartels, Humanitarian Crisis, Marc Kielburger, Mexico, Drugs, Borders, Craig Kielburger, Mexico Drug Wars, Juarez, World News

Around the world, education has proven to be a crucial factor in fighting poverty. However, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico it's the same violence and poverty that could keep children from school.

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Juarez Shootouts Kill At Least 13 In Northern Mexico

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Gang, Border Violence, Army, Monterrey, Mexico, El Norte, Juarez Shootouts, Zetas, Drugs, Juarez, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said. ...

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Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Trade, Chihuahua City, Cartels, Illegal Drugs, Mexico Violence, Mexico, Aa, Sinaloa, Drugs, Chihuahua, Esparza, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Alcoholics Anonymous, Rehabilitation Clinics, Juarez, Drug Rehab, Home News

MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

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Full Show: October 21, 2009

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juarez, Mexico, Turkey, Islamic Republic of Iran, China, Home News

Please view the original post to see the video. Watch the show from Wednesday, October 21: China distributes H1N1 flu vaccine; there are signs of prog...

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The War on Drugs and 40 Years of Escalation on the Border

Sito Negron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sito Negron, Npt, Newspaper Tree, Border, War on Drugs, Utep, El Paso, Juarez, World News

I live about a mile from the border, and can see Juarez from the yard in front of my apartment. Helicopters regularly fly so close overhead that my windows rattle.

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Drug War is Not Just a Metaphor; So How Do We Stop the Shooting?

Sito Negron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Silvestre Reyes, Drug War, Border Security, El Paso, newspapertree.com, Juarez, Beto O'rourke, War on Drugs, Politics News

As seen in El Paso, from its inception, the Drug War has been about fear and a rushed response to a missed diagnosis.

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