Al Jazeera English has a new page called “Drugs Central”. It’s one of the most comprehensive pages on the drug war and its effects in Latin America, as far as international mass media is concerned. Here is a sampling of some of the content: “Mexico Drug War in Figures” “Who Consumes Mexico’s Drugs” “A drug …
Mexico’s First Black President. Category: Press Releases from The Berkeley Daily Planet. Check out this history lesson on Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black President. He was a war hero who helped expel Spanish rule and abolished slavery. Elected in 1829, he puts US racial history to shame because not just was he historically significant, as …
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If you could stop murders before they happened, would you? What about job loss and increased poverty? With the Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) still pending you can. According to Arthur Stamoulis, of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, there is still a week to urge your representatives to vote against the passage of FTA. 70,000 …
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