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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Mexico</title>
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		<title>Re: &#8220;Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico&#8221; by Karla Zabludovsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the article, Karla Zabludovsky discusses the harsh conditions in Mexico during its recent drought crisis, adverse crop-devastating weather patterns and how the indigenous and rural communities have been absorbing such blows. The indigenous communities that are located predominantly in the north are among the poorest in Mexico and those living there rely almost exclusively on subsistence farming. The land that they have is depleted and showing incredible signs of immense strain; it is estimated only seven percent of the land available for crop production is arable. This situation is expected only to get worse with the Mexican authorities already acknowledging that it will take at least five months to properly aid the most severely affected regions, when the rainy season begins and naturally ameliorate drought-related strains. Although the Mexican government has pledged over two billion dollars for temporary relief, five months without aggressive action could do irrevocable damage to crop supply. This would compound already existing problems involving crippling poverty and a deteriorating agribusiness sector. Not only is the land threatened but access to clean water also has been compromised. Without well thought out action and measured implementation of programs geared to alleviate desertification and to prevent the continual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>México: Basta de maltrato a los aborígenes</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/mexico-basta-de-maltrato-a-los-aborigenes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Con regocijo parece apropiarse el Gobierno de México de aquel lema de los zapatistas, “para todos todo, nada para nosotros”, al cercenar sistemáticamente los derechos de los aborígenes. En repetidas ocasiones se les ha negado la libertad de reunión, no se les ha permitido trabajar la tierra sin restricciones, se ha confiscado sus hogares en nombre de inversiones privadas, se ven obligados a venderse como mano de obra barata al sector empresarial y, por si fuera poco, los recursos naturales de sus tierras, hasta entonces no alterados por el hombre y compartidos por todos, son explotados en procura de ventajas comerciales. El golpe mortal asestado por el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte a los grupos aborígenes en México, en particular a aquellos en el estado sureño de Chiapas, se manifiesta en el Plan Puebla Panamá. Así se pretende enyuntar a los habitantes de la región bajo los auspicios del neoliberalismo: una campaña, disfrazada de paquete económico, con el propósito de destruir a las comunidades autónomas. El Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, ratificado en 1994, negó y efectivamente invalidó el Artículo 27 de la Constitución Nacional de México, que garantizaba derechos colectivos de propiedad a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico’s Democracy is Abusing Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/mexico%e2%80%99s-democracy-is-abusing-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/mexico%e2%80%99s-democracy-is-abusing-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, the media has widely reported on the continuous human rights violations committed by members of the Mexican military. While news of these atrocities only recently surfaced on major news stations, Mexican authorities, in fact, have been struggling with human rights abuses since 2007 when these pivotal events first started to come to light. Such atrocities peaked during President Felipe Calderón’s six years in office, as police and armed forces have been found to be involved in at least 170 cases of torture, 24 extrajudicial killings, and 39 forced disappearances since 2006.1 When President Calderon first came to power, he dispatched military forces throughout Mexico in an attempt to take down the drug cartels and deter the violence generated by rival criminal organizations fighting over territory and clientele. Instead of reducing violence, the military forces began perpetuating the very crimes they were charged with stopping. In a country where drug cartels have been coexisting with civil society for years, the police and military forces became embedded in the pockets of the traffickers. In Mexico, the cartels are dominate specific geographical parts of the country, and the fight for influence and expansion of territory is constant. These drug cartels are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s Drug War: Not Another Colombia</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/mexicos-drug-war-not-another-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coha.org/mexicos-drug-war-not-another-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drug war in Mexico grows more brutal daily. It is practically impossible to read news from that country without exposure to a myriad of literal rolling heads, mass graves, shootouts, and grisly abductions. While addressing the Council on Foreign Relations on September 8, 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton qualified the situation in Mexico as “looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, when the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country.”[i] In fact, both U.S. and Mexican policymakers have proposed tactics based on the Colombian experience. However, one must closely examine the practical differences between the two countries before applying Colombian tactics to Mexico indiscriminately, since in practice many of Colombia’s crime strategies might well be ineffective in the Mexican case. Inequality, Drugs, and Violence: Colombia 2.0? On the surface, similarities between the two countries are obvious: both are tainted by the almost uncontrolled presence of organized crime and a quickened tempo of violence. As in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, urban violence has risen, and criminal groups have proliferated. The news regularly portrays drugs cartels slamming into each other and the state, usually through indiscriminate homicides and massacres that target innocent civilians. Such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coyote</title>
		<link>http://www.coha.org/the-coyote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The border patrol would like to claim that increased enforcement is the cause for the recent 24 percent decrease in the apprehension of undocumented immigrants. From Hold the Line in 1993 to the Secure Border Initiative of 2006, a myriad of programs have added up, increasing the number of personnel, the miles of fences, and the newest technology concentrated along the U.S. Mexico Border. These initiatives accompanied by an escalation of national fervor hostile to illegal immigration, have not been, in truth, the main reason for the decline in apprehensions. The credit for that goes to a completely different beast, the Coyote. While increased enforcement may have increased the likelihood of getting caught, immigrants have adapted their journeys to account for the risk; they have hired professionals with a good deal of experience to navigate the difficult terrain. “Using a Coyote essentially grantees success for most undocumented immigrants.”1 We find evidence of the increased reliance of coyotes in the rise in demand that has caused crossing fees to increase 5% annually. What used to be a $978 trip in 1995, can now cost upwards of $7,000 (Parks et. al. 51 and Baldwin). Additionally, when immigrants were asked about what they saw [...]]]></description>
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