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The Avenue of Missing Women

Why isn't Ciudad Juarez disclosing the real numbers of Murdered women and girls?

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Ciudad Juarez teacher Norma Andrade was released from the hospital this week after being shot and wounded in a December 2 incident outside her home.

A decade ago, Andrade became an outspoken activist after her 17-year-old daughter, Lilia Alejandra Garcia, was kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered. Along with others, she founded Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa, a group that protested the disappearance and killing of young women in a troubled border city.

Honoring Migrants on December 10

More than three years old, TIAS-NM defines itself as prioritizing “just and fair immigration reform that furthers American values, enhances our national interest and protects constitutional and human rights for all.”

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Migrant advocates in the southern New Mexico borderland plan to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Saturday, December 10.

U.S. Seals Court Records Of Border Patrol Agent`s Murder with Smuggled U.S. Weapon

From Corruption Chronicles...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the “most transparent” administration in history?

Tamaulipas News: Border Governor on PR Offensive

“Security has improved with the arrival of the military…” - Michael Barkin, US counsel general, Matamoros

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - It is unusual in the U.S., for state government to take to national airwaves to pitch perceived accomplishments in costly ads.

But in Mexico, as federal power diffuses to state level, more states are aiming for national audiences in publicizing their purported achievements.

The Shadow Government

What is different today, is the Internet, and the crimes committed in those shadowy halls are all being clearly exposed.

(SALEM) - Independent experts question the ‘official suicide death’ of decorated Marine Corps Colonel James E. Sabow at MCAS El Toro, California.

A number of unsolved ‘suicides’ and more likely outright murders followed the violent death of this straight arrow Marine.

Crisis Clobbers Mexican Immigrants

Many immigrants and their families were dependent on construction and other hard-hit sectors of the economy.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The last four years have been a rough road for Mexican immigrants in the US. Anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama and other states have disrupted lives and sent people packing, while record deportations have uprooted longtime residents and divided families.

Was Former DEA Agent Jailed for Exposing ATF Arms Trafficking?

Iran/Contra-era Whistleblower Cele Castillo alleged federal Agents were involved in gun smuggling in 2008.

(COLUMBUS, N.M. The Narcosphere) - Former DEA Agent Cele Castillo, who blew the whistle on the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade used to prop up the 1980s Contra counter-insurgency in Nicaragua, is now sitting in a federal prison.

Before Castillo reported to prison, he shared with this reporter a series of revelations concerning arms trafficking and corrupt ATF agents.

Iran Contra At 25: Reagan and Bush `Criminal Liability` Evaluations

Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports - Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran.

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983.

This, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability” on the part of the two former leaders posted today by the National Security Archive.

Mexico: Long, Hard Drought Expected

The Calderon administration is challenging doom-and-gloom forecasts.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexico’s National Weather Service (SMN) has predicted that a drought afflicting more than half the country will likely last at least three more years. And according to the SMN, the upcoming winter rainfall could range between 20 and 30 percent of normal, especially in the northern, western and central parts of the nation.

Considered by the National Water Commission to be Mexico’s worst drought in 70 years, the dry spell is causing serious problems in the agricultural and ranching economy as well as threatening the viability of rural communities.

The Meaning of the Michoacan Election

The Michoacan election was the third jolt Mexicans suffered in as many days.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - What began as a chorus of loud denunciations ended in a round of resigned whimpers.