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Roger Noriega`s secret pact with Hugo Chávez

Americas Forum may nonetheless be forgiven for failing to pick up on the fact that the right-wing Lobo is actually a Chávez in disguise.

(TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras) - For those who may not be aware, Roger Noriega is the head of an Al Qaeda cell in Washington, D.C., and moonlights as the subcommander of the 17th front of the FARC.

A member of Evo Morales’ network of secret boyfriends, Noriega orchestrated the 2004 school siege in Beslan and was once sighted at the helm of a Somali pirate ship...

The State and Border Economy

The 2040 process is the first time a county-wide regional perspective has been applied to future growth and development strategies.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In the long view of history, one hundred years is a flash in the pan. A mere century ago, the US-Mexico border county of Dona Ana was a different world.

Upriver, there was no Elephant Butte Dam to channel and store the Rio Grande that waters the vast pecan forest and many export crops that today cover large parts of the county.

Indigenous Mexico Resists

Community leaders demand that the Chihuahua State Legislature approve a constitutional reform and pass an indigenous rights law.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - From north to south and from east to west, indigenous communities in Mexico are standing up for environmental protection, community defense, cultural survival and self-determination.

Unfolding across the nation, the latest movements spring from the defense of lands targeted for mining, tourist development, highway construction, dams, energy projects and illegal timber harvesting.

Generations of the Disappeared

Victims disappearing without a trace...

(CIUDAD-JUAREZ, Mexico) - When young women and girls began vanishing in Ciudad Juarez about two decades ago, Esmeralda Castillo was not even born. But in 2009, the 14-year-old middle school student joined the ranks of the disappeared.

“She was a normal girl, just like the rest,” Jose Luis Castillo, Esmeralda’s father, said in an interview.

Japanese Company Takes Hold of Chile Business

By the end of the 1990s, Border Foods annual sales were estimated in the $50-$100 million range.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A large Japanese company has acquired a strategic stake in the emblematic New Mexico chile pepper business.

On Thursday, May 12, Mizkan Americas announced it had purchased Deming’s Border Foods from Ares Capital for an undisclosed amount.

Border History Lives On

Museo Urbano opens new intellectual doors for understanding El Paso’s historical roots and cultural legacies.

(EL PASO, Tx.) - Dancing to the soaring cumbia sounds of Frontera Bugalu, a large crowd inaugurated El Paso’s newest gem this month.

Human Rights News: Zapatistas Join Drug War Protest

Until this year, the Zapatistas had been largely silent on the so-called drug war that’s ravaged Mexico during the past few years.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As momentum builds for the May 8 protest against violence and impunity in Mexico, the Zapatista National Liberation Army announced its support for the movement started by poet Javier Sicilia.

Commerce News: Tortilla Kings Claim New Mexico Conquest

GRUMA’s expansion in the US has been a contentious one, with rivals sometimes claiming unfair competition.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The world’s dominant tortilla and corn flour manufacturer has purchased a once locally-owned tortilla and chile company in New Mexico.

In an Easter announcement, the Monterrey, Mexico-based Grupo Maseca (GRUMA) said that it had acquired the Albuquerque Tortilla Company for $8.8 million. Founded in 1987, Albuquerque Tortilla Company employed 180 people and had a reported sales stream worth $14 million in 2010.

Special Report The Great Immigration Stalemate

SB 1070's momentum could be dissipating, but immigration controversies are still stewing.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Five years ago, possibly millions of people marched across the US demanding justice for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented residents.

Hitting a high point with work stoppages on May Day 2006, the pro-immigrant protest was the largest social movement in the US since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War years.

The Demon Highways of Tamaulipas

Despite a deluge of media coverage, the precise motives behind the mass killings are still unclear.

(TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) - In widely separated parts of Mexico, many people ask the same troubling question: Are our loved ones among the 145 dead found in the mass graves near San Fernando, Tamaulipas?

That’s been the question tearing at families in San Pedro Pochutla, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca. Last summer, ten townspeople set off on a long journey to the northern border state of Tamaulipas.