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From Bullets to Bistros: the Mexico City Miracle – Nathaniel Parish Flannery – The Atlantic

From Bullets to Bistros: the Mexico City Miracle – Nathaniel Parish Flannery – The Atlantic

Posted by | Feb 5, 2013 | |

After midnight, Cesar Perez, the director of Mexico City’s Driving Without Alcohol program, stands alongside more than a dozen other police officers at a checkpoint on the corner of Reforma and Insurgentes avenues, near the capital’s historic center. Perez, a veteran officer with a serious demeanor, isn’t looking for drug smugglers. He and his team have a different focus: drunk drivers.He looks over at the line of cars by the curb. “In 2003 [former New York City mayor Rudolph] Giuliani came to look for programs to increase the efficiency of the police,” Perez says. “We had a high incidence...

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Mexico’s Congressional Agenda for 2013 | LatIntelligence

Posted by | Feb 5, 2013 | |

With Enrique Peña Nieto’s first congressional session just starting, expectations are high. Between now and April 30th, when the sixty-second Congress will adjourn, many hope the administration will tackle the deep seated structural issues that hold the nation back.Mexico’s Congress has much going for it, as momentum for reform—lacking for years—is there. This new Congress began its tenure last September (working with President Felipe Calderón), and during its first go round, it passed a labor reform that enables greater flexibility in hiring and firing workers and an education reform that changes the way teachers will be hired, evaluated, and promoted. Though some deemed the reforms as watered-down, these significant pieces of legislation represent a break from the gridlock of the past.via Mexico’s Congressional Agenda for 2013 |...

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A More Ambitious Agenda: A Report of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Commission on Mexico-US Relations

A More Ambitious Agenda: A Report of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Commission on Mexico-US Relations

Posted by | Feb 5, 2013 | |

The idea for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Commission on Mexico-US Relations was prompted by the confluence of new presidential terms in Mexico and the United States. The timing offered a propitious opportunity to review a bilateral relationship that is so crucial for both countries and to develop ideas to strengthen cooperation to effectively address shared challenges.In 2012, the Dialogue decided to undertake such an exercise, targeted at the incoming administrations of the neighboring countries. We are grateful to the commission’s co-chairs, former president Ernesto Zedillo and former US trade representative Carla A. Hills, for their steadfast commitment to this effort....

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U.S. Stepped In to Halt Mexican General’s Rise – NYTimes.com

U.S. Stepped In to Halt Mexican General’s Rise – NYTimes.com

Posted by | Feb 5, 2013 | |

The New York Times obtained classified D.E.A. intelligence reports from the early years of the general’s career, when he founded the counternarcotics intelligence center. The reports, dated Dec. 15, 1997, allege that then-Colonel García Ochoa was one of several senior Mexican military officials involved with attempts to negotiate a deal with the country’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations.via U.S. Stepped In to Halt Mexican General’s Rise –...

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Undocumented migrants back in Mexico hope to some day return to US | World news | guardian.co.uk

Posted by | Feb 4, 2013 | |

For millions of undocumented migrants who have spent years in the US legal shadows, the rupture of the political deadlock on immigration was the realisation of what once seemed a forlorn hope.But even if the moves to fix America’s broken immigration system result in a deal that once seemed so elusive, for many others it will come too late. Those are the people for whom the pressure of living without proper legal status bore down too hard, and they returned home.Most of them will never be allowed back: anyone who has lived illegally in the US for more than a year is permanently barred from ever re-entering the country, unless they can argue for an exemption on the grounds of “extreme or unusual hardship”. And there are no plans to change that particularly harsh provision in America’s notoriously tough immigration regime.via Undocumented migrants back in Mexico hope to some day return to US | World news |...

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