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Amidst unrelenting violence on the island of Puerto Rico, calls for peace. “Puerto Ricans on and off the island came together on Saturday night to show solidarity with their homeland, which is experiencing record-breaking levels of crime, in an event called ‘Un Abrazo Para Puerto Rico.’ With lit candles and signs reading ‘We are all Read More
In Mexico — as with much of Latin America — power follows power, and after what must’ve felt like 12 long years, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is back in Los Pinos. Enrique Peña Nieto, the 46-year-old former governor of the state of Mexico, was inaugurated on the first of December amid massive protests both Read More
During all the hullabaloo over President Obama’s reelection, the states of Washington and Colorado legalized pot use — as in, the people of those states can light up for fun. From CBS News: “Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have Read More
Tonight marks the last of 2012′s three presidential debates. This last one, which focuses on foreign policy, is being held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, perhaps the most ironic setting for a political debate. Most Americans may feel the urge to tune out of the last debate and return to their regularly scheduled programming. Read More
As drug-related violence threatens to rip Latin America to shreds, some of the region’s key figures took to the podium at the United Nations on Wednesday to push for a better alternative to the “war on drugs.” From Fox News Latino: “In an unusually energetic address to the annual opening of the U.N. General Assembly, Read More
Many people — Latino and non-Latino alike — tend to frame the illegal immigration crisis in America as a Mexican issue. It’s true that the overwhelming majority of migrants detained at the border are Mexican, but it’s easy to understand why: Mexico shares a 2,000-mile-long border with the United States from the Pacific Coast to Read More
My heart bleeds for Mexico. Since President Calderon declared war on drugs in 2006, 50,000 people have lost their lives in drug-related violence. The biggest consumer of Mexico’s illegal drug trade is the U.S., per the Mexican president. The complicated interlacing of the drug economy within the total Mexican economy is not surprising, given that Read More