On June 30, President George W. Bush signed into law the “Merida Initiative”—better known as Plan Mexico—just days after it passed Congress as part of the Iraq supplemental funding bill. The measure had to go through several versions before finally being approved by both houses, as legislators went back and forth with the Bush administration and Mexico President Felipe Calderón’s government over human rights conditions.
Pedro Martin trabaja en una granja avícola en las afueras del poblado de Pegueros, Jalisco. Este estado se encuentra entre los más altos productores […]
El 22 de abril, los Presidentes George W. Bush y Felipe Calderón y el Primer Ministro Stephen Harper concluyeron una cumbre tripartita en Nueva […]
On April 22, Presidents George W. Bush, Felipe Calderón, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded a trilateral summit in New Orleans. The summit marked […]
Pedro Martin works on a chicken farm just outside the village of Pegueros, Jalisco. The state of Jalisco ranks among Mexico’s top chicken-producing states, […]
Hubo que escabullirse para eludir los alimentos que se estaban lanzando de un lado al otro en la cafetería global esta semana. Por primera […]
There has never been a time in U.S. history when the nation’s security and trade policies were not linked. The nation’s status as a […]
You had to duck to miss the food issues flying through the global cafeteria this week. For the first time since widespread famines devastated […]
Fueron siete días que estremecieron a la región. Empezó con la incursión militar de las fuerzas colombianas en territorio ecuatoriano el primero de marzo. […]
(This page is currently being updated) The Merida Initiative has provided some $1.6 billion dollars so far to U.S. defense contractors, private security firms […]
