Mexico’s media bloodbathMexico is now the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere, with 12 reporters, photographers, editors and radio hosts murdered in 2009 alone, many for covering the country’s brutal and bloody drug wars.
Mexico
Will the real President of Mexico please stand up?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador narrowly lost the 2006 Mexican president election. But instead of bowing out gracefully, he formed a fake government, declared himself the “Legitimate President of Mexico” and now tours the giving presidential speeches. But the truly bizarre bit: many Mexicans take him seriously.
Fight the war on drugs or make the world’s biggest taco?
Mexico may have some problems — a violent drug war, economic issues — but they are winners when it comes to Guinness World Records. Michael Jackson dances, world’s biggest meatball, longest catwalk, the list goes on…
Video of the Day: A Thriller of a new world record
Following weeks of rehearsals, 13,957 people in Mexico have broken the world record for the most people dancing Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ dance.
Mexico’s missing girls: where have they gone?
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is dealing with the disappearances of over 24 young mainly middle class women. Drug war? Sold to prostitution in the US? There are no bodies and no clues.
Bio-piracy: the story of US Patent #5,894,079
In 1999, an American found some yellow beans in a Mexican market, named them Enola Beans and slapped a patent on them, allowing him to tax people who had been growing, consuming and exporting the beans for centuries. Ten years later, the patent has finally been scrapped.
Mexican drug lords’ narco-bling
When Mexican drug cartels are busted up, what happens to their leopard-skin Rolexes, pet gorillas, and diamond-encrusted pistols? The WSJ investigates.
Video of the Day: The Great Mexican Wall
The Onion’s take on border security — Mexicans building a wall to keep Americans out.
Mexican drug cartels recruit young men for murder-for-hire rings
In the minds of many Americans, the Rio Grande divides Mexico, a corrupt land where drug cartels have the upper hand, from the US, a nation of law and order, where the authorities keep criminal gangs in check. But in reality, the border is much more blurred.
Bio-tech industry protects their bacon over swine flu
The biotech industry has a vested interest in the ongoing viability of industrial-scale meat production, and thus a vested interest in blaming the swine flu pandemic on a small family farm in La Gloria, Mexico, says Tom Philpott.
Green shoot sprout south of the border
Businesses in Mexico are seeing signs of economic hope.
Mexicans travellers face discrimination
Mexicans abroad are being quarantined and denied entry to countries, despite showing no signs of swine flu.
Expat dilemma: to stay in Mexico or go
Expats in San Miguel (not swine flu affected) for the first time felt vulnerable to the Mexico that dominates most American imaginations — the one of poverty, filth, disease, and despair, writes Laura Fraser.
Swine Flu: the dangers of over-reacting
There are significant costs for intervening too much, writes Claire Hooker. And yet, the data so far — especially the low virulence reported in cases outside Mexico — doesn’t look that bad.
Crikey Clarifier: Crikey Clarifier: How does Swine Flu kill you?
John Matthews gives Crikey the lowdown on the deadly nature of Swine Influenza.
The global cost of swine flu
Could an epidemic take down global markets?
Letter from...: San Jose, Mexico
People are standing well back from one another when walking, compared to the usual hustle and bustle that we have encountered in the town centre, says traveller Nick Campbell.
The lessons of Swine Flu history: beware the politics
Another pandemic flu scare. Is this The Big One, or another false alarm writes Hudson Birden.
Relenza pioneer wants to create universal anti-viral
Professor Mark von Itzstein has told Crikey that he’s currently working on an anti-viral agent to shut down viruses like Swine Flu.
Swine flu fever races around the world
Swine flu: highly contagious, highly reportable. What the world is saying.
Crikey Clarifier: Can we still eat pork crackling?
Swine influenza clarified Crikey style by Dean of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Deakin University Professor John Catford.
Swine flu Q & A
With outbreaks in Mexico and the US (and New Zealanders suspected to be infected) the situation with swine flu is rapidly evolving. How does it spread? And is the WHO ready?
