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Mexico elections: How 5 local issues could impact the next president
Mexicans will elect 128 senators, 500 deputies, six governors, the mayor of Mexico City, and their new president tomorrow. Some of these key local races will have implications for the new president's mandate, and the governing party's ability to pass much needed reforms.
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Five hotbeds of biodiversity
Here are five flora- and fauna-rich ecologies that Conservation International, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, Va., says are more than 70 percent intact.
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In Pictures: Way beyond vacation: the 'Eat, Pray, Love' effect
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Apollo 13
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In Pictures: Carnival's stranded cruise ship
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Latin America Monitor Are some Mexican cartels aiming for a more peaceful coexistence?
Violence has dropped overall in Mexico's Baja California state due to both government efforts and an uneasy peace between rival criminal organizations.
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A bus-stop tennis clinic
We were stuck in rural Panama. Then kids began throwing rocks at us.
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Modern migrants pose new challenges to Mexican border towns
The US deported record numbers of immigrants over the past four years. Although Mexico provides some basic services, the influx of migrants in border towns means good Samaritans and nonprofits are having to step up.
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As Mexico's traffickers ship drugs north, they leave addicts in their wake
Being the top supplier of illegal drugs to the United States has made Mexico a consumer nation too.
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Rare ladybug in Montana behaves like a turtle
Rare ladybug: The 'headless' ladybug is a new genus that can tuck its head in its throat. How rare is it? Only two of the bizarre-looking ladybird beetles have ever been collected, a male in Montana and a female in Idaho.
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SpaceX Dragon: Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space station
The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space capsule.
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Tropical storm Miriam now a Category 2 hurricane
Tropical storm Miriam rapidly became hurricane Miriam in the Pacific. Miriam is getting stronger but is not on track to hit the US or Mexico.
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Latin America Monitor Crime pays? Mexico's unemployed youth a driving factor in organized crime
Eight million youths are unemployed in Mexico, and cartel work can have a big draw: An enforcer for a large cartel can make nearly three times as much as the national average salary.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto races across Yucatan Peninsula
There were no immediate reports of storm deaths or major damage, though Ernesto ripped down billboards, toppled trees and cut electricity service as it hit the cruise ship port of Mahahual shortly before midnight Tuesday as a hurricane.
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Hurricane Emilia packs the biggest punch of 2012 season
Hurricane Emilia has swelled to a Category 4 hurricane, the first major hurricane of this season. Hurricane Emilia, 700 miles southwest of Baja California, is expected to go out to sea.
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Mexico elections: How 5 local issues could impact the next president
Mexicans will elect 128 senators, 500 deputies, six governors, the mayor of Mexico City, and their new president tomorrow. Some of these key local races will have implications for the new president's mandate, and the governing party's ability to pass much needed reforms.
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Latin America Monitor Hosting the G20, Mexico is 'Greece no more'
Mexico is increasingly speaking as a world leader as it shed its image as the 'Greece of the '80s and '90s,' when it suffered excruciating debt and monetary crises.
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Global warming's evil twin threatens West Coast fishing grounds
Within the next few decades, ocean acidification – an effect of global warming – could leave sea creatures along the West Coast unable to maintain their protective shells, according to a new study.
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Latin America Monitor Mexico to witness transit of Venus, as Mayas did before (+video)
The Western Hemisphere will be able to view Venus crossing the sun this evening, a last-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In Mexico events are scheduled today across the capital.
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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific Ocean (+video)
The SpaceX Dragon capsule, a privately owned spacecraft, returned to Earth Thursday from the International Space Station
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Change Agent Five ways to make aquaculture more sustainable
Combining rice paddles and fish ponds, and using locally caught fish as feed, are just two of the ways that fish farming, or aquaculture, can be made more environmentally friendly.
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Mexico earthquake: How quake-prone is the region?
Mexico earthquake history shows that the same faults that caused Tuesday's Mexico earthquake can produce even bigger events, like one that struck in 1985.
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Five hotbeds of biodiversity
Here are five flora- and fauna-rich ecologies that Conservation International, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, Va., says are more than 70 percent intact.
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Latin America Monitor Latin America's economic rise may be undercut by violence
Latin America is on the rise with strong regional GDPs and decreasing poverty rates. Yet homicide rates have grown by 30 percent in recent years, threatening to spoil 'Latin America's Decade.'
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Amazing 3-D images show how earthquakes warp the Earth's surface
Laser scans of the Earth's surface published in the journal Science reveal how earthquakes distort the planet's surface, showing exactly where the ground moved and by how much.
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Mexico's other challenge: to burnish its brand
Can Mexico help the world see past its escalating drug war, and showcase all that it offers?
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Arizona's Brewer misses second straight US-Mexico Border Governors Conference
Gov. Jan Brewer (R) of Arizona will miss a chance to soothe tensions over last year's conference, which her Mexican counterparts boycotted in protest of her signing a tough immigration law.
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Could the massive West Coast blackout have been prevented?
Initial reports blame a utility worker doing maintenance near Yuma, Ariz., for triggering the massive blackout that affected residents across a large swath of southern California and Mexico.
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Watermelon tuna ceviche
Citrus juice quickly “cooks” sushi-grade tuna for this light, fresh, colorful first course.
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Fishing ban brings species back to Mexico park. But can it rebuild a fishery?
A study finds that a fishing ban at a Mexican marine park – with critical help from local residents – has successfully restored the fish population. Whether it's enough to restore the industry is not clear.
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