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Activist art makes clear that the border dynamic is a lot more complex than Trumps’s ‘them/us’ rhetoric.
Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones/Flickr
How has Malcolm Lowry’s novel stood the test of time?
The Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk crew interdicts a group of Haitian migrants July 11, 2017, approximately 22 miles south of Great Inagua, Bahamas.
Coast Guard News/flickr
The mass movement of people across the world is nothing new, but migration today is so global and so unrelenting that it may well be the great humanitarian issue of our time.
Do you know what’s in your cigarettes?
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Do US smokers really know the risks? Research from Australia, Canada and Mexico shows that there are better ways to warn consumers.
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the first day of the G-20 summit.
AP Photo/Jens Meyer
Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor.
The border wall between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, Calif.
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Deadly, ineffective and generally fated to fall, border walls are multiplying and becoming the new normal in international relations.
Javier Duarte, former governor of the Mexican state Veracruz, after his arrest.
EPA/Esteban Biba
When corruption becomes truly entrenched in a state, it can seem impossible to uproot. But Mexicans are still fighting it.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), right, with Delfina Gomez of his MORENA party. Gómez narrowly lost the Mexico State governor’s race on June 4 but gave her party a boost for the presidency.
Carlos Jasso/REUTERS
Can Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politics’ long-time left-wing rabble rouser, finally win the presidency?
Some 13 people ‘disappear’ in Mexico every day, and the country is on track to record 30,000 homicides this year.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
A controversial report claims that Mexico is more violent than Afghanistan and Yemen. It’s wrong on the details but right that Mexico is, in effect, a war zone.
US President Donald Trump and African dictator Idi Amin - different, but the same.
EPA and Reuters
Some may say it’s far fetched to compare a 1970s African dictator with the President of the United States. But the similarities between Idi Amin and Donald Trump are quite startling.
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Both focus too much on controlling supply and not enough on demand.
The University of California-Mexico Initiative Education Working Group created Project SOL, an online curriculum program that teaches students in their native language.
University of California, Riverside
Despite hard work by both governments to overcome mistrust, more is needed to build mutual understanding between Americans and Mexicans. Educational partnerships may hold the answer.
A march for the missing in Mexico City in May 2017.
Sashenka Gutierrez/EPA
The figures have been taken out of context.
Will Trump’s America lose out on the next big thing in business?
Blair Gable/Reuters
Mexico and Canada are about to turn medical cannabis into North America’s most lucrative new market.
A mariachi band performs during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, in Monterrey, Mexico.
REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Can the U.S. recover its once positive image among Mexicans? Trade, immigration and cultural ties stand to suffer.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer hands documents to a woman entering the U.S. from Mexico.
Brad Doherty/AP Photo
President Trump wants to renegotiate or eliminate NAFTA because of its impact on U.S. trade, but the accord is also a cornerstone of continental cooperation on security issues as well.
During the US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump blamed NAFTA for US job losses.
Tracie Van Auken/EPA
There’s ample space to renegotiate some terms from the original agreement that would improve social welfare across the region.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to law enforcement officers in St. Louis.
REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
Trump’s administration plans to ramp up prosecution of unauthorized border crossings. Here’s the story of how it became illegal in the first place.
Mexican protesters confront the marines sent in to disband them.
Reuters
A controversial law to officially engage Mexico’s armed forces in fighting crime has human rights groups dismayed.
Making tortillas.
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Could holistic medicine partly explain the ‘Hispanic health paradox’?