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Migrant caravan draws hostile Trump tweets

The yearly “Via Crucis” (stations of the cross) migrant caravan, whose participants are mainly comprised of citizens from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador seeking asylum in Mexico and/or the United States, has received unlikely publicity from the world’s most powerful person, U.S. President Donald Trump.

Controversial pro-Obrador video titillates, outrages

The bit of political vaudeville known as “La Niña Bien,” a music video in which a “Good Girl” – code, in Mexico, for a rich but somewhat gauche young woman – proclaims her intention to vote for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), has been distracting a susceptible Mexican public for almost a week.

UNAM graduate study exposes child labor in Mexico

In a recent graduate study, a student at the Intercultural and Cultural Diversity program of UNAM has come to some troubling conclusions in regards to child labor in Mexico, especially where it concerns the country’s maquiladoras, essentially textile sweatshops where employees work long hours at low pay.