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Street Smart? Hop On This Teacher’s Motorbike As He Tries To Enroll Students In Rural Mexico

In Chilpancingo de los Bravo, 14.5% of the population lags in their education. David Teliz Martínez hops on his motorcycle with a microphone and speaker to lure them back to the classroom.

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Geopolitics

German Responsibility For Those 43 Missing Mexican Students

Former employees from German gun company Heckler and Koch face charges in German court for illegal deals with Mexico. But were government officials complicit?

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Mexico Malaise: Democracy Lessons For Pena Nieto From Brazil And Chile

The government’s failure to address crime, corruption and declining living standards risks true social upheaval. But Enrique Pena Nieto just sits on the ball.

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Echoes of ’68 As Mexico Again Bears Witness To A Student Massacre

-OpEd- BOGOTA — Mexico bleeds as criminal gangs kill the innocent and not-so-innocent, before the gaze of an impotent — or is it indifferent? — state apparatus. The latest victims were 43 student activists who disappeared in late September and, many believe, were shot dead and cut up by gangsters and policemen collaborating in the […]

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