By David Simmonds As yet another assault on the American worker, specifically the trucking industry and the Teamsters union, the Bush administration has announced that they will soon allow Mexican truckers to extend their routes beyond the current 25-mile-from-the-border limit. Although the new rule was a condition of 2001′s NAFTA agreement, there has been widespread opposition [...]

By David Simmonds  There is a small, remote village in Oaxaca, Santa Maria Ecatepec, that would seemingly have no connection to the fast-paced world of San Diego, Chicago or Atlanta. When you walk the dusty streets of this town of 4,000 of mostly farmers, it appears to be like many other hard-scrabble villages in Mexico, except here you [...]

By David Simmonds It has been no secret that for the past several years it has been very unpopular for anyone who makes their living in the arts in the U.S. to dare voice an opinion related to politics and policies. The Dixie Chicks tested those waters and paid a huge price for exercising their [...]

By David Simmonds The concept of measured intelligence has always seemed a  little bogus to me, more so when I’m in Mexico trying to solve a daily life-problem only to have a local who may not have finished high school point out a workable solution as if he was explaining how a wheel works. This was [...]

MP News Staff  MEXICO CITY – Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn’t care if he is the world’s richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children. The Mexican telecom mogul pledged Thursday to donate 250,000 low-cost laptops to children by the end of the year and as many [...]

By: Lisa Coleman The imigration issue is a sticky topic. Depending on where you grew up, or what your perceptions and politcal views may be, illegal Mexicans coming to the the United States is either an understandable yet complicated plight, or simply an unacceptable circumstance. Without getting too black and and white on a clearly [...]

MP News Staff PAN candidate and ex-Tijuana Mayor Jose Osuna has apparently won the election for governor of Baja California over Jorge Hank of the once-dominate PRI. A persistent cloud of accusations has followed Hank, who was mayor of Tijuana from 2004 to 2007,  for years, with the press reporting on  his associations with organized crime and the drug [...]