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	U.S. blocks military aid to Mexico - Boston.com
		The sanctions were imposed in October after Mexico became a signatory to the Hague-based ICC, which was set up in 2002 to hunt down perpetrators of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
		Mexico was the 12th country from the Latin America-Caribbean area to be sanctioned by the U.S. under a law approved by Congress four years ago.
		Mexico announced last month that it has no plans to enter into any such deal, known in government lexicon as an "Article 98" agreement.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/08/us_blocks_military_aid_to_mexico (634 words)

	Military history of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mexico's struggle for independence began primarily in the 19th century, and was marked by internal conflict of early rulers after defeating the Spanish in 1821.
		Mexico's failure to apologize in the terms demanded led to the U.S. navy's bombardment of the port of Veracruz and the occupation of that city for seven months.
		Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia ;· Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ;· Trinidad and Tobago · United States
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_Mexico (5714 words)

	sports history - Mexico
		Mexico borders two major bodies of water, the Pacific Ocean (with the Gulf of California between the mainland and the Baja California peninsula) to the west and on the east the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea that lead to the Atlantic Ocean.
		Mexico's major rivers include the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) and the Río Usumacinta on its northern and southern borders, respectively, together with the Río Grijalva, the Río Balsas, the Río Pánuco, and the Río Yaqui in the interior.
		Mexico is predominantly Roman Catholic (89%), with 6% adhering to various Protestant faiths and the remaining 5% adhering to other religions, or no religion.
	www.sportsfactbook.com /history/Mexico (2841 words)

	US military in Chiapas Mexico
		Returning to Mexico in December 1995,1 traveled through 18 of Mexico's 31 states, visiting more than 30 indigenous communities in the "conflict zone" where the Zapatistas and the Mexican army maintained a tense truce.
		It is tragic that this costly military presence is being used to preserve such deep poverty.
		The military occupies most of the Lacandon jungle in eastern Chiapas Human rights and religious workers report that the army and police units seemingly encourage arbitrary detentions, intimidation, harassment, theft, violence and even murder of villagers by right-wing paramilitary groups.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/USmilitary_Chiapas.html (1634 words)

	Military Factory - Mexico Military Strength (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century.
		Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector.
		Mexico implemented free trade agreements with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and the European Free Trade Area in 2001, putting more than 90% of trade under free trade agreements.
	www.militaryfactory.com /countries/popup.asp?country_id=21 (346 words)

	Mexico opens military opportunities to women - USATODAY.com
		MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's military is tapping a population its recruiters all but overlooked for decades: women.
		For the first time, Mexico is allowing women to train in elite military schools to become engineers, pilots and other careers that can rise to the rank of general.
		Vela believes the military, usually slow to change, is setting an example for a society where workplace discrimination is institutionalized and physical and emotional mistreatment are common at home.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-09-28-mexico-military_N.htm?csp=34 (929 words)

	Mexico Society Culture Government Legal Police Crime Religion Divorce Military
		Mexico is a multi-party democracy where voters nationally elect a President to serve a six-year, non-renewable, term in office.
		Mexico's Legal System, underpinned by the Mexican Constitution (wiki) is based primarily upon Napoleonic Law (wiki), although it has been transformed over the years and, like the Constitution itself, the legal system has American and Socialist characteristics blended into it.
		Mexico's people are very religious and predominantly Roman-Catholic, although Mexico is an open and extremely tolerant country which allows all religions to practice their faith openly and without fear of reprisal.
	www.mexperience.com /liveandwork/mexicosocietyculturetiquette.php (2115 words)

	Military - New Mexico Independent
		Bill Richardson on Thursday proposed creating "world-class" exhibit center on the Expo New Mexico fairgrounds in the heart of Albuquerque to replace Tingley Coliseum and the Downs racetrack, the latter of which is moving operations to Moriarty, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
		MEXICO CITY (AP) _ New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson urged U.S. lawmakers Thursday to resolve their differences over an aid package to help Mexico fight drugs, saying it would be "disastrous" for security on both sides of the border if the Merida Initiative fell through.
		A New Mexico Army National Guard soldier who served in Iraq said his bosses at the state's Children, Youth and Families Department were less than welcoming since he returned home and to his job as a community support officer in the Gallup office in 2007.
	nmindependent.mypublicsquare.com /story/index/date/2109 (938 words)

	The Mexican Military and Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WOLA is monitoring the Mexican military’s investigation into crimes committed during Mexico’s “dirty war” of the 1970s and 1980s.
		As a result, although Mexico is undergoing a transition to democracy, the rules for civil-military relations are not being rewritten.
		The Dawn of Mexico's Dirty War: Lucio Cabañas and the Party of the Poor, an Electronic Briefing Book by Kate Doyle of the National Security Archive, March 2003.
	www.wola.org /Mexico/hr/military.htm (336 words)

	Mexico - Military Injustice: Mexico's Failure to Punish Army Abuses - Military Justice In Mexico
		She visited the military bases in the region, but the officers she spoke with insisted they had no idea where her son was.
		One is that the military held the two men in Pizotla until the morning of May 4 when a helicopter took them to a military base in the town of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, where they were kept for at least the rest of that day, before being turned over to the civilian authorities.
		The only case in which the PGJM initiated the prosecution of military personnel for human rights abuses was the one in which the community had taken a drastic measure to demonstrate that they would not accept anything less than a proper investigation of the crime.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/mexico/mexi1201-02.htm (9463 words)

	NMMI Athletics
		The New Mexico Military Institute tennis teams were a dominant force in their respective state and national tournaments.
		For former New Mexico Military Institute assistant and recruiting coordinator David Gomez, it was a reunion of sorts when the Frank Phillips Plainsmen rolled into Roswell on Friday.
		New Mexico Military Institute's Byron Byrd, a 6'5" sophomore forward with a shooting guards touch on the outside and tenacious rebounding skills on the inside, was named as the 1st Honorable Mention to the 2008 Men's Basketball Western Junior College Athletic Conference's....
	www.nmmi.edu /athletics (1330 words)

	U.S.: Mexican Military Rife with Drug Corruption
		Two of the four identified themselves as former military men and said that their job was to recruit for the cartel from Mexico's special forces.
		The military - historically a rallying point of Mexican nationalism - was long viewed as relatively free of the kind of corruption that has engulfed the country and many of its institutions.
		A U.S. law enforcement official and a senior Mexican intelligence official in Mexico City, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said that members of the Mexican military appeared to have played a role in the interrogation of the four men in the video - a conclusion based on the way the men were handcuffed.
	archive.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2005/12/24/203609.shtml (1387 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- Ex-Mexico president charged in 1971 massacre-media
		MEXICO CITY – A Mexican prosecutor has brought criminal charges against former President Luis Echeverria for the deaths of at least 25 people in a 1971 attack on student protesters, newspapers reported Friday.
		In Mexico, the genocide charge can apply if victims were targeted as members of a group, such as the student movement.
		Echeverria, who was in office from 1970-1976 at the height of a "dirty war" against dissidents, has said he was not responsible for the 1971 attack or other atrocities of that era.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20040723-0558-rights-mexico.html (358 words)

	Military of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mexico's military is divided into two branches, the National Defense Secretariat (includes Army and Air Force) and the Navy Secretariat (includes Naval Air and Marines).
		For example, between August and November, military forces are sent to Mexican coastal areas to aid the public in the event of hurricanes or floods.
		The members of the "military service" that remain by recruitment after their mandatory period of service is accomplished, are volunteers that choose the military as their job.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Mexico (2841 words)

	Mexico - Government
		Mexicans' adherence to a highly codified civil law tradition, their acceptance of heavy state involvement in business and civic affairs, and the deference accorded the executive over other branches of government can be traced to the administrative and legal practices of the colonial period.
		Finally, the traumatic experiences of the nineteenth century, including foreign military occupations and the loss of half of the national territory to the United States, as well as the disillusion sown by a series of unconstitutional regimes, continue to have a profound impact on contemporary political culture.
		By grafting corporatist institutions onto Mexico's historically fractious political system at a time when ideologies of the extreme left and right were gaining support throughout the world, Mexico's leaders avoided a return to the widespread violence that had engulfed their country during the 1910s and early 1920s.
	countrystudies.us /mexico/80.htm (960 words)

	Oaxaca, Mexico Tense with Military Presence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MEXICO CITY.— The crisis in the southeastern Mexican city of Oaxaca may be coming to a head as the government has deployed the military after four months of widespread protests against the state authorities.
		Faced with the threat of military repression, the protest leaders are on red alert and strengthened their roadblocks and barricades in the streets in preparation for an attack.
		At press time, the morning daily reported that 30 military vehicles from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec had been dispatched without giving more details.
	www.periodico26.cu /english/news_world/mexico100206.htm (254 words)

	FOXNews.com - Drug Cartels Target Military in Mexico - International News \| News of the World \| Middle East News \| ...
		Mexican drug cartels armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nationwide military crackdown are striking back, killing soldiers in bold, daily attacks that threaten the one force strong enough to take on the gangs.
		The daily bloodshed includes an ambush that killed five soldiers this month, a severed head left with a defiant note outside a military barracks on Saturday and the slaying Monday of a top federal intelligence official who was shot in the face in his car outside his office in Mexico City.
		But 40 percent blame the military presence for the increasing violence, and 36 percent believe the traffickers are winning, according to the nationwide survey of 1,050 adults from April 26 to May 1, which had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
	www.foxnews.com /printer_friendly_wires/2007May14/0,4675,MexicoArmyvsDrugs,00.html (890 words)

	Austerity won´t hit military - El Universal - Mexico News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The president said he will exclude the military from his announced austerity plan that he will reveal this week when he submits the 2007 budget to Congress.
		The military plays an insignificant role in international conflicts and instead is used mainly in the fight against drug traffickers, leftist guerrilla groups and natural disasters.
		Mexico´s politicians are among the highest paid in the world.
	www.mexiconews.com.mx /22212.html (523 words)

	New Mexico Military Institute Information
		As a military junior college, New Mexico Military Institute offers an Army College ROTC program that permits a young person, in the college, to be commissioned as a second lieutenant in only two years.
		New Mexico Military Institute is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (High School accredited as college preparatory); Department of Education, State of New Mexico, and by the Department of the Army as a Military Junior College offering Junior and Senior ROTC (Honor School with Distinction or its equivalent since 1909).
		New Mexico Military Institute is a member of the American Association of Junior Colleges, the Association of Military Schools and Colleges of the United States and North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
	www.nmmi.edu /admissions/school.htm (406 words)

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		As long as military and paramilitary forces continue disrupting the rule of law in Mexico and creating climates of fear and intimidation, it will be impossible to achieve the environment necessary for the consolidation of Mexico's democracy.
		The threat to Mexico's democracy and stability is a concern to the increasingly important bilateral relationship between the United States and Mexico.
		In an era of increasing military and economic cooperation between Mexico and the United States, the United States bears some responsibility for and influence over the actions of the Mexican military, particularly in its role as Mexico's primary source of military aid, training and support.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/mexico/mil/index.html (1613 words)

	U.S.: Mexican Military Rife with Drug Corruption (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The military - historically a rallying point of Mexican nationalism - was long viewed as relatively free of the kind of corruption that has engulfed the country and many of its institutions.
		The policy of giving the military a central role has "allowed drug traffickers to penetrate deep into the military structure," without markedly slowing the flow of drugs to the United States, the report said.
		A U.S. law enforcement official and a senior Mexican intelligence official in Mexico City, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said that members of the Mexican military appeared to have played a role in the interrogation of the four men in the video - a conclusion based on the way the men were handcuffed.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2005/12/24/203609.shtml (1432 words)

	Mexico’s Proliferating Military Incursions
		In other words, the level of foreign military activity along portions of the U.S. border is so frequent a special reporting system had to be adopted to keep track of them.
		Another regular occurrence that is hard to fathom by anyone who hasn't seen it firsthand is the fact that Mexican military units and some police have also been spotted by USBP agents and American civilians funneling groups of illegal aliens northward into the United States.
		The incidence of foreign military invading U.S. soil is not a partisan problem, it is an American leadership problem.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1070068/posts (1195 words)

	Military, Mexico - Wander the Planet .net
		And traveling from town to town you would pass military checkpoints where you would have to show your passport and state your reason for being in the area.
		The presence of U.S. military aid is apparent as the Mexican army uses humvees, armored personnel carriers, and Blackhawk helicopters, to carry out harassment.
		Additionally, military personnel are being trained at the School of the Assassins (the notorious School of the Americas).
	www.wandertheplanet.net /Mexico/military.htm (238 words)

	U.S. military aids Mexico's attacks on Zapatista movement
		There are an admitted dozen or so FBI agents in southern Mexico training various police and security units in topics such as "fighting drugs", "management of crises and kidnappings," and the "use of necessary force" to protect society.
		This is part of the intention of the Mexican military's counterinsurgency plan to destroy the Zapatistas through isolating them and breaking the support relationships with the civilian population.
		In addition, Mexico has asked for, and the US has provided, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military and intelligence support and training under the pretext of fighting the drug war.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/1998_03/19980305.html (1161 words)

	U.S. Military Involvement in Mexico
		From the jungles of Chiapas and the scorching desert shantytowns of the 2,000-mile border, to the slums of the world's largest urban metropolis, Mexico City: civil war in a nation of 90 million souls, just south of the Rio Grande, would be an unprecedented crisis for all the people of the continent which we share.
		These imported military aircraft played a decisive role in the lopsided January 1994 conflict, when over 400 Indian peasants were killed in 12 days, according to the human rights report of Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz.
		From 1984 to l993 at least 725 Mexican military officers were trained by Pentagon experts inside the United States, 150 of those in l993 alone, with 94 officers graduating from Fort Benning, Georgia's notorious School of the Americas in 1992 and 1993 - a 300% increase over previous years.
	www.webcom.com /hrin/magazine/april96/mexico.html (984 words)

	Latest News - Cartel Wooing Mexico's Military
		Some pointed to low pay among the middle and lower ranks as making military personnel vulnerable to offers from cartel leaders who may double or triple their pay.
		Military officials requested questions in writing but said there would be no reply for now.
		Two of the four identified themselves as former military men and said that their job was to recruit for the cartel from Mexico's special forces.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking06/Wooing.html (570 words)

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