Americas: March 2012 Archives
Thursday March 29, 2012
Mexican tabloids: Black & White -- and dead all over
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A typical front page for one of Mexico's biggest Nota Roja tabloids. The term means 'red press', referring to the bloodshed it features. Mexico's drug war has provided them with plenty to write about. (Photo/El Manana) |
But it took the Pope's visit to cause a temporary halt. One cartel hung out signs welcoming Benedict and pledging not to attack rival gangs while he's in the country.
With his departure, the killing that's claimed more than 47,000 lives has resumed. And with it, the debate over how best to treat it in the Mexican press -- that ranges from black-and-white, to red all over.
Canadian journalist Myles Estey has been watching it at work in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
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Wednesday March 14, 2012
March 15 & 18 from - Torrimpietra, Italy - Butare, Rwanda - Beijing - Chicago - India
From our correspondents around the world...
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Rwandan journalist Didier Bikorimana out with a local fisherman in Butare, Rwanda who tells him people used to fish with anti-malaria mosquito nets on this lake, but they don't anymore. (Photo: Didier Bikorimana) |
Millions of people die every year and no one knows exactly why. The Million Death Study aims to change all that.
Mosquito nets are for a) mosquitos or b) fishing. Both, it turns out, and their mis-use is a problem in Rwanda.
First, Slow Food. Now, Slow Wine. Italy takes the beverage of Bacchus back to basics.
Our China correspondent takes the sting out of Dr. Wang's miracle bees in a painful test of traditional medicine.
And, we'll revisit those scaly barbarians at the gate. An update on invasive Asian carp eating their way towards the Great Lakes.
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Thursday March 8, 2012
Mexico's vigilante mayor
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CBC correspondent Keith Boag has been reporting all week on drug-related violence in Mexico. (Photo: CBC) |
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Wednesday March 7, 2012
March 8 & 11, 2012 - from San Pedro, Mexico - Russia - Rome - China - Cape Town, South Africa
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Mauricio Fernandez Garza, mayor of the municipality of San Pedro, attends a ceremony to evaluate their police force in March, 2010. Fernandez Garza practises what some call vigilante justice, which he says keeps his city safe. (Photo: REUTERS/Tomas Bravo) |
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- Thu., 31 – Grand Forks, ND: misinformation on the menu
- Fri., 11 – Plaza del Mayo... marching, remembering
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- Fri., 15 – Falkland Islands...music of the long march
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