<h1>Marta Sotomayor: A life moving forward all the time</h1>
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<h1>Marta Sotomayor: una vida en movimiento hacia adelante todo el tiempo</h1>
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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>On my 16th birthday, in an indigenous village in southern Mexico, I translated for a church group of white Americans from my hometown in eastern Washington state. In their one-room hut, I asked an indigenous Mexican family what they wanted to know about the United States. The daughter replied in Spanish, “Nothing.” The conversation moved back to their lives, their work, how they grew their food as indigenous subsistence farmers.</p>

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<strong><a href="http://www.insightcrime.org/&quot; target="_blank">InSight Crime</a></strong></p>
<p>A new report from a Mexico City analysis firm details the rivalries among local trafficking groups, thereby revealing some of the deeper causes of some spectacular recent acts of violence in the city.</p>

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<strong><a href="http://www.cipamericas.org/es&quot; target="_blank">Programa de las Américas</a></strong></p>
<p>Las elecciones del 7 de julio de este año en México serán recordadas como las más violentas en la historia.</p>

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<strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>With a warm smile beaming across her face, Ana Alarcon recalls waiting for her daughter Esmeralda at the bus stop every day. In the proud remembrance of her mother, Esmeralda Juarez Alarcon was a busy and no-nonsense 16-year-old who wanted to help her family move up in the rough-and-tumble world of Ciudad Juarez.</p>