Mexico

<p><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.</p>

<p></p>
<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez, the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.”</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The “march” — as it is euphemistically called — is the talk of Mexico’s media and slowly drawing international attention.</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<div><strong></strong></div>

Premieres Sunday, May 15 at 10pm

By Julio Martinez

<p><strong>Washington</strong><strong> DC Bureau</strong></p>
<p><em>Editor’s note: This article was reprinted with permission from the Washington DC Bureau, a nonprofit news service focused on the environment and national security. </em></p>

    On March 8th something historic will happen in Mexico. Following a three-day trek from the south, thousands will gather in Mexico City to protest a U.S.-supported militarized drug war that has cost nearly 40,000 lives in just four years.

<p></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On May 5, 1862, Mexican troops defeated an invading French army in the outskirts of Puebla, a city around 60 miles east of Mexico City. How did events come to this point; what were French troops doing in Mexico and why?</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On September 15, 1810, a priest, Miguel Hidalgo, sounded the church bells to unite Mexicans in a war of independence from Spain. Independence was declared the following day, September 16th. But it took Mexicans 11 years to oust the Spaniards.</p>