Mexican politics

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In an effort to allow voters to see a more personable side of candidates rather than the side that’s already advertised on their Web sites, I’ve decided to feature one race in each edition of Campaign Corral and ask the candidates in the particular race a nonpolitical question.</p>
<p><strong>Featured race:</strong> Chula Vista City Council Seat 2</p>

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<p>La influencia política de los Latinos en California ha aumentado en las últimas cuatro decadas. Esta influencia se refleja en el número de Latinos que hoy en día están sirviendo en la legislatura. La legislatura de California consiste de 40 Senadores y 80 miembros de la Cámara Baja. Hoy en día hay 26 Latinos sirviendo en la legislatura de California, 9 en el Senado y 17 en la Cámara Baja. Estos 26 miembros forman El Comité Legislativo Latino de California.</p>

Frontera NorteSur

A prominent Mexican religious leader and human rights advocate has denounced a wave of criminal attacks against Central American migrants in his nation.

In a phone interview with Frontera NorteSur, Bishop Raul Vera of Saltillo, Coahuila, charged Mexican police officers and National Migration Institute (INM) officials were involved in criminal rings that kidnap migrants en route to the US and, under torture, force victims to disclose relatives’ names and phone numbers in order to collect ransoms ranging from $6,000-$8,000.

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<p>Baja California has been brought forward into the national debate over gay marriage, after PAN Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán and his Jalisco counterpart decided to sue the Supreme Court claiming the same-sex unions legalized in Mexico City since March 4th are unconstitutional.</p>

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<p>Baja California ha entrado al a polémica nacional sobre los matrimonios gays, luego de que el gobernador panista José Guadalupe Osuna Millán y su homologo de Jalisco promovieran una demanda que busca no reconocer los matrimonios gays celebrados en el Distrito Federal a partir del 4 de marzo.</p>

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<p>Flashed around the world, the image of Luisa Maria Davila, mother of two of the Ciudad Juarez youths murdered in the now-infamous Villas de Salvarcar massacre last month, scolding Mexican President Felipe Calderon for long-running official indifference photographically captured the reality of a city now nearly destroyed by criminal violence.</p>