With climate talks limping along, President Calderon has refused to give in to this slow momentum. Renewing his promise to real and sustainable change for the future, the President will look toward his nation to “rescue” the failing talks, all in anticipation of the summit on climate change this December in Mexico.

According to James Murray of BusinessGreen, “speaking in an interview with Reuters a few days ago, Mexico’s chief negotiator Fernando Tudela said the host nation accepted the Cancun summit would not deliver an international climate change treaty, but insisted a “spectacular breakthrough” was still possible.

Tudela said the Mexico summit would aim to deliver “a set of meaningful decisions” on issues such as climate financing and adaptation, while also engineering an end to the “regime standoff” that has marred past negotiations.

“We have a window of opportunity that is closing,” he said. “What we want to do is rescue these negotiations.”

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While the Christian Evangelical School in Tennessee and the Blas Pascal School in Merida, Mexico may seem like strange bedfellows at first, the two institutions are set to prove that the students have more in common than they might realize.

The two schools have embarked on a bilateral cultural immersion program, in an effort to promote greater understanding and tolerance.

“We took the trip in order to allow our students to experience the life of a teenager in Mexico,” said Dawn Shute, ECS Spanish teacher who co-sponsored the trip with ECS world view director Noah Brink.

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Breaking News: The mayor of Piedras Negras is presumed dead after a plane carrying him and seven others went down today.

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The heavy rains that hit parts of Northern Mexico and Southern Texas last week have been said to displace thousands. The major city of Monterrey was said to be hit among the hardest, according to the AFP.

More than 100,000 people remained without drinking water around the state following last week’s storms, which caused flooding and chaos in the capital Monterrey, said Javier Trevino, a state government official.

After Hurricane Alex soaked the region last week with floods that killed at least 15 people in Nuevo Leon, a new storm dumped still more rain on waterlogged terrain.

Some 40,000 homes have already been damaged in Coahuila, said state communications coordinator David Aguillon.

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A new government study not only refutes the claims that border tensions have increased rates of violence in U.S. towns near the line, but also claims that the areas along the border are some of the safest in the nation per capita.

The FBI has released a report of the top four cities with the lowest rates of violent crime: San Diego, El Paso, Austin, and Phoenix

Furthermore, according to the study, the already low numbers are continuing to fall even further on account of new joint security measures.

“The border is safer now than it’s ever been,” said Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling.

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Luis Alfonso de Alba refuses to back down from his promises of progress during the upcoming climate talks scheduled in Mexico during the month of December.

The climate chief has taken some criticism for his overly optimistic views and his “no excuses” policies, but he recently defended his stance and renewed his promise toward a better tomorrow.

“The U.N. secretariat, Yvo de Boer, and some other actors, the European Commission, Connie Hedegaard, have frequently referred to the impossibility of reaching a legally binding agreement in Cancun, (and) do not imply that important decisions can be taken in Cancun,” he said. “We do not share that view. They are somehow lowering expectations for Cancun.”

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The attention of some of North America”s foremost climate change experts will shifts towards hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), in anticipation of the forthcoming climate change summit in Switzerland.

The United States, Mexico, and Canada have pledged to do their part in combatting this growing issue, with the hole in the ozone layer continuing to increase.

The three nations will go before the summitt in an effort to get HFCs on the list of chemicals controlled by the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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Following his highly publicized State Dinner in Washington, President Calderon headed north to speak to students at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Boston.

While addressing the students, the President, a 2006 graduate himself, echoed the call to service for the common good.