New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, June 1, 2009, as some complain the tightening of security and others applaud it as long overdue.

The Free Trade Treaty between the United States and Panama has gone to the US Senate for debate today.

By Le Roy Jose Amate Perez
Le Roy Jose Amate Perez is the founder of Mexicomatters and www.mexicomatters.net  

 The 32 million dollars that "investors" lost in the Trump Towers scam is but another example of a U.S. marketing team with a "credible name" ripping off fellow citizens in Mexico. I use the term "investor" in quotes because many of the victims were investor-speculators. The "flipping" of condos, held with large deposits during "presale", became extremely popular and highly profitable, in the Baja boom days - 2002 to 2007. During construction, condos would often triple in value before completion. The same speculator motivation, in the overvalued U.S. real estate and stock markets, made Baja an attractive alternative.