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Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections

This fact sheet tracks the current heads of government in Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It provides the dates of the last and next elections for the head of government and the national independence date for each country.
Date: June 2, 2010
Creator: Gomez-Granger, Julissa & Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Climate in 2009 (open access)

State of the Climate in 2009

This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Andt, D. S.; Baringer, M. O.; Johnson, M. R.; Alexander, L. V.; Diamond, H. J.; Fogt, R. L. et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0139]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Being entertained informally during their visit in the city are Dr. and Mrs. Fidel Guillen, Mexico City, who are the house-guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Rogers Abbott, 7000 SE 74, and their son, Bill Abbott."
Date: June 5, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Legislation to Approve the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement (open access)

Legislation to Approve the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement

This report discusses the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement and analyzes relevant legislative initiatives (S. 812 and H.R. 1613) and other legislative action surrounding Congress's approval of the Agreement (P.L. 113-67).
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Hagerty, Curry L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Marijuana] (open access)

[News Script: Marijuana]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Mexican police arresting two men transporting over 400 pound of marijuana.
Date: June 22, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mérida Initiative for Mexico and Central America: Funding and Policy Issues (open access)

Mérida Initiative for Mexico and Central America: Funding and Policy Issues

In October 2007, the United States and Mexico announced the Mérida Initiative, a three-year proposal for $1.4 billion in U.S. assistance to Mexico and Central America aimed at combating drug trafficking, gangs, and organized crime. This report provides an overview and discussion of the funding provided for Mérida, and presents several issues that Congress may consider as it oversees implementation of the Initiative.
Date: June 1, 2009
Creator: Seelke, Clare Ribando & Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2009 Spring Supplemental Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations (open access)

FY2009 Spring Supplemental Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations

This report discusses the White House's request for supplemental appropriations that include funding for defense, foreign affairs, and domestic fire fighting. The report details the different programs and areas that the appropriations would fund, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, preparedness and emergency management measures relating to the swine flu outbreak, border security between the United States and Mexico, benchmark assessment in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and other general defense operations.
Date: June 15, 2009
Creator: Daggett, Stephen; Epstein, Susan B.; Tarnoff, Curt; Margesson, Rhoda; Nakamura, Kennon H.; Kronstadt, K. Alan et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: An Overview (open access)

The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: An Overview

This report first provides a synopsis of key events, actions taken, and authorities invoked by WHO, the U.S. federal government, and state and local governments. It then discusses the WHO process to determine the phase of a flu pandemic, and selected actions taken by the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, and by state and local authorities. Next, it lists congressional hearings held to date, and provides information about appropriations and funding for pandemic flu activities. Finally, it summarizes U.S. government pandemic flu planning documents and lists sources for additional information about the situation as it unfolds.
Date: June 12, 2009
Creator: Lister, Sarah A. & Redhead, C. Stephen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Border Policy] captions transcript

[News Clip: Border Policy]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: June 27, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Post Route Map of the State of Texas with Adjacent Parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian Territory and the Republic of Mexico 1889 (6).

Map of U.S. Postal Service mail stations and routes in parts of west Texas and northern Mexico, showing the beginning and end of routes, the frequency of the mail delivery (e.g. six times per week), special supply routes, and discontinued offices. The map also includes railroads, bodies of water, major towns, and county and country lines.
Date: June 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: O'Dwyer and Medina Pause in Dallas] (open access)

[News Script: O'Dwyer and Medina Pause in Dallas]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the brief stop in Dallas by federal judge Harold Medina and former New York Mayor and Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Both are headed to El Paso, O'Dwyer is returning to Mexico while Medina is staying in El Paso to speak at the League of United Latin-American Citizens convention.
Date: June 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's 2018 Elections (open access)

Mexico's 2018 Elections

This report discusses issues surrounding Mexico's 2018 elections -- particularly the presidential election -- including Mexico's political climate, electoral process, presidential candidates, and predicted outcome.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Seelke, Clare Ribando & Gracia, Edward Y.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence (open access)

Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence

There has been an increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. This violence has generated concern among U.S. policy makers that the violence in Mexico might spill over into the United States. This report looks at the nature of the drug trafficking conflict and assessments of how the conflict could spill across the border.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Finklea, Kristin M.; Krouse, William J. & Rosenblum, Marc R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence (open access)

Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence

This report provides background on drug trafficking in Mexico: it identifies the major drug trafficking organizations (DTOs); how the organized crime “landscape” has been altered by fragmentation; and analyzes the context, scope, and scale of the violence. It examines current trends of the violence, analyzes prospects for curbing violence in the future, and compares it with violence in Colombia.
Date: June 8, 2012
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's 2012 Elections (open access)

Mexico's 2012 Elections

This report provides an overview of the parties and candidates competing in the Mexican federal elections, with a focus on the presidential contest, followed by a discussion of key issues in the campaign that could have implications for U.S.-Mexican relations.
Date: June 20, 2012
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, June 8, 1942 : week of May 29 to June 5

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Cologne and Essen flattened -- Tiny subs find Sydney ready -- the Japanese "save face" -- Army of 4 1/2 million for '42 -- Mexico welcomed into war -- Rommel's forces turned -- Hitler's hangman dies -- Poison gas used in China -- Armies shift in Russia. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Libyan battle, Dutch Harbor, Axis drives and British attacks at Libyan; Unalaska Is.; Unalaska Bay. Includes photographs: Producing the big seacoast rifles; Red gound defense on the Russian front; Nazis' Focke-Wulf 190 fighter; Yanks saw a motor show put on by Aussies; 4-motored Stirling bombers used over Cologne. Back: Enemy Tanks Are Vulnerable. Includes 10 photographs with descriptive text below each.
Date: June 8, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clinical Thermometer. (open access)

Clinical Thermometer.

Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Matamoros Reveille (Matamoros, Mexico), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1846 (open access)

Matamoros Reveille (Matamoros, Mexico), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1846

Semi-weekly newspaper from Matamoros, Mexico that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. Includes one-page edition, La Diana de Matamoros in Spanish.
Date: June 24, 1846
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

Photograph of locomotive No. 67, a consolidation type 2-8-0, on the turntable in the San Lazaro engine terminal enroute from its roundhouse stall to servicing tracks. The "F.C. I." abbreviation on the tender is Ferro-carril Cuautla Y Ixtla" (Cuauta and Ixtla Railroad). In yesteryears this locomotive ran only on this 50-mile branch line. Soon it will head the National Railways of Mexico's narrow gauge passenger consist on the main line run from Mexico City via Cuauta to Puebla. This 3-foot gauge railroad system is one of the oldest in the Republic. It traverses one of the most picturesque routes in Mexico.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Peterson, Roland B.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Empty Ore Car in Mexico]

Porter Locomotive No. 4, type 0-6-4T heads an empty ore train, enroute from the smelter in Chihuahua City to the mines at Santa Eulalia, Mexico on the 30-inch gauge El Potosi Industrial and Chihuahua Railroad in June 1922. On the mountain side in the background are steel towers supporting an aerial tramway, which had recently been completed for transporting ore from the mine to a reduction mill.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Blanton, Bert C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Heroin] (open access)

[News Script: Heroin]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 16, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Famous divorces] (open access)

[News Script: Famous divorces]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 30, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mexicans loose] (open access)

[News Script: Mexicans loose]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 15, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas violence and Japanese trade center] (open access)

[News Script: Texas violence and Japanese trade center]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 18, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library