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Governor of Chihuahua orders recover of miner’s body

On the instructions of the state governor, Cesar Duarte Jaquez, will join a task force to rescue the body of the miner Jose Alfredo Flores Flores, 29, who died on Tuesday, 6 this month inside the mine, “Jesus Maria” in the municipality of Ocampo, Chihuahua. Read Article

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Two leaders of Valencia Cartel arrested, unleashes narco blockades Guadalajara and Zapopan

Elements of the Department of Defense apprehended two alleged members of the cartel’s important Valencia, causing movement of criminal groups trying to save. The detainees were taken to the capital of Jalisco. wo killed and 13 blocks in streets, avenues and highways of the entity is the preliminary balance of a clash between suspected members […]

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Large Narco Lab found and destroyed in Santa María del Oro, Nayarit Mexico (Video)

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Ecuador, organized crime, Mexico connection

An assessment by Ecuadorian security forces reportedly says that Ecuador is home to an increasing number of organized criminal groups, and that the authorities have underestimated the problem. El Comercio reports (in Spanish) that a review by the military says that drug trafficking and organized crime may soon overwhelm the country, if “adequate measures” are […]

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Navolato Sinaloa Mexico: 8 murdered overnight

SECURITY Invade Navolato terror; Found killed 8 people During the morning, the bodies are found in different parts of the municipality sugarcane. Although the Elite Group took over the tasks of crime prevention in Navolato from January, this morning terror invaded the municipality to register eight murders in different villages. The first three victims were […]

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Mexico: NGO asks for investigation into sexual assaults in taxis on Toluca-Tenango route

The civil organization “Pro Human Rights”, requested the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico (CODHEM) to assist in an investigation into allegations of violations, assaults and attacks on workers who move in taxis Toluca-Tenango line. According to Monica Hurtado, a representative of the NGO “monitors” the area, said that so […]

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Mexico: Police prevent lynching of suspected thief

At least 50 residents of a community in the state of Mexico tried to lynch a suspected thief. The incident took place in San Diego, a city in San Mateo Otzacatipan. The attempted lynching following the theft of money from one account holder, said the Public Safety Secretariat (SSC). According to the agency, Erika Chavez […]

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Mexico: reporters for Magazine Diez4 receive online death threats

Reporters and contributors to the magazine Diez4 received death threats from some of the articles printed in its monthly publication, through comments left on their website, where you can find digital reports. The threats were issued the morning of March 6, between 4:20 and 5:30 pm, signed under the nickname “Uncle John” and the eleven […]

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Mexico: Human trafficking most lucrative after arms and drugs

Annually, about 16,000 children are sexually exploited in Mexico and nearly 85,000 are used in the porn industry. Faced with this problem, the Green Party proposed to take measures to prevent and to punish those who say the crime of trafficking. Read Article

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Disappearance in Ciudad Juarez of young girls has grown exponentially

Karla Michel Salas, a member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (ANAD), mentioned that Esmeralda is one of dozens of missing children and adolescents in the last three years of the center of Ciudad Juarez, and at least 10 of them disappeared from an area whose radius is not more than 10 blocks and […]

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Guerrero Mexico: 800 literacy teachers fired for not meeting goals

At least 800 were discharged during the first stage of the “Warriors for Literacy”, which got 35 000 adults are no longer illiterate, according to the state coordinator of the program, Ricardo Castillo Barrientos. In turn, the operating state coordinator of this program, Felix Moreno Peralta, said that for various reasons such as migration, death […]

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Blog about Texas/Mexico border

We are back from our trip to the Texas-Mexico border and thought we would offer some preliminary conclusions about border management. There are several positive developments worth noting: There are still no signs of terrorist traffic according to any of the officials and non-governmental sources we met. Improved systems and technology now provide CBP with […]

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Six bodies found in clandestine grave in rural section of Juarez, Nuevo León Mexico

Authorities in Nuevo Leon reported finding human remains in a clandestine grave in the town of Juarez, where until midnight at least had located the bodies of two women and four men. According to preliminary reports from the Attorney General of the State (PGJE), the number of bodies buried in the rural area could increase, […]

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Labor attorney murdered in Chihuahua, Mexico

A labor lawyer was killed after he was attacked by several gunshot fire while driving his car, that in the colony center. The victim was finalized apparently while trying to exit the parking lot in a vehicle Bora, white, late-model, with plates EEB5750 at the intersection of the streets Degollado and 13 th, for subjects […]

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Colombian judge warns of narcoterrorism threat in Mexico

The auxiliary Judge of the Superior Council of the Judiciary in Colombia, Maria Constanza Rivera Peña, warned of the risk in Mexico is the battle between criminal groups to control the transfer and sale of drugs. He estimated that if restrictive policies or through arms control are not accompanied by social programs and reclaiming public […]

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Oaxaca Mexico: 14 deaths recorded to date 2012 H1N1 flu

According to the health department in the state, the deaths are located in urban areas and correspond to patients affiliated to IMSS. • In Oaxaca Oaxaca, 14 people have died from influenza H1N1 have been reported and a total of 297 infections, reported the state Health Secretary Germain Tenorio Vasconcelos. Reported that epidemiological week number […]

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Witches celebrate first Friday of March in Catemaco Mexico

In the dark, lit only by torches, each shaman performed his clean, some amulets only accompanied by pre-Hispanic, and others with images of Santa Muerte, San Judas and Christ. Shamans, sorcerers, healers and spiritualists held at midnight the first Friday in March in Catemaco, when it charged for its clean energy, healing, voodoo, spells and […]

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Mexican government warns of internet scam, fraud emails

The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (Condusef) warned the public about the existence of internet emails offering large sums of money for the deposit of data resources or credit or debit cards and bank accounts. Through a statement, the federal agency reported on new forms of fraud through […]

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Police in Ecuador and Mexico exchanging intelligence results in large bust

CONNECTIONS MADE BETWEEN ECUADOR – MEXICAN CARTELS – SHIPMENTS SENT FROM GUAYAQUIL IN LOADS OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – DESTINATION BELGIUM. The undercover officers followed the steps you nine months. At that time, an agro-export company, based in Manabi, had reached a ‘record’ of exports. Last May, the commercial firm started exporting various agricultural products such […]

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Mexico: Huichols are trying to block Canadian mining project

Huichol Indians believe the sun was born in a spot high in the arid Sierra de Catorce mountain range of northern Mexico. For them, that spot — the Cerro del Quemado, or the Burned Mountain — is the center of the universe, a sacred ground. It’s also part of a mining concession Mexico’s government granted […]

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Japanese Yakuza mafia operating in Tijuana Mexico according to journalist

Lydia Cacho, a journalist and activist, said that in five years of research in Tijuana was found that in the Japanese mafia operated border trafficking. “When I was researching Tijuana found two areas. The first that organized crime is directly involved in the trafficking of people who come across the border are captured locally by […]

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Ecological Zone south of Chiapas at high risk pollution levels

The ecological zone “The Cabildo-Amatal ‘, located south of this city, is at high risk for pollution levels, there is even illegal dumping, said Manuel Vazquez Moreno conservationist. In an interview, explained that an extension of two thousand 832 hectares in the area, the program integrated within the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, no deposit of […]

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Drug traffickers increasingly using young people to smuggle drugs into New Mexico, Texas

The drug trafficking organizations are increasingly using small groups of young people to transport their goods through the remote desert of Texas and New Mexico, federal agents said. Agents said that some of these young people who enter the country surreptitiously carry 50 pounds (23 kilos) of drugs for days, travel in groups of two […]

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Total of 13 H1N1 virus cases in Juarez Mexico

Holder Announces Sanitary II, Hector Puertas Corners, which confirmed three positive cases of influenza. He said: “These are two male children aged 1 to four years and a little in the same age, all have received their treatment and are fine with them totaling 13 people infected with this virus, although not seen as a […]

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76,000 Mexicans visited Cuba in 2011

A total of 76 000 327 Mexican tourists visited Cuba in 2011, 14.5 percent from a year earlier, the director of the tourist office on the island here, Alicia Perez. The official, in an interview with Prensa Latina, adding that most of these travelers, many of them family came from Mexico City, Veracruz and Nuevo […]

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Migrants from Central America continue to reintroduce Malaria into Chiapas

Tapachula, Chiapas. – The transit of migrants has caused the disease malaria has been controlled in its entirety, so the doctor and researcher exposed in Health Sciences National Institute of Public Health and the Regional Research Center in Public Health (CRISP), Maria Guadalupe Martinez Vazquez. He said that “there are few cases of malaria cases, […]

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20 percent of Oaxacan communities without communal kitchens to help fight malnutrition

Due to lack of budget Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. – Leticia Cortés Martínez, regional link address Mixteca Food Assistance in Oaxaca said that so far, over 80% of communities in the district of Huajuapan have the services provided by the Dining Community Nutrition to improve nutritional status of infants and women of childbearing age, with […]

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2 thousand Mixtecos mobilize in Oaxaca

Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. – The coordinator-Mexico Binational Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB), Bernardo Ramirez Bautista, announced that on Monday February 27 was held up in the capital of a contingent of more than 10 thousand people belonging to that organization, of which 2 000 are from the Mixteca region. That is because today […]

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Oaxaca Mexico: Cultural issues impact higher rates of malnutrition for women

In addition to the precarious living in the Oaxacan indigenous families, cultural issues that impact women suffer higher rates of malnutrition than men. According to the Ministry of Health of Oaxaca (SSO) for each malnourished child, two girls. Dr. Reynaldo Miguel Zavaleta, head of the Public Health Unit Health Services Oaxaca (SSO), explained that this […]

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Mexican national arrested, wanted by U.S. for fraud involving Export-Import Bank

As a result of bilateral work between Mexico and the United States on security, the Attorney General’s Office by the Delegation in Chihuahua, Ernesto Ortiz arrested Manuel Barraza, Mexican fugitive who has an arrest warrant rotated by the Eighteenth District Judge Federal Criminal Proceedings in the Federal District, for his alleged responsibility in the commission […]

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Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico City listed in top twenty cities for young migrants

The capital appears in a list of the British newspaper “The Telegraph” thanks to prices “cheap” rental and purchase of properties. The condition of the country’s economy is one of the arguments by which Lima has been included in a list of “Top 20 cities for young people to emigrate.” The list drawn up by […]

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Mexico: Sophisticated clandestine drug laboratory uncovered in Indigenous community

A sophisticated clandestine laboratory for processing synthetic drugs was located near the Mexican indigenous community of Cheran (west), where in May the people took their own authority to block access to the people and prevent entry of organized crime, the military said Saturday. “The narcolaboratorio was located near the community of Rancho Seco, located within […]

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Medicinal plants can be big business for Mexico

Ancient activity in the Mexican countryside, cultivation of medicinal plants can mean big business not only to meet food stores raw materials and markets, but to supply the growing industry of herbal medicine, which will tend to gradually replace the allopathic medicine . Its adaptability to any type of climate, soil and all the variations […]

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Nogales, Arizona: Woman detained trying to enter Mexico with $200,000

The seizure of just over $ 206,000 in cash, managed U.S. Customs officials to surprise an American woman trying to cross the shipment to Mexico.A public information officer for the U.S. authority in question reported that this occurred when conducting inspections in the immigration lines crossing the checkpoint Denis DeConcini. Read Article

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22 passengers from Carnival cruise assaulted on jungle tour near Puerto Vallarta Mexico

The Travelers Guide company, which led to the 22 American tourists on a tour of the jungle in the area of El Nogalito and were assaulted, may have fallen into an error operation, failure to observe established guidelines shipping agencies in terms of communication and security for users. Gerard Carlos Guzman, shipping agent of the […]

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Tijuana Mexico: 30 clandestine recyclers closed down

Iin a period of three weeks have been closed about 30 recyclers who were operating clandestinely, have suddenly been able to reduce the thefts committed by people who sell metal in those places. Jesus Alberto Capella Ibarra, Municipal Public Security Secretary, said during Wednesday night shut down two underground recycling that were located in the […]

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Tijuana Mexico: Five members of La Familia Michoacana apprehended

The State Preventive Police (PEP) managed to secure five members of the criminal organization known as “La Familia Michoacana” who brought, as well as cartridges of high power, money, vehicles and a large quantity of drugs. In this important police operation, they were secured in total 16 kilos 324 grams of the drug known as […]

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Walmart has 1000 projects on table in Mexico and Central America

Walmart has 1,000 projects in the spotlight There are 260 cities in Mexico and Central America where they still do not have shops, highlights the group, after four years of losses, Banco Wal-Mart expects to achieve break even in early 2013. In 2011 the trade group opened a total of 365 stores in Mexico, is […]

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Mexico needs more refineries

Mexico just needs to build two refineries, one that is already underway and an additional one to be self-sufficient in gasoline production, said the sector empresarial.El Center for Private Sector Economic Studies (CEESP) under the agency of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), said that besides the new refinery to be built in Tula, the center […]

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4 men found dead with gunshot wounds signs of torture, Guerrero Mexico

Tecpan de Galeana. – Four men were found dead inside a vehicle Papanoa community, the municipality of Tecpan de Galeana, the neighbors did find the village and then they told the security features. The car was abandoned in the community of Papanoa, was towed to ministries facilities The car was abandoned in the community of […]

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Despite public awareness program residents of Guadalajara still victims of telephone extortion

Residents of Jalisco are still victims of this crime so that the state attorney reiterated his call for citizens to prevent. Despite the campaign “Do not fall”, which implemented the Attorney General of the State of Jalisco (PGJEJ), since 2009, the Jalisco still are victims of extortion phone so the state attorney reiterated his call […]

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Three men apprehended Tijuana Mexico with counterfeit U.S. bills

On the street Mutualism in the Northern Zone, state officials said an individual who identified himself as Luis Gonzalez, 34 years old, finding 11 $ 20 bills, all with the same number of name, plus it had spilled paint . Photo: Courtesy TIJUANA, Baja California in various actions taken by agents of the State Preventive […]

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Prison fight in Mexico leaving 40 dead designed to hide escape of Zetas

The brawl in the prison was planned and had help from the prison authorities The director, deputy director and chief of security have been forced to resign The fighting left more than 40 dead. The prison of hell Apodaca was a road map. No accident, chaos emerged spontaneously. A little over 24 hours after the […]

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Peru, three Mexican nationals arrested boarding flight to Mexico with 2.1 kilos cocaine

Peruvian police captured the three Mexican Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, when they tried to travel to Mexico with 6.3 kilos of cocaine, according to the Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro) of the National Police. The three Mexicans were arrested when they went to board the same flight to Mexico City. Each had 2.1 kilos of […]

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Mexico, minor detained for 40 false calls to emergency number in Chihuahua

One child under 17 years old was arrested by members of the Municipal Public Security Bureau of Chihuahua, to be likely responsible for making a total of 40 calls to the Emergency Care Center, transfers generating unit preventive vain; tried to flee to be surprised. The lower DG Robert, used to call the 060 under […]

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Unemployment increases in Tijuana and northern Mexico

Unemployment continues to increasein Baja California and northern Mexico entities and according to specialists in economics, the situation may worsen if plans are implemented. Based on a study on employment in the state, conducted by the researcher and professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef), Alejandro Diaz Bautista, the unemployment rate of Baja […]

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18 murdered in Jalisco Mexico over the weekend

This weekend at least 18 subjects died in Jalisco on facts related to organized crime, state police Friday night against subjects faced a wall guarding underground fuel Zapotlanejo killing one gunman dead. On Saturday afternoon, police elements Tlaquepaque fought gun battles against subjects who were deprived of their freedom to a person with a delinquent […]

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Mexico: Military places battalion of 800 military in Sonora to help eradictate drug crops

A battalion of 800 soldiers from the center of the country is strengthening efforts to eradicate drug crops, interdiction of shipments of narcotics and special operations in southern Sonora from February 1, informed the commander of the Fourth Military Zone. Georges André Van Lissum Foullon said that strengthening the State arrived earlier this month and […]

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Migrants warned of low temperatures of crossing desert near Yuma Arizona

Staff of the border Beta Group started an information campaign among migrants to avoid crossing the desert in Yuma, Arizona, to the low temperatures. The Beta Group, in a statement, said its entirety go to the places where they meet our fellow citizens to alert them to the risk of hypothermia. ” It warns migrants […]

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Six arrested with weapons and grenade launcher Rosarito Baja Mexico

Profusion of cartridges of various calibers, magazines handguns and long guns, a grenade launcher and at least one sports car and even a taxi, not to mention cable owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) allegedly stolen, and a total of six people arrested, is the balance achieved by municipal police officers were conducting a surveillance tour. […]

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Tijuana Mexico: Car thefts on rise

According to the statistics, it remains the car theft crime that is reported more in Tijuana, this week also showed the killing of a young woman at the hands of a stranger, who was arrested According to news reports of the Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM), at week 45 vehicles were reported stolen, and there […]

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Mexico: Fire causes 200 to be evacuated from hotel Castelo de Boca del Río

There were no injuries or serious affectations by the fire in the Castle Hotel in Boca del Rio, Salvador Manzur said Mayor Diaz who said preliminary reports indicate that the cause was a short circuit. On arrival at the sixth military region, which commemorated the 99th anniversary of the Mexican Army Day, the munícipe said […]

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African frogs being trafficked in Mexico confiscated

210 African frogs, which were transferred on a bus, were located by the Federal Police in Monterrey, local media reported. Amphibians were carried in a container, the recipient was a pet shop located in the Federal District. Read Article

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Travel Warning Nogales, Rocky Point Mexico

The state department issued a travel warning for people headed to Mexico this week. It cautions United States Citizens about travel to Nogales, Sonora and Rocky Point or Puerto Penasco, blaming Mexico’s continuing drug violence. Read Article

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Mexican national arrested trying to enter U.S. with six kilos of methamphetamine in Nogales Arizona

More than six kilos (14 pounds) of methamphetamine were seized by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in southern Arizona, and a Mexican was arrested, authorities said. Agents working in the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales referred to a man of 30 years for a secondary inspection of his SUV when he […]

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U.S. Department of State more detailed warnings for visitors to Mexico regarding safety

The U.S. State Department has issued an updated travel warning for tourists planning to visit Mexico, adding information on drug violence on a state-by-state and city-by-city basis. The new, more detailed warning comes in response to concerns expressed by Mexico tourism officials, who worried that previous travel warnings scared off U.S. tourists by generalized about […]

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Pastor gunned down on MEXICO, GUATEMALA border

The drug-related violence that has plagued Mexico since 2006 has claimed another victim – this time a pastor. Church of God pastor Neftali Leiva was allegedly gunned down south of the Mexican border by drug traffickers associated with the Zetas, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels. It remains unclear what prompted the killing Read […]

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MEXICO, 13 women from other countries rescued from trafficking ring

The Attorney General’s Chiapas state police and rescued in the town of Teopisca in the highlands of Chiapas to 13 women of various nationalities, victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.Of the women who were rescued, five are from Guatemala, three in Honduras, three Mexicans, one of El Salvador and another of Nicaragua. In the […]

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47 known human trafficking networks operating in Mexico

The House of Representatives asked the three levels of governments to combat comprehensively the crime of trafficking, because in Mexico operate at least 47 networks dedicated to this crime, according to data from the National Network of Shelters. Según cifras de la red, al año hay 800 mil adultos y 20 mil menores víctimas de […]

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For the first time a woman will be nominated by a major party in Mexico

Josefina Vazquez Mota represent the ruling National Action. The former MP and former Minister Josefina Vazquez Mota was elected presidential candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), which governs Mexico from 2000 to the July elections, with 55% of the vote in an internal consultation held this Sunday. “I’ll be the first woman president […]

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Canadian described as ringleader in plot to get Gaddafi’s son into Mexico

CHETUMAL, February 1 .- Personnel of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) Federal District moved to Chetumal to Cynthia Ann Vanier Canadian and Mexican Dávila Gabriela Huerta, accused of belonging to a network intended to illegally enter Saadi Gaddafi to Mexico, and operating with a discreet state-supported preventive elements entered the area of ​​women’s Social Rehabilitation […]

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Acapulco Mexico, Four found executed in back of taxi

A total of six people were executed in different parts of Guerrero, four of them were found “encajuelados” in an order of public service in a popular neighborhood of Acapulco and two others in the community of La Union, Municipality of Ayutla region of the Costa Chica. The Department of Public Safety and Civil Protection […]

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Canadian citizen, Dane, 2 Mexican nationals imprisoned in attempt to transport Gadafi’s son to Mexico

As reported by BBC journalist in Mexico, Alberto Najar, the detainees had spent 80 days in roots, the legal form to define a police custody outside the jail. Now waiting for the start of a trial against him. The PGR accused a Canadian citizen, a Dane and two Mexicans of falsifying official documents, human trafficking […]

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Mexico’s ambassador victim of kidnap express in Venezuela

The Public Ministry is investigating the kidnap brief (express) from Mexico’s ambassador to Venezuela, Carlos Pujalte Pineiro, and his wife, Paloma Ojeda, who were kidnapped at about 12 pm this Sunday January 29 by four armed men as they were leaving a reception at the Florida High urbanization of Caracas. Read Article

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Mexico: Number of foreign visitors continues to increase

Eleconomista.com.mx stated the Ministry of Tourism (Tourism Ministry) reported that in the last five months of 2011 saw a steady increase in the number of visitors to Mexico by air, over the same period in previous years. He said according to statistics of the Integrated Migration Operations (SIOM), arrived in Mexico: August, more than 730,000 […]

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Mexico Report: At least 43 innocent people killed 2011 in armed clashes between law enforcement and organized crime

In a report this afternoon before Congress, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported that at least 43 innocent people were killed in armed clashes in 2011 between the crime organized and law enforcement as part of the war on drugs waged by the government of Felipe Calderón. Raul Plascencia, owner of the agency, said […]

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Mexican Army seized two narco labs in Jalisco

Elements of the Mexican Army seized two narcolaboratorios Tlajomuco in the municipality of de Zúñiga, bringing the total to five such facilities dismantled so far this year. Through the Command of the 15 / a. Military Zone, the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that the first laboratory was located on the ranch “The Gale” […]

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Navy detains suspected criminals in Veracruz

One person was killed during a chase naval personnel to a group of men in the town of Amatlán. During the securing of 15 suspected criminals in the state of Veracruz, one person was killed and an element of the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico was injured yesterday. The institution reported that naval personnel […]

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Grenade attack on police station in Matamoros Mexico

A Mexican Army soldier was wounded police duties after a group of subjects threw two fragmentation grenades at the police headquarters town of Matamoros. The soldier, whose identity was not released, was hospitalized due to injuries he sustained and threatening his life. The assailants traveling in several vehicles from which threw the two grenades at […]

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Three adolescents arrested for extortion in Juarez Mexico

A group of three teenagers were arrested by State Police Investigator, specialized in research of juvenile offenders, when another student extorted Technical High School Number 19, located in Colonia Sites of San Jose. Read Article

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Mexico: Irish couples caught up in baby adoption scheme

An alleged baby-trafficking ring in Mexico, which sought to sell babies to 11 Irish couples, has been in operation for more than 20 years, authorities have claimed. Blanca Barron, of Jalisco state attorney general’s office, told AFP that the operation may have been in existence for over two decades and sent children to Italy as […]

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U.S. Consulate Matamoros Mexico evacuated for bomb threat

W1420.com reported that the United States Consulate General in Matamoros was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat at its facilities, officials said. The threat was received by an anonymous call to the 066 Emergency Services Command Center, Computer, Control and Communications (C-4), which states that a bomb would explode in the U.S. office located […]

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Morelos Mexico: 19 cases A (H1N1) confirmed

Lainformacion.mx report the health secretary, Carlos Eduardo Carrillo Ordaz, reports the identification of 19 cases in the metropolitan area of ​​the state, without posing a risk of a pandemic. Read Article

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Mexico: 7 out of 10 migrant women sexually assaulted taking La Bestia train north to U.S.

Seven out of ten women are raped But if something really irritates you is to talk about migrant women, the most vulnerable, the most unprotected: “It’s rare that is saved from being raped,” says circumspect. I ask what data you have. I look and reflect. That it is difficult to get reliable statistics because women […]

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Tamiflu shortages in Mexico City

Tamiflu, an antiviral drug developed to treat influenza A and B, is sold in pharmacies in Mexico City. In the current winter season, which are flu and respiratory diseases, this drug made by Roche is not easy to find. The antiviral discovered by Gilead Sciences, U.S. biopharmaceutical revenues in 2008 of $ 5.300 billion before […]

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Mexico: outbreak of A-H1N1 flu virs leaves nine dead

There are now nine deaths from an outbreak of influenza A-H1N1 in Mexico, also known as swine flu, a total of 573 cases, health authorities said the country on January 23. Influenza A-H1N1 for more than 90 percent of flu cases in the country, according to the Ministry of Health. Since 19 January, when health […]

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U.S. Border Patrol to build substation in New Mexico

Border Patrol to build a substation in New Mexico Some landowners in the area did not want the Border Patrol was established on that site that is private land, but the place was built on federal lands closest to the border. The U.S. Border Patrol will open a new post in southwestern New Mexico, just […]

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Acapulco Mexico: Eight murdered at funeral

Eight people were killed in an ambush against a funeral in a rural area of ​​Guerrero, of the total of 13 deaths recorded during the weekend in the southern Mexican state plagued by drug-related violence, said police. According to a police statement Atoyac de Alvarez municipal seven people were killed and two wounded on Sunday […]

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Mexico: Four police murdered so far 2012 in Ciudad Juárez municipalities

Officers of the Municipal Public Security Ministry and the Attorney General, a red alert live after a series of attacks by gunmen in the latest attack caused the death of ministerial commander, José Luis Ruelas Arriaga. The police chief, was commissioned in the town of Guerrero on the western area of ​​the state and came […]

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Mexico: Bullying nationwide problem in schools

To better understand the problem of bullying and what it represents this serious problem in schools across the country, teachers and primary school pupils Francisco I. Madero talks given by the Department of Public Safety. Read Article

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Cancun Mexico: U.S. tourist dies from head injuries after fall from hotel vehicle

After five days of having been dropped at a hotel in the Riviera Maya, an American tourist died in a private hospital in Cancún, by a severe head injury. In a strange fact, the accident was not reported timely by the hotel, Bahia Principe Riviera Maya, nor the private hospital, Hospiten, told authorities on income […]

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Veracruz Mexico: Health official denies rumor that scabies outbreak contributed to deaths

The scabies epidemic occurred in the municipality of Tatahuicapan and was controlled, according to the Secretary of Health, Pablo Rivera Anaya, who denied that he had been deaths from this infection. “It’s a disease that kills, is a dermatologist (…) is already working the jurisdiction to review this,” Anaya said Rivera. Health Secretary dismissed the […]

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Ciudad Juarez Mexico: Couple arrested for prostituting four minors under age fifteen

A couple was arrested by police in Ciudad Juarez on the border between Mexico and the United States, forcibly prostituting four children under 15 years old, said Friday the local government. The detainees, a 31 year old man and a woman of 28, “were accused of forcibly retaining several underage girls, to whom they forced […]

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El Chapo seeks to dominate Arizona and unleash violence

The organization led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman uses the control of the runners on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States to extend its dominance in Arizona. And as with Texas, the level of violence and attacks on law enforcement is increasing, according to a report of the Department of […]

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3 Dead after gunfight with Mexico’s Military

Three suspected members of organized crime died in a confrontational fight with Mexico’s military in the municipality of Susupuato, Michoacan. According to cronica.com the fight lasted over 3o minutes and was followed by a car chase that ended when the escaping vehicle plummeted into a ravine. It is estimated that at least five other suspects […]

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Three mutilated bodies found in Narco Grave oustside Puerto Vallarta Mexico

All three bodies were without arms, without legs and without their heads. Three mutilated bodies were found in a grave drug in the Sierra de San Sebastian del Oeste, in the limits of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. The bodies of three people are male and were mutilated, ie, they took away the legs, arms […]

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Mexico: Authorities concerned over risks of Dengue on Malecon in Puerto Vallarta

Ricardo Uribe said there are complaints of managers and employees of establishments, about the presence of stagnant water and mosquitoes, likely carriers of dengue on the boardwalk. The council asked the Sanitary District VIII, health brigades to eliminate possible outbreak of dengue in the embankment due to excess water at certain points. Excess water, which […]

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Mexico: Air pollution contributed to 38,000 deaths last decade

The Mexican Center for Environmental Law (Cemda) reported that at least 20 cities in that country caused air pollution in the last decade some 38 000 deaths from lung diseases. The agency also explained that environmental pollution is a federal public health problem. According to Cemda, this is due to environmental pollution costs accounted equivalent […]

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Mexico: 32 dead from cold, 35 dead from flu during winter season

At least 32 people have died because of problems stemming from the intense cold wave during the current winter season in Mexico and 35 from various types of influenza, reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health. In the last three months these deaths were recorded, according to health officials. In the case of persons who […]

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Canadian citizen murdered in Culiacan Mexico

According to noticias.terra.com Canadian citizen Salid Abdulacis Sabas was found dead the morning of January 16, 2012 in an intersection of avenues in Culiacan Sinaloa. The body was found with several bullet holes in which the majority of impacts where to the head. Precise reasons for the murders are unknown, but experts believe the Canadian […]

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Cuernavaca Mexico: Federal Police kill 7 gunmen in confrontation

As identified by pulso360.com, seven contract killers were killed during a confrontational clash with federal police agents in Morelos, Cuernavaca. The shootout occurred Monday January 16, 2012 where one of the aggressors was captured. According to states authority the gunmen belonged to an unidentified organized crime group. The investigation is ongoing as the seven dead […]

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Cold front creates 24 storms in Mexico

The frontal system will intensify over the Gulf slope faith Mexico in the Central Plateau and the Valley of Mexico Mexico .- The entry of new, intense cold front number 23 in the early hours of Sunday will generate moderate wind with some gusts, increasing clouds with showers and storms along the Gulf slope faith […]

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Racisim in Mexico

Today it adds an economic racism, where race may be less important when discriminating as the socio-economic factor (income, habits, customs). In the Mexican case the kind of racism that most can identify discrimination are behaviors that correspond to giving inferior treatment to another person usually for social, ethnic, sexual (Torres S, Alcantara, H, and […]

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Paso del Macho Mexico, lack of police presence

The hit will put your complaint stated that on this day ministerial against those responsible, because ultimately to crime dealt blows to several businesses, the lack of patrols to stop the former mayor Rafael Pacheco, in addition to the current mayor found no money to the town hall, unable to buy more patrols and hire […]

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Texas Border Coalition reports invesment in border security, mixed results

he Mexican traffickers continue to enjoy commercial success by introducing more drugs in the U.S., despite the country spent the last decade nearly 90 billion dollars in border security, reported on Friday a report from a coalition border. The report, prepared by the Texas Border Coalition (TBC), consisting of mayors, county officials and economic development […]

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Mexico: Gas Prices rise first time in 2012

From the first minute of Saturday 14 the price of gasoline will have its first increase in 2012. According to the Mexican Association of Gas Companies (Amega), the gasoline price per liter of Magna, which is most used by the vehicle fleet increased nine cents to sell at 9.82 pesos. Meanwhile, a gallon of diesel, […]

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Magazine claims Mexico allowed U.S. agents to launder millions in drug operation

Mexico’s government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and […]

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50 percent of Puebla Mexico’s population live on less than 100 pesos a day

Miguel Angel Jimenez Corona, a researcher at the Department of Business at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero) Puebla, revealed that more than 50 percent of the population in the state live on less than 100 pesos a day, also indicated that this sector is poblanos which has the highest debt ratio in the first months of […]

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Mexican officials report 47,000 deaths associated with criminal organizations since 2006

EMOL.com reported, according to Mexican government official’s data released January 11, 2012 indicates more than 47,000 deaths were associated with criminal organization groups in Mexico since 2006. The total number of deaths represented an increase of 11% since 2006, which ultimately gave birth to an outstanding 47,515 deaths.From January through September of 2011 more than […]

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City official of Santa Catrina Mexico denies police have ties with El Mataperros

Santa Catarina, NL • The holder of the Private Secretary of the municipality of Santa Catarina, Raul War denied this afternoon that municipal police officers have been arrested Monday morning for alleged links with Baltazar Saucedo, alias “El Mataperros”, arrested the week last.In an interview, War Novelo said the arrival of military and ministerial to […]

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