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Puebla second most expensive city in Mexico

As of December last year, the city of Puebla was listed as the second most expensive nationally, recording an annual inflation of 4.94%, higher than the national average of 3.82% registered. Read Article

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Instituto Bradford – Spanish And Teacher’s Training Course

INSTITUTO BRADFORD – SPANISH AND TEACHER’S TRAINING COURSE Av. Hidalgo #1388, col. Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Phone: 33-38272075 Fax: 33-38272975 (33)10485148 – Cell Phone Request more information by clicking on here. Please visit our web site by clicking on here.

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American Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Texas on flight from Cabo San Lucas

None of the 140 passengers from Flight 864 were injured Cabo San Lucas, a spokesman for American Airlines. The problem originated in the lubrication system of an engine. An American Airlines plane bound for the North Texas from Mexico had an emergency landing in El Paso because of a problem in the lubrication system of […]

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Mexico: Military discovers three clandestine drug labs in Jalisco

The Mexican Army spotted three clandestine laboratories for synthetic drugs in the western state of Jalisco where they seized more than four tons of narcotics and precursor chemicals, officials said. The Secretary of Defense (SEDENA) said in a statement that the January 4 soldiers found in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga a laboratory in […]

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Mexico: Over 12 million Indians suffer abuses, warns the CNDH

The National Human Rights Commission (CND) warned that more than 12 million indigenous people in our country are exposed to discrimination, abuse, maltreatment and abuse. Through the Program for Promotion of Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, the CNDH from January to June intensified their actions. Conducted 230 activities in the states of the Republic to […]

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Colima Mexico: Gang of rapists arrested

The Attorney Yolanda Guzman Verduzco announced the dismantling of a gang of rapists who last year made at least seven sexual abuse of women. In the last week, said the state official, were arrested three suspected members of the group of individuals who, armed and masked, committed between December 2010 and January 2011 a series […]

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Mexico: Foundation launches campaign for early HIV testing during pregnancy

Mexico Vivo Foundation launched a campaign to promote is performed early testing for HIV during pregnancy, which has caused controversy in social networks. The campaign uses three posters, and in each place the image of a child. In each of them accompanied by the motto “Have HIV” and swap the words How queer? “,” Drug […]

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Sinaloa Cartel establishes drug route in Sierra Tarahumara, causing fear in residents

Fear and anxiety seized dozens of residents of mountain communities of this county and its neighbor Uruachi, when they saw off planes full of armed men took over roads and trails, ostensibly to guard a new route to get shipments of marijuana and poppy produced in the Upper and Lower Tarahumara. “Since last week fell […]

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U.S. government adds two more unmanned aircraft to monitor border with Mexico

U.S. authorities on Tuesday acquired a new unmanned aircraft for tasks of high-tech surveillance overflights and the Arizona border, looking for drug traffickers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico.The Predator drone-B is located in the Security Operations Center Air National Sierra Vista, a few miles north of the border with Mexico to southeastern Arizona, the […]

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Mexico City, bookstores by day, clandestine bars at night

In the center historic district of Mexico City (Hidalgo(Donceles, Regina, Alameda)there are dozens of establishments that serve as bookstores by day. However, there is an underground of bars, cheap beer, drugs, and sex for a price operating in many of these establishments after dark until dawn. Read Article

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Large number of child sexual abuse cases go unreported Valle Nacional, Mexico

It is the municipality of Valle Nacional which has so far registered more cases of child sexual abuse, taking into account those that have been reported and also those who remain anonymous, as reported by the President Regional Commission on Human Rights “Mahatma Gandhi”, Graciela Sanchez Zavaleta. He noted that Valle Nacional was a municipality […]

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More than 5400 migrants rescued in Mexico during 2011

More than 5,400 migrants were rescued in Mexico in 2011 A total of 5.423 migrants in distress were rescued by members of a group of special protection in Mexico Migration Institute (INM) between January and November this year, said the institution. Read Article

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Measles vaccination posts set up at Cancun Mexico airport

As part of the action to prevent an outbreak of measles, then the case presented in the airport in Mexico City, health authorities have set up vaccination posts in the country’s airport terminals, with a Cancun of the main tourist destinations in the country since the weekend was conditioned offices of the vaccine airport to […]

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Mexico: Social services office quarantined after chicken pox case confirmed in Cancun

From two weeks ago the House of Temporary Assistance (CAT) of the Municipal DIF, is a health siege by an outbreak of chicken pox, and was announced by the attorney for the Defense of Children and Family BJ DIF, Ana Luz Ortega Escamilla. Read Article

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Mexican cartels constructing their own radio systems

When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end handheld radio and paid to work as a lookout known as a “halcon,” or hawk. Read Article

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Emergency declared in 29 municipalities of Coahuila Mexico due to drought

This day the Interior Ministry issued a natural disaster declaration for 29 municipalities of Coahuila, which were affected by severe drought since last May Day. In a statement it was reported that with this declaration will have access to resources Natural Disasters Fund (Fonden) the municipalities of Abasolo, Arteaga, Candela, Brown, Cuatro Cienegas, Escobedo, Francisco […]

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Tabasco on alert due to outbreak in Quintana Roo and Yucatan

Tabasco went on alert to be a major outbreak of dengue in the neighboring state of Quintana Roo and Yucatan, so the fence has been strengthened health in the areas around these towns, said Health Secretary Luis Felipe Graham Zapata . He explained that it was discovered that there are outbreaks in these regions, so […]

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Upsurge in sexually transmitted diseases in Puebla, Mexico

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and acquired syphilis, gonococcal infections Genitourinary, chancroid, genital herpes and Human Papilloma Virus, presented an upsurge in the number of cases up to five times more compared to those presented in 2010. In addition, Puebla appears within the first states with the largest number of patients seen by infections like trichomoniasis […]

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U.S. tourist dies in Quintana Roo Mexico, involved in scooter accident

As a result of the celebrations of Christmas and Christmas Eve, overseas Indiana, USA, Michael Job, 45 years old, was killed in an accident he suffered while driving a scooter brand Italika, yellow with black, around 22:30 pm last Dec. 25. Until the morning of Monday December 26, staff from the State Judicial Police said […]

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Mexico: Chihuahua state ranks first in kidnappings and ninth in business extortion

The Chihuahua state ranks first in incidence of reported kidnappings, with E103 so far this year, while the business of extortion is in ninth place in the “Top Ten” national, according to the National Public Security System ( SNSP). Meanwhile, capital Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua are also among the 14 cities that concentrate most of […]

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Mexico: five drug addicts die and others ill after eating sausage at rehabilitation clinic

AP reports that medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and 35 others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas dinner at a rehabilitation center in western Mexico. Read Article

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Three of seven killed in Veracruz bus attack were dual nationals, U.S. Mexico

The United States Embassy in Mexico confirmed that three of the victims of the assault on passenger buses in Panuco had dual nationality. Three of the seven people killed in Thursday’s attack by gunmen on passenger buses in Veracruz and Mexico had the nationality of the United States confirmed Friday state and the U.S. embassy. […]

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Reported Complaints on Mexican Public Transport Have Decrease

Diariopresente.com.mx reports that less complaints against taxi drivers to date have been relatively few. Some reasons given in the article are that Mexican citizens may not believe that their complaint is worth the time. Also, at times, complaints that are made do not provide the necessary information and therefore cannot be filed. Read Article

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Gunmen kill seven in armed attack on three buses in Veracruz

Seven people were killed in an attack on three passenger buses by a group of armed men in the Municipality of Panuco, north of the state of Veracruz, on the border with Tamaulipas.The same group killed four people just before the municipality El Higo, Veracruz, the government said. Read Article

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Mexico, U.S., Korea deal major blow to pirated goods

United States today announced a joint venture of seizures of more than 327 000 articles in 66 piracy cities and in 55 of Mexico and the South Korean capital, worth more than $ 80 million. The operation “Fraud Christmas 2”, made in a period of six weeks, included raids on shops, street markets and other […]

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19 municipalities in Guerrero issued emergency declaration after earthquake

The General Coordination of Civil Protection Department of the Interior (Interior Ministry) issued an emergency declaration for 19 municipalities in Guerrero, affected by the earthquake on 10 December. The federal agency said that the measure is issued to give continuity to the emergency at damage from the quake and includes the towns of Taxco de […]

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Suspects Taken into Custody in November Murder of American in Mexico

The Attorney General of the State (PGJE) is investigating two suspected individuals engaged in theft of vehicles, which also could be related to the murder of an alien, which occurred in Ajijic, Chapala Township. The ministry said that it is Samuel Ramos Alejandro Padilla, aka “The Backpack”, 23 years old, and Alvaro Alfonso Arceo Spirit, […]

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Another tourist from Mexico City drowns in Acapulco

A tourist, and a native of Mexico City, also lost his life in this tourist destination drowned when he entered the Beach Hotel “Acapulco Princess.” The tourist was identified as Armando Barrera Rojas, 48 ​​years old, and his death occurred at about one pm on Monday. According to the data collected, the visitor was with […]

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Police Set Patrols to Check for Drunk Drivers in Gómez Palacio, Mexico

For the rest of December, the police of Gómez Palacio will be setting up patrols throughout the city Gómez Palacio in Mexico to find anyone driving under the influence or without the proper documents or plates. This effort hopes to reduce transit accidents. Read Article

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U.S. Conuslate in Matamoros issues alerts to U.S. citizens, carjackings

U.S. Citizen Services Emergency Message to U.S. Citizens About Carjackings in Matamoros The U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros has learned that a series of carjackings appear to have been committed by the same suspects in the first two weeks of December in neighborhoods in the north of Matamoros. At least five of the carjacking victims […]

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U.S. tourist from Massachussets dies in Mexico after swimming

Enfoqueradio.com.mx reported on Sunday, members of the Public Security Bureau were notified that a person was injured inside the lagoon Yalkú, on a rocky area just 200 meters from the shore, so request the support of elements of Civil Protection and Red Cross. The rocky area was the tourist Darlene Jean Jacobs, 51 years old, […]

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95% of Mexican Women Face Harassment in the Workplace

According to milenio.com, 95% of Mexican working women are experiencing harassment in their places of work. Most of them are single mothers and the main sources of income. They, therefore, choose to continue despite incidents of sexual harassment. Read Article

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Leader of Los Zetas Denies Terrorist and Revolutionary Activity

Treviño Morales, alias “Z-40,” the leader of Los Zetas has posted messages in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas denying any connection between the group and terrorist activity. According to Morales, the group does not wish to conflict with either the U.S. or Mexican government per eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx. He posted these in response to various messages against the Mexican […]

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Narcotunnel located in Nogales Mexico

Elements of the Army discovered, near the border with Nogales, Arizona, a tunnel under construction, about 50 meters long, which claimed Friday with a gunman who was guarding him. The National Defense Secretariat reported that elements of the Military Zone 45, who were operating in Colonia Buenos Aires, they discovered the tunnel, which still had […]

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Leader of “Los Zetas” cartel captured

The alleged leader of Los Zetas cartel in the state of Veracruz and one of the “37 most dangerous criminals” from Mexico was arrested today in the city of Córdoba, reported the Ministry of the Navy (Semar). Lettuce Raul Lucio Hernandez, aka “Lucky”, was captured in a ground operation in Cordoba, in the eastern state […]

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Hospital suspends surgery in Puerto Escondido Mexico

The lack of potable water throughout the town population of the town of Puerto Escondido, has created a mess, this situation came to General Hospital and 30 beds Specialties coastal city, where the recent days have had to suspend operations and surgery for the lack of vital fluids. The medical unit director, Victor Manuel Ordaz […]

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El Salvador, Guatemala open consular office in Chiapas Mexico

The Foreign Ministry on Friday opened a consular protection office in the town of Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico. The aim of the new headquarters, which will be operated in conjunction with the government of Guatemala, is to protect Salvadoran immigrants in need in that area of the southern border of Mexico. Read Article

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Mexico: Tourist confederation asks government to take steps to avoid suspension of flights to China

The National Tourist Confederation ( CNT ) in Mexico today asked the government to take steps to avoid the suspension of flights by Aeromexico to China, which can affect not only the airline but the entire tourism sector, by employers. The president of the CNT, Miguel Torruco, called on the authorities’ immediate solution to this […]

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Hundreds of tourists at hotels in Acapulco evacuate hotels

Hundreds of tourists who were staying at various hotels they stayed out of the same in case there is no aftershocks. Hundreds of tourists who were staying at various hotels they stayed outside in case there is the same © Eduardo Flores replica Salado Related. According to part of the National Seismological Service (SSN), the […]

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30 colonies in D.F. Mexico without electricity

The head of the Federal District, Marcelo Ebrard, said that 30 colonies were still without electric service until 21:00 on Saturday, after the earthquake with its epicenter in Guerrero. Meanwhile, areas of Xochimilco and Villa Coapa reported no major damage as a result of the quake. He announced, however, that we contacted the Commission Federal […]

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6.5 earthquake hits southern Mexico

A major 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, with the quake strongly felt in the capital Mexico City and southern Guerrero state. The temblor occurred at 7:47 pm (0147 GMT Sunday) about 166 kilometers (103 miles) southwest of Mexico City, at a depth of about 65 kilometers, according to USGS. […]

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Mexican military recovers stolen trucks

The Mexican Army recovered in the municipality of Villa de Arriaga two trucks stolen in Zacatecas, after they were abandoned by criminal suspects, after detecting the presence of military forces. According to information from the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), was a citizen’s report that revealed the theft of two trucks, so began a coordinated […]

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4.3 earthquake offshore Oaxaca, Mexico

Magnitude 4.3 – OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO 2011 December 10 14:29:16 UTC Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.3 Date-Time Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 14:29:16 UTC Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 08:29:16 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 15.578°N, 94.712°W Depth 22.4 km (13.9 miles) […]

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Mexico: Authorities seize 205 tons of precursor chemicals in various operations

Mexican soldiers seized 205 tons of a chemical precursor used for the manufacture of synthetic drugs in one of the Pacific Mexican ports from China, the government reported Thursday.The monomethylamine was found in 11 containers seized at various events during the first days of December in the port of Lazaro Cardenas (Michoacan, west), the attorney […]

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Nine bodies found in narcofosa Nogales Mexico

With visible signs of torture, his hands tied behind their backs and the “coup de grace,” staff attorney general and Sonora Medical Examiner exhumed the bodies of seven people, one of them beheaded, which were buried underground in a “peripheral narcofosa” the city of Nogales. “The rescue took place after a family walking in the […]

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Three skeletons found in narcofosa in Mazatlan Mexico

A narcofosa was found with three bodies of male persons in an area of Ejido El Venadillo.It was the morning that an anonymous caller alerted the police forces on the discovery of human remains on the surface out of a plot.When they arrived the police and prosecutors to make the investigations found skeletal remains on […]

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Twelve years since the first narcofosa discovered, Mexico

Twelve years after the discovery of the first narcofosa at Rancho La Campana of the border, their discovery is still an icon because it was the first time that federal authorities in Mexico and the United States to act together but the results today as yesterday research are still very poor. More than a decade, […]

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Puebla, Mexico: counterfeit 200 and 500 peso bills being circulated

The Ministry of Public Security and Traffic Municipal (Ssptm) calls for a detailed review poblanos receiving money this season, as they have received reports of false billentes, especially denominations of 200 and 500 pesos. It should be remembered that this situation is due to increased cash flows these days, to the payment of bonuses and […]

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El cerdo pelón (The hairless pig), culinary tradition of Yucatan Mexico

The hairless pig, an organic spice that grows in the fields of Yucatan and feeds on herbs, is becoming an option in the gourmet food industry in this region, because the richness of the meat will enhance any dish. Wilmer Monforte d’Ivoire, hairless pig breeder in the town of Sucilá said to breed this species […]

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Frost damages crops in Sonora Mexico

The low temperatures have been recorded in Sonora by the passage of cold front number 17 times total and partial damage of at least 120 hectares of vegetables, authorities reported.The state delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), informed by a report that reviews the situation prevailing in the […]

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U.S. Border Patrol arrests gang members

Tucson Sentinel.com reported: Arrests Douglas Station agents apprehended a 15-year-old Mexican boy for illegally entering the United States Friday night. He admitted to being a member of the Sureños 13 gang. He was held pending removal. Naco Station agents apprehended a Mexican man Friday for illegally entering the United States. The man claimed to be […]

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Mexico: Gang apprehended with females posing as customers, seducing taxi drivers, then kidnapping them

ESTADO DE MEXICO – Authorities announced that during the operation was managed to arrest five members, which were identified as Hector Facundo Martínez “El Jarocho” 39 years of age, Tomaino Gabriel Cyril “The Gaby “of 27 years, Miriam Hernandez Ana Soriano” The Miriam “of 37 years, Coral Montoya Anaya, 27, Pablo Reyes Martinez, 36, Maria […]

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Mexico: 25 percent of the population in Juarez at risk of natural disasters

At least twenty-five percent of Juarenses is vulnerable to some risk from natural hazards that persist in the city, according to the recently approved Natural Hazard Atlas for the Municipality of Juárez that drew up the Municipal Research and Planning. María del Rosario Díaz Arellano, director of that research body, said that compared to the […]

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Two Canadians drown in Yucatan Mexico, alcohol involved

Reporteros.mx reported that the Attorney General of the State of Yucatan, notified the Canadian Embassy of the death of two citizens of that country at the port of Progreso. Following the initial drug test for, it was determined that the death of the couple on the beach in Progreso, was by drowning. According to tests […]

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Increased drug use in Jalisco Mexico

According to the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) 2008, in Jalisco lowered the prevalence of snuff from 27.5% to 21%, still below the national average, which is 23%, the Director of Epidemiological Surveillance System of the State Board of Control of Addictions in Jalisco (CECAJ), Luis Robles Javier Arellano. He indicated that passive smoking issue […]

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Mexico, increasing numbers of women involved in drug culture

Unlike the glamorous girlfriends of drug dealers or criminals heads of cells seen in the television series, real-life women, mostly poor and uneducated, are serving sentences of 10 years in prison for carrying even small quantities of drugs. “These organized crime gangs recruit women precisely because they are subject vulnerable, less able to defend themselves,” […]

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Severe malnutrition in remote areas of Chihuahua, Mexico

Hunger is widespread in indigenous communities that make up the municipality of Guachochi. Indians suffer severe malnutrition every week two children have to be referred to a hospital with serious health problems and several complications, while in remote communities do not get the support and people are desperate. Read Article ————————————————– DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HAVE […]

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Mexico: nearly 2 million farm animals killed in worst drought, 70 years

The northern states of Mexico are suffering its worst drought since the government began keeping records of rainfall for 70 years. Crops have withered and some 1.7 million farm animals have died. The five states most affected are the north, a region that is burned under the same drought that severely affects Texas north of […]

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Two arrested in Mexicali, marijuana, arms, cash

A joint operation between the State Preventive Police (PEP) and the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), culminated with the arrest of two individuals associated with organized crime, as they were caught with kilos of marijuana, firearms, cartridges and cash, also thanks to this arrest military elements managed to seize a ton of marijuana in Sonoyta. […]

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Disabled Cuban Swimmer seeks asylum in U.S. while in Mexico

The young swimmer Rafael Castillo, a member of the Cuban delegation that participated in the IV Parapan Games Guadalajara, Mexico, on Monday sought political asylum in the United States authorities. The Cuban swimmer Rafael Castillo disabled. Castillo, 25 years and amputee arm and left leg, he fled more than a week of the Pan American […]

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Sonoita, Mexico: Mexican Army seizes 510 kilos of marijuana

The National Defense Secretariat reported that the incident occurred on Thursday, December 1, in the municipality of Plutarco Elias Calles, the second seizure occurred when the soldiers were on a tour of the Cologne Ford, in the town of Sonoita, where they found 100 packages of marijuana weighing 366 gave kilos. The Army did not […]

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Mexico: Large cache of communications equipment confiscated, believed to belong to Zetas

Mexican authorities found 167 antennas, radios 1446 and 1,306 cell phones in a network covering four states dominated by Los Zetas. The equipment was located and seized in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, and several “members of criminal groups,” those who did not specify details, were arrested. The Department […]

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Mexico: Another narcolaboratory taken down in Jalisco

Military personnel said a clandestine laboratory to manufacture synthetic drugs during a raid in the town of Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, reported the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA). According to research, the events occurred in addressing a citizen’s report stating that in the Palo Colorado ranch were made ​​illegal activities, dependence on a detailed statement. Read Article

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Fisherman suffers decompression sickness after dive Isla Mujeres, Mexico

After an immersion of 50 minutes and more than 40 meters in depth the fisherman was taken to Hospital.A fisherman in one of the groups of Puerto Juarez, the capsule entered the hyperbaric chamber treatment in critical condition after suffering decompression sickness after a dive, it seems serious. Read Article

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Police force resigns in Caracuaro Mexico, Military seizes control

Effective police of Caracuaro, Michoacan, resigned due to the strong violence in the town, as well as constant threats to the total of the items, so that the Mexican Army seized control of security in this municipality. After the resignation of 14 municipal police, having been ambushed by organized crime and then rescued by military […]

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Mexican military repels assault in Zacatecas

Federal District Elements of the Mexican army repelled an attack by alleged members of organized crime in Zacatecas, which killed three of his assailants, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). Reliance explained that the November 25 military personnel from the 11th Military Region conducted ground surveys in the community Huitzila, Teulada Gonzalez Ortega. Read […]

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Mexico, governor of Sinaloa children taken abroad because of threats

The governor of Sinaloa, Mario Lopez, admitted yesterday that their children brought the country to avoid reprisals from organized groups. “Those who face crime must take risks and take” preventive Valdez Lopez said, noting that the “exercise government today is difficult and dangerous.” Read Article

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Mexico, corn prices to increase as much as 30 percent

The worst drought in 70 years to hit most of the country, and in Queretaro has caused the loss of more than 36 000 hectares of temporary and 60 000 tonnes of maize, will cause an increase in grain prices up to 30 percent, said the secretary of Agricultural Development of the entity, Manuel Valdés […]

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Mexico suffers severe agricultural losses due to drought

The severe drought this year in Mexico has affected 989.000 hectares of agricultural land 750.000 and 1 million head of cattle, said the undersecretary of Agriculture, SAGARPA, Mariano Ruiz-Funes Macedo. He said that “the November 18 nationwide, are total losses in terms of agricultural area.” The official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, […]

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ALERT: Fraudulent emails sent regarding ACH denying payments, LINK claims to be Mexican newspaper website

Thousands of fraudulent emails as the one below are being sent claiming to be NACHA. A call to the organization produces a recording saying that the emails are fraudulent. They also warn not to click on the link as it is a trick and your computer may become infected with a virus. The example below […]

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TEHUACÁN, MEXICO: Increase in counterfeit pesos

Banking institutions detected an increase in circulation banknotes. The names of 1,000 and 50 thousand pesos are the most apocryphal circulates and the incidence could rise by the expected liquidity at year end. During the past 15 days have been immobilized only six banknotes at a branch of the city. It is becoming more like […]

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Cozumel, Mexico: 60 year old U.S. tourist dies in motorcycle accident

Again a tourist dies tragically losing the balance of the motorcycle on which he traveled, the accident originated in the north hotel zone while riding in the company of other friends. The incident took place on Thursday at 10:30 pm in a bend of the hotel zone north, near the vicinity of the harbor, where […]

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U.S tourist dies in scuba diving accident in Quintana Roo, Mexico

COZUMEL, MEXICO Death of a tourist 69 years when diving in Chankanaab reef with four friends. Suzanne Stevenson, a native of Baltimore, United States, this morning, on board the vessel “Sleeping shark”, she went to Chankanaab reef located in the south of the island. The underwater experience that began as an activity on their vacation […]

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Tourist attraction Mexico: Dozens of Monarch butterflies exterminated during fumigation for mosquitoes

A group of Monarch butterflies was exterminated in Guanajuato, when the Health Department sprayed the pantheon of Salamanca, whose Lepidoptera trees made ​​a stop in his trip to the forests of Michoacan. According to the report of the authorities in Guanajuato, Sanitary District staff conducted activities spray in the pantheon La Cruz, of Salamanca, as […]

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High concentrations of uranium found in local water Chihuahua, Mexico

There are high concentrations of uranium in Chihuahua A study by the Center for Advanced Materials Research (CIMAV) over a decade revealed that in the Chihuahua-Sacramento valley formed areas of high concentration of uranium contaminated the local water because in this territory have been reported numerous deposits of uranium ores, such as the Sierra de […]

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Mexico,15 on pilgramage die in bus mishap

At 21:30 pm on Friday, the bus left the town of San José Maria in Aguascalientes, passengers traveled all night with the Shrine of Chalma address in the State of Mexico for their annual pilgrimage, but 15 kilometers before reaching their destination, at 10:20 am on Saturday and the height of San Sebastian where is […]

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Mexican military dismantles Zeta’s communication system

Elements of the Army dismantled a sophisticated communication system of the criminal group Los Zetas, worth around $ 350,000 and arrested four people who were in charge of its operation, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA).The communication network was in a building of the colony Residencial La Hacienda in Torreon, Coahuila, and was assured […]

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Mexico, four narcogroups increase presence in 2011

Recently a report of the National Defense and Public Security Marina Federal Mexico revealed that only in 2011 four new groups have emerged of drug dealers. These groups seek to take control routes for drug trafficking and thus to expand their criminal activities in the country. The new gangs are the sign of the Knights […]

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Mexico on alert for trade aggreement that ends in December, 2011ing schemes from China

Mexico and China will end in a few weeks to a series of trade measures that sought to protect American country’s production, which worsens industrial disproportionate fear that imports of Chinese goods and reactivate disputes between the two nations. The entry into Mexico of textiles, shoes, toys and other Chinese products has jeopardized the local […]

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Bullying a problem in Queretaro, Mexico

The lack of reporting of bullying creates an atmosphere of impunity that encourages discrimination and other violations of human rights inside and outside schools, concluded the State Commission for Human Rights (ECHR) in the assessment of bullying in Queretaro. Read Article

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U.S. authorities discover 370 meter tunnel linking Tijuana to U.S.

U.S. authorities have discovered Wednesday a tunnel of 370 meters used by traffickers to transport drugs from the Mexican city of Tijuana (Baja California) to the U.S. city of San Diego (California), as reported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The discovery occurred after U.S. authorities arrested the two occupants of a truck that had […]

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Mexico, journalist requests protection from police who assualted, threatened him

Daniel Dominguez, a reporter for El Diario de Juarez and who was beaten by municipal police for taking photographs of a police operation, the authorities demanded guarantees for their safety during the lawsuit filed against their attackers. On Friday, November 11, about 9:40 am, Dominguez left the headquarters of his newspaper to the offices of […]

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Despite ability to provide international air service, Uruapan can’t offer flights

The arrangements for the entry of new airlines who offer new flights beyond the borders of the country have not progressed despite the work that has been done so you can provide this service to users in the region, despite you already spent a year and six months of the issuance of the decree for […]

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Two employees from Mexican newspaper missing in Zacatecas

Two workers of the Mexican newspaper El Financiero are missing in the state of Zacatecas, central Mexico, in a case that state authorities are investigating, said the newspaper’s deputy director general, Rogelio Cardenas. Read Article

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140 Central American immigrants discovered truck trailer, Chiapas Mexico

Crammed. The 140 immigrants traveled in crowded box trailer. A group of soldiers on Sunday found 140 Central American immigrants hidden in a truck traveling in the town of Tonala, Chiapas, southern Mexico, the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). The military stopped the truck at a checkpoint for a review and, when inspecting the vehicle, they […]

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Meth lab taken down in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico

Camouflaged as livestock, for a year and a half to process narcolaboratorio operated a methamphetamine, at Rancho San Francisco in Almoloya de Juarez, which was dismantled on Saturday morning by the Mexican Army and where did the arrest of a person originating Michoacan. Read Article

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Leader of Peasant Confederation leader claims famine exists in Zacatecas exists

Cornejo, state leader of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC), said that in several communities in Zacatecas and there are families who suffer from hunger, so called State Cabinet officials to make “its own model” to seek financial resources to the Federation. Elaborated on the governor Miguel Alonso Reyes made frequent visits to the Chamber of […]

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Hidalgo, Mexico: leading cause of death, diabetes

Because each year in the state recorded 800 deaths a thousand associated with diabetes mellitus, this condition is placed on top of the causes of death in the state, revealed the Ministry of Health in Hidalgo. The state agency said that diabetes is characterized by high levels of blood sugar. “It is a chronic disease […]

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Tijuana airport to receive flights from Cuba, Shanghai, Narita

The new international arrival hall of the airport “Abelardo L. Rodriguez “Tijuana was opened Monday morning in the presence of immigration and customs authorities, institutions will be operating in the new location. Guillermo Morales Villalba, Airport Manager, said that since the arrival of the aircraft to the departure of the passengers will be held at […]

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Mexico, politicians urge review of safety protocols for official travel

As an “unfortunate coincidence”, “bad luck”, something they hope to “be an accident”, “a fact that only God knows what was” rated air event where Francisco Blake Mora and 7 people, including his communications director Alfredo Garcia Medina, were killed. This context calls for an examination of various officials, who consider it urgent to review […]

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200 percent increase in diabetes cases in Sinaloa, mexico

A 217.2 percent have increased the number of new cases of diabetes in the last three years in Sinaloa, according to statistics from the Federal Ministry of Health. According to the document, at week 40, 2008 the rates of this disease were found in 11 000 831 new cases that year whereas the current figure […]

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Mexico: rumors continue as to cause of Blake’s helicopter crash

Losing two Secretaries of the Interior in aircraft accidents in just three years does not seem normal anywhere in the world. But as a violent and insecure as Mexico, where research questions tend to open more doubts clear, the mournful coincidence that trigger incites conspiracy theories and speculations. José Francisco Blake Mora, a personal friend […]

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Dengue outbreak continues in Valladolid Yucatán, Mexico

Despite preventive measures applied by health authorities, cases of dengue are increasing in the town: in 15 days reached 110: 90 classic and 20 hemorrhagic. Therefore, brigades were put in action and walk door to door to apply drill abbot and pots. The rains, which are attributed the outbreak of the mosquito transmitter, have truce […]

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Fear of outbreak of violence in land invasions, Mixteca Mexico

Municipal authorities and commons of San Pedro Teozacoalco, located in the Mixteca region, warned a new outbreak of violence in the area due to the invasion of their land by settlers of Santa Maria Tataltepec. In this regard, Mario Caballero Montes, Teozacoalco mayor, said that since the first days of November, Tataltepec commoners began a […]

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Three million to vote tomorrow in Michoacán, Mexico elections

Morelia, Michoacán- In the elections to renew the governor, the mayors and the local Congress, about three million 417 000 892 Michoacan morning may decide the political future of this entity. Read Article

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Mexico reopens one oil port in the Gulf, two remained closed for bad weather

The oil port of Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf of Mexico was re-opened to navigation after having closed for bad weather, said Saturday the Mexican government. However, the area remained closed terminals Cayo Arcas and Dos Bocas, which together with Coatzacoalcos are the main points of embarkation for much of crude oil exports go to the […]

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Mexico: visibility due to cloud cover may have contributed to helicopter crash, killing Interior Minister and others

President Felipe Calderon said that due to cloudy conditions prevailing at the time was flying the helicopter, where he traveled the Interior Minister, Francisco Blake Mora and six other officials, could be the cause of an accident. In a message from Los Pinos, the president said the helicopter “was always guarded at all times and […]

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German company investigated for arms sales to Mexico

Notisistema.com reported a German prosecutor is investigating the company Heckler & Koch for allegedly corrupt Mexican and German authorities for selling weapons to Mexico. This morning we were raided the offices of the arms manufacturer to check for possible corruption. This is the second investigation in one year. Read Article

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Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: Man beheaded for reporting against crime on social networks

A man who allegedly used the Internet to make complaints against organized crime was found beheaded today, handcuffed and with signs of torture in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, police said.This is the fourth person who is murdered in this city bordering Texas (United States) to use online social networks to denounce the activities […]

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14 fake ballots found on the streets of Morelia, Mexico

Were found yesterday in the streets of Morelia, 14 ballots apocryphal. Dicho evento ya ha sido discutido por los funcionarios electorales y partidistas de la entidad de Michoacán , descartando cualquier posible irregularidad. This event has already been discussed by partisan election officials and the institution of Michoacan , ruling out any possible irregularity. The […]

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