According to the Foundation for Social Research (FISAC), since the implementation of the “alcoholímetro” program in 2003, fatal traffic accidents have reduced by 21% in Mexico. The program involves night time and early morning road stops in which drivers, including public transportation drivers in Mexico City, are required to take a breathalyzer test if suspected […]
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As reported by Excelsior, Mexico City’s Ministry of Tourism sent a formal request to Global Exchange Reality Tours to discontinue their “extreme” tourist excursions. Global Exchange Reality Tours’ recent excursions take place in Mexico City’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where clients are exposed to pirated and black market merchandise, alleys of young prostitutes and altars honoring […]
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Women in the Mexican state of Guanajuato are the top consumers of coke and crack cocaine in the country; Guanajuato is one of top 10 states for illegal drug consumption in Mexico In workshop held on policies for addiction prevention, Carlos Tena (Commissioner of National Council Against Addiction) argued against drug legalization, saying it would […]
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The Mexican government has adopted the Colombian government’s system of battling organized crime. As leon.milenio.com reports, the two governments have been working together sharing information and technology in order to stop narcotrafficking groups who transport drugs from Colombia to the United States through Mexico. Although the Colombian government has reduced the production of cocaine by […]
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In the past five years, disappearances attributed to government institutions and criminal groups have increased in Mexico. Since December 1996, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has classified 5,397 people as “lost” or “absent”, with 500 of these disappearances originating in the state of Michoacan. While reliable statistics are difficult to establish and confirm, it remains […]
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The home of businessman and former mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rhon was raided early Saturday morning, as reported by El Universal. Hank Rhon and ten of his bodyguards were arrested and will be flown to Mexico City for questioning by the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime. At his residence […]
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The fruits of drug trafficking are on open display in this western state capital: Cartel members honor their dead with gaudy mausoleums at the main cemetery, black-market moneychangers work in the open, and store shelves are stuffed with products from businesses identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as being fronts for organized crime. Read Article
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Speaking to the General Council of the Spanish Bars in Madrid on Thursday, human rights activists from Mexico condemned the sexual violence committed against women, and in particular women from the most vulnerable groups of Mexican society according to elpais.com. One of the activists who testified was Valentina Rosendo, the indigenous woman who was tortured […]
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A recent comScore study shows that in April of this year more than 11.6 million Latin Americans, 10% of those with internet access, are using coupon sites. Internet coupons are very new to Latin America and started gaining popularity last year when Groupon and Groupalia were emerging in the region. According to the report, Groupon […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that the Policía Nacional Civil found 166 kilos of cocaine in a container from Colombia in a warehouse of the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. •There were no arrests. •Yesterday, the police seized $4.29 million USD of cocaine in the El Progreso department during which two presumed members of […]
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Telmex, as the Mexico City-based company is known, dropped 6.4% to 10.18 pesos. The shares have risen 1.7% in 2011, compared with the 7.6% slump in the Mexican IPC index. The phone carrier controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil SAB can’t sell TV service because it hasn’t met some conditions of its license, including […]
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Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Catholic priest in this Mexican metropolis near San Diego, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.The Rev. Salvador Ruiz Enciso was last seen Sunday, but authorities were not alerted until two days later, the AG’s office said. Read Article
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Gunmen apparently from two rival drug gangs fought a ferocious gunbattle on a highway in a western Mexico state that killed 28 men Wednesday, authorities said. Read Article
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A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants’ lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Read Article
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Noticias.univision.com reports that Jesús Ochoa, presumed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, attempted to hide the money in a carry on luggage when he was captured in Eldorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. The money is believed to be a partial payment from Mexican cartels for a cocaine shipment. Ochoa is to be processed for alleged money […]
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Police found the tank during a raid on a remote ranch in Jalisco, western Mexico. The armour plated vehicle, dubbed “Monster Zeta” has a revolving gun turret and welded metal sheeting designed to withstand explosions. Read Article
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Navolato mayor in the Mexican state of Sonora, Evelyn Silver, proposes that it prohibits the use of this uniform “to save the teens.” Silver is warned that the proposal will be controversial. But sure as it was decreed that prohibit the dissemination of narcocorridos (songs that tell the life of drug) in bars, they should […]
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•Semana.com that the Colombian navy seized the cocaine hidden within containers of whole cane sugar for animal consumption. •The antidrug dogs of the Antinarcotics department of the National Police detected the drug within the 33,450 units, about 500 grams each, of the sugar headed from Cartagena to Veracruz, Mexico. •The CTI is still measuring the […]
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Few regions on earth have a cultural richness to match the Maya World’s. In the lowlands of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico steamy rainforests, replete with wildlife, preserve thousands of soil-covered ruined cities built by an ancient Maya Empire that rose with the Romans and slowly declined in Europe’s Middle Ages. Read […]
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A recently retired army general was gunned down in Tlanepantla, a city in the central state of Mexico, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, the Defense Secretariat said Sunday. Read Article
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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A Mexican state congress said it will change the name of the city of Juarez, which has been plagued by drug cartel wars, to the Heroic City of Juarez.The permanent and official name change will take place Saturday during a ceremony in Juarez, the El Paso (Texas) Times reported. Read Article
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Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), May 20 (IANS/EFE) Some 400 police officers in this Mexican city have been dismissed since last October on suspicion they had ties to organised crime, Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal said. Read Article
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The U.S. Justice Departments is reportedly working on a case against HSBC bankers they say have laundered money from Mexican drug gangs. Still at the beginning of the investigation, the Justice Department is building its case against the bank. The investigation began in August of 2010, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency […]
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Northern Mexico’s drug war continues to claim victims, with more than 360 bodies discovered in mass graves just last week. In a separate incident, 13 people were killed in a shootout between Mexican marines and members of the Las Zetas drug cartel. Read Article
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Hiking through rough Arizona desert terrain a few miles north of the Mexican border recently with a group of armed DEA agents, we were approached by a lone U.S. Border Patrol agent. He warned we should be careful up ahead, because two people believed to be spotters for a Mexican drug cartel had just been […]
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Law enforcement officials announced Thursday the arrest of 21 people who they said used a remote area of the Tohono O’Odham Indian reservation in Arizona. Read Article
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Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said. Gilberto Barragan Balderas “is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel” and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Ramon […]
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Mexican authorities on Thursday announced that a Bolivian pastor was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for the hijacking of an airplane in 2009. Josmar Flores Pereira was found guilty of taking control of a passenger airplane through threats and illegally kidnap people. He was sentenced to 7 years and seven months in prison. […]
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Mexican authorities recently stopped two tractor trailers containing a total of 513 illegal aliens. They were caught at a checkpoint, using X-ray equipment, in the county’s southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. They are, to some degree, lucky to have been caught before entering Mexico. Read Article
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X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States. Read Article
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The formal business of the country has lost 75 billion dollars a year due to the piracy and smuggling, estimated the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-SERVYTUR) , Jorge Dávila Flores. Said at a news conference that the figure is “stratospheric” if a comparison is made with captured […]
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In six of 10 cases of rape and sexual abuse recorded in the Federal District, the victim is a minor, while the abuser is a relative or acquaintance who acts even from within the home, gave to know the Sex Crimes Prosecutor of the Attorney General of the capital, Juan Camilo Bautista. Read Article
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Aernnova Aerospace company has hired the engineering and architectural work Lantec for technical assistance prior to the construction of a new factory in the Mexican city of Queretaro. These facilities will be dedicated to the production of composites. Read Article
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Mexican telecom giant, America Movil (AMX – Analyst Report) reported it will invest $1 billion in 2011 toward telecommunication services in Argentina. The investments will be primarily dedicated toward developing cellular, broad brand and fourth generation (4G) mobile services. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders hails provincial journalist Jesús Lemus Barajas’s release on 11 May and hopes that the authorities will one day explain how he came to be held for three years in the absence of any evidence against him, and compensate him for everything he has suffered. Lemus and his family now plan to go […]
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In spite of the potential risks posed by unwanted or uncontrolled radioactive materials, Mexico lacks comprehensive mechanisms to keep track of these “orphan” sources, originally used in medicine or industry, and to prevent them going astray. Read Article
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Judge Kattia Jiménez Fernández, Pavas Criminal Court, granted the two Mexican arrest linked to the plane, loaded with 177 kilos of cocaine, which crashed on October 10 last year in the Torres River Canyon, San Joseph. Read Article
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According to information from the National Migration Institute, in the same year 20,438 repatriated Mexican migrant children from the United States, of which 13,705 traveled alone. This implies that at least some four thousand children were not channeled through the Mexican immigration authorities. Read Article
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The Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to work in Mexico when shooting broke out and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. Dozens of them were on their way for another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when the violence erupted. Read […]
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Mexico’s INM immigration agency announced Thursday the dismissal of all its personnel across seven states after undocumented Central American migrants accused migration officials of being in cahoots with organized crime. The purge is being carried out in the states of Mexico, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, the main corridors for […]
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The Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that the Mexican government has issued a warning for those travelling to Guatemala with vehicles displaying Mexican license plates to take extreme caution. The government stated that there is increased risk for these travelers in being victimized by organized crime. The Mexican consuls in Tecum Uman, San Marcos, Jorge […]
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The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which brings together more than 100 Mexican civil society organizations, will demand compliance with six demands, which if they are rejected or not met by the government will lead the Movement to call for “civil resistance and peaceful actions to achieve compliance with this ‘end’,” which they […]
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Netflix, the film and television subscription service, is working on a push into Latin America and is close to announcing deals with three of the continent’s biggest broadcasters to begin streaming programming online in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Read Article
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Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are often perceived as solitary behemoths that live and feed in the open ocean. To the contrary, evidence is accumulating that they are gregarious and form seasonal aggregations in some coastal waters. One such aggregation occurs annually north of Cabo Catoche, off Isla Holbox on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Read […]
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Mexico City – German President Christian Wulff called Monday for more investment by German firms in Mexico, during a visit that seeks to favour closer economic ties between the two countries. Read Article
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Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil is targeting a bigger share of the Brazilian market to power growth, though the cost of winning new subscribers may depress earnings in the short term. Read Article
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The U.S. Coast Guard was searching the waters off San Diego and northern Mexico late Tuesday for a woman who was reported missing from a cruise ship. Read Article
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Government efforts over the past 20 years have improved air quality in this Mexican capital but much remains to be done, local environment chief Martha Delgado said on Tuesday. Read Article
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Teams searched early Wednesday for 11 workers trapped in a mine in northern Mexico after an explosion, Mexico’s labor secretary said. Three bodies were recovered late Tuesday. Read Article
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Calmer winds and a cool front moving into the area are helping crews on both side of the U.S.-Mexico border as they battle a wildfire burning near Nogales. Read Article
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MEXICO has just pulled off its once-a-decade miracle of quizzing 112m souls about their lives and habits. The census results, presented to journalists today, form a mountain of data that your correspondent will mine for stories over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are a few findings that jumped out at him, in […]
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Is Sempra Energy purchasing renewable energy from itself? Well, sort of. Both San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) and Sempra Generation are subsidiaries of Sempra Energy and, according to this statement, the two have entered into a 20- year contract that would have SDG&E getting up to 156 megawatts (MW) of renewable power supplied from […]
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After a peak at 1.140 million units in 2006, the Mexican new car market had been slipping down, accelerating its fall to minus 26 percent in 2009. The drop was halted in 2010 when the market grew 9 percent at 820,406 registrations. So far, 2011 is looking pretty good too, with a 12 percent increase […]
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One of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine was extradited to the United States on Friday to face drug-trafficking charges, ending an eight-year effort by U.S. authorities to take custody of a man who once controlled one of the world’s most powerful cartels. Read Article
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Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission said on Friday it has started separate investigations into alleged monopolistic practices in the sale of television advertising and telecommunications interconnection services. Read Article
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Without sufficient investments in oil field development and the use of new, advanced technologies, Mexico faces becoming a net oil importer in 10 years, according to research by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Oxford University. Read Article
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The Mexican carrier Interjet has conducted the first biofuel flight in the country, operating an Airbus A320 with a 30 percent biofuel blend developed from the local jatropha plant. The plants were harvested in Chiapas, Mexico. Read Article
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Indigenous Writings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico – Recorded interview with Dr.Mónica Díaz – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) (See all History of Mexico Books) Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María […]
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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About a third of the Mexicans surveyed in the federal government’s National Poll on Discrimination in Mexico (Enadis) for 2010 said that what gives them the greatest anxiety is the fear of violent robbery. Another quarter told Enadis, a survey carried out each year since 2005, that they were most afraid of violence by drug […]
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He is a confidential informant and ex-felon. He lives among drug dealers and corrupt officials along the U.S.-Mexican border. And after a year on the job, he is calling it quits. Read Article
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Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V., the largest public Coca-Cola bottler in the world in terms of sales volume, announces results for the first quarter of 2011. Total revenues reached Ps. 25,826 million in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 9.5 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2010 as a result of double-digit […]
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The magnitude-5.7 quake occurred at 6:07 a.m. local time (1107 GMT) and was centered about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero, the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado reported on its website. It was followed by a magnitude-4.6 replica at 6:18 a.m. (1118 GMT), the agency said. Read Article
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In a last ditch attempt to bear witness to the Royal Wedding, Estibalis Chavez, 19, staged a 16-day hunger strike in front of the British Embassy. As we reported last week, the stunt didn’t land her an official invitation but a good samaritan ponied up enough money to get her on a plane and head […]
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Héroux-Devtek Inc. (HRX-T8.29-0.01-0.12%) is taking the long-awaited plunge and making an entrance into the Mexican marketplace to build a facility for its aerostructures and landing gear operations in Mexico. The Quebec-based company’s first foray outside of Canada and the U.S. will be located in the Queretaro Aerospace Park. Read Article
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Novell today announced the government of Mexico’s Tax Administration Service, Servicio de Administracion Tributaria (SAT), has turned to Novell to bring its federal tax collection and investigation systems online. SAT chose Novell Compliance Management Platform to centrally manage the identities for nine million taxpayers and 35,000 employees in a secure and compliant manner. Within 18 […]
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More violence over a wider area in Mexico has caused the U.S. State Department to expand a warning against travel to the country. The new warning includes the Gulf of California resort area known as Rocky Point, and the area in Mexico around the border crossing near Nogales, just south of Tucson, Ariz. It also […]
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Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country’s public security ministry said Tuesday.The hostages were found Monday inside a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. Read Article
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Maria de la Concepción Martínez is a 32-year-old micro-entrepreneur living in the outskirts of Solidaridad, an inner city slum in Monterrey (Mexico’s third-largest city by population and its industrial giant). Three times a week she wakes up at 4 a.m. and takes an hour-long bus ride to visit the Juarez Market, where she purchases fresh […]
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Mexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered. Read Article
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This is the time of year when Mexican families traditionally drive long distances to celebrate Easter together. But Highway 101 through the border state of Tamaulipas is empty now — a spooky, forlorn, potentially perilous journey, where travelers join in self-defensive convoys and race down the four-lane road at 90 miles per hour, stopping for […]
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At the largest mass grave site ever found in Mexico, where 177 bodies have been pulled from deep pits, authorities have recovered few bullet casings and little evidence that the dead were killed with a gun. Instead, most died of blunt force trauma to the head, and a sledge hammer found at the crime scene […]
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After a 7-year process conducted by legal and diplomatic ways before the German Government, which concluded with success, Mexico recovered 49 archaeological pieces illegally subtracted from national territory. This is the first delivery made to Mexico of Prehispanic objects seized in 2004 in Frankfurt, part of the Patterson Collection. Read Article
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An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. Read Article
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Qatar home to 250 Mexicans, but their numbers are growing on a weekly basis. Mexico plans to open an embassy in Qatar to give a boost to the growing ties between the two countries, a Mexican diplomat has said. “We hope that we will be in a position to open an embassy in Doha before […]
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Telcel, the Mexican division of the America Movil mobile operator, owned by Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world, was fined over one billion dollars by the competition authority for abuse of dominant position on the market, informs Reuters. Read Article
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General Motors Co. said Monday that it has promoted the head of its Mexican operations, Grace Lieblein, to run its unit in Brazil. Lieblin, who has led GM de Mexico since December 2008, will take over as president and managing director of GM do Brasil on June 1. She replaces Denise Johnson, who left GM […]
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According to authorities in Mexico, robberies and sexual abuse charges continue to rise in Mexico City. 2010 – 2,617 robberies in taxis. 2,446 sexual abuse complaints in taxis The three areas of the city with a pattern of continued problems are: Cuauhtemoc, benito Juarez, Miguel Hidalgo The allegations piled up. Entonces la fiscal en Investigación […]
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Three men executed and at least six wounded, including two musicians and two children, is the result of an attack by an armed commando for a fellowship that played a band in the colony Humuya Meetings. One victim was identified as Oscar Leyva Rochin, 49, resident of Sesame Street, of that sector, which is a […]
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Mexico needs to take urgent steps to tighten oversight of the storage, handling and disposal of radioactive materials that can threaten the lives and health of its population, experts warn. Read Article
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30% of cultivated land areas in Mexico are a legal product crops mixed with marijuana or opium, on Tuesday reported a Mexican senator who proposed a legal reform to encourage farmers to convert these crops. “30% of the crops are mixed with drugs with a legal culture,” he told the full Senate chamber Felipe Gonzalez, […]
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After receiving a report of a clandestine laboratory in Acoponeta, Nayarit, Mexican troops closed it down. They secured 82 kilos with 780 grams of powder with the characteristics of gum opium, 58 kilos with 640 grams of opium gum, 200 liters of processed opium gum and 9 kilos with 890 grams of a chemical compound […]
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In Yucatan, the conditions that have generated in recent years, the regular occurrence of red tide on the coast of Yucatan, recognizes the state secretary Urban Development and Environment (Sedum), Eduardo Batllori Sampedro. However, according to Notimex, Sampedro Batllori reports so far this year there are no reports or indications of the presence of red […]
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At 16:30 pm yesterday the U.S. plane Jumbo Boeing 747-10 (“Supertanker”) held yesterday its first flush of 76.000 liters of water and fire retardant chemicals in the Rancho El Bonito municipality of Acuña, Coahuila, reported the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). Read Article
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The members of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) staged riots and various other acts of violence when confronted with riot police, burning vehicles, damaging facilities of the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and physically assaulting the parastatal workers, firefighters and representatives of media. Read Article
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Elements of the capital’s Police Investigation Unit to disrupt a gang of five youths, who are related to the killings of at least six taxi drivers in the south of the city. Read Article
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The former head of chancery of diplomatic representation in the United Kingdom, Abel Abarca Ayala, was admitted to the South Prison, to be processed by the Ninth District Court Federal Criminal Proceedings in the Federal District for the crime of rape. According to the Federal Public Ministry assigned to the Special Prosecutor for Crimes of […]
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At least 15 percent of the population over 18 years in the state of Oaxaca, Oaxaca 331 000 557, has been victim of bribery by members of various security forces, mainly identified a number of cameras business, based on the Seventh National Survey on Insecurity (ENSI) 2010. Canacintra Coparmex and revealed to news that the […]
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The Federal Environmental Protection (Profepa) reported that in Oaxaca were arrested two suspected smugglers in possession of 208 wild birds breeding of parrots against atoleros orange or guava and 71 parrots. In a routine inspection, Federal Police personnel arrested two men traveling in a vehicle reported to the Profepa in Mexico City and Oaxaca as […]
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The Secretary of Health of Oaxaca has been detected in at least 25 schools in the capital and the Central Valley area – between primary and kindergarten, outbreaks of lice and nits. The director of the Disaster and Emergency Unit Epidemiology in reliance Javier Salazar Ventura, reported that 18 of the outbreaks are under control, […]
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On April 10 opened its first Mexican cruise line, Ocean Star Cruise, promoting tourism and offering the best services. Easter is about the ideal time to go even a peaceful and relaxed with either family or friends, everyone needs some time for yourself, you better give you a holiday with style and especially supporting local […]
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The Secretary of Tourism, Rice Oralia Rodriguez, declined to make statements about the possible return of the cruise they decided to cancel because of the lack of security at the port, but confirmed that Mazatlan is a test. Read Article
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Amnesty International has urged the Mexican government to thoroughly investigate links between drug and criminal gangs and public officials, following the arrest this week of 16 police officers accused of working with gang members responsible for mass killings near the US border. Read Article
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The municipalities of Juchipila and Nochistlán, southern Zacatecas, remain virtually turned into ghost towns, after repeated warnings from Monday night until dawn on Tuesday, about violent clashes between rival groups allegedly linked to organized crime. Read Article
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n order that the Indians have access to higher education in Hidalgo, the Otomi Indian Movement (MIO) has announced the construction of Indigenous Intercultural University. At a press conference, Cipriano Chavez Pedraza, moral leader of the MIO, said the school will teach two courses: Language and Culture and Sustainable Development. Read Article
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On April 5, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that a row of concrete Jersey barriers was being emplaced in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico. The story indicated that the wall was put in to block visibility of the facility, but being only about 107 centimeters (42 inches) high, such barriers do […]
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The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction. Read Article
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