Early Tuesday morning a U.S. tourist and his wife accused police of robbing her of 3,000 pesos. The tourist’s wife was surprised by five officers assigned to a special unit for security during carnival while she was relieving herself in a vacant lot on Avenida Del Mar. The five officers were detained after the tourist […]
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As the world celebrates the advances of women over the last century, an additional 70 million Latin American women have a job today thanks to improvements in education, health and job opportunities in the last four decades, said World Bank experts. Read Article
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Ecatepec, Mexico – It’s been two years since Obdulia de Paz’s former boyfriend broke into her home and killed her mother and daughter with the help of his son, nephew, and a friend. “The police carried my daughter out wrapped in a blanket filled with blood,” Ms. de Paz says. “I wanted to see her […]
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A young man(20’s) going to the aid of a woman being attacked by gang members, was stabbed in the heart by one of the gangsters. They fled after the assault. This was the first registered death this year for Carnival in Veracruz. The tourist was from Poza Rica Read Article
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Gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting two prisoners in northern Mexico, shredding three police vehicles with bullets and killing seven officers and one inmate, prosecutors said Monday. Six officers and the second inmate were wounded. Read Article
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Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday. Read Article
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Córdoba, Veracruz – More than 500 new patients with diabetes mellitus were detected during January in the Social Security medical units in southern Veracruz, this health problem affects not only the population over age 60, also in the adult young woman who takes away 10 years of productive life. Read Article
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Mexico City .- Metro Authorities instructed the security personnel and surveillance to allow transgender persons to assume their identity of female, have access to cars intended for the exclusive use of women. Read Article
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The 75 percent of six thousand women who reported being assaulted by her partner now lives independently and away from his assailant, said Martí Batres Guadarrama, Secretary of Social Development, to deliver 150 new cards yesterday acceptance program against domestic violence. Read Article
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A nightmare is lived in the late-night in this capital, as a result of clashes between rival gangs of criminals who used the street to settle their differences with a bloody balance. Long minutes of tension, real panic among the citizenry were experienced after intense firefight in which surfaced from the fearsome assault rifles and […]
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Two policemen State of Mexico (one judicial and one municipal) and the “godmother” of the first, were arrested Saturday night after an intense firefight in the vicinity of Zinacantepec municipality in the State of Mexico, while attempting the ransom of a “express kidnapping” that had been made in the municipality of Xonacatlán, falsely claiming that […]
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Mexico will cut tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. products after the United States agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border, Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said. Read Article
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As the world marks the annual International Women’s Day on Tuesday, some women in Mexico consider discrimination against them remains a problem despite the attention on the issue over the years. “Mexican women now have more opportunities to be in public charges, to have similar salaries compared with men,” said college student Martha Perez, who […]
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PT federal deputy and an active member of the leftist movement Regeneration, Gerardo Fernandez Norona, said the plant will look for Sempra Energy, which serves foreign interests, will be closed. After criticizing the double mask of the deputies of the PAN, the legislator said he will not insist on the issue because the country’s president […]
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The time, money and patience is running out for the 175 ejidatarios the morning of August 4, 2010 were violently evicted from a property adjacent to the beach known as Tenacatita Jalisco state. Last August, after more than three decades of fighting the ownership of an area of 42 hectares, the employer Andres Villalobos obtained […]
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Unfortunately the entrepreneurs of the city center as in some other places in cities, violence has been eroding economic resource inflows of tourists and there is still hope that there is joint action by state and federal authorities , Alvaro Zaldivar said Abreu. Interviewed, Zaldivar Abreu selling handicrafts and silver was always true that the […]
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The body of an American tourist, Carol Ann Kauppert, age 73 was found floating off the coast of Mahahual Mexico yesterday. Restaurant employees of Tequila Beach observed something floating just off shore. The employees drug the victim to shore and tried to revive her. The preliminary investigation indicated that she may have drowned as a […]
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This morning, Public Safety items robbery foiled a passerby on the coastal road south of the island, where they arrested two of the four alleged assailants, Pedro Raymundo Marcial Herrera and Pedro Antonio Vela Tzuc, who were referred to the Public Ministry of Common Jurisdiction Corcuera Benito Hernández, deputy director of Public Security reported that […]
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Mexican agricultural officials say they have euthanized 114 peacocks, ostriches and other birds at a zoo due to an avian virus. Read Article
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Terror MAZATLÁN._ among scavengers of generated municipal basurón the discovery of a hand and forearm, which was located by one of the workers among the piles of rubbish on the site. Read Article
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The president of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Eduardo Sojo Garza Aldape, announced final data from the Census of Population and Housing 2010, which yielded 112 000 000 336 000 538 Mexicans. Based on the results it follows also given some variables being of the population, which has reduced extreme poverty in […]
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Mexico and the U.S. agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border to operate across the United States. The agreement, announced today after a meeting by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, would lead to Mexico dropping tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. pork, cheese, corn […]
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More than 2 000 streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city have been closed to public access by its residents to protect themselves against organized crime, sources said Sunday the municipal government. Fearful after more than 7 thousand murders in the last three years, some neighborhood groups decided to make their streets and install […]
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The skeleton of a man was found in access to Pacific Highway Mazatlán, Culiacán, at the height of the ejido El Venadillo.The macabre discovery was made at 10:30 pm today, when employees were carrying out cleaning brush. Read Article
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When President Obama sits down Thursday with Mexican President Filipe Calderon, they might want to take heart about a part of Mexico that won’t be on their agenda. A vibrant, peaceful area in southeastern Mexico underscores why America’s southern neighbor has to win its fight against drug traffickers and why Mexican society may be strong […]
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Scanbuy, Inc., a provider of mobile barcode solutions, has officially opened an office in Mexico. Its applications are available for download on compatible devices and as a preload on handset devices through Telcel (News – Alert), a major mobile operator in Mexico. Read Article
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A two-month operation by U.S. authorities has led to the arrests of 678 gang members from 113 different gangs, including 13 linked to Mexican drug cartels, a top law enforcement official said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with 170 law enforcement agencies around the country for […]
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Valladolid, Mexico – Emerson is replacing gas and steam turbine controls, as well as balance of plant (BOP) controls, at the Felipe Carrillo Puerto power plant in Valladolid. The retrofit is to for completion in April. Read Article
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Mexico’s state oil monopoly Pemex will auction operating contracts for three mature oil fields to private companies in 2011, the first time in more than 70 years that private firms will be allowed to operate Mexican oil fields. Read Article
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The first two months of the year showed a lower influx of tourism in the port of San Felipe, representing low sales in the retail and hotel sectors, said Roberto Ledón Perezchica. The delegate from San Felipe said that foreign tourists, Americans and residents called “snowbirds” who live in port six to eight months in […]
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With eight assault rifles, a pistol grenade launchers, more than 2 000 rounds of ammunition, half a kilo of marijuana seeds, tactical gear and 3 luxury vehicles, was captured a woman who is part of the State Preventive Police (PEP), which was in military uniform and was accompanied by 9 subjects, who were able to […]
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Through communication protocol that gives the Attorney General based in Torreon Coahuila, reported on at least three shootings that took place near two o’clock in different clubs in Torreon. Milenio.com reports that the opinion of the authorities reveals that ten people were killed and 15 others were injured in the events. According to witnesses, approximately […]
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A Vernon family has returned home safe after their Mexican vacation was interrupted by a double assassination at their resort. Larry Wulff says his family was staying at Las Flores hotel in Mazatlan’s Golden Zone, an area they were told was a tourist safe-zone. Read Article
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Ford has used a special testing laboratory to ready its 1.6-litre turbo engines for Rally Guanajuato Mexico. The gravel event located in Leon, 400 kilometres north-west of the capital Mexico City, features stages that climb to more than 2700 metres above sea level, making it the highest event on the 13-round WRC calendar. Read Article
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Mexico’s Central Bank is worried about crop failures from bad weather and may have to raise interest rates if they poison inflation expectations, the bank’s Gov. Agustin Carstens said in a newspaper interview. Read Article
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Mexican Army elements belonging to the 13 Military Zone four suspected gunmen shot dead at noon today during a clash in the ejido Las Blancas, municipality of Tepic, near Dam Aguamilpa. Through a statement, the military stressed that after repel an armed attack, soldiers shot dead four suspected criminals and seized a vehicle, 12 guns, […]
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Two Belgian tourists in their sixties reported to authorities that they were assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. They were traveling in route to Mahahual on the Mayan Coast when a black pickup followed them just outside of El Cafetal. The couple were travelling in a motor home and were robbed of credit cards, laptops, ect. […]
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On Thursday evening at 11:50 pm, local police in the center of Mazatlan took into custody a man who possessed a backpack with 26 U.S. made grenades. The incident happened in the city center at: calle Teniente José Azueta, entre las calles Hidalgo y Morelos. The defendant reported to officials that he was scavaging and […]
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa alert the community to take preventive measures in relation to virtual kidnapping, also known as fraud or extortion via phone calls, declared by the Special Anti-Kidnapping Unit. He added that this problem started in 2001 Mexico, with massive boost for the use of cell phones and crime evolved into what today is known […]
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This past Tuesday, a Canadian tourist’s hotel room was burglarized in Colonia La Madera in Zihuatanejo. According to the Ministry of Tourist Assistance as reported by suracapulco.com.mx, the victim was robbed of $1000 USD and 170 in Canadian dollars. The burglar entered through the window of the hotel room. The news report did not state […]
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The mayor of a town in northeast Mexico survived an apparent assassination bid Friday after his bodyguards repelled the attackers in a gunfight that left three gunmen dead and two others detained. Read Article
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First they killed activist Josefina Reyes. Then her brother. Then they burned her mother’s house. Two and a half weeks ago, gunmen dressed in black kidnapped Reyes’ sister, sister-in-law and another brother. Read Article
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Violence has hit the shores of Mazatlan again. Earlier this week per police and press reports, two young men were gunned down in front of the Las Flores Hotel which is located in the middle of the Zona Dorada which was full of tourists and foreigners at the time. Apparently, the two men were trying […]
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One of Mexico’s most wanted men has been killed in a gun battle with police, officials say. Luis Humberto Peralta Hernandez, 44, was a top figure in the Juarez cartel, which controls many of the drug smuggling routes from Mexico into the US, prosecutors said. Read Article
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The Department of Education of the Federal District has entered into a partnership with IBM aimed at advancing education in the capital and offering Mexico City’s children a better future. IBM will donate its “Reading Companion” software program to improve the English-language programs offered at Mexico City’s high schools, as well as the company’s “Little […]
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The Mexican Miners’ Union (SNTMMSRM) reached a new two year collective agreement with Gammon Gold, ending an eight month long strike at the company’s mine in El Cubo, Guanajuato, Mexico, it was announced on February 23, 2011. Read Article
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The United States on Wednesday levied sanctions on more than 70 individuals and entities in six countries linked to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cocaine cartel. The Treasury Department targeted a supply group — headed by Colombia’s Jorge Cifuentes Villa — on allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering activities spanning Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Spain and […]
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Mario Robles is a political cartoonist in Mexico’s Oaxaca province. He has been violently attacked several times for his critical cartoons.
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Mexican marines found 72 sticks of commercial synthetic explosives at a heavily armed camp in the southern state of Guerrero, the navy said Tuesday. Such rural camps have frequently been used as training grounds and operating bases by Mexico’s drug cartels. Read Article
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Lapoliciaca.com reported that 50 year old Canadian, Deborah McCain was found dead Monday morning in an upscale hotel located in San Miguel del Allende, Mexico. It appeared from the initial investigation that her death may have been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning due to a gas leak from the room heater that was not turned […]
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The Mexican government announced Saturday a series of measures including increased military pay, annuities to widows of soldiers killed in combat, more health services, and enlargement of the pensions of retirees. The announcement was made by Mexican President Felipe Calderón as part of Army Day celebrations in the city of Reynosa, in the northern state […]
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A 20-year-old University of Alcalá student from Spain died Monday after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Cancun, a fact that is being investigated by local police. Boto Diego Galindo, 20, who arrived in Cancun on holiday with a group of 39 Spanish students, according to a statement released by the state […]
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Wal-Mart de Mexico SA says its fourth-quarter profit rose 14 percent thanks to its new stores in Central America. The Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says in an earnings report that net income rose to 6.5 billion pesos ($539 million) in the fourth quarter, up from 5.74 billion pesos during the same period in […]
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Domestic imports of fructose (sugar substitute), mainly by soft drink bottlers, recorded an average growth of 144% over the past seven years, data show Tariff Information System of the Ministry of Economy. In 2010 imports of fructose corn syrup sweetener, they were 132% higher than in 2009. Read Article
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country’s northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade. Read Article
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Mexico’s gross domestic product expanded last year at the fastest pace in a decade as Latin America’s second-biggest economy recovered from a 2009 recession provoked by the global financial crisis. Read Article
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Mexico is a foreign country where there are more violent deaths of American civilians, said the State Department of that country are alert because the number is rising. Potosí. Jaime Zapata, agent of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE by its initials in English) and attached to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, died […]
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The United States has built a huge fence to keep Mexican immigrants out. It has cost billions, split communities – but does it work? Charlie Bruce was a Texas police chief of the old school. In more than four decades on the force he gave homegrown criminals good reason to steer clear of Del Rio, […]
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Warring drug cartels fighting for turf in Mexico seem to be winning a battle for the hearts and minds of many young people enticed by the power, money and flashy images that glamorize the narco lifestyle. Songs that glorify drug lords, movies about their exploits and social networks offer a seductive view of a violent […]
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The maxim that every cloud has a silver lining was never truer than for Mexico’s Mastretta car company, which gained world attention after being ridiculed on a British television show. Read Article
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A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban a the game, “Call of Juarez: The Cartel,” which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez. Read Article
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A spate of attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco has left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, police said Sunday, just hours before the Mexican Open tennis tournament is scheduled to start. Acapulco has been the scene of bloody drug cartel turf wars, and taxi drivers have often been targeted for […]
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Carlos Slim pulled advertising from Mexico’s top broadcaster after ad rates spiked by 20 percent, a Slim spokesman said on Sunday, in a deepening rivalry between two of the country’s top tycoons. But while Slim’s enterprises say they would have had to pay higher prices to advertise with Televisa (TV.N), a spokesman for the media […]
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Yandi Condado and a small group of farmers in the southern Mexican state of Puebla decided a few years ago to process their peanuts as an economic boost — and to defend this traditional crop against the advances of more profitable options. Read Article
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Mexican pilot Armando Arauz is preparing the thick pile of documents and exams he needs to work for an airline in China. “The Chinese are very exacting and demanding,” the 41-year-old pilot, who worked for the private Mexicana de Aviación airline until it suspended operations due to financial problems last August, told IPS. “They require […]
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Four men with their hands and feet tied and heads covered in duct tape were thrown 200 metres to their deaths from a bridge Friday, authorities said as Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug battles reached a new level of cruelty and intimidation. Read Article
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Mexico’s improving economic prospects, coupled with low inflation, are winning the country a second look from international investors and fund managers. Investors see potential in Mexico’s services sector and in enticing more companies to market, and are also bullish about new financial tools which could send billions of dollars into infrastructure and private equity deals. […]
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Police arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms, including assault rifles, in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers, authorities said on Thursday. The sweep came after a federal grand jury unsealed indictments against 17 defendants allegedly involved in shipping to Mexico firearms bought by third-party “straw purchasers” […]
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Sharp fall in arrivals of “springbreakers” The Secretary of Tourism Promotion of Guerrero acknowledged that springbreakers foreign tourists fell by the perception held outside Mexico on the serious problems of insecurity. The owner of the SEFOTUR, Ernesto Rodríguez Escalona, said he had no precise information on the crash rate on the reservations of springbreakers that […]
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February’s freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico. Hardest hit was the northwestern state of Sinaloa, known as the”Bread Basket of Mexico,” where about 750,000 acres of corn crops were reported destroyed after unusually cold temperatures blanketed the north of the country […]
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The head of a company that provides security for American citizens traveling in Mexico says the powerful drug cartels are branching out into the $40-billion-a-year sex trafficking industry. Read Article
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Since 1993, hundreds of women have been murdered in the desert city of Ciudad Juárez. There is no clear motive for the killings and the Mexican police seem reluctant to investigate. What is going on? Read Article
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The overwhelming majority of U.S. media coverage of Mexico is on the brutal drug violence there. That violence is real. The struggle on both sides of the border over booty from the enormously lucrative drug industry has without a doubt resulted in horrific violence. More than 35,000 Mexicans have died in the last four years […]
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A man and his 8-year-old son were shot and their car set on fire late Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a municipal police spokesman said. Read Article
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A number of Venezuelans dead and wounded Saturday in an attack on a disco in the Mexican city of Guadalajara were graduate students and reconstructive plastic surgery, reported the embassy in Mexico. In the shooting and grenade attack perpetrated against the “Club Butter” killed six people, four of which were Venezuelan, a man and two […]
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The aquarium of Mazatlan has issued a warning to swimmers regarding the toxic sea snake. The aquarium reported to El Sol de Mazatlan that the the snakes are much more prevalent due to constant changes in water temperature in the region. The snakes are not aggressive by nature, however, if touched or harrassed may bite. […]
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The Riu hotel that caught fire this morning, was closed four times because of lack of security measures and lack of licenses for a project change, reports the director of Inspection and Surveillance in Guadalajara, Veronica Martinez Espinoza. Read ArticleVIDEO OF HOTEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION – SCHEDULED TO BE OPEN IN 2011
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Mexico is facing what could be its worst coffee harvest in almost 20 years. Unseasonal rains and cold weather have resulted in a crop that is ripening at an uneven pace. These coffee-harvest anomalies are exacerbated by a shortage of labor at farms where workers, paid by the bucket, haven’t found enough coffee berries to […]
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While they’ve made strides in arresting illegals and building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico line, the Border Patrol only has “operational control” of 44 percent of the southern border, and of that only 15 percent is air tight, according to new General Accountability Office report. Read Article
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Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said. The two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey. Read Article
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shootout that killed seven people in suburban Mexico City over the weekend resulted from an internal dispute between gangs tied to La Familia, a major cartel known for controlling organized crime in western Mexico far from the city, an official said Tuesday. The groups were fighting over territory in Nezahualcoyotl for local drug sales, said […]
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Tensions between France and Mexico over the case of a Frenchwoman serving a 60-year prison sentence in Mexico City boiled over this week, complicating relations just as a symbolic yearlong celebration of friendship has gotten under way. Read Article
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Suspected drug hitmen killed a senior police chief in one of the most brazen attacks yet in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city, El Norte daily reported. Homero Salcido was the head of the state of Nuevo Leon’s security and intelligence agency and, according to preliminary investigations, was shot on Sunday night in an SUV. Attackers then […]
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This is grim news: food prices are reaching record levels worldwide. The thousands of farmers who have killed themselves over the past decade seem to have no precedent. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s director, the goal to reduce the number of hungry people by half will only be achieved in 2050. Read […]
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Mexican officials say unidentified gunmen have killed eight people in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class suburb of the capital, Mexico City. Read Article
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The Flores family’s frequent trips to visit family in Mexico begin with a two-hour drive from their suburban Los Angeles home to San Diego, followed by a quick jaunt across the border to the Tijuana airport for the flight to Guadalajara. Read Article
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A Latino activist in Utah says he will ask Mexico to bar Mormon missionaries from the United States in retaliation against tough immigration-reform bills. Read Article
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At least six people were killed Saturday and 37 wounded when attackers sprayed the entrance to a bar in Guadalajara, Mexico, with gunfire and lobbed a grenade. The bar, called the Butler Club, is in the tourist district of Guadalajara, CNN said. Citing the Mexican news agency Notimex, CNN said gunmen opened fire outside the […]
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Mexican researchers are predicting the violence-plagued border city of Juarez will be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year. Read Article
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The French foreign minister said Friday that she plans to snub France’s year-long festival celebrating Mexican culture because of a court case that has strained the countries’ ties. Read Article
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A controversial iPod and iPad application that makes a game of the perils of sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked controversy among activists for immigrant rights. Read Article
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Last January, I wrote an essay for The Nation on Washington’s integration of Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a “security corridor.” I called it a “rump Monroe Doctrine,” an explosive mix of militarism and neoliberal economics. Militarily, assorted bilateral and regional treaties are fusing the region’s military, intelligence, and judicial systems into unified, supra-national […]
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Mexican Finance Minister Ernesto Cordero said policy makers may increase the amount of dollar options they auction monthly, a move that would help soften the impact on the peso of any sudden outflow of capital. Read Article
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Six women and a man were shot dead in a bar in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez late Thursday after gunmen stormed the building, police said. The evening murders came after a bloody day that also saw eight suspected drug cartel members and one soldier killed in a shootout in the north-central Mexican […]
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Few know that fighter Squadron 201 was part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. The squadron was called “Aguilas Aztecas 201” (Aztec Eagles) and was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces during the battle for the liberation of the Philippine Islands. Read Article ———–
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An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a French woman imprisoned in Mexico for kidnapping, a case that has ignited passions in both Mexico and France and caused friction between the two governments. Read Article
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A Mexican man has been detained in the death of a Royal Caribbean cruise employee who was discovered drowned in the sea off the resort island of Cozumel, authorities said Thursday. Read Article
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A San Diego-born teenager accused of being a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel has been charged in the killings of four men found decapitated in central Mexico. Read Article
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