Cozumel, the gorgeous Mexican cruise port, has never been more popular, attracting more than 2 million visitors last year—a record. But in recent weeks, one passenger who debarked Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas was killed while on-shore, and one crew member was killed in a separate incident. Read Article
SINCE THIS STORY WAS RELEASED THERE HAS BEEN AN ARREST IN THE MURDER OF THE ROYAL CARIBBEAN EMPLOYEE FOUND DEAD IN COZUMEL – READ ARTICLE
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For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely watching developments in Mexico that relate to what we consider the three wars being waged there. Those three wars are the war between the various drug cartels, the war between the government and the cartels and the war being waged against citizens and businesses by criminals. In […]
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said he is eyeing Colombia’s oil industry, as the world’s richest man boosts infrastructure investments outside his home country. Read Article
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Authorities in Mexico are reportedly investigating the shooting death of a man who was recently praised as a hero for defending his home from three armed men in a home invasion last month. Read Article
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The firing of a prominent journalist from her radio show has stirred a debate over freedom of expression in Mexico and allegations that the government still holds sway over the media. Read Article
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Mexican prosecutors say a judge has authorized 40 days of detention for an alleged lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel while authorities investigate the man wanted in the United States on drug charges. The Attorney General’s Office says federal agents arrested Adan Salazar Zamorano on Saturday but it gives no other details. Read Article
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On February 2, 2011, cartel, CJNG or Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion broadcast a video demanding that police commanders step down by February 10, 2011, who are involved with La Resistance and La Familia Michoacana. The video stated if they don’t resign, “The Hunt is On, according to blogdelnarco.com. However, there are known names police commanders […]
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A South Korean tourist died while snorkeling in the southern Mexican resort town of Akumal, Mexico earlier this week, according to the South Korean embassy. The 32-year-old, identified only by his surname Kim, was given CPR by other tourists who found him floating in waters off the coast of Akumal on Monday afternoon, but without […]
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American tourist, Samantha Paige died yesterday at the Cancun General Hospital. Prensa Radio Santiago reported that she suffered from hemorrhaging after swallowing a piercing which damaged her internal organs. She had disembarked from the Royal Caribbean ship ‘Allure of the Seas’ at Cozumel. Read Article Royal Caribbean was contacted by latinamericacurrentevents.com and provided this statement: […]
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A group of men armed with AK47 and AR15 rifles attacked the Sinaloa Unidad Administrativa office building in Fraccionamiento Tellerías in Mazatlán early Sunday morning, February 6, between 3:30 and 4am shooting out windows and damaging the façade of the building. No one was injured in the attack where over 100 shots were fired. Read […]
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Cartel hitmen are murdering rivals and terrifying residents across Mexico’s second city Guadalajara as it prepares to host the Pan American Games in a deepening of the country’s drugs war. Gunmen firing automatic weapons torched vehicles and blockaded roads in the once-peaceful city this month, the most brazen act so far and an echo of […]
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Major droughts may have spurred the demise of multiple cultures and cities in pre-Hispanic Mexico over the last millennium. A new study, which used tree rings to add many hundreds of years to the region’s climate record, pinpointed four severe droughts in the region over the last 1,200 years. Read Article
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The Mexican government condemned comments by a top U.S. Defense Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” — remarks the official later apologized for and retracted. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized a tripod-mounted machine gun they found on the back seat of a sport utility vehicle headed into Mexico and arrested the driver, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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A traveler is offered a $9.80-a-day rate for a rental car in Mexico. But an agent refuses to rent the car without insurance, which more than doubles the price of the vehicle. Now neither his agent, nor the rental company, will refund the difference. Is he stuck with the bill? Read Article Seattletimes.com HAVE AN […]
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11 municipalities in Sinaloa CULIACÁN._ were considered yesterday “emergency zone” by the federal government, declaring that give them access to extra resources of the National Disaster Fund, known as Fonden. The municipalities affected by severe frosts, as the General Coordination of Civil Protection of the Interior Ministry were Choix, Sinaloa, Mocorito, Angostura, Cosalá, San Ignacio, […]
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For generations there are those who jealously guard their ethnic traditions, but they usually share with the world. So Dionisio de la Cruz Hernandez has lived for 40 years for 68 of his age.He has participated in the feast of the town for 20 years. His life is in this community where it is responsible […]
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Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico’s “Riviera Maya,” research shows. Read Article
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Editorial – The arrests of 34 people in Arizona recently shed light on how drug gangs in Mexico can manipulate America’s gun laws to obtain the illicit weapons they want. The common image among many Americans is probably of weapons being bought “under the table” from illicit gun traffickers, much like illegal drugs are bought […]
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U.S. authorities never searched the yacht they say carried an ex-CIA agent illegally from Mexico to Miami in 2005, and they have no photographs or other physical evidence that he was ever aboard, a federal investigator acknowledged Monday. Read Article
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Mexican authorities say three teenage boys were shot to death in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, and at least two of them attended school in Texas. Read Article
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For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body. Read Article
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Insurgents the Army battles in the future may be in Mexico, not the Middle East, Army Undersecretary Joseph W. Westphal said during a Monday lecture at the University of Utah. “This isn’t just about drugs and illegal immigrants. This is about the potential takeover of a government that’s right on our border,” Westphal said of […]
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An icy cold front that swept through northern Mexico over the weekend left 65 zoo animals dead, the zoo’s owner told CNN on Monday. Read Article
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A crew member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship has been found dead in the Mexican resort island of Cozumel, possibly the victim of a violent crime, authorities and company officials said yesterday. Read Article
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BIKIE gangs and organised crime groups have foiled police attempts to tap their phones by importing untraceable, encrypted BlackBerrys from Mexico. The telecommunications black hole exploited by the Comancheros gang and drug cartels has come to light after several nations – anxious about terrorism and national security – threatened to ban the Canadian-designed BlackBerry phones […]
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“The moral reserve of this country is low. People have let too many things happen without taking to the streets…and they continue to let them go by,” peace activist Pietro Ameglio told IPS in this Mexican border city. Read Article
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With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot. “It has to reach a heavy boil so that the water evaporates, leaving the syrup,” Rómulo, 45, an indigenous Otomí woman, told Tierramérica, explaining the process for turning the nectar of the maguey, or pulque agave […]
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Guadalupe Pena’s great grandparents began working with horses when La Hera ranch still lay in fields outside Mexico City. Now it is surrounded by graffiti-covered walls and barred windows but, behind its metal gate, offers hope where hospitals have failed. Read Article
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Freezing weather and snow have paralysed much of northern Mexico, which is experiencing its lowest temperatures in more than 50 years. Thousands of homes have been left without electricity and water, and schools and factories have been closed. Read Article
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SUBJECT: SECURITY UPDATE Date: February 03, 2011 Warden Message issued from U.S. Consulate Guadalajara This Warden Message is being issued due to a marked escalation of criminal activity in the Guadalajara metropolitan area and includes updated safety recommendations for all U.S. citizens residing or traveling in the Guadalajara area. On the evening of February 1st, […]
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The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons. Read Article
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A health official in Mexico says the producer of the Superman films of the 1970s and ’80s is recovering at a hospital after being admitted in a state of disorientation and suffering facial and head injuries. Read Article
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Two Canadians drowned while with family at Cabo San Lucas. The couple were swimming at Playa Divorcio when a wave washed them out to sea. Efforts to save Linda McDougall failed. Her husband Dale McDougall was located by the Mexican Navy. Playa Divorcio which is near cabo San Lucas is known for strong currents. Source: […]
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The BBC has apologised to the Mexican ambassador over remarks made on Top Gear. Skip related content BBC apologises over Top Gear’s insult to Mexico Enlarge photo .But the corporation defended the show’s presenters, who branded Mexicans “lazy”, “feckless” and “flatulent”, saying making jokes about national stereotypes was part of British humour. Read Article
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The assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, where he was famously killed with an ice pick to the head, was organized from a drugstore in the US, according to a former CIA agent. Read Article
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Effect of violence on tourism brings new threat to the insect’s survival A soft afternoon sunlight cuts into a chilly forest of firs that provides winter haven for tens of millions of monarch butterflies. As their forebears have for time beyond memory, these monarchs have traveled as much as 3,000 miles, from across much of […]
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Between Monday and Tuesday evening, 25 children were discovered wandering the streets of a Mexican border city alone. Mexican police have found 25 abandoned children wandering the streets of the city of Nuevo Laredo in northern Mexico, only a short distance from the town of Laredo, Texas. The group includes 8 boys and 17 girls […]
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Supporters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) kidnapped and held for a day 17 tourists, after a clash with peasants aligned with the government, near well-known waterfalls in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Mexican authorities said Thursday. Read Article REPORTS STATE TOURISTS WERE FROM CANADA, FRANCE, ARGENTINA, AND MEXICO
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A former officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection awaiting trial on drug charges claims he was subjected to illegal torture and extradition at the hands of a drug cartel working under orders of U.S. authorities, court records show. Read Article
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Two years ago, when Los Angeles businessman Alejandro Viecco visited the agave-fields surrounding the Mexican town of Tequila—where the eponymous liquor is made—he made a startling discovery. The process of making tequila, it turns out, can be as messy, smelly and disgusting as the aftermath of drinking too much of it. Read Article
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Mexico — Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated. Read Article
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The man who brought “Superman” to the big screen in 1978 has gone missing in Mexico City, according to his friends and family. 63-year-old Ilya Salkind was last heard from on Sunday, when he spoke to friends and business partners in L.A. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized 14 high-powered assault rifles when they searched a car heading into Mexico on Tuesday, according to the authorities. The cache of weapons was discovered in a vehicle which was searched as it attempted to cross the border into the country at the state’s Del Rio International Bridge. Read more: […]
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Police Chief Gen. Manuel Farfan Carreola was found dead with four of his bodyguards and his private secretary in Nuevo Laredo City, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Mexico produces first “artisan honey-ales” directed to the gay-lesbian market. A Mexican brewery has launched the first beer targeted to the gay community with a slight honey flavour and with plans to market the product in Mexico, Colombia and Japan among other interested countries. Read Article
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Suspected drug cartel gunmen hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in a rapid series of attacks in Mexico’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday. Read Article
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Spiralling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region. Read Article
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Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue. “The changes consist of a new attitude towards Mexico in Central America, which has prompted the […]
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Airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste SAB (ASR, ASUR.MX), or Asur, said Tuesday it’s contemplating legal action that could potentially drag out for years if antitrust authorities don’t change their minds and let the company bid on a new airport. Read Article
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Bars and barbed wire couldn’t keep a reputed Mexican drug cartel “queen” from getting Botox in prison, authorities said Tuesday. Mexico City’s prison authority says a doctor was improperly admitted to Santa Martha Acatitla women’s lockup in January to perform what it called a “procedure not authorized for inmates.” Read Article – AP
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A Canadian tourist was in a stable condition Tuesday after being attacked by a shark off Mexico’s Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, tourism officials said. Read Article
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Only a week into the new year, 15 human heads sat outside a gleaming shopping center on the other side of the lush hills that frame this seaside resort’s big tourist hotels. Within hours, several bodies turned up in a taxi and elsewhere, bringing the number of victims to 33 in a single weekend, scattered […]
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After a command of fifteen trucks with armed men shooting caused panic businesses and people, the army took over the patrolling of the municipality of China, located about 100 kilometers from Monterrey. An account of the damage indicates that approximately forty properties between businesses and vehicles were damaged by bullets, including the San Felipe de […]
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Amid strong opposition claims of what they considered meager results of the security strategy and the growth of organized crime and violence, the federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said that the number of executions Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, has declined from the last two months of 2010. Read Article
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It was 7:00am last Friday morning when a passenger bus of the Autobuses Unidos de Sinaloa line travelling from Culiacán to Mazatlán on the Maxipista stopped close to the town of La Cruz Elota and three young men boarded as passengers. As the bus approached Estación Dimas in San Ignacio, the young men left their […]
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The anonymous Canadians and Americans who live in Mazatlán full or part time told the reporter that the insecurity did not affect them, but rather the broken sidewalks, open manholes without covers in the Zona Dorada and Centro Histórico and general deterioration of tourist attractions concerned them most. Read Article
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In a meeting yesterday between State Secretary of Tourism, Oralia Rice Rodríguez, the Justice department, Secretary of Public Security and officials from the Carnival Cruise Line, Rice Rodríguez promised an “armored plate” security presence for cruise ship passengers visiting Mazatlán. With the installation of more than 100 newly recruited elite police officers, Rice Rodríguez guaranteed […]
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Mexico’s ambassador in London has written a furious letter to BBC bosses to complain about “offensive and xenophobic” comments made by presenters of the popular TV motoring show “Top Gear”. Ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora was infuriated by “insults” made by presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May during Sunday’s episode of the cult show, […]
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TWO of the world’s most feared organised crime groups are working together to exploit Australia’s cocaine market, according to a UN expert. The head of the UN’s Office of Drugs and Crime in Mexico City, Antonio Mazzitelli, believes Mexican drug cartels have struck deals with Australian members of the powerful Italian mafia group, the ‘Ndrangheta, […]
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The Ministry of National Defense of Mexico stated the military confiscated a large stash of illegal drugs on an Aeromexico plane that was scheduled to fly from Guadalaraja to Tijuana. Read Article
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A Yuma jeweler has been fatally shot in Mexico while visiting relatives. The family of Jorge Ahuactzin told the Yuma Sun that he and his brother were fatally shot Friday outside Manuel Ahuactzin’s home in central Mexico’s Tlaxcala state. Read Article
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim said on Monday he plans to boost his investment in Mexico this year by about 20 percent to $3.6 billion, with telecoms, mining and infrastructure taking center stage. Read Article
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Five people have been charged in connection with a deadly explosion at a Mexican hotel resort that claimed seven lives. Mexican officials have issued five apprehension orders over the Nov. 14, 2010, explosion in a Playa del Carmen hotel that killed five Canadian tourists and two resort employees. Read Article
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Mexican prosecutors are offering 8 million pesos ($658,000) for information leading to the capture of two suspects in the massacre of 72 illegal Central and South American migrants. Authorities have already arrested eight people in the mass killings last August at a ranch in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico’s drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. Read Article
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Costa Rican authorities say they have dismantled a cocaine smuggling network that used fishing vessels to ship drugs from Ecuador and Colombia through Central America and into Mexico. Read Article
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Diane Thorne, 67, and her husband Neil Edmondson have vacationed in Mexico more than a dozen times over the past 30 years without incident, but during their most recent trip Edmondson spent eight tense hours in a city jail following a car accident. The experience nearly sent the 78-year-old retiree, who has severe asthma and […]
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When her twin girls were born seven weeks early, Azucena Mora Díaz did not have to worry about how she would pay for expensive hospital care, even though her husband has only a low-wage job as a construction worker’s assistant. Read Article
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As President Felipe Calderon insists on maintaining its drug war, articulated in groups organized crime increased their level of violence, from December 2006 to this date has claimed more than 34,000 murders, including foreigners from states U.S., Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, China, Austria, Israel and Spain among other […]
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Arturo Aviles, 50, is missing in Mexico. He disappeared in November after he left Houston and drove his SUV to Mexico to apply for a vehicle permit in Matamoros. Read Article
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The police chief and all 38 police officers of a northeastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues. Read Article
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The immigrants were said to be traveling in ‘inhumane conditions’ in a trailer reported as stolen. The group included 177 men, 33 women and nine children. Of these, 169 were from Guatemala, 22 from El Salvador, 18 from Honduras, six from Sri Lanka and four from Nepal. Read Article
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A United Steelworkers union official was jailed in Mexico en route to a meeting with the Mexican National Union of Mine, Metals, Steel and Related Workers (Los Mineros) to discuss the four-year strike at Grupo Mexico SA de CV’s Cananea copper mine in northern Mexico, the USW said Thursday. Read Article – Subscription Required
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Drug smugglers are using an ancient invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona. The discovery of two “drug catapults” in the Mexican state of Sonora marks the latest twist in the cat-and-mouse game traffickers play with authorities. Read Article
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A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News. Read Article
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U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a U.S. missionary in Mexico, even as mission groups in Texas are re-evaluating the risks of working in the country. Fifty-nine-year-old Nancy Davis had ministered in Mexico for 40 years. Her husband said they were about 70 miles south of the border when gunmen in a […]
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The Attorney General of the Federal District conducted an operation in an annex, ie a treatment center for addictions and alcoholism, Cuajimalpa, which released 75 people imprisoned against their will. Hacinados, desnutridos, golpeados y con infecciones en la piel fue la forma en la que vivían estas personas, tres de ellas mujeres, tres adolescentes y […]
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The Mexican government vowed Tuesday not to back down in its fight against La Familia drug cartel, despite mysterious banners proclaiming that the brutal gang has dissolved itself. Read Article
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Federal police shot and killed a municipal policeman guarding the mayor of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday night, raising tensions between security forces amid a fierce drug war. Read Article
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels, according to an article in the Jan. 22 Washington Post. The administration of US president Barack Obama is encouraging this effort, and the US is paying part of the costs. Washington’s […]
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Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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The Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions reported that in 2010, there were 78,870 vehicles reported stolen. This number is 16 percent higher then the vehicles stolen in 2009. Recovery of stolen vehicles were down to 35% in 2010 from 40% in 2009. The two highest areas of theft were in the state of Mexico(22%) and […]
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Farmers’ protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol. Read Article
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While the rest of Mexico is in turmoil, the good times keep on rollin’ at Cabo San Lucas. Landing at the tourist destination at the very southern tip of Baja California, it seems like you’re in a parallel world. Here’s an Applebee’s, a downtown mall, a Home Depot and pristine beaches as far as you […]
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A Mexican singer accused of raping a 17-year-old girl has been given a six-day extension to present evidence in his defense, Mexico’s state media reported. Read Article
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Mexico will on Monday become the first country to start using iris scans for identity cards, according to the government. Iris recognition is increasingly used in airports, controlling access to restricted areas, and prisoner bookings. The documents, which will include the eye’s image as well as fingerprints, a photo and signature, will be 99 per […]
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It took María de los Ángeles Carrillo, a native craftswoman from Mexico, eight months to weave a decorative junco reed basket, for which she won an 8,000 dollar prize from the Mexican government. The 32-year-old Carrillo, a member of the Kumeyaay Native American people, belongs to the Grupo de Artesanos Nativos de Baja California (Group […]
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Each year in Mexico forensic services has an average three thousand unidentified bodies, of which about 30% are migrants, said today in an interview Morris Tidball-Binz, Forensic Area Coordinator of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Read Article
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Federal Police took 55 migrants from Guatemala into custody at Benjamin Hill while being transported in a bus. They were in route to Ensenada. None of the migrants could prove they were legally in Mexico. Read Article
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In the wake of a January 15 grenade attack on the home of Chapala police chief Reynol Contreras Muñoz, Jalisco state police swept the community for suspects, dismantling a presumed cell of the La Resistencia crime syndicate that allegedly hatched the plot. Read Article
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Alejandro Rojas Diaz-Duran, head of the local Ministry of Tourism, lamented that for the 2011 local government no longer has insurance for foreign tourists visiting Mexico City. Read Article
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A Canadian woman who claims she was gang-raped by police in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on New Year’s Eve was arrested earlier that day with her fiancé because they were drunk and hit a car, officials at the Mexican Embassy in Canada said. Rebecca Rutland went to the Canadian consular agency in Playa del Carmen, […]
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In the 10 years since he escaped from a high security federal prison in a laundry truck, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has transformed himself from a middling Mexican capo into arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. The boyish-looking kingpin, who made his storied prison break on Jan. 19, 2001, has seized ever […]
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Mexico’s Interjet airline signed a contract Monday to buy 15 long range Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, with options for five more. Customers have now ordered 170 Superjet 100s, which seat 98 passengers in a single-class configuration. Read Article
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The black-and-white photos still hang in the faded Hotel Los Flamingos. Over there is the muscled star of “Tarzan,” Johnny Weissmuller, who owned the hotel for a time during Acapulco’s heyday. There’s Maureen O’Sullivan. Tyrone Power. Errol Flynn. Fred MacMurray. Read Article
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Gunmen looking to settle a drug gang dispute in Monterey blitzed a corner store Monday, killing six people, including two apparent bystanders, authorities said. Four of the victims in the daylight attack were believed to have been peddling drugs from the store in the industrial city.Read Article
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Prehispanic ceramics, human skeletons and vestiges of dwelling and ceremonial areas are part of findings registered by archaeologists over a decade of excavations at Tepoztlan, Morelos (Mexico). This discovery reveals that the site had been in use earlier than the accepted date, which goes back to 1,500 BCE. This date surpasses the chronologies to date […]
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