A popular candidate
for governor who had made increased security his prime campaign
pledge was killed along with at least four others Monday morning
in a brazen attack, rattling a nation already alarmed by surging
drug violence.
Read more
The attorneys for a
reality television producer accused of killing his wife at a
Cancun resort said Thursday they don't believe their client is
being treated fairly by Mexican authorities.
Read more
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Mass grave in Taxco, Mexico, is largest discovered in violent
drug wars
June 24, 2010
Many times, the
victims in Mexico's drug war simply disappear. Just a few miles
outside this quaint tourist town filled with silver jewelry
shops, Mexican authorities discovered where some ended up.
Read more
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Killing of Mexican governor front-runner stirs concern for
democratic process
June 24, 2010
Rodolfo Torre, the
front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election in the
violence-plagued northern state of Tamaulipas, was ambushed and
killed Monday.
Read more
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Mine turned into bottomless pit of death
June 24, 2010
One of the nastier
chapters of Mexico's gangster wars now haunts this beguiling
colonial city long known for its silversmiths and tourist
throngs.
Read more
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When Americans die abroad, and how they die
June 20, 2010
Not only does the U.S.
State Department keep track of American citizens who die outside
the country, it posts the results. And now the “non-natural”
death figures are in for 2009 — a sobering list of 881 unnamed
expats, tourists, business travelers and others done in by
traffic accident, homicide, drowning, suicide and other means.
Read more
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Twelve bodies found in bottom of wells
June 19, 2010
TWELVE decomposing
bodies of presumed victims of drug-violence were found at the
bottom of four wells near Cancun's international airport, local
authorities said on Friday.
Read more
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Mexican police find 12 bodies in Cancun
June 18, 2010
Police in the popular
Mexican beach resort of Cancun found the bodies of 12 people on
Friday with signs they were tortured and killed by drug gang
members.
Read more
Call it a boycott on
“principle” if you want, or call it common sense: Americans
should stay the hell out of Mexico. You are very likely, as an
American, to get yourself, or your family, killed if you go
there. Your body might not ever be found.
Read more
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Mexico Drugs Gang Kidnap And Murder Police
June 17, 2010
Seven police officers
have been dragged from their homes, tortured and murdered by a
drugs gang in northern Mexico.
Read more
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Industry hurt as Mexico wages drug war on US border
June 16, 2010
Frozen investments and
cancelled factories are hurting a major Mexican industrial hub
on the US border as nervous business leaders watch police and
troops do battle with brutal drug gangs. Read more
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Shootout in Mexican tourist town of Taxco leaves 15 dead
June 15, 2010
Fifteen suspects were
killed Tuesday in a shootout with soldiers in the tourist town
of Taxco, Mexico, the national defense secretary said in a news
release.
Read more
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Police killed in Mexico attacks
June 15, 2010
Suspected drug hitmen
have killed at least 15 police officers in two separate attacks,
marking one of the bloodiest days for security forces since the
government stepped up its fight against drug gangs.
Read more
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Torture, executions leave 39 dead in 2 Mexico cities
June 12, 2010
Violence flared across
Mexico, with 19 men executed at a drug rehab center in Chihuahua
and 18 men and two women tortured and killed near Tampico,
officials reported Friday.
Read more
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Mexico mass grave in abandoned mine has 55 bodies
June 8, 2010
Mexican police say 55
bodies have been recovered from an abandoned mine that appears
to have been used as a mass grave by drugs gangs.
Read more
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Murder Hotel
June 8, 2010
The grieving son of a
tragic Scots tourist is helping a US TV
producer accused of murdering his wife -
after she was killed at the same hotel where
his mum vanished.
Read more
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6 bodies found in cave near Cancun, 3 with hearts cut out;
attack on girl's party kills 3
June 7, 2010
CANCUN, Mexico -
Police discovered six dead bodies in a
cavern near the tourist resort of Cancun on
Sunday, three of them cut open and their
hearts removed.
Read more
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Mexico: 6 bodies in cave, 3 with hearts cut out
June 7, 2010
Police discovered six
dead bodies in a cavern near the tourist
resort of Cancun on Sunday, three of them
cut open and their hearts removed.
Authorities are investigating the identities
of the four men and two women found dead in
the natural cave, said Francisco Alor, the
Quintana Roo state attorney general.
Read more
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Mexico's tourism policy threatening environment
May 27, 2010
Mexico's tourism
policy, which promotes development of enormous hotels in remote
areas, produces an over-exploitation of natural resources and a
'collapse' of the ecosystem, a leading environmentalist has
said.
Read more
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Mayor of Cancun, Mexico, charged with drug trafficking, money
laundering
May 27, 2010
The smooth-talking
mayor of Cancun, Mexico's top resort
destination and world-famous party town, was
arrested by federal police Wednesday on
charges of drug trafficking, money
laundering and serving as a go-between for
violent drug cartels.
Read more
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Cancun mayor's arrest adds to Mexico worries
May 27, 2010
The charges against
Gregorio Sanchez, on leave to run for
governor, add new force to worries organized
crime has infiltrated politics at all levels
and is undermining moves toward a real
democracy.
Read more
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Mexico Arrests Mayor of Cancún
May 27, 2010
Mexican police have
arrested a prominent gubernatorial candidate
for alleged links to organized crime, amid
growing concerns that drug gangs are buying
off politicians to get the Mexican
government to back off in its war against
the cartels.
Read more
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Mexico travel alerts for Memorial Day weekend
May 25, 2010
A second travel alert
has been announced for Americans going into
Mexico. The latest alert is for Highway 15
between Nogales and Hermosillo. The U.S.
Consulate in Nogales issued a message for
people to use "Extreme caution" when
traveling on Highway 15 between those two
cities.
Read more
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Mexican Tourist Town Reduced to Ghost Town
May 25, 2010
A small town in Mexico
once bustling with tourism now looks like a
ghost town due to the Mexican drug violence.
Read more
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Alert throws wrench in Mexico plans
May 25, 2010
A U.S. Consulate alert
about the highway to Rocky Point has some
rethinking beach trips and business owners
in the Mexican beach town calling the
advisory unjustified and poorly timed. Read more
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Mexico travel warning
May 25, 2010
A warning for anyone
heading to rocky point this Memorial Day
weekend: The state department has issued a
travel advisory alerting Americans to
potential violence in Mexico. Now, the U.S.
Consulate in Nogales has a specific message
for holiday travelers bound for the beaches
of Puerto Peñasco.
Read more
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Mexico is the world leader in Gruesome violent deaths in 2008
May 24, 2010
In 2008, Mexico's
violent deaths broke historic records
increase the number of deaths in 5630
murders of power, against all the last years
record time.
Read more
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Travel warning issued for drivers headed to Rocky Point
May 24, 2010
Memorial
Day
weekend
is
right
around
the
corner,
and
you
may
have
a
trip
planned,
to
Rocky
Point,
Mexico.
But
a
travel
warning
from
the
U.S.
Consulate
in
Nogales,
Sonora,
is
alerting
U.S.
citizens
of
security
concerns.
Read more
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Political kidnap rocks Mexico
May 18, 2010
Mexican President
Felipe Calderon has ordered a massive
manhunt to find a missing politician he
described as a "personal friend", who may be
the most prominent kidnap victim yet in
Mexico's raging drug wars.
Read more
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Former presidential candidate missing in Mexico
May 17, 2010
A huge manhunt has
been launched in Mexico after a close friend
of President Felipe Calderon went missing
amid signs of violence at the weekend.
Read more
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8 dead, 19 injured in Mexico bar blood bath
May 17, 2010
Armed attackers shot
their way into a bar in the city of Torreon,
killing eight people and injuring another
19, according to media reports on Sunday.
Read more
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Chancellor meets with family over mystery Mexico death
May 15, 2010
A BEREAVED son who
believes his mother may have been murdered
while on holiday in Mexico has met with
Chancellor Alistair Darling in an attempt to
find answers over her death. Read more
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Kidnapped wedding party killed in Mexico
May 13, 2010
Police searching for a
bridegroom who was kidnapped at gunpoint as
he walked his new wife out of a wedding
ceremony said yesterday that their mutilated
bodies, together with those of his brother
and uncle, who were also kidnapped, had been
found in the back of a pick-up truck
abandoned in the Mexican border town of
Ciudad Juarez..
Read more
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Friends mourning man killed in Mexico
May 12, 2010
Friends in Phoenix say
Ronald C. Ryan loved Mexico and its people
so much that he made regular trips south of
the border, often delivering clothing and
gifts to the poor.
Read more
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Headless bodies near resort
May 11, 2010
Police found the
headless bodies of two men along with
apparent messages from a powerful drug gang
near the beach resort of Cancun in
south-east Mexico, a justice official said
on Monday.
Read more
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University covers medical costs of student who fell from Mexican
balcony
May 7 2010
The family of a former
Dartford Grammar School pupil who fell from
a balcony on his gap year - have had their
£70,000 medical bill paid by their son's
university.
Read more
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US extends Mexico travel warning over drug violence
May 7, 2010
The US State
Department has extended its travel warning
for Mexico because of concern over
drug-related violence.
Read more
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Mexican women's activists call for Cancun boycott
May 6, 2010
Women's rights
activists called on tourists Thursday to
boycott the Caribbean resort city of Cancun,
saying authorities there failed to protect
the rights of an 11-year-old rape victim who
is carrying the baby to term.
Read more
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Mexican woman escapes after being
dumped in well with corpses
May 5, 2010
A Mexican woman
abducted more than a month ago and left for
dead managed to escape alive after being
dumped in a well where police later found
three rotting bodies, an official said
Tuesday.
Read more
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Five killed while playing soccer in southern Mexico
May 3, 2010
Gunmen drove to a
soccer field near the coast resort of
Acapulco, and shot five men early Monday
according to police in southern Mexico.
Read more
With drug violence
spreading beyond the border region, many
Texas colleges and universities are
suspending study-abroad programs in Mexico,
halting a decades-long tradition of language
and cultural exchange.
Read more
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Drug gangs turning Acapulco into war zone
April 29, 2010
Violent drug gangs are
terrorizing Mexico's famed Acapulco beach
resort, with hitmen shooting at rivals on
the hotel strip and dumping beheaded bodies
in a battle for control.
Read more
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Gunmen ambush security official's convoy in Mexico
April 25, 2010
Gunmen in Mexico have
attacked a convoy with the top security
official in the western state of Michoacan,
killing four people and wounding 10.
Read more
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Fear, violence spread in Mexico as drug war moves from border
April 24, 2010
Bus company owner Raul
Vargas knew things were getting bad in the
northern city of Monterrey, but it wasn't
until he tried to take a group of 80
Mexicans on a shopping trip to Texas that he
realized how far the fear had spread.
Read more
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Dozens of Gunmen Storm Mexican Holiday Inn, Kidnapping at Least
6 People
April 22, 2010
Dozens of gunmen have
kidnapped at least six people after storming
a Holiday Inn hotel in Mexico.
Read more
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Mariner of the Seas to leave Mexican Riviera
April 22, 2010
Royal Caribbean
International will pull the Mariner of the
Seas off its Mexican Riviera itinerary, a
further blow to a region that will see a
major reduction in cruise traffic over the
next year. Read more
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Leaked police film shows Mexico drug war
April 15, 2010
Leaked police film
shows Mexico drug war CCTV catches hitmen on
mountain town massacre, but authorities
criticized for failure to act.
Read more
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Eight-year-old girl killed amid Mexican drug war shootout
April 15, 2010
The shootout involved
gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles and
was the latest evidence of Mexico's drug war
taking hold in the popular Pacific beach
resort.
Read more
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Deadly street shootout strikes fear in Acapulco
April 14, 2010
In the Mexican resort
city, gunmen fire at two men in a car and
federal police officers. They also shoot at
other vehicles, leaving behind casings from
AK-47s, which are favored by drug hit men. Read more
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Drug violence scares off tourists to Mexico
April 13, 2010
Fears of drug violence
spreading to beaches and colonial towns are
driving away tourists and threatening
Mexico's crucial tourism industry, already
battered by last year's swine flu outbreak. Read more
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Former "Survivor" Producer's Wife, Monica Beresford-Redman,
Missing in Mexico
April 8, 2010
It's been two days and
there is still no sign of Monica
Beresford-Redman, wife of former "Survivor"
producer Bruce Beresford-Redman.
Read more
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An American Family’s
Cancun Horror
April 2, 2010
It was every parent’s
worst spring-break nightmare come true: Fun
in the sun somehow turned into a
south-of-the-border bloodbath for
21-year-old Zeke Rucker. The vacationing
Rutgers University graduate was discovered
alone outside his resort hotel in the wee
hours of the morning of March 16, bleeding
and unconscious by a swimming pool. His
heartbroken and horrified family has
questions. American and Mexican officials
don’t have any answers — or any immediate
interest in finding out what happened to
Zeke.
Read more
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British holidaymaker dies falling down steps of plane after
arriving in Mexico
March 26, 2010
A 61-year-old
holidaymaker died falling down the steps of
an aeroplane after arriving for a break in
Mexico, an inquest has heard. Rita
Mellon had just arrived in Cancun with her
husband Keith for a week's stay when she
lost her footing and tumbled down the
stairs..
Read more
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Mexican drug trafficking may lead to demise of Spring Break in
Cancun
March 25, 2010
After almost a
full week of
hearing
wonderful Spring
Break stories, I
decided to take
a trip down
Spring Break
memory lane.
I keep nearly
every e-mail
that is sent to
me, so out of
boredom, I
started looking
through past
Spring Break
trips, such as
Habitat for
Humanity, that
Syracuse
University has
offered. I came
across an e-mail
from last year
that warned
students not to
travel to Mexico
because of the
possible risks.
I haven’t heard
much news about
Mexico lately,
so I probed the
current
situation.
Read more
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Mexico's tourism revenue continues to fall
March 24, 2010
Mexican tourism
revenue may decline for a second year as
violent clashes between drug gangs and a
weak U.S. job market threaten to spoil its
spring break party.
Read more
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US State Dept. issues travel warning for Mexico
March 19, 2010
Indianapolis - Recent
deadly violence in Mexico is prompting the
US State Department to issue a travel
warning. It comes as countless spring
breakers head for the fun in the sun.
Read more
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Mexico president struggles as drug war explodes across the
country
March 19, 2010
A year after he was
hailed as the saviour of the
violence-plagued city of Juarez, Mexico's
president was this week presented with a
stark message of disaffection on a return
visit.
Read more
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Mexico Tourism Suffers as Gangs Rain on Spring Break
March 18, 2010
Mexican tourism
revenue may decline for a second year as
violent clashes between drug gangs and a
weak U.S. job market threaten to spoil its
spring break party.
Read more
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Mexico Violence Factors in Spring Break Plans
March 16, 2010
Traveling to
Mexico..it's the place to be during Spring
Break, but with all of the recent violence,
travel advisors are warning vacation goers
to stick to the tourist areas. FOX's Ainsley
Earhardt takes a look at what some college
students are saying.
Read more
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State
Department Official Admits Murder of Federal Employee in Mexico
Treated Differently than Other U.S. Victims
March 16, 2010
A State Department
official said the names, ages and other
details about the two U.S. citizens gunned
down in Mexico last weekend were made public
because Lesley Enriquez worked for the U.S.
government and her husband Arthur Redelfs
was a U.S. citizen and detention officer who
worked in El Paso, Texas.
Read more
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Feds Issue Travel Warning For Mexico Visitors
March 15, 2010
A travel warning has
been issued for Mexico as thousands of local
students begin spring break.
On Monday, it appeared to be a normal travel
day into Mexico at the San Ysidro border
crossing. But the deaths of several
Americans in the past two days in Mexico
have prompted the U.S. government to warn
travelers to stay out.
Read more
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Drug wars leaves trail of bodies found in Acapulco
March 15, 2010
Decapitated bodies
were found around the beach resort town of
Acapulco, Mexico over the weekend. At least
13 people were killed in suspected drug-war
violence. The incident began just as foreign
visitors have begun to enter on Spring
Break.
Read more
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17 killed as Acapulco tourist idyll shattered by growing drug
violence
March 15, 2010
Its pearl-white
beaches and balmy waters have earned
Acapulco the title of Mexico’s Pacific
Jewel. But just as tourists began flocking
to its shores for the start of the spring
holiday season, the idyll was shattered with
the drug-related murders of 17 people.
Read more
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Spring Breakers Head for Violent Mexico
March 15, 2010
Thousands of college
kids are pouring into Mexico for Spring
Break. But the weekend was one of the
deadliest in the country's recent history,
as Americans were caught in the cross-fire
of drug violence.
Read more
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Two Americans killed in drive-by shooting in Mexico
March 14, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Three
people with ties to the American consulate
in a drug-plagued Mexican city were killed
in a drive-by shooting, a U.S. official said
Sunday.
Read more
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Two Americans Dead in Mexico Drug Shooting
March 14, 2010
Gunmen killed a U.S.
consulate employee and her husband as they
drove in this violent border city with their
baby in the back seat, minutes after the
husband of another consular employee was
shot to death and his two children wounded,
officials said Sunday. Security forces
suspected a drug gang hit, but offered no
motive.
Read more
Fifty killed over the
weekend, including three with ties to U.S.
Consulate.
Watch video
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Violent attacks blight Mexico's Acapulco resort
March 14, 2010
Thirteen people have
been killed in an outbreak of drug-related
violence in the southern Mexican beach
resort of Acapulco. Five of the dead
were police officers whose patrol was
machine gunned. Acapulco is one of Mexico's
biggest tourist resorts, but in recent years
it has been the scene of bloody turf wars
between rival drug cartels.
Read more
ACAPULCO,
Mexico -- At
least 13
people have
been killed
in a Mexican
Pacific
coast state
plagued by
drug gang
violence.
Guerrero
state police
say the dead
include two
decapitated
men whose
bodies were
left on a
scenic road
packed with
nightclubs
in the
resort city
of Acapulco.
A Charlotte couple is
home from vacation with a warning for anyone
headed to Mexico for spring break.
Read more
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Toronto Couple Survives Violent Attack In Mexico
March 11, 2010
Just when it seemed
Mexico was enjoying a break from a string of
bad press, a Toronto couple just back from
the popular tourist destination is telling a
frightening story of being mugged there in a
violent attack.
Read more
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Calgarian shot while vacationing in Mexico
March 5, 2010
Another Canadian has
been shot while
vacationing in
Mexico. For
the past six years,
Sharon and Yves Guay
of Calgary have
vacationed in an RV
park in the popular
resort area of
Mazatlan.
A few years ago,
thousands of American college students
packed the streets outside Playas de
Rosarito's hottest beach bars during spring
break. Cavernous clubs offered concerts,
bikini contests and all-night drinking.
Read more
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DPS warning: Mexico a spring break no-go for students
March 4, 2010
The Texas Department
of Public Safety warns students to stay out
of Mexico this spring break, especially
border towns. The warning is driven by the
increase in violence caused by dueling
Mexican drug cartels as they vying for
control of narcotics trafficking routes.
Read more
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New travel alert issued for Mexico just before spring break
March 4, 2010
Actually, it's really
more of an update to an alert the State
Department issued last summer and focuses on
recent violence in Mexico
Read more
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Behind the Tourism Curtain in Cancún and the Riviera Maya
March 4, 2010
It is six in the
morning. As the sun rises, a group of twenty
men sit together besides a central plaza.
Many of them have backpacks between their
feet and some have brought working tools.
They rarely speak to one another while
staring at the road, where at any minute,
they hope, a contractor will pull over and
require their labor for the day. They are
unemployed albaniles, or construction
workers, and this is their only hope to get
some money for the day. Read more
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US issues travel alert for Mexico
March 4, 2010
With spring break only
days away at the University of Toledo, many
students are packing their bags for a week
at the beach in sunny Mexico; however, last
week the U.S. Department of State reissued a
Travel Alert to update security information
for U.S. citizens planning to visit the
country.
A Mexican tour
operator says she feels bad a Manitoba
couple was robbed on a group excursion and
claims her company has a safe record,
despite staff telling of similar holdups.
Read more
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US closes Mexico border consulate
February 27, 2010
The United States has
temporarily closed its consular office in
the Mexican border city of Reynosa after a
series of gun battles between drug gangs.
Read more
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Spring Break: Government rules to party by when visiting Mexico
February 24, 2010
When the U.S. State
Department issued its travel warning this
week to places in Mexico we hadn’t heard of,
we started thinking about everyone headed
down to there to enjoy Spring Break. Read more
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Gunmen kill 13 people in southern Mexican town
February 24, 2010
The U.S. government
warned its citizens Wednesday against
traveling to a northern Mexico border state
where shootouts killed 19 people the
previous three days. The alert came a day
after assailants stormed a rural town in
southern Mexico and killed 13 people.
Read more
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U.S. issues travel warnings for more “hot spots” in Mexico
February 23, 2010
First it was the
college party cities where cheap tequila
fueled young women to star in Girls Gone
Wild videos.
Read more
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Recent violence in Mexico prompts extension of travel advisory
February 23, 2010
The U.S. State
Department has extended its travel warnings
to certain parts of Mexico until August. Read more
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U.S. warns about travel to two more Mexican states
February 23, 2010
The U.S. State
Department issued an updated travel alert
for Mexico on Monday, adding Durango and
Coahuila to a list of states with areas it
urged U.S. citizens to avoid visiting due to
rising violence.
Read more
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As Mexico's Drug Wars Worsen, Former President Suggests
Legalizing Drugs
February 22, 2010
Anyone who doesn't
think the drug war in Mexico is a real war
should reflect upon the body count, and how
it compares to the war in Iraq.
Read more
Some 30,000 residents
of nearby Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have
settled in El Paso in recent years because
of the drug trafficking violence that is
blamed for more than 4,000 deaths in the
Mexican city in a little more than two
years.
Read more
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Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
February 19, 2010
Mexican drug
trafficking organizations make billions each
year trafficking illegal drugs into the
United States, profiting enormously from the
prohibitionist drug policies of the US
government. Since Mexican president Felipe
Calderon took office in December 2006 and
called the armed forces into the fight
against the so-called cartels,
prohibition-related violence has killed over
16,000 people, with a death toll of nearly
8,000 in 2009 and over 1,000 so far in 2010. Read more
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Mexico vacation ends badly for Calgary couple
February 18, 2010
A Calgary couple who
claim to have thwarted a sexual assault by a
Mexican hotel worker while they were on
vacation are seeking compensation from the
Holiday Inn hotel chain.
Read more
Where there is the
legalization of illegal drugs, that area has
a influx of tourists and then it quickly
becomes a war zone.
Read more
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VIDEO/PHOTOS Drugs, death and destruction: FGCU student
experiences Mexico’s war on drugs firsthand
February 16, 2010
Editor’s note: Most
college kids go to Mexico on winter break to
sit on the beach and party. Alex Pena went
south of the border to document one of the
biggest blood baths in the country’s histor Read more
Americans traveling
outside of the country has always held some
sort of inert danger, but in recent years it
has become more apparent that no one is safe
when on vacation, and justice is usually
never likely when something bad happens.
Read more
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Mexico sees 15 percent drop in tourism income
February 16, 2010
Mexico's revenue from
foreign tourism dropped 15 percent in 2009
amid the global economic downturn and the
swine flu epidemic.
Read more
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Mexico arrests two suspected Tijuana drug gang leaders
February 9, 2010
Mexican police and
troops have arrested two men suspected of
heading a drug gang operating in the city of
Tijuana, on the border with the US.
Read more
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Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming 'narco-state'
February 7, 2010
For months, the
leaders of Tancitaro had held firm against
the drug lords battling for control of this
central Mexican town.
Read more
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Telephoned abduction claims bedeviling Mexico
February 7, 2010
A cottage industry has
exploded alongside the skyrocketing
kidnapping rate: telephoned shakedowns that
play on fears, in which the perpetrators
scamming for pesos make random, scattershot
calls.
Read more
MEXICO CITY – Five
Mexican federal police officers were killed
and seven more were wounded in an ambush by
an armed group in the southwestern state of
Michoacan, officials said. Read more
Not too long ago,
Dyviam Romay and David Luna were busy
selling fine furnishings to second-home
buying foreigners who were snatching up
properties in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Read more
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For Mexico's journalists, story assignment can be a date with
death
February 4, 2010
In most places, when
16 people are gunned down, the local media
reports the incident without missing a beat.
Read more
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Mexico massacre response fails to convince
February 4, 2010
Officials' suggestions
that youths slain at Ciudad Juarez teen
party had drug ties anger relatives. Read more
CANCUN, Mexico –
Police arrested four Venezuelans who
allegedly cloned credit cards in the Riviera
Maya, a resort area on Mexico’s Caribbean
coast, officials said.
Read more
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Mexico kidnapping attempt leaves 8 dead
February 3, 2010
A Mexico federal
police officer and seven gunmen are killed
after a kidnapping at a mall in Torreon. The
two kidnapping victims are freed. Officials
blame the Zetas drug gang.
Read more
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Nation/world news briefs: 16 students are dead after party in
Mexico
February 2, 2010
The mayor of this
violence-stricken Mexican border city said
Monday that he fears a shooting that killed
students at a party may have been random
because the victims were "good kids" with no
apparent ties to drug gangs.
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Gunmen in Mexico Kill 16 in Attack on a Teenagers’ Party
February 1, 2010
More than a dozen
gunmen sealed off a street in the violent
border city of Ciudad Juárez and opened fire
on a house where high school students were
having a party, killing 16 people, officials
said Monday.
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Lead investigator in the killing of Bobby Salcedo is slain in
Mexico
January 31, 2010
Reporting from Los
Angeles and Mexico City - The lead
investigator in the slaying in Mexico of El
Monte educator Augustin Roberto "Bobby"
Salcedo has been killed in an ambush,
officials said Saturday.
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Police Chief Killed in Western Mexico Town
January 28, 2010
MORELIA, Mexico (AP)
-- Gunmen killed a police chief and two
officers Thursday in the same western town
where a human head was dumped a day earlier.
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Gulf drug cartel member convicted of violent kidnapping of U.S.
citizens and killing in Mexico
January 25, 2010
A violent kidnapping
scheme involving what could be North
America’s largest crime syndicate and Texas
drug dealers resulted in a conviction in a
federal jury trial on January 22, 2010. Read more
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Kidnapping expert's family remains in limbo
January 25, 2010
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's
gangland havoc exacts immediate death or
desolation from many of its victims, but the
bell tolls more slowly for those even less
fortunate.
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Mexico is World Leader in Gruesome Violent Killings in 08
January 25, 2010
During 2008 Mexico’s
violent deaths broke historic records
raising the death toll to 5,630 execution
murders, beating out last years all time
record.
Read more
MEXICO CITY – A record
69 people were murdered across Mexico on
Saturday, making it the deadliest day since
President Felipe Calderon took office just
over three years ago, the El Universal
newspaper reported.
Read more
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Canadian couple shot and wounded in robbery attempt at Mexican
resort town
January 20, 2010
ACAPULCO, Mexico - A
Canadian couple has been shot and wounded in
a robbery attempt at a Mexican Pacific
resort town, police said Wednesday.
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Canadian couple shot, wounded in Mexico
January 20, 2010
A Quebec couple is
recovering in hospital after being shot at a
Mexican resort after what police say was an
attempted robbery. Read more
Mexican
authorities are still investigating the
death of Danish woman Pia Hesselberg
following her fall from a hotel balcony.Read more
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Severed head left in front of Mexican drug lord's crypt
January 17, 2010
CULIACAN, Mexico — A
severed human head and a flower were found
in front of the tomb of deceased Mexican
drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva.
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Mexico adding troops to fight drug cartels in violence-plagued
Tijuana
January 17, 2010
TIJUANA, Mexico – The
Mexican government said Saturday that it was
sending 860 more soldiers to step up the
fight against drug cartels in Tijuana, a
border city where violence has been rising
in recent months. Read more
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Mexican violence spirals as 69 are murdered in one day
January 12, 2010
The grim total
included 26 deaths in Ciudad Juarez, the
city on the US border which is regarded as
the front line in Mexico's fight against the
cartels. Several of the victims there were
beheaded.
A note left with the
ball said: "Happy New Year, because this
will be your last."
The body of the
victim, named by police as Hugo Hernandez,
36, had been cut into seven pieces and left
in the street in the northern city of Los
Mochis, in the state of Sinaloa.
The family of a British student who was
seriously injured after falling off a hotel balcony in Mexico
have launched an urgent Facebook appeal for blood donors to help
save his life. Read more
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Wisconsin family survives carjacking, shooting in Mexico
January 5, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS -- Airports are often the
scene of emotional moments, but few could top the reunion that
took place Sunday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Read more
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Wisconsin couple survives carjacking shooting in Mexico
January 4, 2010
A couple who survived a harrowing New
Year's Eve carjacking and shooting in Mexico has returned home
to western Wisconsin. Read more
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Rare blood found for man injured in Mexico balcony fall
January 4, 2010
Emergency blood supplies are being
flown to Mexico in an attempt to save the life of a 21-year-old
man who fell seven floors from a hotel balcony.
Read more
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Couple home after violent carjacking in Mexico
January 4, 2010
Emotional moments are common at
airports, but there aren't many that could top the reunion of a
Western Wisconsin family that happened Sunday at Minneapolis-St.
Paul International Airport. Read more
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Mexico 'more violent than Afghanistan'
January 3, 2010
An investigation by Mexican journalists
has revealed that the war between the state and drug cartels has
left the Latin American country more than three times as violent
as US-occupied Afghanistan. Read more
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Drug Violence Sends Caribbean Murder Rates Soaring
January 1, 2010
Caribbean islands battling drug-fueled
crime had one of their bloodiest years on record in 2009, with
Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico hitting or coming close to
all-time highs for homicides. Read more
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Family seeks answers in child's death
December 29, 2009
The Garza
family doesn’t want to see the news.
They avoid painful reminders of a
shooting that killed 1-year-old
Elizabeth Martínez on Saturday as
she boarded a shuttle bus outside
her grandmother’s house in the
Huastecos de Lampazitos colonia.
Read more
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Local Family Stranded In Mexico After Deadly Crash
December 27, 2009
TA local family involved in a horrible
car crash in Mexico is stranded. The father was killed and
several others are in critical condition.
Read more
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Mexico weighs options as lawlessness continues to grip Ciudad
Juarez
December 27, 2009
Senior Mexican officials have begun a
sweeping review of the military's two-year occupation of this
dangerous border city, concluding that the U.S.-backed
deployment of thousands of soldiers against drug traffickers has
failed to control the violence and crime, according to officials
in both countries
Read more
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Saving Mexico
December 26, 2009
In the 40 years since U.S. President
Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the supply and use of
drugs has not changed in any fundamental way. The only
difference: a taxpayer bill of more than $1 trillion.
Read more
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Mexican drug gang massacres family of hero in revenge for boss’s
death
December 24, 2009
Mexicans have become hardened to the
brutality of the country’s drugs gangs but the latest mass
murder of an entire family has stunned the country. In a revenge
attack for the killing last week of the drug kingpin Arturo
Beltrán Leyva, gunmen killed the family of a Mexican Marine who
died in the assault.
Read more
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Journalist murdered near tourist hotspot in Mexico
December 24, 2009
A journalist from the east Mexican town
of Tulum was gunned down by two assailants on a motorcycle as he
drove his car, a local media association said Wednesday.
Read more
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Mexico The Most Dangerous Country For Americans
December 23, 2009
Mexico is overwhelmingly the most
dangerous place for non-service Americans, topping the list of
destinations with the highest "Non Natural Deaths, according to
the US Department of State: Read more
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Mexico says cartel killed marine hero's family
December 23, 2009
Family members of a fallen marine
hailed as a drug-war hero were slain by a gang allied with a top
drug lord in retaliation for the cartel leader's death, a state
official said Wednesday. Read more
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Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico
December 22, 2009
Assailants on Tuesday gunned down the
mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took
out one of
Mexico's most powerful cartel leaders — sending a
chilling message to troops battling the drug war: You go after
us, we wipe out your families.
Read more
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Bloody week in Tijuana alludes to more violence- claims
American’s life
December 21, 2009
More than 50 murders marked one of
Tijuana’s most bloody weeks of drug cartel violence that
included beheadings as well as the death of an American mother
of two who was having dinner with her husband on the Mexico-side
of the border at a new restaurant Wichos Tacos. Read more
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6 bodies found near north Mexico tourist resort
December 19, 2009
Police in the Mexican border state of
Sonora said Friday they found six decomposing bodies near a
highway leading to the Gulf of California resort of Puerto
Penasco.
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Top Mexican Drug Lord Killed in Shootout
December 18, 2009
Mexican Navy special forces killed one
of the country's top drug kingpins in a shootout in the central
city of Cuernavaca, notching an important victory in President
Felipe Calderón's three-year-old clampdown on narcotics
trafficking.
Read more
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Bombings kill 50 in Mexico
December 16, 2009
TIJUANA: Ongoing violence between
Mexico's drug cartels has killed at least 50 people in Mexico's
north in recent days, as the governor's house and a police
station came under bomb attack in central Michoacan state,
officials said.
Read more
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Headless bodies found in Tijuana, one of deadliest border cities
December 15, 2009
Baja California authorities found 4
decapitated bodies in the border city of Tijuana, Tuesday. Three
of the bodies were located inside a home and a fourth headless
corpse was found inside a vehicle.
Read more
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According to records kept by El
Universal Mexico largest newspaper they report since 2005, the
24 hours of last Monday alone was the most violent for the year
in the country, with 58 murders linked to organized crime
Read more
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Mexican army remains silent after Nuevo Progreso attack
December 8, 2009
Mexican authorities refused to release
details Monday of the deadly weekend shooting that sent hundreds
of American tourists scurrying for cover as at least two people
were gunned down. Read more
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Sask. couple caught in Mexican shootout
December 8, 2009
A Saskatchewan couple got caught up in
a hail of bullets during a trip to Mexico recently — but they
say they'll go back..
Read more
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Report: Over 7,000 killed in Mexico's drug war this year
December 8, 2009
Mexico City - An estimated 7,026 people
have died in drug- related violence so far this year in Mexico,
according to an independent tally Tuesday by the El Universal
daily.
Read more
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Fifteen killed in Mexico violence
December 7, 2009
At least
15 people have been killed in the ongoing drug-related violence
in Mexico amid protests for peace in the world's most dangerous
city of Ciudad Juarez. Read more
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Another protected witness dies in Mexico
December 2, 2009
Gunmen burst in to a Starbucks coffee
shop Tuesday and killed a former policeman who was a protected
witness in a drug corruption case, the second death of a
high-profile witness in Mexico in less than two weeks.
Read more
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Radio Station Director Murdered in Mexico's Jalisco State
December 1, 2009
The body of José Galindo Robles, the
head of Radio Universidad de Guadalajara, was discovered
at his home in Guadalajara, in the western state of Jalisco, on
24 November, after it was noticed that several days had gone by
with no word from him. His body was found wrapped in a blanket
and with the hands tied with cable.
Read more
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Six women murdered in Mexico, one
beheaded
December 1, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Five women were
murdered in northern Mexico and a woman was beheaded in the
southern beach resort of Cancun, authorities reported Monday.
Read more
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Attackers kill 2 police, couple in southern Mexico
November 22, 2009
Assailants killed two policemen and
stole weapons in an attack Sunday on a warehouse used by police
in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
Read more
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More officers killed in Cuidad Juarez
November 20, 2009
Five police officers were killed
yesterday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in a two separate incidents. Read more
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Mexico Sees Continued Drop In Tourism
November 19, 2009
Mexico remains in recovery mode this
winter, after a year that was full of challenges for the tourism
industry. NY1's Valarie D'Elia filed the following report.
Read more
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On patrol in Mexico's most dangerous city
November 16, 2009
Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is one of the
world's most dangerous cities, plagued by battles between drug
gangs. A BBC team witnessed its violence at first hand on a
police patrol, as Ian Sherwood reports..
Read more
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Shootout at Mexican Hospital
November 16, 2009
A shootout at this hospital in Mexico
claims two more lives
— victims of the country's bloody drug war.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Like on any other
Monday morning, reporter Bladimir Antuna kissed his family
goodbye and set off in his Ford SUV to work the crime beat at a
local newspaper in Durango city.
Read more
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Flu deaths increase rapidly in Mexico
November 13, 2009
In
Mexico the number of deaths caused by the flu pandemic has
increased rapidly. Last week 82 people died of the H1N1-virus,
bringing the total death toll in the country to almost 500. Read more
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Where Americans die abroad, and why: By the numbers
November 9, 2009
Of course you should beware of crime
while planning and making your next international trip. But the
numbers say that if you’re among the unlucky few to die, a car,
bus or motorcycle is more likely to kill you..
Read more
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Mexican officers accused of role in police commander's death
November 9, 2009
MEXICO CITY — State investigators have
arrested at least 20 people, most of them police officers, for
their alleged role in an ambush that killed the police chief of
a Monterrey suburb and his four bodyguards.
Read more
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Amid Rising Violence, Mexicans Fight Back
November 6, 2009
Mexico's war on drugs took a grim twist
this week, as a prominent mayor said he had created an
undercover group of operatives to "clean up" criminal elements
-- even if it had to act outside the law.
Read more
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Mexico Police Chief Murdered after 5 Days On the Job
November 6, 2009
GARCIA, Mexico - A Mexican police chief
has been murdered after being on the job for only five days.
Read more
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New Mexican police chief killed in ambush
November 6, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Retired Gen. Juan Esparza
lasted just five days in his new job as police chief of a
Monterrey suburb before he was gunned down along with four
bodyguards by suspected gangsters
Read more
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MEXICO: Crime reporter abducted and murdered
November 4, 2009
crime and security affairs reporter for
the newspaper El Tiempo de Durango, was found dead in
front of a hospital in Durango, capital of Durango State, on the
evening of 2 November 2009, after being abducted while on his
way to work earlier that day.
Read more
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Cancun police get nabbed for extorting US tourist
October 29, 2009
Traffic police in Cancun, Mexico didn’t
know what they were in for when they pulled over an American
couple, and threatened to charge the driver with speeding,
unless he paid them to stay out of jail. Turns out that his
wife, also in the car, was a Minnesota state lawmaker. Anchor
Katy Clark gets the story from State Senator Michelle Fischbach.
Read more
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US warns of possible random gun attacks on vehicles in Mexican
border city
October 28, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The U.S.
Consulate in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez
warned U.S. citizens that Mexican drug cartels were possibly
planning random shooting attacks on cars Wednesday — the same
day gunmen ambushed a top state police official. Read more
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In Cancún, Police Pick Wrong People for ‘Bite’
October 28, 2009
MEXICO CITY — “Piece of cake,” the
three police officers might have thought when they spied the
rental car with five American tourists driving down the main
drag of Cancun's hotel zone. Read more
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Murder, kidnapping and drug activities are commonplace south of
the border
October 26, 2009
While many so-called media entities
cover up the fact that ‘what happens in Mexico, stays in Mexico,
violence along the southern borders continues to escalate.
Read more
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Where is everybody? Not in Mexico
October 25, 2009
My wife and I had the cabbie drop us in
downtown Isla Mujeres so we could polish off some croissants and
a plate of chilaquiles Read more
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EL PASO, Texas – A growing number of
Mexicans who live near the border with the United States are
seeking to transfer their residence to El Paso to flee the
danger of kidnappings, extortion and executions that is part of
daily existence just across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez.
Read more
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Mexico: One
Of Most Dangerous Places For Reporters To Work
October 20, 2009
Freedom of the press in the United
States has improved under the Obama administration, but in
Europe, Israel, and in many countries around the world reporters
are having a tougher time doing their jobs.
Read more
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A Cabo unfortunate tragedy
October 19, 2009
A much needed getaway found us booking
an off season trip to Cabo where we got a smoking deal
Read more
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Can we escape Mexico's drug wars?
October 18, 2009
They were not the first Canadians to
run afoul of Colombian cocaine or Mexican guns, and it's a fair
bet they won't be the last.Read more
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Mexican Drug Hit Men Behead 10, Chop Up Bodies
October 16, 2009
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Drug hitmen
beheaded 10 rivals, chopped up their bodies and left them in
plastic bags on an isolated road in western Mexico, the latest
gruesome attack in a raging drug war, authorities said on
Friday.Read more
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9 decapitated bodies found in drug-plagued state in southern
Mexico
October 16, 2009
ACAPULCO, MEXICO — Officers found the
decapitated bodies of nine men in an abandoned pickup truck on a
highway in the drug-plagued Mexican state of Guerrero, police
said Friday. Read more
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Will Mexican violence spill over border?
October 15, 2009
JUAREZ, Mexico (KTRK) -- We take you
back to the deadliest city in the world, Juarez, Mexico. Already
this year, more than 1,900 people have been killed in drug
violence. Eyewitness News Anchor Art Rascon talked with one of
the admitted criminals and drug cartel members. Read more
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Violent Death Hitting Closer to Home
October 12, 2009
I did not know the mayor of Palomas,
Chihuahua, Mexico, although I spend a fair amount of time in
that small border town Read more
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2 dozen killed in Mexican drug violence
October 7, 2009
Nearly two dozen people have been
killed in 36 hours in drug-related deaths in a northern Mexico
city. The city of Juarez is one of the country’s
most violent areas. They were seeing 10 murders a day in earlier
months Read more
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Drug-related murders in Mexico surpass 2008 numbers
October 6, 2009
In early September, the number of
people killed by drug-related violence in Mexico surpassed
5,000, prompting us to write on this blog that "it looks like
2009 is assured to be more violent than 2008 - which ended with
5,600 narcoviolence-related murders Read more
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Mexico's Great Tourism Crash of '09
October 4, 2009
Statements made by an official with
Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) this week confirmed
the depth of his country’s tourism crisis. According to Ernesto
Rodriguez Chavez, director of the federal agency’s migration
studies center, the number of foreign visitors to Mexico
registered an 18 percent drop between the months of January and
August of this year. Read more
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Tragedy turns into triumph for Villanova’s Pitts
October 4, 2009
RADNOR — Each Friday, Andy Talley picks
one player to speak at Villanova’s pre-game team meeting
Read more
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In Mexico, a new murder mystery
October 1, 2009
Wathelet moved last May. She was found
dead in her condo last week. Read more
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H1N1-Mexico: Over 1,300 cases in two days
October 1, 2009
The Ministry of Health reported that
late Wednesday night had confirmed 32 thousand 950 cases of
influenza A (H1N1) in Mexico, of which 236 died. Read more
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Crocodile attacks urinating man
September 30, 2009
Cancun - A crocodile attacked a young
American tourist as he tried to urinate in a lagoon near the
Mexican tourist resort of Cancun, police said on Tuesday. Read more
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Vancouver man shot in Mexico after being forced to fight
September 30, 2009
A Vancouver man has been shot in Mexico
after being kidnapped and forced to fight another man, Global
News reports. Read more
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Canadian tragedies on Mexican soil
September 28, 2009
The two B.C. men gunned down in the
resort town of Puerto Vallarta on Monday are the latest in a
string of recent Canadian deaths in Mexico. Global News takes a
look at Canadians who have died there over the past several
years Read more
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Mexico’s Security – a Declining World Topic of Priority
September 28, 2009
In a true
perversion of justice and truth, many are failing to see
Mexico’s security dilemma in the Western Hemisphere. The
political antics of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and other
leftist leaders, as well as the tribulations of ousted Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya, appear to take center stage in a
theater of life and death reality with our immediate neighbors
to the south Read more
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US State Department information for visiting Mexico
September 18, 2009
Here's the US State Department's
recently updated advice for visiting Mexico. It starts with
advice on registering. Few people who visit Mexico register,
but it is something the State Department advises Read more
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Memo From Middle America
September 13, 2009
"Here is my question: If I had a life-threatening medical
condition, would it be acceptable for me to illegally enter
Mexico, for example, for free and endless treatment even though
I'm not supposed to be in their country in the first place?
Read more
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Gang killings in Mexico top 5,000 for the year
September 13, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s gangland
killings have surpassed 5,000 in the first nine months of 2009
as President Felipe Calderon’s nearly three-year crackdown on
the country’s crime syndicates fails to stem the violence.
Read more
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5 bodies found dumped in landfill near Acapulco
September 11, 2009
ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Police have found
the bodies of five men dumped in a landfill near the Mexican
resort city of Acapulco.Read more
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More carnage: Shootings at carwash,
eatery kill 10 more
September 10, 2009
Five killed at a carwash. Five in a
restaurant. Ten at a drug rehabilitation center. And a Mexican
federal agent shot outside his headquarters.
Read more
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CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – The
bullet-riddled bodies of five men have been found in the
southern Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said.
Read more
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Mexican Cartel Enforcers and Rising 'Collateral Damage'
September 7, 2009
The expression “collateral damage” is
usually used in conjunction with conventional warfare or
terrorist attacks. However, it is now being increasingly used in
reports describing attacks by drug trafficking organization (DTO)
enforcement groups in Mexico.Read more
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MEXICO CITY – The public safety
secretary of the southeastern state of Quintana Roo was among
six officials and police officers arrested in Mexico for their
alleged involvement with drug traffickers, officials said.
Read more
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Senior Mexican official killed in drug-cartel stronghold
September 7, 2009
Mexico’s effort to crack down on
rampant drug cartels suffered a blow Thursday, as the
second-highest security official in the state of Michoacan, an
epicenter of violence, was gunned down along with three others
in public in the state capital.
Read more
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Mexican legislative candidate, family killed
September 6, 2009
A legislative candidate was killed,
along with his wife and two children, bringing campaigns for
statewide offices in the southeastern state of Tabasco to a
halt, the state-run news agency Notimex reported..Read more
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Gunmen kill 18 at Mexico rehab center
September 4, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Investigators hunted for
suspects Thursday following the execution of 18 youths at a drug
rehab center in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, one of the
most brazen episodes yet in Mexico's drug cartel wars.Read more
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Pot farms run by 'bad guys' getting closer to tourist spots
September 3, 2009
Drug traffickers are planting millions
of marijuana plants on U.S. public lands ever closer to tourist
sites, guarding their plots with heavy weaponry, federal
authorities say.Read more
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Mexican drug cartels could pose a risk to the Chicago adventure
traveler in Wisconsin
September 3, 2009
Mexican drug cartels could pose a
threat to the American adventure travelers even in Wisconsin.
The danger posed by out of control Mexican drug cartels in
Mexico is widely reported and there is a fear that their
violence is spilling over the border into the United States.
Read more
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Security chief arrested in Mexico
September 3, 2009
Mexican authorities have arrested the
secretary for public security of an eastern state on suspicion
of co-operating with drug gangs.Read more
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Gun attack kills eight in Mexico
August 30, 2009
Eight people died when gunmen opened
fire on a crowd partying in a Mexican coastal town, police say.
Read more
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Second investigator on murder case killed in Mexico
August 30, 2009
For the second time in less than a
month, the lead federal investigator in the case of a journalist
murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has been shot and killed in
the streets of that city, according to news accounts.Read more
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Marijuana found in another national park
August 29, 2009
The Drug Enforcement Administration
Friday announced that it found 14,500 marijuana plants growing
in a Colorado national park, the latest in a series of such
finds in national parks that authorities say are linked to
Mexican drug cartels
Read more
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Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, the world’s most violent city?
August 28, 2009
Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town on the U.S. border where daylight
murders and beheaded bodies have become the norm, could be the
world’s most violent city.
Read more
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Mexico now has one of the world's most
liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for
small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and
methamphetamine. Read more
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Four men were found beheaded Monday in
the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the cradle of Mexico’s
illegal drug trade, authorities told Efe.
Read more
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Four human heads found in cooler in Mexico
August 25, 2009
Four human heads showed up in a cooler
in northwest Mexico, local justice officials in the notorious
drug state of Sinaloa said on Monday.
Read more
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Mexico travel alert from U.S. State Department
August 20, 2009
Citing rising violence, the U.S. State
Department’s latest Mexico alert urges travelers to delay trips
to parts of Michoacan and Chihuahua states.Read more
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CANCUN, Mexico – The bodies of four
people who were tortured and killed were found inside a vehicle
on Mexico’s Caribbean island of Cozumel, Quintana Roo state
Attorney General Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo said.
Read more
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More Americans among shooting victims in Mexico
August 20, 2009
As many as six more Americans killed in
Juarez. Two men from El Paso were among the victims of a
multiple shooting inside a Juarez bar. Mexican newspapers
reported that the shooting and murders were apparently
retaliation to the on going war among Mexican Drug Cartels.
Read more
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33 die in drug violence in Mexico border state
August 19, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ: A wave of drug-related
killings claimed the lives of 33 people in Mexico's
violence-torn northern border states, authorities said Monday.
Read more
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Gang kills 8 in bar, 17 others die in Mexico attacks
August 18, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ: An armed gang killed
eight people in a bar and 17 others died in suspected drug
attacks in northern Mexico in the past 24 hours, authorities
said Monday. Read more
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Drug Violence Hits Mexican Resort Of Cozumel
August 18, 2009
ISLA MUJERES, Mexico (Reuters) -
Suspected drug hitmen killed four men on the Mexican resort of
Cozumel, the first such attack on the vacation spot that
welcomes dozens of cruise ships from abroad every year.Read more
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Mexican police arrest kidnappers of Danish tourist
August 15, 2009
Prosecutors in the
Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have detained three
people suspected in the July kidnapping of a Danish tourist who
was later freed.Read more
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MEXICO CITY – A half-million fewer U.S.
tourists traveled to Mexico in the first half of this year
compared with the same period in 2008, the National Tourism
Confederation, or CNT, said. Read more
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Drug gang violence intensifies in Mexico
August 7, 2009
Drug violence intensified in Mexico as
police found the bullet-riddled body of a former Mexican state
prosecutor on a street in the Gulf coast city of Boca del Rio.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – The suspected leader of
the Gulf drug cartel in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana
Roo has been arrested, officials said.Read more
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Mexico shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was stolen
July 30, 2009
MEXICO CITY
— Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach
paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on
Thursday. Read more
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VERACRUZ, Mexico – A high-ranking
officer of the municipal police was slain on Wednesday along
with his family, the Veracruz state Attorney General’s Office
said.Read more
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Gunmen kill Mexican policeman, family in home
July 29, 2009
VERACRUZ, Mexico
— Gunmen shot up and torched the home of a Mexican police
commander Wednesday, killing the officer, his wife and his four
children, including a 6-year-old boy. Read more
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U.S. Border Patrol Agent killed
July 27, 2009
On Thursday, July 23, 2009, Border
Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, was killed in cold blood by Mexican
drug or human traffickers. Agent Rosas was a husband and
father of a 2 year old son and 11 month old daughter
Read more
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4 Suspects Detained in Mexico in Agent's Killing
July 25, 2009
Mexican federal police say they have
detained four men suspected of involvement in the killing of
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas.Read more
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4 cops killed in Tequila
July 24, 2009
FOUR policemen and a civilian were
killed on Thursday by armed commandos in a restaurant in the
western Mexican city of Tequila, local authorities said.
Read more
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Mexican police officers arrested over murder of federal agentso
July 19, 2009
Prosecutors in the western state of
Michoacán said the municipal policemen had been detained to
"determine their responsibility" for the murders and for
allegedly carried out "criminal acts" on behalf of a ruthless
drug gang called La Familia Michoacana.Read more
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ALTO! Traveling to Mexico has its risks
July 18, 2009
Driving or walking into Mexico at the
San Ysidro Port of Entry in Southern California was a great
diversion when I was growing up San Diego, just 16 miles from
the border. My parents had relatives in Tijuana and we made
several visits a year. I remember trading with my cousins
pennies for Mexican money that had little value. It was all in
fun but when my father passed away in 1966 my mother lost
interest in going to Tijuana except for some medical needs. Read more
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Gunmen kill 5 at bar in Mexico tourist zone
July 18, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Gunmen killed
five bar patrons in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, across the
border from El
Paso, Texas, Mexican officials said Friday.Read more
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Bungling of Ianiero murder case tied to Mexican tourist trade:
lawyer
July 17, 2009
Fear of jeopardizing Mexico's tourist
trade might have been behind the refusal of authorities and a
hotel there to consider a homegrown suspect in the 2006 killings
of a Canadian couple vacationing in Cancun, their family's
lawyer said Friday.Read more
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Alarming Escalation of Violence in Mexico
July 16, 2009
30 people died over just a 48-hour
period this week in Mexico. The victims included 12 police
officers whose bodies were discarded along a road and found on
Tuesday in Michoacan. The bodies of 11 men and one female, who
had been investigating drug related crimes in the area, were
identified yesterday as police. Police spokesman Monte Alejandro
Rubido said the bodies were piled on top of each other and
displayed signs of torture.Read more
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Thunder Bay women cleared in Mexico slaying of Woodbridge couple
July 16, 2009
Thunder Bay women Kimberly Kim and
Cheryl Everall are no longer considered suspects by Mexican
authorities in the slayings of a Woodbridge couple.Read more
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12 slain in Mexico were federal police officers
July 15, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- Marking a
gruesome new setback in the war on drug gangs, Mexican
authorities said Tuesday that 12 people found tortured and
fatally shot in the western state of Michoacan a night earlier
were federal police officers.Read more
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Bodies of 12 Mexican military intelligence officers found in
Mexico
July 14, 2009
Police in western Mexico have found the
bodies of 12 people they believe are victims of the ongoing
drug-related violence in the country. A warning to our viewers:
please be aware this video is graphic and you could find it very
disturbing.Read more
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Drug-Related Violence Leaves 30 People and a Mayor Dead in
Mexico
July 14, 2009
A Mayor of a town in Northern Mexico
along with 30 other civilians and police officers were killed
Tuesday in a violent encounter between the police and an armed
gang believed to be members of the powerful 'La Familia Drug
Cartel' operating in Mexico. Read more
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Troops patrol Ciudad Juarez, where
1,600 people were slain in 2008. The police chief quit in
February after receiving threats and the same month, the
governor survived an ambush.
Read more
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Redwood City woman killed in Mexico
July 13, 2009
PALO ALTO,
CA (KGO) -- The death of a Redwood City woman, found
strangled inside her rental car in Mexico City, is raising new
concerns about how safe Americans are in Mexico. Police have
told the woman's family her credit cards and cash were taken.
Read more
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Grandville woman's family killed in Mexico
July 13, 2009
Grandville (WZZM) -- Mexican police
this weekend have dealt with several bold attacks. Gunmen threw
grenades and opened fire on federal offices where a member of a
drug cartel was being held. This is just the latest violence
that left several people dead. One of those killed, in the town
of Colonia LeBaron, is a man who has family here in West
Michigan. Read more
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Mexico Posts Are Blitzed After Arrest in Drug War
July 12, 2009
MEXICO CITY — It took six months of
intelligence work for the police to corner a man suspected of
being one of western Mexico’s top drug bosses. But retaliation
came swiftly, as his lieutenants struck repeatedly in the two
days after his arrest. Read more
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Gunmen targeting cops claim their third victim
July 8, 2009
TIJUANA: A police officer was fatally
shot yesterday morning outside the Red Cross Hospital, the third
officer killed since Monday night in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.Read more
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MEXICO CITY — A top member of a
breakaway Mormon sect was dragged from his home by marauders and
killed early Tuesday in a village founded and named for the
American families that settled the remote community in the
northern Mexican desert. Read more
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Police Chief and 91 Officers Detained in Mexico
June 26, 2009
A police chief and 91 officers were
detained Thursday in a sweep on a city in central Mexico. The
authorities are suspected of sheltering the Zetas, one of the
country’s most violent drug gangs.
Read more
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Crime Threatens Democracy, Mexico’s President Warns
June 24, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Felipe
Calderón said Wednesday that the future of democracy in Mexico
was at stake in the government’s fight against official
corruption and organized crime. He also criticized politicians
whom he accused of wanting to return to the era when drug gangs
were tolerated.
Read more
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Traffic increases along 'Cocaine
Coast'
June 23, 2009
f you know what's good for you,
fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, stay away from certain places
after sunset on the beaches of Mexico's southern coast.
Read more
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Drug cartels in Mexico killing street dealers
June 21, 2009
TIJUANA, Mexico --
Drug dealer Hector Rodriguez Estrada had a
feeling he was next.
His boss was beaten to
death and dumped in an empty lot, his teeth
and fingers missing. Then one of Rodriguez's
underlings turned up in a soccer field, his
head next to his body.
'Cocaine Coast' emerges along Mexico's Pacific side
June 20, 2009
SALINA CRUZ, Mexico - If you know
what's good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, you stay
away from certain places after the sun sets on the beaches of
Mexico's southern coast. Read more
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Three dead at Mexico beach resort
June 19, 2009
Police found the bodies of three men
who had suffocated to death, their mouths taped and heads
wrapped in plastic bags, in the Mexican holiday resort of
Cancun, a local official said yesterday.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – The Gulf cartel’s leader
in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun and three other drug
traffickers were captured by army troops, the Mexican Defense
Secretariat said .Read more
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MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen tossed a
grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a
patient inside who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting in
a drug cartel-plagued Mexican state Friday. Paramedics ran for
their lives during the attack.
Read more
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More than a tonne of cocaine has been
found hidden inside frozen sharks on a container ship in Mexico.
Read more
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Mexican priest killed in ambush
June 16, 2009
A priest and two seminary students were
shot dead after being ordered out of their car by gunmen in
south-western Mexico, authorities have said
Read more
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Mexico drug gang 'boss' arrested
June 16, 2009
Mexican officials say they have
arrested a drug cartel leader in Cancun who is believed to be
behind the murder of a retired general last February.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – Seven mayors and 20
law-enforcement personnel and public officials in the western
Mexican state of Michoacan have been sent to federal prison to
await trial on drug charges, the federal AG’s office said.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – At least 10 people have
been murdered so far this weekend in separate incidents in
Mexico, with four killings reported in the Pacific tourist
resort of Acapulco and six others in the border city of Juarez,
state officials said.
Read more
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Drug war intrudes on Mexico's coastal resorts
June 10, 2009
The arrest of a top drug cartel chief
in Cancún comes a week after a deadly shootout killed 16 alleged
cartel members and two soldiers in Acapulco.
Read more
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Mexico: Acapulco gunfight is another setback for that country’s
struggling tourism industry
June 10, 2009
Another major setback for Mexico
tourism: A shootout on Saturday night in the resort town of
Acapulco has claimed the lives of 16 gunmen and two soldiers.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – A man being transferred
from one hospital to another for treatment from wounds suffered
in a gun battle was killed early Friday when assailants launched
a grenade at an ambulance in the western Mexican city of
Uruapan, authorities said.
Read more
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Mexican state bans cops from carrying cell phones
June 10, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) — First local police
in Monterrey lost their assault rifles after an armed
confrontation with federal agents while protesting the arrest of
cops for alleged gang ties. Now officers in Mexico's
third-largest city will be stripped of cell phones
Read more
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Acapulco gunfight raises new questions about safety of travel to
Mexico
June 8, 2009
First there were the kidnappings. Then
came the swine flu. Now a deadly gunfight in the seaside resort
of Acapulco is raising new concerns about the safety of
travelers in Mexico.
Read more
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Cliff divers, all-night discos,
towering hotels on the sand — that is one side of Acapulco. But
a four-hour gun battle over the weekend between soldiers and
suspected drug traffickers made clear that the popular beach
resort has a dark side and that no part of Mexico may be
completely immune from the continuing drug war
Read more
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Acapulco Gun Battle Leaves 18 Dead
June 8, 2009
Suspected drug traffickers trapped in a
safe house fought a furious gun battle with Mexican soldiers
early Sunday in the beach resort city of Acapulco. As terrified
residents and tourists cowered in their rooms, the firefight
raged for two hours, leaving 16 gunmen dead. Two soldiers were
also killed and several bystanders were wounded.
Read more
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Acapulco shootout leaves 18 dead
June 8, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- As if
Mexican tourism needed more bad news, a weekend shootout left 18
gunmen and soldiers dead in Acapulco, the iconic if faded beach
resort that has been working on a comeback in recent years.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – A shootout between
federal police and a group of suspected criminals left one dead
and six under arrest in Tijuana, a northern Mexican city on the
U.S. border, the federal Public Safety Secretariat, or SSP, said
Saturday.
Read more
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Sixteen gunmen, two soldiers killed in Acapulco clashes
June 7, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Sixteen gunmen and
two soldiers were killed during a confrontation early Sunday at
the popular Mexican resort town of Acapulco, the National
Defense Secretariat said. Read more
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Police found the body of a decapitated woman on a street in the
Mexican resort city of Acapulco on Friday, authorities said.Read more
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11 bodies found inside abandoned car in Mexico
June 5, 2009
Mexican police found 11 bodies - most
with their hands and feet cut off - inside an abandoned car in
the border state of Sonora Thursday in violence attributed to
drug traffickers battling for control of the region.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – The mayor of the town of
Ocampo and three other people were gunned down in the northern
Mexican state of Durango, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney
General’s Office told Efe on Tuesday.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Passenger
traffic at Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del
Sureste (ASR), or Asur, fell 51% in May from the same month a
year ago when an outbreak of influenza kept tourists away.
Read more
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25 Mexican Police Officers Are Accused of Links to Drug
Traffickers
June 1, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 25 police
officers were detained in northern Mexico on Monday, accused of
having ties to drug traffickers, the authorities said.
Read more
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New ID Rules Begin June 1 For Mexico, Canada Trips
May 30, 2009
New rules requiring passports or new
high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and
southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the
tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.
Read more
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Mexican mayors' arrests show nobody above drug war
May 28, 2009
Severed heads tossed in front of a car
dealership. Bodies hurled off a bridge. Extortion threats
against shop owners. It was no secret that this town popular
with tourists for its monarch butterfly nesting grounds was in
the grip of Mexico's drug trade.
Read more
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CANCUN, Mexico – Five bodies were found inside a charred SUV
left abandoned in a rural area of the southeastern Mexican state
of Quintana Roo, authorities said on Monday. Read more
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican army soldiers arrested a suspected
leader of the Gulf drug cartel in the Caribbean resort city of
Cancun, the Defense Secretariat, or Sedena, said on Saturday. Read more
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Global swine flu deaths top 100
May 27, 2009
CHICAGO (AFP) — The global swine flu death toll marched past
100 on Wednesday with one new fatality reported in the United
States and four more in Mexico, the two countries where the
first outbreaks were reported.
Read more
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Third Mexico Electoral Candidate Shot
At In Three Days -Police
May 27, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AFP)--An armed gang on Monday shot and injured
an electoral candidate in the third such attack in southwest
Mexico since the weekend, in the run-up to July elections,
police said.
Read more
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CANCUN, MEXICO – The swine-flu epidemic in Mexico has led to
the temporary closure of 16 hotels and an 85 percent drop in
tourist arrivals in Cancun, the Riviera Maya and Cozumel, the
country’s main tourist destinations, officials said.
Read more
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7 Police Officers Shot and Killed Within 45 minutes in Tijuana,
Mexico
May 27, 2009
City of Tijuana. On April 29th 2009, 7 police officers were
ambushed in coordinated attacks by suspects using automatic
weapons. A surveillance camera caught on tape the killing of 4
of the officers as they shot and killed in front of a
convenience store.
Read more
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Mother investigates son’s murder
May 25, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Isabel Miranda Wallace keeps her son’s home
exactly as it was on the night he disappeared, in the faint hope
that one day the Pittsburgh Steelers fan and motorcycle
enthusiast will come bounding in again
Read more
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Mexico captures drugs hit gang suspects allegedly led by police
May 19, 2009
Police in southern Mexico have arrested
at least six members of a suspected drugs cartel hit gang,
including two women, who were allegedly commanded by senior
police officers. Read more
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St. Louis County man is Missouri's first swine flu fatality
May 19, 2009
A 44-year-old St. Louis County man is
the first person in Missouri to die after becoming ill with
swine flu.
Read more
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Mystery Surrounds Slayings of Four Americans in Mexico
May 19, 2009
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Four
young Americans murdered in Mexico, tied up, beaten, strangled
and stabbed. What were the Americans doing south of the border,
and why were they murdered? Joining us live is Elliot Spagat,
San Diego correspondent for the Associated Press. Elliot, I know
the FBI has now gotten into this investigation, but what can you
tell me about the murder of these four?Read more
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15-year-old Coronado HS student killed in Juarez
May 18, 2009
EL PASO, Texas -- Friends, family and
loved ones of a Coronado High School student are mourning after
the teen was shot by an apparent stray bullet in Juarez
Read more
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Police find 3 severed heads in southern Mexico
May 18, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police have found
the severed heads of three men in a cooler left on the side of a
highway in southern Mexico. Their bodies were found in a taxi
about a mile (2 kilometers) away.
Read more
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Guards held over Mexico jailbreak
May 18, 2009
Mexican authorities have detained a
prison governor and some 40 guards after an armed gang managed
to free 53 inmates from a jail in central Mexico.
Read more
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Slayings Of 4 Americans In Mexico Spark Fear
May 15, 2009
The slayings of four young Americans in
Tijuana sowed fear in Southern California on Friday as Mexican
prosecutors tried to determine whether the youths were involved
in the country's violent drug trade or innocent victims of a
brutal crime.
Read more
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Four who went to party in Tijuana found dead
May 13, 2009
TIJUANA – Authorities are investigating
the slayings of four young people, at least three of them from
Chula Vista, whose bodies were found early Saturday inside a van
parked in a residential neighborhood of Tijuana.
Read more
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Big trouble on Tijuana's main drag: Few Americans
May 9, 2009
TIJUANA – Avenida Revolución is nearly
a ghost town now, with the global economic crisis and drug
cartel violence slamming the Mexican tourism industry. With the
swine flu scare, even more tourists are staying away.
Read more
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Big trouble on Tijuana's main drag: Few Americans
May 9, 2009
TIJUANA – Avenida Revolución is nearly
a ghost town now, with the global economic crisis and drug
cartel violence slamming the Mexican tourism industry. With the
swine flu scare, even more tourists are staying away.
Read more
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Tourists leave Mexican resort city amid swine flu fears
May 4, 2009
Cancun (Mexico), May 4 (EFE) Hundreds
of tourists have left the Mexican resort city of Cancun after
the government announced a swine flu alert in the country.
Hotels and resorts in the city have closed their operations
following the alert.
Read more
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Two more swine flu cases confirmed in Toronto
May 3, 2009
Two more cases of H1N1 flu virus have
been confirmed in Toronto, bringing the total number of cases in
Ontario to 16.
Read more
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Beach blues: Acapulco residents stone tourist cars, Cancun
pleads for visitors amid swine flu
May 1, 2009
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Acapulco’s mayor is
telling tourists from Mexico City to go home, and residents are
stoning their cars. Cancun’s hotels are pleading for visitors to
fill their empty rooms. The swine flu outbreak is remaking
tourism in strange ways in a country heavily dependent on it. Read more
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Mexico visitors head for home as flu fears spread
April 30, 2009
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tourists and
foreign students hurried to leave Mexico on Wednesday because of
fears of swine flu and worries that flights would be cancelled
after news the virus claimed its first fatality outside Mexico. Read more
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Mexico City: Mexican President Felipe
Calderon told his people to stay home from Friday for a five-day
partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health
Organisation (WHO) said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.
Read more
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Pals stuck in Mexico in swine flu alert
April 30, 2009
A group of young
men stranded in
Mexico spoke
today of their
desperation to
return home as
fears of the
deadly swine flu
virus grew. Read more
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With swine flu worries, travelers avoiding Mexico
April 30, 2009
Worried
about the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, vacationing Rhode
Islanders are heading to the Bahamas or elsewhere, travel agents
said Wednesday. Read more
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Reporting from Tijuana -- Heavily armed
gunmen staged a series of surprise attacks against municipal
police forces in this tense border city, killing seven and
wounding three in brazen assaults that shattered a four-month
period of relative calm.
Read more
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Tour operators cancel flights to Mexico
April 29, 2009
British holiday companies suspended
their operations to Mexico today following the outbreak of the
deadly swine flu virus.
Read more
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Mexico tourism braces for swine flu slowdown
April 28, 2009
Mexico City -
Europeans today were told to avoid travel to Mexico
unless essential. The biggest tour operators in Germany and
Japan canceled all trips to Mexico.
Read more
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Quad City groups cancelling trips to Mexico
April 28, 2009
The outbreak of swine flu moved to a
new level Tuesday. Here in the US the CDC reported two dozen new
cases and hundreds more are suspected that makes 65 confirmed
cases in this country in six states. But for the first time some
of those patients are ending up in the hospital, three in
California and two in Texas. The most serious swine flu outbreak
continues to be in Mexico where more than 150 people have died.
That has some travelers here in the Quad Cities cancelling
trips. Read more
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Deadly Mexico flu outbreak scares away tourists
April 28, 2009
* Foreign tourists scrap Mexico plans
on flu scare
* Blow to tourism bodes poorly for Mexican economy
* Some backpackers shrug off warnings, keep traveling (Adds
quote, details, previous Mexico City) Read more
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MONTERREY, MEXICO – The police chief of
the northern Mexican city of Piedras Negras was killed on
Saturday by assailants who fired at him with high-caliber
weapons as he was leaving his home, the state prosecutor’s
office of the border state of Coahuila said.
Read more
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U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu
April 26, 2009
Responding to what some health
officials feared could be the leading edge of a global pandemic
emerging from Mexico, American health officials declared a
public health emergency on Sunday as 20 cases of swine flu were
confirmed in this country, including eight in New York City.
Read more
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Mexican Tourism, Already Hurt by Violence, Bears Blow of a
Health Scare
April 26, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s tourism industry
was in crisis even before the government announced the presence
of a deadly influenza virus a few days ago and began handing out
surgical masks by the millions and shuttering virtually all
public gathering spots in the capital.
Read more
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Bibich dies in fishing accident
April 24, 2009
KINGMAN - A Mohave County planning and
zoning commissioner reportedly died Wednesday during a fishing
accident in Mexico.
Read more
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Our View: Visiting Mexico brings some risk
April 23, 2009
With the 62nd Newport to Ensenada
International Yacht race beginning Friday, the Editorial Board
of the Orange County Register (the Appeal-Democrat's sibling
newspaper) met with the Mexican consul and Mexican tourism
officials to discuss growing safety concerns that Americans have
given the ongoing and particularly brutal war that's taking
place south of the border Read more
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Canadians told to be on alert for Mexico illness
April 23, 2009
A mysterious and "severe" respiratory
illness has surfaced in parts of Mexico and may be affecting
some Canadians who recently vacationed there.
Read more
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Victims of Conquest 'vacation disaster' glad to be back in
Calgary
April 20, 2009
More customers of the now-collapsed
Conquest Vacations landed in Calgary Sunday night, upset over a
"vacation disaster" in Mexico.
Read more
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State
Department Offers No Specifics on How Justice Has Been Pursued
for 134 Americans Murdered in Mexico
April 20, 2009
The State Department says the safety of
Americans traveling abroad is its “highest priority,” but at the
same time the department is not offering any specifics of how
justice has been pursued in the cases of 134 Americans
who were murdered in Mexico over the past three years.
Read more
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Resorts tell Conquest travelers to pay up
April 17, 2009
Hotels in Mexico are demanding payment
from Canadians caught by Conquest Vacations' sudden demise,
leaving travelers worried and irate.
Read more
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Conquest Vacations Causing Problems for Travelers
April 16, 2009
Canadians suggest hotels that worked
with Conquest Vacations have been demanding that customers pay
for their room and board. Read more
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Mexico tourism down due to violence
April 15, 2009
Colonia Polanco is a beautiful
neighborhood filled with delicious restaurants and hip shops. It
is cosmopolitan and it is progressive, but there is a much
darker side to the city that involves drug violence. As a result
the city has earned a new nickname, "The Kidnapping Capital of
the World." Read more
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Tourists in Mexico urged to use
caution
April 12, 2009
How safe are
resorts in
Mexican tourist
areas? In
the past three
months, both
Acapulco and
Cancun have had
sporadic
violence and
drug-related
homicides.
However, as in
many large
American cities,
the violence is
between gangs
and law
enforcement and
is not in
tourist areas.
Tourists have
not been
targeted. Read more
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Is It Safe to Go to Mexico?
April 10, 2009
Tourism has suffered as drug-related
violence across the border has surged. But canceling a vacation
to Los Cabos or the Mayan Riviera may not be necessary.
Read more
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Just a few years ago during spring
break, there would be thousands of college students from the US
packing the beach bars at Playas de Rosarito. The massive clubs
featured all-night drinking, bikini contests and concerts. Read more
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15 People Killed in Four Car Accidents in Mexico
April 7, 2009
A total of 15 people were killed and 36
more injured on Monday in four separate traffic accidents in
Mexico, media reported.
Read more
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Students urged to travel with caution in Mexico
April 3, 2009
The current situation with Mexico’s
drug wars has caused the United States to put Mexico on its list
of travel alerts, and is now causing many universities to put
their own travel warnings to prevent many college students from
going to Mexico on spring break.
Read more
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US tourist dies after adventure sports in Mexico
April 2, 2009
A US tourist from California died from
a heart attack after taking part in adventure sports in the
Costa Azul canyon in northwest Mexico, local officials said.
Read more
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Nine killed in Mexico crime wave
March 31, 2009
Nine people were killed in Mexico's
drug-fuelled crime wave, including four police officers who were
gunned down in a shootout with kidnappers in eastern Michoacan
state, local authorities said. Read more
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Mexico's drug gangs drive film crew out of town
March 29, 2009
Mexican drug cartels don't like rivals
treading on their territory; they don't like the police poking
around; and now, it seems, they don't much care for Hollywood
taking an interest in their business.
Read more
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Secretary of State Clinton Confronts the Problems with Mexico
and North Korea
March 27, 2009
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: The
viciousness here is not just a Mexican problem. We're getting
hit with it. Mexican drug cartel violence is getting exported to
the United States Read more
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A cautionary tale for travelers to Mexico
March 26, 2009
This was the sad fate of Janice
Jackson. She left her little yellow frame house in Colerain
Township one wintry day for a long weekend in Mexico and never
came home.
Read more
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MEXICO CITY – At least 15 people died
in three separate incidents in the northwestern Mexican state of
Durango, municipal officials and state police said on Sunday.
Read more
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Rosarito Beach moves forward after postponement of surf contest
amid growing drug war hype
March 25, 2009
Not long ago, Rosarito Beach proudly
announced it was hosting a pro surfing contest in early April to
coincide with spring break and divert attention from a highly
publicized drug war that has tarnished the northern Baja
California city's image and devastated its economy. Read more
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Congressman Warns Mexico More Dangerous than Iraq, Could Become
Failed State
March 25, 2009
(CNSNews.com) – At a House of
Representatives hearing on federal law enforcement’s response to
the violence along the border between the United States and
Mexico, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) said there is more danger
in that region than in the Middle East. Read more
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Drug violence in Mexico becomes
top U.S. security concern
March 25, 2009
WASHINGTON —
U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday
announced extra agents for the
southern border and vowed to staunch
narcotics demand, as officials
pledged full support for Mexico’s
battle against drug cartels.
Read more
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Confirmed Meningitis Death in Johnson County Kansas
March 24, 2009
The Johnson County Health Department
has confirmed that a 58 year old woman has died from bacterial
meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis) after traveling to Mexico,
accompanying youth on spring break.
Read more
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Lenexa Woman Dies From Bacterial Meningitis
March 24, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 58-year-old
Lenexa woman died from bacterial meningitis after traveling to
Mexico, the Johnson County, Kan., Health Department announced
Tuesday
Read more
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Bodies mutilated amid Mexico violence
March 20, 2009
Police found the bodies of six men,
including three who were missing limbs and ears, in central
Mexico, and four other bodies near the Pacific tourist town of
Acapulco, officials said on Thursday. Read more
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Violence in Mexico: A Cause of Concern for Retirees Looking to
Travel or Relocate
March 20, 2009
Mexico is the favorite travel
destination for Americans and it's also the most favored place
outside the U.S. for retirees to relocate. The country's warm
climate, familiar culture, and low costs naturally attract
retirees. Now, however, drug-related violence and--to a lesser
extent--Mexico's own recessionary pressures have made parts of
Mexico dangerous. Read more
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The large bold letters scream, "BOYCOTT
MEXICO!!'' and are followed by the plea, "Do not give your
tourist dollars to Mexico! Spend them in the beautiful American
Southwest!"
Read more
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Mexico's drug barons and police locked in an increasingly
violent battle for supremacy
March 18, 2009
Mexico’s drug barons, with police and
civil officials in their pay, are engaged in an increasingly
bloody battle as they vie to demonstrate their power and
ruthlessness. The nation’s president believes the mounting death
toll reflects their desperation in the face of his
anti-corruption measures, but Richard Grant, on the lawless
streets of Tijuana, finds a different story. Read more
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Que. man killed in Mexico was on 'dream' trip
March 18, 2009
A Quebec City man who was living his
dream of touring the southern United States with his wife was
among three Canadians killed in a crash between a tour bus and a
tractor-trailer on a Mexican highway, his family said Tuesday. Read more
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Spring Break In A War Zone
March 18, 2009
(CBS) Drug
related violence has gotten so bad south of the border that the
U.S. State Department recently issued a travel alert for Mexico.
But, as CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reports, that's not
stopping tens of thousands of American college students heading
south for spring break.
Read more
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7 Americans among 11 killed in tour bus crash with DWI suspect's
tractor-trailer in Mexico
March 18, 2009
SALTILLO, Mexico – A drunken-driving
suspect lost control of his tractor-trailer and slammed into a
bus carrying a tour group from Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley,
killing 11 people, officials said Tuesday.
Read more
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7 Americans Among 11 Dead in Mexican Bus Crash
March 17, 2009
MEXICO CITY — A drunken driver lost control of his
tractor-trailer and slammed into a bus carrying Canadians and
Americans touring northern Mexico, killing 11, officials said
Tuesday. Read more
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Brownsville educators among dead; Semi & Tour bus collide in
Mexico
March 17, 2009
The Brownsville Independent School
District is in a state of shock following the deaths of current
and former teachers and staff killed in Monday's bus accident
outside Saltillo, Mexico Read more
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Three Canadian tourists killed in Mexico bus crash
March 17, 2009
Three Canadians are dead and four
others injured after a drunk driver fell asleep at the wheel of
his tractor-trailer and smashed in a bus full of tourists in
rural Mexico.
Read more
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Mexico crash that killed 3 Canadians involved drunk trucker:
local police
March 17, 2009
Three Canadians and eight other people,
most of them tourists, have been killed in northeastern Mexico
after a bus collided with a tractor-trailer driven by a man
police say was drunk. Read more
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Mexican Bus Crash Kills US Tourists
March 17, 2009
SALTILLO, Mexico (March 17) -- A
drunken driver lost control of his tractor-trailer and slammed
into a bus carrying Canadians and Americans touring northern
Mexico, killing 11, officials said Tuesday. Read more
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Mexican official: Driver in wreck that killed tourists
intoxicated
March 17, 2009
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The driver
of a truck that collided with a bus in northeast Mexico, killing
12 people including 11 passengers from the United States and
Canada, was intoxicated, a Mexican official said Tuesday.
Read more
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Travel
restrictions updated for soldiers, Mexico off limits
March 16, 2009
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — Soldiers
traveling into Mexico may be risking more then disciplinary
action, they could be risking their lives.
Read more
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War is Breaking Out in Mexico - Will it Unravel the United
States We Know?
March 15, 2009
Fresh from his rushed meeting with
Mexican military leaders on Friday, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, met with President Barack Obama today
on a week-end briefing on the probabilities of a Mexican
government collapse and United States military options.
Read more
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Mexico drug violence has many altering travel plans
March 15, 2009
Drug violence has Americans thinking
twice about traveling to Mexico. Bookings for all-inclusive
resorts are down, organizations are canceling popular
spring-break trips and fewer people are buying auto insurance to
drive across the border.
Read more
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Spring trips turn sinister
March 14, 2009
planning to visit Cancun during spring
break this year, but she wound up making plans to visit Key West
instead of Mexico.
Read more
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Students cancel Mexico trips because of violence along border
March 13, 2009
Many traditional spring break trips to
hot Mexican destinations like Cancun, Tijuana and Baja will take
a sabbatical this year, moving to safer locations after rampant
violence has killed nearly 7,000 people in 15 months. There have
been 1,000 murders this year alone, according to a Tuesday ABC
News article.
Read more
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Vacation Dangers Beyond the Border
March 13, 2009
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: There is a new and
growing concern for parents who are sending their kids off to
spring break, only, this time, it is not related to the dangers
of them streaking but to the very real danger posed by Mexico's
violent drug cartels..
Read more
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Mexico Under Siege - 'It's A War'
March 13, 2009
See the estimated number of people who
have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since the start of
2007. Read more
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Mexico too unsafe for study abroad
March 11, 2009
The Fullerton College Study Abroad
Program announced Friday that the summer 2009 trip to Mexico is
canceled, because the violence near Cancun is too high
Read more
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Officials warn of danger in Mexico
March 11, 2009
The U.S. State Department has issued a
travel advisory, warning U.S. citizens of a surge in murder,
kidnappings and violent crimes in Mexico. Read more
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California travel firm cancels students' trips to Mexico
March 11, 2009
The largest US west coast travel firm
specializing in student spring break travel says it has
cancelled its planned trips to Baja California because of the
crime crisis in Mexico.
Read more
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Nine dead as police clash with alleged kidnappers in Mexico
March 11, 2009
Mexico City - Nine people died early
Wednesday in two clashes between security forces and alleged
kidnappers in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the
authorities confirmed. Read more
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How safe is Mexico during Spring Break?
March 11, 2009
Spring is the start of vacation season
for many families. But with drug violence at an all-time high
in Mexico, just how safe is it? That depends on the
destination.
Read more
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Drug-related violence in Mexico a cause for concern for some
students this spring break
March 11, 2009
Every year, college students travel to
the beaches of Mexico in droves for spring break to take a
much-needed break from studying. But this year, students may
have to deal with more than finding a good beach and some
bottled water, as the violence between the government and the
drug cartels in Mexico has greatly escalated to such an extent
that the United States Department of State has issued a travel
alert for U.S. citizens. Read more
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Will drug violence crash spring break party in Cancun?
March 10, 2009
CANCÚN, Mexico – Students preparing for
spring break at this beach resort have a spate of bad local news
to factor into their plans: the brutal slaying of an army
general, the jailing of the police chief for alleged complicity
in the killing and a link to the feared Zetas drug gang based
along the Mexico-Texas border. Read more
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EXCLUSIVE: 100,000 foot soldiers in Mexican cartels
March 10, 2009
The U.S. Defense Department thinks
Mexico's two most deadly drug cartels together have fielded more
than 100,000 foot soldiers - an army that rivals Mexico's armed
forces and threatens to turn the country into a narco-state.
Read more
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At Spring Break in Mexico, Revelry Mixes With New Caution
March 10, 2009
CANCÚN, Mexico — Few seemed to notice
the heavily armed police commandos who cruised through Cancún’s
disco district the other night with black ski masks over their
faces despite the tropical heat. Read more
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U.S.-Mexico Border Violence Causing Travel Fears
March 10, 2009
DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― With spring
break coming up, many Texans are heading south.
But the U.S. State Department is warning about going to Mexico
this year after an increase in violence
Read more
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Spring Break Meets 'State of Undeclared War' on U.S.-Mexico
Border
March 10, 2009
Spring break and sunshine await, but
today a congressional panel examined myriad reasons it still may
not be safe to travel to Mexico.
Read more
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Police among latest victims of Mexico violence
March 10, 2009
Roanoke, VA - A police chief and a
state police commander are among the latest victims of violence
in Mexico. Six people were killed Monday in a series of
attacks in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.
Read more
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U.S. travel alert for Mexico no help to tourism
March 10, 2009
MEXICO CITY – The latest travel
advisory for Mexico from the U.S. State Department will
certainly not please the tourist board here. The travel alert
issued Feb. 20 reads like the plot of a crime thriller. Read more
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US travelers urged to avoid Mexico
March 8, 2009
Neither the University of Cincinnati nor
any other area university is publicly cautioning students to
avoid travel or to use extra care when traveling to Mexico,
despite a recent alert issued by the State Department.
Read more
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Cancún violence overshadows spring break
March 8, 2009
CANCÚN, Mexico — Students preparing for
spring break at this beach resort have a spate of bad local news
to factor into their plans: the slaying of an army general; the
jailing of the police chief for alleged complicity in the
killing; and a link to the feared Zetas drug gang based along
the Mexico-Texas border.
Read more
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Mexico Crime Wave Scaring Away Sailors
March 8, 2009
Newport Beach - Bloody waves of crime
in Mexico are scaring away some of the sailors and finish-line
spectators in the annual Newport to Ensenada yacht race, it was
reported Sunday. Read more
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Cancun: If Anyone Asks, We're Not in Mexico
March 8, 2009
Fed up with having to deal with
negative press about rising drug violence in Mexico, Cancun’s
tourism board decided just to not mention it’s in Mexico.
Read more
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Tourists weigh Mexico safety risk
March 7, 2009
Drug violence gives vacationers pause,
concerns travel industry.
Read more
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Tourists weigh Mexico drug violence
March 6, 2009
Mexico's rampant drug violence has put
the issue of safety front and center for would-be vacationers,
and put the country's publicity-sensitive tourism promoters on
the defensive. Read more
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Cancun CAP Spring Break Hell
March 6, 2009
It's no secret that the drug violence
in Mexico has gotten completely out of control.
Read more
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Despite Drug Cartel Violence, Mexico Not on State Department’s
‘Travel Warning’ List
March 5, 2009
Drug cartel-provoked violence killed
more than 6,000 people last year and 1,000 more in the first
month of 2009, but the U.S. State Department continues to
include Mexico on its “travel alert” page and not among the
countries considered worthy of a “travel warning.” Read more
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Horrors of Mexico alter student perception of
South-of-the-Border
March 4, 2009
Thousands of college students flock to
Mexico for Spring Break every year, while drug wars and
dangerous situations run rampant in the country. Read more
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Students may travel less to Mexico
March 3, 2009
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Each year an estimated
100,000 American college students head to Mexico for spring
break. In 2009, that number is expected to be down. Read more
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A.T.F. has stern warning for spring breakers traveling into
Mexico
March 3, 2009
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms is tonight urging all college students to avoid parts
of Northern Mexico during spring break. It's an unusual
step following a warning by the state department asking
Americans to stay away from areas of prostitution and drug
dealing. Read more
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Mexico travel warning issued as danger grows
March 3, 2009
A Different War: As violence — largely
from drug cartels — extends to the northernmost parts of Mexico
and beyond the southernmost areas of Arizona, the gap between
the traditionally "safe" and "unsafe" is shrinking. This story
is the first in a three-part series that speaks of the shifting
violence from Mexico into Arizona.
Read more
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U.S. Says Threat of Mexican Drug Cartels Approaching 'Crisis
Proportions'
March 3, 2009
Two of Mexico's deadliest drug cartels
have reached a combined force of 100,000 foot soldiers, wreaking
havoc across the country and threatening U.S. border states, the
U.S. Defense Department told The Washington Times.
Read more
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Getting ready for spring break
March 2, 2009
Students planning on going to Mexico
for spring break might want to rethink their plans after an
increase in violence because of drug problems Read more
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A side of Cancun not seen during spring break
March 2, 2009
The killing of a newly-hired security
official and two others raises questions about the drug trade's
impact on the popular resort, especially with suspicions falling
on the ex-police chief. Read more
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Mexican drug war is a threat to tourists
March 2, 2009
Mexico's bloody drug war is a growing threat to tourists.
As college students plan for their spring breaks, the U.S. State
Department has issued a new warning about traveling to Mexico Read more
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Motorcyclist dies in Mexico as a result of hit-and-run
March 1, 2009
A Welland man vacationing in Mexico
died earlier this month after being struck by a car while riding
his motorcycle.
Read more
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Canada And Mexico Have Had Issues In The Past
February 27, 2009
Say the word Mexico and two scenarios
come to mind: sandy beaches and warm weather during the winter
and crime and corruption among police and officials. Read more
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Canada, U.S. warn tourists of Mexican drug violence
February 27, 2009
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs
is warning travelers to exercise a "high degree of caution"
before embarking on spring break trips to Mexico, due to a rise
in violent criminal activity. Read more
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U.S. Government warns of dangers of travel to Mexico
February 27, 2009
SARASOTA COUNTY - The surge in
drug-related violence in Mexico has the U.S. State Department
and Suncoast travel agents urging spring breakers and tourists
to be careful south of border. Read more
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Drug-Fueled Mexican Violence Alters Spring Break Plans
February 27, 2009
Drug-fueled violence in Mexico has
changed the plans of some students planning an alternative
spring bring.
Watch the video
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Canada issues travel warning for Mexico
February 27, 2009
Following the U.S. State Department's
lead, Canada warned tourists on Friday to stay away from areas
of Mexico in light of surging drug-related violence in some
parts of the country
Read more
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Are Your Kids Safe South of the Border?
February 27, 2009
The beach towns of Baja California,
Mexico, are warm, cheap and come with a lower drinking age --
all the needed ingredients to make the just south-of-the-border
peninsula an attractive spring break destination.
Read more
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Spring breakers receive warning about partying in Mexico
February 26, 2009
It is safe to say thousands of students
will go south of the border for spring break but now one family
who has spent years doing just that offers a very serious
warning of their own.
Read more
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State Dept. Issues Alert On Mexico Travel
February 26, 2009
Americans traveling and living in
Mexico have been put on alert by the U.S. Department of State
because of escalating violence, especially in the country's
northern border states. Read more
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Colleges warn students about Mexico travel
February 25, 2009
PHOENIX – The U.S. State Department and
universities around the country are warning college students
headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in
drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border. Read more
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Ahead of Spring Break, U.S. State Department warns of travel to
Mexico
February 25, 2009
WASHINGTON. - The U.S. government says
Mexico's bloody drug war is a growing threat to tourists. Now,
as college students start planning their spring breaks, the U.S.
State Department has a new warning about traveling to Mexico.
Read more
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Gunmen kill mayor of Mexican town
February 25, 2009
A mayor in Mexican President Felipe
Calderon's home state was ambushed and killed by a group of
heavily armed men as he returned to his house, news reports said
Read more
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The Mexican Drug War
February 24, 2009
Psychology major Adriana Valencia, 23,
has not seen her parents in two years because it is unsafe for
her to travel home. Her country is torn apart by an underworld
war, in which kidnapping, robbery and murder are daily
occurrences. Her war-ravaged homeland is not some obscure nation
in the far reaches of the world. The war is raging right at our
doorstep. Read more
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Violence Escalates as Mexico Drug War Continues
February 24, 2009
Mexico is reeling from drug violence
more deadly than the war in Afghanistan. Six died in this
shootout, but nearly 100 people are being murdered every week.
In one gun battle this month, six killed from one drug gang, 14
from another in a fight over turf.
Read more
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Mexican drug gangs wage war
February 23, 2009
VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico — It was 3 a.m.
when Griselda Munoz says she got the first terrifying phone
call: "Mom, there are people all over, and they're shooting!"
Read more
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Universities: Spring breaks south of border to be avoided
February 23, 2009
Going to Mexico for spring break is
practically a rite of passage for college students in Arizona,
but the state's three public universities want to warn young
revelers about stepped-up violence south of the border.
Read more
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Drug violence tarnishes Mexico's international image
February 23, 2009
Mexico has an image problem. It has
long been internal – with newspaper headlines and nightly news
broadcasting the menacing notes, severed heads, and
bullet-riddled bodies that are the byproducts of a deadly drug
war raging across the country. Read more
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Gunmen attack governor's convoy, kill guard
February 23, 2009
Gunman have attacked a convoy carrying
the governor of a violence-wracked border state, killing one of
his bodyguards and wounding two other agents.
Read more
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Ciudad Juarez police chief quits after killings of officers,
threats
February 21, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- The
police chief in violence-torn Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, quit Friday
after several officers were slain this week and the killers
posted threats that more would die unless he resigned.
Read more
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U.S. Says Mexico Drug Violence
Poses Growing Threat to Tourists
February 21, 2009
Drug-related violence and gun battles have
increased in Mexico recently, the State Department warned in an
updated alert for U.S. citizens traveling to and living in the
neighboring country. Read more
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State Dept. Cites 'Large Firefights' in Travel Alert on Mexico
February 21, 2009
MEXICO CITY -- The latest travel
advisory for Mexico from the U.S. State Department will
certainly not please the tourist board. Rather than a glossy
brochure advertising the country's many delights, the travel
alert issued Friday reads like the plot of a crime thriller.
Read more
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Official: Mexican drug turf wars have led to surge in violence
February 19, 2009
(CNN) -- No one, especially not one of
Mexico's top law enforcement officials, denies that killings by
drug cartels have reached record levels.
Read more
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Motorcyclist dies in Mexico as a result of hit-and-run
February 19, 2009
A Welland man vacationing in Mexico
died earlier this month after being struck by a car while riding
his motorcycle. Quint Lostracco, 63, had been riding his
motorcycle across Mexico with lifelong friend Gilbert Giammarco
since Jan. 17.
Read more
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Drug violence mars Mexico city
February 19, 2009
But venture into downtown Cancun, a few
kilometers from the beachfront, and it's a different story.
Here, the troubles of modern Mexico are there for all to see.
Read more
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Violence, corruption show not all of Cancun is pristine
February 15, 2009
CANCUN,
Mexico — Sparkling seas, shimmering beaches and
super-sized resorts made Cancun famous. But street thugs and
prostitutes, smugglers and stick-up artists now threaten to make
it notorious. Read more
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Students Advised to Avoid Mexico
February 13, 2009
This is the time people begin planning
their spring break trips. If you're thinking about going to
Mexico, you may want to reconsider.
Read more
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Couple pay thousands after holiday horror
February 13, 2009
A heavenly holiday turned to hell after a fall left a
holidaymaker hospitalised and facing thousands of pounds in
medical bills.
Read more
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7 arrested in torture-murder of Mexican general
February 12, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Seven members of drug cartel hit squad
Los Zeta have been arrested in connection with the torture and
murder of three people including a retired general in Cancun,
law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Read more
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If Violence Escalates in Mexico, Texas Officials Plan to Be
Ready
February 12, 2009
As drug cartels
continue to terrorize Mexico, Texas officials are planning for
the worst-case scenario: how to respond if the violence spills
over the border, and what to do if thousands of Mexicans seek
refuge in the United States.Read more
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Mexico Drug Cartel Violence Soaring
February 11, 2009
(CBS) It's a bloodbath that
started as a drug-gang kidnapping, ended in a shoot-out with
Mexican troops. Twenty-one were killed in a snowy, desert town,
including one soldier.
Read more
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Warrior in Drug Fight Soon Becomes a Victim
February 9, 2009
The general didn't get much time. After a long, controversial
career, Brig. Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñones retired from
active duty last month and moved to this Caribbean playground to
work for the Cancun mayor and fight the drug cartels that have
penetrated much of Mexican society. He lasted a week. Read more
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Mexico is struggling to wage war
against its ultra-violent drug traffickers. More than 6,000
people were murdered in 2008, including innocent people, law
enforcement officers and military men, as well as narco-traffickers
themselves.Read more
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Cancun an armed camp after slaying
February 9, 2009
CANCUN, Mexico, Feb 9, 2009 (UPI via
COMTEX) -- The Mexican army swept into Cancun, running
high-visibility patrols in the resort city after a former
general was tortured and killed there, officials said. Read more
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Hundreds of U.S. Citizens Among Victims of Mexico's Violence
February 9, 2009
HOUSTON | A 22-year-old man from
Houston and his 16-year-old friend are hauled out of a minivan
in Mexico, shot execution style by thugs in a black Lincoln
Continental, and left dead in the dirt.
Read more
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Mexican troops swoop on police HQ
February 9, 2009
Mexican troops have detained the police
chief and 36 other officers in the resort of Cancun in
connection with the murder last week of an ex-army general.
Read more
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Cancun's top cop is grilled in retired general's killing
February 9, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Federal agents detained
Cancun’s police chief and six other policemen Monday as an
investigation deepened into the torture-murder of a retired
general hired to lead a special unit targeting the resort city’s
gangsters.
Read more
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Mexican murders, American victims
February 8, 2009
A 22-year-old man from Houston and his
16-year-old friend are hauled out of a minivan in Mexico, shot
execution style by thugs in a black Lincoln Continental and left
dead in the dirt.
Read more
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Cancun killings linked to cartels
February 4, 2009
The bodies of a retired brigadier general
and two other men have been found near the Mexican resort of
Cancun after a suspected drug cartel killing.
Read more
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Ex-general, 2 others found shot to death near Cancun
February 4, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- The
bodies of a longtime Mexican army general and two associates
were discovered early Tuesday on a highway to Cancun, the latest
execution-style victims of the violence sweeping Mexico.
Read more
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CIA Director: Al Qaeda is Job 1 of Top 10 Security Challenges in
2009
February 2, 2009
Iran, North Korea and Al Qaeda are
still in, but Iraq is out of the list of top 10 national
security threats the United States is likely to face in the
coming year. Read more
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Mexico vacation became a disaster
February 1, 2009
An elderly Arlington man and his son
aren't the first to run into problems with the country's legal
system.
Read more
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Mexico Drug War Keeps Americans North of Border
February 1, 2009
A fresh wave of drug related violence
in Mexico is having a huge effect on U.S. travel south of the
border.Read more
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TUCSON — Drug smugglers parked a car
transport trailer against the Mexican side of the border one day
in December, dropped a ramp over the security fence, and drove
two pickup trucks filled with marijuana onto Arizona soil.
Read more
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Mexico's war on drugs taking toll on tourism
January 31, 2009
When planning a January vacation with
his girlfriend, Oakland resident Jeremiah Nadya had only Mexico
in mind. "Tickets are dirt cheap if you know where to look," he
says. "It's close. It's beautiful. Read more
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French scientist shot by Mexican robbers dies
January 31, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A French scientist
who was shot in the head during a robbery near Mexico City's
airport died on Saturday. Read more
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Mexico: Bordering on Collapse
January 29, 2009
Islamic terrorists are not the only ones
with a liking for decapitation. In the Mexican town of Praxedis
last week, police commander Martin Castro’s severed head
appeared in front of the local police station, left in an ice
cooler. Read more
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Arlington men still jailed in Mexico
January 27, 2009
ARLINGTON, Wash. – The mayor of a
Mexican city admits that an elderly Arlington man and his
grandson should not be in jail. Read more
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Drug Gangs Have Mexico on the Ropes
January 26, 2009
A murder in the Mexican state of
Chihuahua last week horrified even hardened crime stoppers.
Police Commander Martin Castro's head was severed and left in an
ice cooler in front of the police station in the town of
Praxedis with a calling card from the Sinoloa drug cartel.
Read more
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Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'
January 24, 2009
A man arrested by Mexican police says
he disposed of 300 bodies for a drugs gang over the past decade
by dissolving them in chemicals. Read more
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Tijuana off-limits to U.S. Marines
January 22, 2009
LOS ANGELES — For tens of thousands of
U.S. Marines in Southern California, new orders from the brass
amount to: Baghdad si, Tijuana no.
Read more
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Elderly Arlington man, grandson jailed in Mexico
January 22, 2009
ARLINGTON, Wash. – Senator Maria
Cantwell's office is looking into the case of an elderly
Arlington man who has been behind bars in Mexico for two weeks.Read more
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Mexico cop chief's head found
January 20, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ (Mexico) - THE head of a
police chief was abandoned in an ice cooler in the northern
Mexico state of Chihuahua, and 16 others died in suspected drug
attacks overnight, authorities said on Monday.
Read more
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Mexican collapse? Drug wars worry some Americans
January 19, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Indiscriminate
kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill
government agents. This isn’t Iraq or Pakistan. It’s
Mexico, which the U.S. government and a growing number of
experts say is becoming one of the world’s biggest security
risks. Read more
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Mexico Biggest Crime Threat To U.S.?
January 19, 2009
(CBS/AP) Indiscriminate
kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill
government agents.
Read more
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CEO's wife drowns snorkeling in Mexico A drowning
January 14, 2009
A drowning accident recently claimed
the life of Ying Zhang, 46, who was the wife of Dr. Dean Li,
chief executive officer of Boltaron Performance Products LLC in
Newcomerstown.
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Drug war next door
January 14, 2009
Just across the shallow creek known as
the Rio Grande from El Paso, one of the safest cities of its
size in the nation, Juarez is a city under siege, the worst
victim of Mexico's growing wars between drug cartels.
Read more
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U.S. military report warns ’sudden collapse’ of Mexico is
possible
January 13, 2009
Mexico is one of two countries that “bear
consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse,” according to a
report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security
threats.
Read more
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6 members of Ottawa County family die in Mexico crash
January 12, 2009
HOLLAND (AP) — Officials say six
members of an Ottawa County family have died in a traffic
accident in Mexico, just across the U.S. border from Laredo,
Texas.
Read more
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO -- This northern
border metropolis that was Mexico's most violent city in 2008
has already registered more murders this month - 51 - than in
all of last January, according to figures from Chihuahua state
prosecutors. Read more
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It amazes me that when it comes to wars
you will get a massive amount of people to come out and declare
that we must "end the killing". All kinds of wackos and hippies
and even a few actual intellectual people who do have a thought
out argument or other course of action show up... Read more
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Tourists proceed with caution
January 4, 2009
U.S. visitors have been staying away
from Tijuana and other border areas, fearful they could get
caught up in the rise in violence and kidnappings. Yet tourists
are not being targeted, and major incidents in recent months
have largely bypassed tourist areas. Read more
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Mexico's drug violence expected to escalate in '09
January 4, 2009
WASHINGTON – Drug-related violence in
Mexico, already at unprecedented levels, is expected to escalate
further this year, with targets likely to include top Mexican
politicians and law enforcement agents and possibly even U.S.
officials, according to diplomats and intelligence experts on
both sides of the border.
Read more
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In Mexico, a kidnapping consultant is abducted
January 4, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- A U.S. kidnapping consultant
was seized by armed men in northern Mexico amid the country's
wave of abductions, his employer said Monday.
Read more
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Killings in Mexico border city increase fivefold in 2008
January 2, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) — Suspected
drug-related killings rose more than fivefold to 1,653 in
Mexico's northern border city of Ciudad Juarez in 2008,
according to an AFP count based on police reports. Read more
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Gang violence leads to record death toll in Mexico
January 2, 2009
Violence related to organized crime and
drug trafficking in Mexico left 5,630 people dead in 2008, up by
110.6 percent over the previous year, local daily El Universal
reported on Thursday, Xinhua
reported. Read more
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Two Canadian Tourists Shot In Mexico
January 1, 2009
The latest attack in a string of
violence in Mexico has left two Canadian tourists in hospital,
one of them in serious condition. They were both shot when
a gunman opened fire at a strip club in Cabo San Lucas on
Tuesday.
Read more
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Two Canadians injured in Mexican strip-club shooting
January 1, 2009
Two Canadian tourists are in stable
condition in hospital after being shot in a nightclub in the
resort city of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Read more
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Vancouver man is one of two Canadians shot in Mexican strip club
January 1, 2009
Foreign Affairs confirmed Thursday that
two Canadians, one reportedly from Vancouver, were shot in a
nightclub in the Mexican tourist hot spot of Cabo San Lucas
Tuesday.
Read more
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Mexican Drug War Roughs Up U.S. Merchants
January 1, 2009
NOGALES, Mexico -- A war raging between
the Mexican government and drug lords is hurting American
businesses that you rely on every day.
Read more
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CANCUN,
MEXICO -- Three people have drowned and one was killed in a boat
accident over the past two days at this Caribbean tourist
resort, while Mexican rescue teams were participating in a
search for a U.S. cruise ship passenger who is believed to have
fallen overboard.
Read more
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Mexico: Somber End to a Violent Year
December 30, 2008
SAN
FRANCISCO – On Dec. 31, the Mexican government will most likely
celebrate the end of 2008, which was a terrible year in terms of
security. Drug trafficking-related violence, and the way
organized crime is eliminating its enemies, has become
increasingly shocking. Read more
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Cruise Ship Returns To Port; Passenger Missing
December 28, 2008
MIAMI --
The Norwegian Pearl pulled into the Port of Miami Sunday morning
without an American woman who was reported missing on Friday
morning.
Read more
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Guard arrested in drug case
December 28, 2008
Mexico’s
drug corruption scandals reached into the presidential guard as
authorities identified one officer as a possible spy for the
country’s violent drug cartels
Read more
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Drug war, killings spread fear in
Mexico
December 21, 2008
Empty
desks outnumber the students at Luis Urias Elementary School
these days, a stark measure of the fear that hangs over the most
violent city in Mexico.
Read more
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Nine men decapitated in Mexico drug violence
December 21, 2008
MEXICO
CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police found nine decapitated bodies on
Sunday in a city near the tourist resort of Acapulco, and at
least some of the victims might have been soldiers who were
battling against powerful drug gangs.
Read more
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Juárez
violence is boon to non-cartel criminals
December 20, 2008
EL PASO
-- An El Paso doctor who practiced for 33 years in Juárez
abruptly closed his office last month after being threatened for
a third time and told he must start paying 20,000 pesos a month
in protection money. Read more
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Mystery man blamed for gruesome Tijuana deaths
December 18, 2008
Teodoro
Garcia Simental is believed to run a network of hide-outs where
kidnap victims are caged. And he is said to be behind most of
Tijuana's gang war bloodshed.
Read more
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The War Next Door
December 16, 2008
Mexico
has a serious drug problem these days. So serious that over
5,000 people have died this year due to drug-related violence.
More than 5,000 dead. And that number keeps growing every day. Read more
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Brutal Drug War Fueled By U.S. Appetite
December 16, 2008
(CBS) In
the past few years, Mexico has become one of the most dangerous
places on earth. Drug gangs have killed more than 5,000 people
this year - more than the entire American death toll in Iraq.
Tuesday,
Read more
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In Mexico, a kidnapping consultant is abducted
December 16, 2008
Reporting
from Mexico City -- A U.S. kidnapping consultant was seized by
armed men in northern Mexico amid the country's wave of
abductions, his employer said Monday.
Read more
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From
Brownsville Texas to San Diego California Mexican cities
bordering American cities along the U.S. Mexican border are
where Americans are being killed by assassinations and
executions. Many Americans were kidnapped in the U.S. and taken
to Mexico where they were murdered Read more
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Mexico's bloody drug war
December 10, 2008
On Nov.
3, the day before Americans elected Barack Obama president, drug
cartel henchmen murdered 58 people in Mexico. It was the highest
number killed in one day since President Felipe Calderon took
office in December 2006. Read more
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Mexico City police commander assassinated
December 10, 2008
MEXICO CITY
– A senior Mexico City police commander was slain in a drive-by
shooting outside his home, officials said Tuesday. Read more
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Drugs War: Murders Soar In Mexico
December 9, 2008
Organized
crime killings rose by 117% to 5,376 in the first 11 months of
2008, compared to 2,477 in the same period last year.
Read more
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Mexico City police commander gunned down
December 9, 2008
MEXICO
CITY - Assailants gunned down a Mexico City police commander
outside his home in a drive-by shooting, officials said Tuesday.
Read more
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43 dead in Mexico's weekend drug attacks
December 9, 2008
At least
43 people died in suspected drug attacks across Mexico in one of
the bloodiest weekends of a violent year, police and reports
said.
Read more
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Killings in Drug War in Mexico Double in ’08
December 8, 2008
MEXICO
CITY — Killings linked to Mexico’s drug war have more than
doubled this year compared with 2007 and are likely to grow even
further before they begin to fall, Attorney General Eduardo
Medina-Mora said Monday. Read more
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Mexico's drug war
December 8, 2008
Conflicts
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan will demand President Obama's
attention as soon as he takes office, but he also must make time
for the war on our border, where the Mexican government is
fighting narcotics traffickers. Read more
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Mexico Drug Killings: More Bodies
December 5, 2008
Thirteen
bullet-riddled bodies have been found along a dirt road in
Mexico's Sinaloa state, home to a powerful drugs cartel.
Read more
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Tijuana's bloody weekend ends with discovery of nine headless
corpses
December 2, 2008
One of
the bloodiest weekends yet in the border city of Tijuana
culminated yesterday in the discovery of nine headless corpses
dumped in a patch of wasteland - the latest apparent
demonstration of the escalating drug war gripping Mexico. Read more
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Blood continues to spill in Tijuana and and other border-area
communities.
And the debate rages on as to whether it's safe for surfers,
campers, fishermen and other tourists to travel in northern Baja
California. Read more
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American Woman Shot, Killed In Juarez
December 1, 2008
The call to El Paso 911 came in
around 12:20 Tuesday afternoon from
Customs and Border Protection
officers. Mexican emergency crews
rushed to the Bridge of the Americas
with an American in an ambulance
suffering from gunshot wounds.
Read more
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Vicious drug turf war turns Mexican border town of Tijuana into
a killing zone
November 30, 2008
The four
men in bulletproof vests, Kalashnikovs held casually at their
sides, crossed the street to Tijuana's Crazy Banana pool hall so
calmly that onlookers presumed they were undercover police
officers – until they heard the gunfire and screams.
Read more
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Report: Willacy farmer slain in Mexico
November 28, 2008
A member of a well-known Willacy County
farming family was found shot to death Wednesday in Guanajuato,
Mexico, according to the online edition of Correo, the state
newspaper. Read more
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Mexico's Spreading Drug Violence
November 25, 2008
Since
Mexican President Felipe Calderon began his offensive against
drug cartels and organized criminals in December 2006,
drug-related killings have escalated, as has the need for
undertakers.
Read more
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Americans attacked and nearly killed in Mexico
November 23, 2008
Five people died in a Tijuana, Mexico bar shooting and gunmen
killed a man being treated at a hospital in drug-related
violence this weekend, officials said.
Read more
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Two El Pasoans Killed In Juarez
November 22, 2008
JUAREZ,
Mexico -- Two people were gunned down in the Mexican city of
Juarez and both were American citizens and residents of El Paso.
Read more
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Drug war brings blood, fear to Mexican tourist spot
November 20, 2008
Rosarito
Beach Mayor Hugo Torres always has pitched his seaside city as a
cut-rate paradise. But even this relentless hometown booster is
stumped these days: How do you sell the Mexican good life in the
midst of a drug war?
Read more
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500 police officers replaced in Tijuana
November 19, 2008
TIJUANA – The wave of execution-style killings that had been
concentrated in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach extended to the rest
of the state yesterday
Read more
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Slaying of Mexican journalist muzzles whole society
November 18, 2008
Armando Rodriguez said goodbye to his wife and two of their
children, climbed into the car with his oldest girl, Ximena, and
paused before heading to Ximena's school and then his office. An
ordinary day in the life of a reporter.
Read more
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More than 630 have been murdered so far
this year in region just across the border from U.S.
TIJUANA, MEXICO -- Twenty people were murdered over the weekend
in the northern border state of Baja California, Mexican
authorities said.
Read more
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Crime reporter killed in Mexico
November 13, 2008
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A crime
reporter in the violent Mexican border city of Juarez was killed
Thursday, adding to dozens of journalist deaths in a country
where newspapers are so fearful, many refuse to cover drug
violence.
Read more
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Rosarito Beach losing tourists to crime fears
November 12, 2008
Reporting from Rosarito Beach, Mexico
-- Mayor Hugo Torres has always pitched his seaside city as a
cut-rate paradise. But even this relentless hometown booster is
stumped these days: How do you sell the Mexican good life in the
midst of a drug war?
Read more
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Staying safe south of the border
November 12, 2008
So, is Mexico safe for travelers in
these days of kidnappings and drug-gang shootouts? That's a fair
question, and one that deserves an interjection of logic. Read more
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Search intensifies for local man missing in Mexico
November 6, 2008
Edmonton — As the search continues for
an Edmonton man missing in Mexico, friends and family are
planning fund-raising efforts to continue to try to find him.
Read more
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Interior minister killed as plane crashes into centre of Mexico
City
November 5, 2008
MEXICO CITY: Mexico's powerful interior
minister died with at least seven others in
a spectacular plane crash during evening
rush hour in central Mexico City. Juan
Camilo Mourino, 37, had been traveling in a
small plane that crashed near the capital's
main Reforma avenue, setting dozens of cars
on fire.
Read more
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Mexican hitmen finish off victim during surgery in Ciudad Juarez
November 4, 2008
HITMEN
stormed an operating theatre in
a clinic in north Mexico to
finish off a man who had been
shot in the street. The
25-year-old victim had been shot
overnight on Sunday near the Red
Cross in the border city of
Ciudad Juarez, a police official
said.
Read more
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Kidnapped Mexican boy killed by injection of acid
November 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Kidnappers grabbed a
5-year-old boy from a Mexico City street market, then killed him
by injecting acid into his heart — a new low even for Mexico's
brutal kidnapping gangs. Read more
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Search for Edmonton man in Mexico expanded to land and sea
October 30, 2008
EDMONTON - The search for an Edmonton
man in Mexico's Mayan Riviera has expanded, with rescuers
looking both on land and at sea.
Read more
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Edmonton man missing in Mexico
October 30, 2008
Mark James Comey was last seen Sunday
leaving a resort in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun. He has
not been seen or heard from since. The search for the Edmonton
man in Mexico's Mayan Riviera has expanded, with rescuers
looking both on land and at sea. Read more
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Search for Edmonton man in Mexico expanded to land and sea
October 30, 2008
EDMONTON - The search for an Edmonton man
in Mexico's Mayan Riviera has expanded, with rescuers looking
both on land and at sea.
Read more
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Mexican gangs expand drug war to civilian ranks
October 23, 2008
MEXICO CITY–Mexico's powerful drug cartels have apparently
opened an alarming new chapter in their two-year-old war against
President Felipe Calderon's government with their first major
attack on civilians.
Read more
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U.S. State Department updates travel alert for Mexico
October 22, 2008
A large increase in violence near the border between Mexico
and the United States has recently prompted the State Department
to heighten warnings to U.S. citizens traveling to and living in
Mexico.
Read more
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Tourism hurting in Baja
October 21, 2008
TIJUANA – In five decades at the same spot on Tijuana's
Avenida Revolucion, Raúl Mendiola's store has built a loyal
clientele eager for brightly colored Talavera pottery, Oaxacan
wood carvings and nativity scenes made of tin.
Read more
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Federal police officer,
politician's son killed in Baja
October 21, 2008
TIJUANA – The wave of execution-style killings that had been
concentrated in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach extended to the rest
of the state yesterday
Read more
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Four Severed Heads Sent To Police
October 21, 2008
The grisly discovery was made by a messenger who took
delivery of the parcel at the main police station in Ascension,
near the violent city of Ciudad Juarez, on the US border.
Read more
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Mexico drug wars kill nearly 400 in two weeks
October 18, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Almost 400 people have died in the past
two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a
government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related
violence. Read more
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Feds issue warning about travel to Nogales
October 15, 2008
A sharp rise in violent crimes in
Mexico fueled in part by drug cartels has prompted the U.S.
Department of State to issue a travel alert Wednesday for all
U.S. citizens.
Read more
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U.S. Consulate in Mexico hit with gunfire
October 14, 2008
MONTERREY, Mexico — Two unknown
assailants attacked the U.S. Consulate General in this northern
metropolis early Sunday with gunfire and a grenade that did not
detonate, authorities said.
Read more
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More than two dozen die amid Mexico violence
October 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- In another violent spasm, more than two dozen
people were killed in Mexico within hours late Thursday and
early Friday, including a newspaper publisher, two federal
agents and a group gunned down as they drank at a bar.
Read more
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Killing of Mexico mayor sends message
October 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Until he was gunned down over the weekend,
Salvador Vergara Cruz was a man of some influence with a
promising future in his political party. Mayor of an important
resort town outside Mexico City, and a close confidant of his
state's governor, Vergara apparently felt sufficiently at ease
to travel without a specially assigned team of bodyguards
despite receiving death threats from purported drug lords.
Read more
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Vicious Killings Escalate in Mexico Drug War
October 7, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico - Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid.
Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges. Others have
their tongues cut out before being murdered -- Mexican gangs are
using horrifying methods to outdo each other in an already
harrowing drugs war. Read more
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Americans cautioned about visits to Mexico because of drug war
violence
October 7, 2008
Last month's deadly grenade attack in colonial-era Morelia
heightened doubts for would-be travelers about the safety of
travel in Mexico.
Read more
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Drug cartel bloodbath on Mexican border claims 50 lives
October 6, 2008
Two headless corpses wrapped in blankets, five beaten and
bound men asphyxiated in a car, and the mayor of a sizeable town
riddled with bullets. Mexico's spiral of drugs-related violence
swept on through the weekend, defying the government's biggest
ever effort to rein in the cartels. Read more
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50 dead in seven days in Mexico's drugs war
October 6, 2008
Mexico’s descent into bloody lawlessness continued to
intensify over the weekend, as another nine bodies were
discovered in the border city of Tijuana—taking the body count
to nearly 50 in just seven days—and the mayor of a popular
tourist town was shot dead by hooded gunmen.
Read more
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Crime wave slams Mexico
October 4, 2008
Mexican police find two police officers and twelve other
suspects murdered, two of whom were decapitated. Police say, the
executions are all linked to the country's increasingly violent
drug gang warfare. Read more
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Mexico's President Calderon has few choices in drug war
October 1, 2008
Though an attack on civilians in Morelia has tested the
public's stomach for the increasingly savage conflict, the
president has little room to pull back from his crackdown.
Read more
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Drug War Corpses Found By School
September 30, 2008
Twelve murdered and mutilated bodies have been found dumped
next to a Mexican primary school, just one hour before children
were due to arrive for their morning classes.
Read more
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Violence continues: 16 bodies are
found
September 30, 2008
TIJUANA – An escalating struggle between gangs led to the
deaths of 16 people found early yesterday in two locations in
Tijuana, Baja California's top prosecutor said yesterday. Many
of the bodies were bound and partially clothed, several with
missing tongues.
Read more
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12 bodies found near Mexico school
September 30, 2008
TIJUANA -- Leonor Merino said she was shocked enough Monday
to find that what she thought was a pile of rags was a dozen
bodies. Then she realized children soon would be passing by the
carnage on the way to school.
Read more
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Man accused of raping & killing Oregon woman in Mexico
September 28, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Authorities in southern
Oaxaca state said Saturday they have arrested a man who
allegedly raped and killed a U.S. woman.Read more
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An American is missing in Mexico, but his other life emerges
September 27, 2008
Linda LaPorte stood in the kitchen of her home in Pascoag,
R.I., holding her cell phone. Her son's Thai girlfriend was
calling from San Diego, speaking a mile a minute in fractured
English. Read more
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Ex-police commander killed in Mexico tourist town
September 26, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen
gunned down a former high-level police officer in a Mexican
tourist spot near the U.S. border just hours after he resigned,
police said on Friday.
Read more
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Mexican gangs expand drug war to civilian ranks
September 23, 2008
MEXICO CITY–Mexico's powerful drug
cartels have apparently opened an alarming new chapter in their
two-year-old war against President Felipe Calderon's government
with their first major attack on civilians.
Read more
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Mexicans' drug trade fears grow
September 22, 2008
Mexicans are increasingly concerned about the impact the
country's drugs trade is having on their lives, a BBC World
Service poll suggests. Read more
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Is Mexico safe? Oregon man's death fuels debate
September 21, 2008
Each year, U.S. citizens
travel to Mexico by the millions — more than to
any other country.
Most tour, relax, work and
return. They never encounter a problem.
But the recent death of an Oregon man in Mexican
police custody has ignited a debate and awakened
old perceptions that Mexico is unsafe and its
police lawless and crooked.
Read more
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Crime Tarnishes Mexico's Image
September 18, 2008
Mexico -- the land of the the legendary mariachi,
world-famous tequila and awe-inspiring pyramids -- is battling a
new image that has been crafted recently by drug-traffickers who
have left 3,148 people dead this year and kidnappers whose
contempt for human life drew thousands and thousands of people
to the streets demanding a stop to the violence.
Read more
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Mexican cop pays the price for honest work
September 17, 2008
TECATE, Mexico -- A drug-sniffing dog
pulled the U.S. Border Patrol agent to a rusty cargo container
in the storage yard just north of the Mexican border. Peeking
inside, he saw stacks of bundled marijuana and a man with a gun
tucked in his waistband.
Read more
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Marine reservist found shot to death in Mexico
September 17, 2008
EL PASO, Texas — A U.S. Marine Corps
reservist has been shot to death in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the
Marine Corps confirmed Wednesday
Read more
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7 Killed In Mexico Grenade Attack
September 16, 2008
Assailants threw two grenades into a
huge crowd of Independence Day revelers, killing seven and
injuring more than 100 in a brazen attack that escalates the war
between Mexico's army and drug gangs.
Read more
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Mexico under siege (graphic content)
September 15, 2008
Juan Jose Soriano, 35, deputy commander
of the Tecate, Mexico, police force, arrests an unidentified
suspect. Soriano was gunned down after he helped U.S.
authorities locate a drug-smuggling tunnel in Tecate last year.
Read more
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24 Men Shot to Death Execution-Style in Mexico
September 13, 2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A gruesome
crime wave is shaking Mexico to its core, with children
murdered, headless bodies left in piles and ordinary Mexicans
losing the little faith they have in the police and government.
Read more
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Brutal crime wave shakes Mexico to the core
September 12, 2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A gruesome
crime wave is shaking Mexico to its core, with children
murdered, headless bodies left in piles and ordinary Mexicans
losing the little faith they have in the police and government.
Read more
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In Mexico, a police victory against smuggling brings deadly
revenge
September 7, 2008
Adrug-sniffing dog pulled the U.S.
Border Patrol agent to a rusty cargo container in the storage
yard just north of the Mexican border. Peeking inside, he saw
stacks of bundled marijuana and a man with a gun tucked in his
waistband.
Read more
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Fear of kidnapping grips Mexico
September 7, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Perhaps nothing reveals
this country's kidnapping dread better than one product now on
offer from a Mexican company: a tiny transmitter that is
implanted under the skin to beam the person's whereabouts to a
satellite.
Read more
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Is Mexico safe? Death fuels debate
September 7, 2008
Each year, U.S. citizens
travel to Mexico by the millions -- more than to
any other country.
Most tour, relax, work
and return. They never encounter a problem.
But the recent death of an Oregon man in Mexican
police custody has ignited a debate across the
Northwest and reawaked old perceptions that
Mexico is unsafe and its police are lawless and
crooked.
Read more
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A country where few are trusted
September 5, 2008
For security reasons I won't tell you
what bank the CBC does business with in Mexico. But you could
drive right by the branch I deal with in Mexico City and not
even notice it was in the financial service industry..
Read more
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Giant Wave Drowns American Tourist in Mexico
September 4, 2008
Police say an American tourist drowned
after a giant wave swept him and two others away in southern
Baja California.
Read more
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Abduction fears stir outcry in Mexico
September 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY - Perhaps nothing reveals
this country's dread of kidnapping better than one product now
offered by a Mexican company: a tiny transmitter that is
implanted under the skin to beam the person's whereabouts to a
satellite.
Read more
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Officers in Oregon tourist's death may not be charged for 30
days
September 3, 2008
Six Mexican officers are under arrest
after an Oregon tourist was found dead after being taken to a
Mexican jail.
Read more
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Oregon tourist dies in Mexican jail, officers under house
arrest
September 2, 2008
EUGENE, Ore. - An Oregon tourist is
dead after being taken to a Mexican jail, and six Mexican
officers are under house arrest in the death.
Read more
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In Tijuana, Mexico police chief's job description: Survive
August 31, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico: It was the wee hours
of the morning when the heavily armed killers, perhaps two dozen
in all and dressed entirely in black, came sneaking up outside
Alberto Capella Ibarra's home. A dog's bark awoke him. Then a
barrage of bullets rang out.
Read more
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Mexican authorities investigate death of Oregon man
August 31, 2008
The Mexican equivalent of the Attorney
General’s office is investigating the death of an Oregon tourist
who was beaten by local police while vacationing in San Jose del
Cabo, a beach town near Cabo San Lucas on the Baja Peninsula,
according to Mexican media reports.
Read more
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A police officer guards the scene in
the Mexican state of Yucatan where 11 headless bodies were found
piled. The nearby city of Merida is normally tranquil and
touristy.
Read more
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Drug Violence Alters the Flow of Life in Mexico
August 30, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico — With a bingo hall, a
dog track and a vast room of slot machines, Casino Caliente has
a fair share of shrieks and groans any night of the year. But
when a team of heavily armed men dressed in black barged in and
ordered everyone to the floor on a Friday night this month, the
outbursts rose to an entirely different level.
Read more
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Drug war terror spreads in Mexico as bodies are dumped in
tourist areas
August 30, 2008
Eleven decapitated bodies have been
found outside the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula,
heightening fears that Mexico's recent descent into violence has
reached even heavily protected tourist areas.
Read more
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Twelve headless corpses found as Mexican drug war spreads to
tourist area
August 29, 2008
Twelve decapitated bodies bearing signs
of torture have been discovered in eastern Mexico in an apparent
gangland execution that has shocked the Yucatan Peninsula, a
popular tourist destination.
Read more
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Mexico police find headless corpses
August 29, 2008
Six Mexican officers are under arrest
after an Oregon tourist was found dead after being taken to a
Mexican jail.
Read more
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Drug Cartels Threaten To Take-Over Mexico…Is The U.S. Next?
August 26, 2008
Recently, Villa Ahumada Police Chief
Jesus Blanco Cano was shot to death after only one day on the
job. The town is located in the northern Mexican state of
Chihuahua which is the territory of the very violent and
powerful Juarez drug cartel.
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Mexican police chief slain a day
after taking job
August 23, 2008
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A northern
Mexican town's police chief was killed Friday just 24 hours
after replacing a predecessor whose slaying had prompted the
rest of the force to quit out of fear of drug gangs.
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Mexico targets bad cops
August 21, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Facing public outrage
over runaway crime, Mexico's federal and state leaders on
Thursday unveiled a coordinated plan to purge police forces
nationwide and rebuild the country's justice system.
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UTEP
Juarez travel advisory
August 21, 2008
The University of Texas at El Paso has
enjoyed a long and multi-faceted set of relationships with
institutions and individuals in Mexico, particularly in Ciudad
Juárez and the State of Chihuahua. It has been enormously
satisfying to see these relationships grow successfully in both
breadth and depth during the past several years, as they have
involved an increasing number of UTEP students, faculty and
staff in a widening range of collaborative activities and
programs. Read more
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Mexico's Murder Rate Soars as Drug Cartels Kill for Profit
August 20, 2008
Anarchy has broken out in Mexico. Yes,
I know it often seemed that way in the past, but things really
got out of hand with the murder of 43 people in the last three
days in the northern state of Chihuahua, which is the epicenter
of ongoing drug wars.
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Mexico's drug killings 'soaring'
August 17, 2008
Drug-related murders in Mexico have
already exceeded last year's total despite the deployment of
30,000 troops to tackle the issue, media reports say.
Read more
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MESSING & ROHRHOFF: Mexico imploding
August 17, 2008
Americans have a surreal view of Mexico
based on glittering tourist hot-spots such as Cancun, Acapulco
and Puerto Vallarta.
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Mexico cartels target police cadets
August 16, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Suspected
drug-trafficking groups are killing Mexico's future police
commanders before they can even emerge from the much-touted
academy that is supposed to transform them into world-class
officers.
Read more
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Change At The Border
August 15, 2008
NBC 7/39's sister station KNBC
investigated in a special report. What they found were many
changes -- changes even the residents aren't afraid to speak out
about
Read more
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Mexican president calls urgent security meeting to tackle
violence
August 15, 2008
Mexican President Felipe Calderon
called an urgent meeting of the National Public Security Council
(CNSP) on Thursday in view of the recent wave of violence and
kidnappings in the country.
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Kidnapping in Mexico is an explosive business
August 15, 2008
“Kidnapping is an explosive business”
the Holland-based Pax Christi organization pointed out that
between three and four kidnappings take place daily in Mexico
and that Mexico occupies the first place for kidnappings among
all countries in the world. .
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Wrongful Death Suit Filed Over Fatal Mexican Wreck
August 14, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE - The estate of a
Fayetteville family killed in a traffic accident in Mexico has
filed a wrongful death suit in Washington County Circuit Court
against the Hertz rental car company, its subsidiaries and an
employee.
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High-profile kidnapping stuns Mexico
August 14, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Fernando Marti was
supposedly safe. The 14-year-old son of one of Mexico's most
successful businessmen, he had a private driver to whisk him to
school through the streets of Mexico's chaotic capital.
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In Mexico, violence rages as leaders talk strategy
August 14, 2008
MEXICO CITY — With gangland violence
rampaging across Mexico, President Felipe Calderon sparred
Thursday with a top opposition politician over the format for
talks about coordinating a crackdown on crime.
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Mexico's Cocaine Capital
August 14, 2008
But the phenomenon is hardly confined
to the poor. "Too many affluent Culichis," says Javier Valdez, a
columnist for the muckraking newspaper Rio Doce, "complain about
the narco problem during the day and then go to bed with it at
night."
Read more
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Mexico launches anti-kidnapping squad as public anger mounts
August 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Mexican authorities
on Monday launched an anti-kidnapping squad amid plans for
countrywide protests against violence and kidnappings following
the high-profile abduction and killing of a teenage boy.
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Girl, 14, dies in Acapulco shooting
August 11, 2008
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — A 14-year-old
girl has died in a shooting attack two blocks from the main
coastal boulevard in Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
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MEXICO:Outcry Against Soaring Crime
August 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (IPS) - Indignation
over the lack of public security in Mexico, fuelled by the
kidnapping and murder of the teenage son of a well-known
businessman, apparently by police officers, prompted the
announcement of an Aug. 30 march to protest the growing levels
of crime and demand more effective law enforcement.
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400 kidnappings reported in
Mexico in ’08 first half
August 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY • Some 400 kidnappings were
reported in Mexico in the first half of 2008, almost matching
the total for 2007, a study said on Thursday.
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No Help for Mexico's Kidnapping Surge
August 8, 2008
Mexico's leftist opposition may
denounce the administration of President Felipe Calderón as a
government of the rich, but the rich are not so sure. In fact,
they're rapidly losing confidence in the state's ability to
ensure their physical safety. And the reasons for their
skepticism were made clear in the recent kidnapping and murder
of a 14-year-old and the arraignment of two police officers in
the case.
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Concerns
about travel to Mexico renewed
August 6, 2008
EL PASO -- The recent shooting death of
an 11-year-old El Paso boy during a vacation trip in Mexico has
renewed questions about whether it's safe to travel south of the
border. Read more
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Mexico's Civil War Killing More Americans
August 2, 2008
The Mexican and U.S. Governments are in
denial. The dictionary definition of civil war indicates that a
civil war is a military conflict which arises from a desire for
usually radical change in society as a result of either
cultural, social, religious, political or economic disputes due
to diametrically opposed and uncompromising ideas about the
leadership, administration and management of the population and
territory it occupies, and which it resolved through use of
weapons. This would seem to describe the current situation in
Mexico today as the Mexican government wages war against the
powerful Mexican drug cartels.
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Mexico official resigns over drug cartels battle
August 1, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- A high-ranking official
in the Mexican attorney general's office has resigned under
pressure amid poor results in the nation's battle against
kidnappers and drug traffickers. Read more
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Mexico's drug cartels targeting specific politicians with
death threats
July 17, 2008
MEXICO CITY – Having terrorized police
and prosecutors across the country, Mexico's drug cartels are
escalating their battle with the government by turning their
sights on politicians. The most recent threat target is the
governor of Chihuahua state, which borders Texas.
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Gunmen in Mexico kill 12 in brazen attack
July 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen shot 12 people to
death in broad daylight near the center of Culiacan on Thursday,
marking one of the more bloody and brazen recent attacks in the
capital of a state beset by drug trafficking and violence.
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Charred bodies dumped in drug gang-hit Mexico city
July 7, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, July 7 (Reuters) -
Police found six charred bodies, one still on fire, dumped on a
street in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana on Monday, in the
latest brutal killing on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Family agonizes over son kidnapped in Tijuana
June 30, 2008
Angel Sanchez Perez envisions his son
every time a kitchen helper passes by pushing a tray cart at the
Hotel del Coronado.
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At first, a song about the Mississippi
Delta belted out on the moonlit shore of Zihuatanejo Bay,
Mexico, seemed out of place. But the bluesy tune performed by
U.S. musicians at this year’s Zihuatanejo International Guitar
Festival struck a chord in the Mexican town. These days, many
locals know the blues very well.
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US to help fund Mexico drug cartel crackdown
June 28, 2008
Mexico is to receive hundreds of
millions of dollars in aid from the United States to fight drug
cartels.
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Police Official and Guard Are Killed in Mexico
June 27, 2008
MEXICO CITY — A gunman killed a
high-ranking commander in the federal police and a bodyguard as
they ate lunch at a busy restaurant here on Thursday, in what
appeared to be the latest attack on law enforcement officials
who are waging a campaign against drug traffickers, the
authorities said..
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A gunman killed a high-ranking
commander in the federal police and a bodyguard as they ate
lunch at a busy restaurant here yesterday
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Senior federal police officer killed in Mexico
June 26, 2008
MEXICO CITY - A gunman killed a top
federal police official and his bodyguard Thursday as they ate
lunch in Mexico City, the latest attack against authorities
waging a nationwide battle against organized crime.
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Barbecue Fundraiser for Teacher Hurt in Mexico
June 26, 2008
People in one
community have made it their mission to
help a teacher in need. Missy
Jones was critically hurt when a van
fell off a cliff in Mexico last month.
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Mexican police commander, bodyguard slain in restaurant
June 26, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Unknown assailants
shot to death a Federal Police commander and his bodyguard in a
Mexico City restaurant at mid-day on Thursday, Mexican officials
said. Read more
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Suspect in officer's death is freed by Mexican authorities
June 25, 2008
U.S. officials have expressed shock
that a Mexican judge had freed a man imprisoned in connection
with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in California this
year, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
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Mexico nightclub tragedy caused by
inept police and an ignored youth, advocate says
A tragedy in Mexico City last weekend, in which 12 people were
suffocated or trampled to death in a bungled police raid at the
News Divine night club, was due to an inept police force and a
lack of public policy directed at the city’s youth, says a
sociologist and longtime activist for youth-related programs.
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Human error led to Grand Prairie teen's death on Cancun boat
trip
June 13, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexican officials
said that human error caused the weekend boat accident near
Cancun that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old Texas woman.Read more
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Mexico cites human error in boat mishap
June 13, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials
said Thursday that human error caused the weekend boat accident
near Cancun that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old Texas
woman. Read more
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More Fatal Accidents in Mexico...Is the Vacation Worth it?
June 12, 2008
More of my rants on vacation dangers.
Yes, you are thinking..."This could happen anywhere..."
Sure, this could happen ANYWHERE. But just look at the
negligence and the lackadaisical attitude the Mexican
authorities have towards tourists. I highly doubt we would get
that service from our own United States authorities.
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Crew Abandons Sinking Ship, Leaves Teens
June 12, 2008
More than 100 teenagers celebrating
their high school graduation watched their snorkeling tour turn
into a nightmare when the boat's crew abandoned the sinking
vessel and forced the teens to swim for their lives Saturday off
the coast of Cancun, Mexico.
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GradCity suspends snorkeling cruises in Cancun after tragic
accident takes life of high school student
June 11, 2008
GradCity has suspended all snorkeling cruises for students
traveling to Cancun, Mexico for the
remainder of their travel season. The company made the decision
following a snorkeling accident which took the life of
Lisa Chung, a high school student from Grand
Prairie, Texas. Read more
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Woman brain dead after accident in Cancun
June 10, 2008
Tourism has contributed significantly
to Mexico's employment, foreign direct investment and economic
growth over the past three decades. However, challenges and
obstacles could prevent the industry from achieving its full
potential.
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Will Mexico's Drug Wars Hurt Business?
June 9, 2008
If the violence worsens, investors
could decide to pull back from the country—at least that's the
fear of local businessmen
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Mexican president losing war on drugs, polls indicate
June 7, 2008
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderón
is losing the fight against drug traffickers on the field of
public opinion, two polls this week show, as he faces calls to
change tactics and the possible collapse of an anti-drug package
with the U.S.
Read more
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Sharks are hunting humans
June 7, 2008
SCIENTISTS fear packs of bull sharks
are now actively hunting humans for the first time after a
series of horrifying attacks in the waters off a popular resort.
Read more
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Is it safe to go back in the water?
June 5, 2008
It had to happen. Determined to move
forward and in search of answers after a string of three shark
attacks last month left two victims dead, one an American
citizen
Read more
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Mexico army marches into drug war -- again
June 3, 2008
Troops have been deployed to a greater
extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics
fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the
military.
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Violence in Mexico is on the rise
June 2, 2008
Mexico is beginning to look like a real
war zone. The headlines in the news media are reminiscent of
those from some of the most brutal days of the Iraq War. They
speak of executions, beheadings, cryptic messages and dozens of
people killed in a single day. But the war against drugs that
Mexico is waging is not one that can easily eliminate the
enemies.
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Two dead, several hospitalized after driver careens into
Matamoros bike tour
June 2, 2008
dead and at least five people remain
hospitalized at a number of Rio Grande Valley hospitals after
being struck by a car as the group, along with other cyclists
participated in the third annual Bike Tour Matamoros-Playa
Bagdad Sunday morning.
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Mayor of town in western Mexico is shot dead
June 2, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of a small
town in western Mexico was forced from his car and shot dead,
officials said Monday.
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Mexico
Feeling Impact of Drug Violence
June 2, 2008
BUSINESS ACROSS THE BORDER: I am being
increasingly asked by my friends and contacts on the U.S. side
of the border about the drug-related violence striking Mexican
border cities such as Juárez.
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Deadly shark attacks shake Mexico resort
June 1, 2008
Shark attacks near Zihuatanejo have
created an uproar in the Mexican beach resort, with three
surfers attacked by sharks in less than a month. Two of the
surfers died.
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Drug Massacre Leaves a Mexican Town Terrorized
May 31, 2008
A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy
town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept
Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police
forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for
the authorities to assert themselves. Read more
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Shark attacks have Mexico resort community on edge
May 30, 2008
The storyline may sound strikingly
familiar to fans of 1970s horror flicks: A sudden series of
gruesome shark attacks in a resort area has officials caught
between public safety concerns and the interests of the local
tourist industry.
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Shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic
May 28, 2008
ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico - No one could even remember a shark
attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast
popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large
predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen.
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Madison AIDS Activist Slain While On Mexican Vacation
May 27, 2008
The U.S. State Department has added its
big voice to the growing chorus reporting that violence in areas
of Mexico near the border with the United States has become so
prevalent that travelers need to consider whether they should
visit.
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Mexico’s War Against Drugs Kills Its Police
May 26, 2008
The assassination was an inside job. The federal police
commander kept his schedule secret and slept in a different
place each night, yet the killer had the keys to the official’s
apartment and was waiting for him when he arrived after midnight.
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Shark attacks American tourist on Mexico's Pacific coast
May 25, 2008
Chilpancingo, Mexico, May 25, 2008 (EFE via COMTEX) -- -- A
shark attacked an American tourist who was surfing in the
Mexican Pacific resort city of Zihuatanejo, a day after a
Mexican man was killed in another shark attack, emergency
services officials said.
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Mexico drug-related killings soar
May 24, 2008
The number of murders in Mexico linked to organized crime
has jumped by almost 50% so far this year to 1,378, according to
Mexico's attorney general.
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Mexico homicides jump 47 percent
May 23, 2008
Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in
2008, Mexico's attorney general said Friday in a rare
confirmation of how bad violence has become.
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Local man who witnessed crime held by Mexican authorities
May 22, 2008
A Round Lake Park man chose to spend a week at an exclusive
new hotel at a Mexican resort for some fun in the sun. But the
night before he was to return home, Michael Thompson became
entangled in a murder investigation near Cabo San Lucas, and the
good time vanished. Read more
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Consul general meets with Mexican police over Canadian
tourist's shooting death
May 21, 2008
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs
says it's pressing its Mexican counterparts for a thorough
investigation into the shooting death of a Canadian citizen. The
Canadian embassy was advised early Friday of the shooting in
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, spokesman Rodney Moore said. Read more
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Shooting witness held by police
May 21, 2008
U.S. man says he came to the aid of Canadian victims of fatal
attack last Thursday at five-star hotel in Cabo San Lucas.
Read more
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It's not just Mexico's war
May 21, 2008
Within weeks of being sworn in as Mexico's president in
December 2006, Felipe Calderon launched a scorched-earth assault
on the drug cartels that infest the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Read more
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U. S. witness held in Mexico after Canadian slain
May 21, 2008
Mexican authorities are holding a U. S. man who witnessed the
shooting death of a Canadian in Cabo San Lucas even though his
father says he tried to help the victims during the crime last
Thursday.
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Four Found Executed In Mexico, At Least One Is From US
May 20, 2008
Over the weekend in Baja California, Mexico,
officials say they found four decomposing bodies, at least one
of which was from the U.S. Police say the victims, two of which
were found in a car with California license plates, were
executed. Read more
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Mexican police search for suspect after Canadian killed
May 19, 2008
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
could not confirm reports Monday that a Canadian wounded in a
shooting at a Mexican hotel was still in Mexico, being protected
by Cabo San Lucas police.
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Four or more Americans Executed in Mexico
May 19, 2008
Six gangland style murders four or more
are believed Americans who were shot and killed on Sunday as
they were traveling on the main highway between Tijuana and
Rosarito Beach. According to Baja preventive police five victims
were executed, four of them appear to be Americans three men and
a women. Read more
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Gunmen kidnap seven tourists in Mexico
May 18, 2008
Mexico City, May 18 (Xinhua) Seven
Mexican tourists have been kidnapped by some gunmen on a highway
in southern Mexico, the police have said. According to the
police, the kidnapping was occurred Saturday on a highway
leading to the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco. Read more
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Cartel drug carnage tears Mexico apart
May 17, 2008
The lash of a dust-laden wind wrestled
with the weeping of women, the scrape of shovels and the ballad
of a corrido band as two murdered brothers were buried under the
heat of the desert sky. Read more
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What's Wrong With Mexico?
May 16, 2008
President Felipe Calderon has just sent
thousands more troops into the northern state of Sinaloa to
fight the drug cartels, which evidently have taken over both the
Mexican side of the border with the United States and large
swaths of Mexico proper near the border.
Read more
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As drug violence intensifies, some Mexican police chiefs
seek asylum in U.S.
May 15, 2008
WASHINGTON – Drug cartel attacks
against Mexican police have become so violent and so common that
some Mexican police chiefs are seeking safety in the United
States. Read more
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Echoes of Colombia in Mexico drug war
May 14, 2008
MEXICO CITY — On the home turf of
Mexico's deadliest drug cartels, they hang banners that mock
Mexican authorities trying to maintain order. "Little tin
soldiers, federal officers made of straw," read one banner in
the state of Sinaloa.
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Mexican troops take on cartels
May 14, 2008
The Mexican government is sending
thousands of extra troops and police to combat the country's
drug cartels.Read more
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US says shocked by Mexico's violence
May 12, 2008
The US State Department refers to
violence against police officers in Mexico as a "serious threat"
to democratic institutions there. Read more
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Mexico's police chief third official killed in capital this
week
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY – An assassin lying in wait
Thursday gunned down a top police commander, one of the
architects of Mexico's bloody battle against paramilitary
cartels.Read more
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Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico’s Police
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Gunmen assassinated the
acting chief of Mexico’s federal police early on Thursday
morning in the most brazen attack so far in the
year-and-a-half-old struggle between the government and
organized crime gangs.
Read more
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Mexico's Top Police Are
Latest Targets of Cartels
May 9, 2008
Mexico's top police officers are being targeted and killed as
drug traffickers retaliate for arrests and
record seizures stemming from President Felipe Calderon's
crackdown on narcotics gangs. Read more
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More Americans shot in Mexico
May 9, 2008
Four Americans were shot and wounded on
Thursday as they were leaving the Arriba Chihuahua nightclub in
the ProNaF tourist zone in the violent Mexican border city of
Juárez. The shootings were apparently deliberate attempts on
Americans. They were targeted not just random bystanders caught
up in the wave of violence that has recently engulfed Juárez,
Mexican authorities said.
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Top police killed in Mexican assassination wave
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Gunmen assassinated
a commander of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping police Friday, the
fourth top police authority slain in 10 days here as the toll
from a rising organized crime wave hits top brass.
Read more
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It's not just Mexico's war
May 5, 2008
Within weeks of being sworn in as Mexico's president in
December 2006, Felipe Calderon launched a scorched-earth assault
on the drug cartels that infest the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Read more
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'We are going to win this
battle, and purge our state of criminals'
Apr 30, 2008
TIJUANA – As hundreds of soldiers and
police officers stood in formation outside City Hall yesterday,
top federal, state and municipal officials urged intensified
measures to bring criminals to heel in a city rattled by
violence.
Read more
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Tijuana drug violence threatens hospital
Apr 29, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers held
Tijuana's main hospital in a virtual lockdown Tuesday as doctors
treated eight drug traffickers wounded in running shootouts in
this border city.
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Death Toll Rises From Tijuana Shootout
Apr 28, 2008
Thirteen people were killed in the
initial shootout, Tijuana officials said, and nine others were
wounded. Two more people had succumbed to their injuries on
Monday, NBC 7/39 reported
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Tijuana - once a tourist paradise is now a battlefield hell
Apr 27, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Massive
gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who
fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated
streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13
people and wounding nine.
Read more
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Horror in Mexico: 'It's happening to us'
Apr 24, 2008
TIJUANA (KABC) -- Is it safe south of
the border? A California couple was robbed in Mexico, and the
girlfriend raped. They revealed disturbing details of their
frightening ordeal to Robert Holguin, who travelled to Tijuana
to talk to officials about the escalating violence along the
U.S.-Mexico border and the sharp drop in tourism. These two
seasoned travelers say they're never going back to Mexico.
Read more
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U.S. visits to Tijuana drop 90 percent
Apr 24, 2008
TIJUANA (KABC) -- More police and
soldiers are now patrolling the streets of U.S.-Mexico border
towns like Tijuana. There's been a rise in street violence and
drug wars and the all-important tourist trade is taking a hit.
Authorities in Mexico hope the increased police presence will
make residents and tourists feel safer. Eyewitness News reporter
Robert Holguin visited Tijuana to discover what was once a busy
tourist area is now for all intents and purposes a ghost town.
Read more
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Are Canadians safe in Mexico?
Apr 23, 2008
Brenda Martin's legal quagmire in
Mexico, which culminated this week with her conviction for
Internet fraud, will not deter most Canadian tourists from
seeking winter refuge in the resorts of Acapulco, Cancun and the
Mayan Riviera, according to many industry watchers.
Read more
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Alarming Sensitive U.S. Government Report on Mexico Violence
Apr 22, 2008
The question remains why have not the
U.S. President George Bush ordered the State Dept. to issue the
Highest level travel alert in regards to Mexico for the many
dangers that are likely to confront Americans traveling in
Mexico today.
Read more
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Drug wars slashing Mexico tourism
Apr 21, 2008
MONTERREY, Mexico — The last thing
Debra Fassold's travel business needed was another warning to
tourists about violence in Mexico.
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Mexican Drug cartels using terrorist beheading tactics
Apr 21, 2008
Mexican Drug cartels are ordering
decapitations blind folding and hooding victims before they
shoot them. The Cartels are sending a chilling message to the
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by adopting
methods of intimidation made notorious by Middle Eastern
terrorist groups.
Read more
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Editorials: U.S. warning travelers to be careful in Mexico
Apr 19, 2008
Mexico is heading for its third
straight year of more than 2,000 drug-related deaths — casualty
figures usually associated with war.
Read more
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Violence in Mexico deterring tourists
Apr 18, 2008
The number of Americans kidnapped while
in Mexico doubled in 2007 from the previous year. The rise in
crime has not only reduced tourism, it is affecting the future
of real estate projects, such as Donald Trump's Tijuana towers.
Jill Barshay reports.
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The one-time party mecca is a ghost of
its former self. But merchants say beautification efforts and
police crackdowns have left downtown safer and spiffier than in
years.
Read more
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Poll: Bribery spending rising in Mexico
Apr 16, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans spent a whopping
US$2.58 billion in bribes in 2007, some 42% more than they doled
out just two years ago, according to a poll released Wednesday.
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U.S. issues warning for travel to Mexico
Apr 16, 2008
Due to growing drug-related violence in
Mexico, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for
Americans visiting the border regions
Read more
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Plane Stolen From US Tourist Family in Mexico at Gunpoint
Apr 16, 2008
A U.S. family in Baja California,
Mexico was held up at gunpoint and stripped of its Cessna
Stationair right before take off at an airstrip in Mulege. A
Detective says a car pulled in front of the plane and forced
them out.
Read more
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Martin imprisonment deterring Canadians from visiting Mexico
Apr 9, 2008
Quinte West – Brenda Martin's
imprisonment in a Mexican jail has turned into a "tourist
inhibitor," according to a Mexican newspaper.
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Why not a Warning for Mexico travel?
Apr 7, 2008
El Paso/Juarez Metro-Borderplex —
Thousands of Mexican soldiers have been sent to CD. Juarez,
after many pleas for help from the Juárez Mayor José Reyes
Ferriz.
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Cdn's death in Mexico a mystery
Apr 7, 2008
It's a report that should hold all the
answers to a grieving family's many questions.
But in reality, autopsy results expected early this week from
the provincial medical examiner promise little else than more
uncertainty for the family of Josh Iwasiuk, they said.
Read more
MEXICO CITY— The U.S. ambassador to
Mexico warned that the United States may issue a heightened
travel alert next week. In recent years, Mexico has
suffered a wave of organized crime and drug-related violence
that killed more than 2,500 people last year alone.
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US ambassador alarmed by Mexico border violence
Apr 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY, April 4 (Reuters) - The
U.S. ambassador to Mexico warned on Friday of an "alarming"
surge in violence in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez
and said he could heighten a travel alert for U.S. citizens
traveling there.
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Scuba victim's mum: 'I'll fight to the end to bring her
killer to justice'
Apr 3, 2008
In 2000, singer Kirsty MacColl - famous
for her Christmas duet Fairytale Of New York - was killed by a
speedboat aged 41, while scuba diving in Mexico with her two
sons. The story made world news, but the truth about who was
steering the boat - owned by one of Mexico's richest men - was
never properly established. In a new book, her 85-year-old
mother Jean MacColl, describes the sad legacy of the tragedy,
and her fight to bring the man she believes killed her daughter
to justice...
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Hoop star's father says son is innocent
Apr 3, 2008
The father of a former North Vancouver
basketball star now playing for a Portland university team and
accused of a savage assault in Mexico says his son is innocent.
Read more
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Basketball star maintains innocence in brutal Mexico beating
Apr 3, 2008
A Canadian college basketball player
who spent two days in a Mexican jail accused of beating a
Michigan man close to death says it was the most terrifying
experience of his life.
Read more
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Dad claims Canadian hoops star 'wrongfully arrested'
Apr 2, 2008
VANCOUVER - A Canadian college
basketball star has been released from Mexican jail after being
arrested for a vicious assault his family contends he had
nothing to do.
Read more
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Slain Student's Accused Murderer Released
Apr 1, 2008
A Mexican police official has been
suspended after one suspect in the fatal shooting of a U.S.
college student last week walked out of a Puerto Vallarta jail
Friday and remains on the run.
Read more
El Paso is the second safest city in
the United States, for it's size, then you cross the border and
you're in a war zone. A war between the drug cartels and
Mexican government.
Read more
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South Windsor couple’s dream vacation trip turns to
nightmare
Mar 24, 2008
Instead of warm memories, a South
Windsor couple recently returned from a vacation in Mexico with
tales of confusion and death.
Read more
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Baja counts on spring-break boom
Mar 22, 2008
The spring breakers are assembled by
the broad beach at the center of town, descending on taco stands
and on clubs that pound out hip-hop rhythms, shuffling in
boisterous clusters down the sidewalks of Boulevard Benito
Juarez.
Read more
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Mexico And Canada: Not Always The Best Of Friends
Mar 19, 2008
As two MPs meet with an imprisoned and
suicidal Canadian on Wednesday, there are plenty of reminders
that this isn't the first big dispute between the countries that
sandwich the U.S.
Read more
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Acapulco hotel fire sends spring breakers home
Mar 18, 2008
A hotel fire at the Best Western Playa
Suites in Acapulco sent student spring-break travelers rushing
down stairs to safety on Sunday morning. At least one student
went to the emergency room for smoke inhalation
Read more
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U.S. students brave Mexico despite drug-war threat
Mar 17, 2008
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Fearless students
from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas State and colleges
across the country are injecting badly needed cash into fading
resorts like Acapulco this spring break season. But analysts
warn that even they cannot save a stagnant tourism industry as
long as Mexico is awash in drug violence, police corruption and
drugs openly sold on the streets.
Read more
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Students return after Spring Break hotel fire
Mar 17, 2008
The fire broke out at the Best Western
Playa Suites Hotel in Acapulco. It was packed with college
students - many from our area. One girl says she awoke to
screams and breaking glass. In a phone interview, Penn State
Junior Devon Herrick of Malvern described how she awoke to
screams of fire.Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Fearless students
from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas State and colleges
across the country are injecting badly needed cash into fading
resorts like Acapulco this spring break season. But analysts
warn that even they cannot save a stagnant tourism industry as
long as Mexico is awash in drug violence, police corruption and
drugs openly sold on the streets. Read more
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Local Students Escape Hotel Fire In Mexico
Mar 17, 2008
A group of local college students
vacationing in Acapulco for spring break narrowly escaped a
hotel fire at the Best Western Playa Suites. CBS 3's
Elizabeth Hur was at Philadelphia International to talk to some
of the students as they returned home. The parents of the
students waited anxiously at the airport terminal for their
children to return home safely
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UNH Students Evacuated In Mexico Fire Report Items Stolen
Mar 17, 2008
DURHAM, N.H. -- Parents of University
of New Hampshire students who were evacuated during a fire at
their Mexico hotel said that some of them were robbed, and at
least one ended up in a hospital emergency room.
Read more
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Westfield State Students Heroes in Acapulco Hotel Fire
Mar 17, 2008
A spring break trip to Acapulco for
several Westfield State College students ended with a terrifying
hotel fire, and some real heroism, as the 25 students - along
with thousands of students from other colleges - managed to
escape uninjured
Read more
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WAR ZONE: Baja, Mexico!
Mar 17, 2008
Traveling to northern Baja, Mexico
along the picturesque coastline of the blue Pacific Ocean was
once an enjoyable leisure activity. Apparently, times there have
changed dramatically - dangerously so.
Read more
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More murderous mayhem in Mexico
Mar 16, 2008
WASHINGTON – A murderous slaughter of
almost unimaginable proportions is taking place below America's
southern border – and it goes almost unnoticed by U.S.
government officials here.
Read more
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Danger lurks for spring breakers
Mar 14, 2008
As students put the books away and
prepare to depart for fun-in-the-sun spring break destinations,
they should take heed of serious warnings about dangers lurking
south of the border.
Read more
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Mexico: Sand, sunshine but no justice
Mar 14, 2008
Maureen Webster's life has changed
since her son, Nolan, died during a vacation in Mexico, a little
more than one year ago. Read more
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Mexican Drug Wars Keep Spring Breakers From Heading South of
the Border
Mar 13, 2008
For college students, March Madness
usually means basketball and Spring Break. But on South Padre
Island in Texas, March Madness is taking on a whole new meaning.
Read more
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Mom fears for jailed Canadian's life
Mar 12, 2008
Marjorie Bletcher was already worried
because she had not heard from her daughter in months when she
received a frightening telephone call.
Read more
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Mexico police seize guns, grenades in Cancun resort
Mar 10, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico, March 10 (Reuters) -
Mexican police hunting drug gangs seized a cache of automatic
weapons and grenade launchers at a luxury flat in the Caribbean
resort of Cancun on Monday, near hotels full of foreign
tourists..
Read more
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South Padre's 'Two Nation Vacation' down to one for spring
break
Mar 9, 2008
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – Michigan
State senior Paul Bonenberger avoided temptation during this
island's season for wild college revelry by leaving his passport
at home.
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Boycott Baja
Mar 8, 2008
On Friday, March 7, Gutierrez’ workers
took over another home, looting it and even removing all the
windows. They told some witnesses that they plan to tear down
all the homes during the next few weeks, although this matter
has yet to be decided in the Mexican court system. The Rosarito
Police Department was contacted twice but never showed up to
help the occupants and stop the looting.
Read more
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Tijuana tourism halved by kidnapping scares
Mar 7, 2008
A wave of kidnappings in Mexico has
halved the number of tourists visiting the country's most famous
popular destination and left foreigners working in the country
terrified for their families. Read more
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American Tourist Kidnappings Rise In Mexico
Mar 7, 2008
San Diego, CA -- Well-organized
kidnappers are targeting Americans who visit tourist towns in
Mexico. The State Department says US citizens should be extra
careful. And for Americans living near the border, even
their own backyard may not be as safe as they once thought.
Read more
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Americans Being Kidnapped, Held and killed in Mexico
Mar 4, 2008
Born in Tenn. 27 year old American from
El Paso Kyle Mostello Belanger- believed missing in Juarez
Mexico. Close friends and relatives believe he was a solder for
the El Paso Barrio Azteca gang. The real question here was Kyle
kidnapped taken to Juarez and murdered as some believe?
Read more
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Mexico City bomb query moves closer to drug cartel
Mar 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY, March 4 (Reuters) - A
probe into a botched bomb attack in Mexico City moved closer to
the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel on Tuesday as a top prosecutor
said an arms dealer from the northwestern state ordered the
attack.
Read more
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Too little, too late?
Feb 26, 2008
The older brother of a man who died
while vacationing at a resort in Cancun last May feels a recent
federal safer international travel initiative is too little and
is too late to be an effective preventive safety measure for
Canadians abroad.
Read more
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‘I Will Never Return to Mexico’
Feb 25, 2008
Amid a surge of American kidnappings at
the U.S.-Mexico border, a survivor's story.
Roberto, a San Diego machinist in his mid-30s, used to visit his
family across the border in Tijuana every few weeks. But in the
summer of 2005, while he was relaxing at a family home there, a
group of approximately 20 masked men burst in suddenly
Read more
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Students Warned About Spring Break Travel To Mexico
Feb 21, 2008
In a letter to students, SDSU Police
Chief John Browning urged them to consider the recent wave of
violence in Mexico before traveling south for the spring
vacation. The letter does not directly state that students
should not travel to Mexico, but it says students should take
precautions if they decide to go there.
Read more
Charles Lanier, 51, pastor of the Unity
Fellowship Church, was reported missing last Friday. His family
said he went to the store and never returned home.
Read more
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Is Mexico's Drug War Escalating?
Feb 19, 2008
German tourist Jurgen Kohl was window
shopping in Mexico's trendy Zona Rosa district last Friday
afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a
thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes
later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find
three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a
crude plastic explosives device. Read more
The one-time party mecca is a ghost of
its former self. But merchants say beautification efforts and
police crackdowns have left downtown safer and spiffier than in
years. Read more
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Boy dies in Mexico after falling in contaminated river
Feb 15, 2008
Mexico City - An 8-year-old boy died at
a hospital in the western Mexican state of Jalisco after falling
into a contaminated river and being poisoned with a substance
that could be arsenic, Mexican media reported Friday. The boy
fell into the Santiago river, in the municipality of El Salto,
on January 27. He was rescued from the water, then spent 19 days
in a coma before his death. Read more
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Bomb explodes in Mexico City killing at least one
Feb 15, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — At least one person
died and two others were injured after a bomb exploded in Mexico
City's central tourist area Friday, the city's Public Security
Chief Joel Ortega said.
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What Mexico's president said at Harvard
Feb 12, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mexican President
Felipe Calderon on Monday decried anti-immigrant perceptions in
the United States and argued that Mexican immigrants complement
American workers.
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Mexican leader urges U.S. action on drug cartels
Feb 11, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Feb 11 (Reuters) -
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said closing the border would
be a "very, very big mistake" for the U.S. economy, although he
urged Washington on Monday to do more to fight illegal drug
cartels.
Read more
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Erosion transforms Mexico beaches
Feb 10, 2008
My perfect beach paradise
is gone. Not gone entirely, thankfully,
but severely damaged, and almost overnight.
Blame Mother Nature or the human response, but
this much is clear: There are no guarantees when
it comes to planning the perfect vacation.
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Mexican gangs try to bribe army as drug war flares
Feb 8, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb 8 (Reuters) -
Mexican drug gangs are trying to corrupt the army into siding
with them in a turf war near the U.S. border, threatening to
blunt President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the cartels.
Read more
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Soldiers take arsenal in marijuana bust
Feb 8, 2008
MEXICO CITY - Mexican soldiers seized
nearly 10 tons of marijuana, a machine gun, scores of assault
rifles and three grenades in a raid just across the border from
Texas, the military said. Read more
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Kidnappings of U.S. citizens on rise
Feb 6, 2008
Organized, well-financed and violent
Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S.
citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other
California residents. Read more
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Number of San Diego Tourist Kidnapped While in Mexico is Up
Feb 6, 2008
The number of San Diego tourists
kidnapped and held for ransom while in Mexico is up, it was
reported Wednesday Read more
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Violence in Mexico Costing Tourism Dollars
Feb 5, 2008
NUEVO PROGRESO, Mexico - Nuevo
Progreso's tourism market has dropped more than 50 percent.
Bloody violence in Rio Bravo and Reynosa has plummeted border
business. Read more
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Stay out of Mexico
Jan 30, 2008
Here's a stat for southbound snow-birds
to ponder: In less than a year, three Canadian tourists have
accidentally "fallen" to their deaths from hotel balconies in
Mexico. Read more
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MEXICO: Crime-Ridden City Where Anything Goes - And
Frequently Does
Jan 29, 2008
"Keep your heads down, close your eyes
and put your hands on your knees, bitches," said the man who
climbed into the old taxi, holding up the couple inside at
gunpoint. Seconds later another man joined him, wielding a
butcher’s knife. Another armed robbery in the Mexican capital
was under way. Read more
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Mexico is proving a deadly vacation spot for Canadians
Jan 29, 2008
Twenty years ago the only warning
Canadians heard before travelling to Mexico was “beware of
Montezuma’s Revenge,” a colloquial reference to the unhappy
consequences of eating food that isn’t properly washed. Today,
Canadians travelling to Mexico appear to need instructions on
how to navigate hotel balconies. In less than a year, three
Canadians have apparently fallen to their deaths from hotel
balconies in Mexico. Read more
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Another Canadian dies in fall in Mexico
Jan 29, 2008
SELKIRK, Man.—The family of a Manitoba
man who Mexican authorities claim died after falling off a
10th-floor balcony say the autopsy raises disturbing questions.
“They said that he just had trauma . . . to the back of the
head,” Michelle Iwasiuk, the victim’s sister, told CTV Winnipeg.
Read more
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Culver makes progress in Mexico wedding theft case
Jan 29, 2008
The office of U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson,
D-Stafford, has become involved in a local judge's quest to
resolve a large-scale theft that rocked a Mexican destination
wedding in November. Read more
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U.S. working to help contain drug violence in Mexico
Jan 26, 2008
U.S. officials are warily watching
Mexico's fierce response to the escalating drug violence
plaguing border cities, fearful that the bloody gun battles
erupting in places like Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez may soon
break out on the U.S. side. Read more
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Mexico's Narco-Insurgency
Jan 25, 2008
Mexican federal police officers escort
detained men from a home in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
Eleven alleged hit men for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel were
captured. Read more
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Baja
tourist bid enters crisis mode
Jan 24, 2008
TIJUANA – With cross-border visits
showing marked declines, business and tourism officials in Baja
California are going into full-scale damage control in hopes of
regaining ground lost over the past year. Read more
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Marked by assassins, chief fights criminals and apathy in
Tijuana
Jan 24, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico - The bullet holes
pockmarking the walls of his home were just three days old when
Alberto Capella Ibarra took over the police force of this
violence-plagued city. Read more
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Kidnap victims found dead after Mexico gunfight
Jan 19, 2008
The bodies of six kidnap victims were
found inside a house in Mexico yesterday following a three-hour
shootout between gunmen and soldiers and police.
Read more
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Foreign Affairs probes another Canadian death
Jan 19, 2008
Consular officials are investigating an
accident in Mexico that killed a Canadian and injured another
this week, as questions still swirl around another Canadian's
death in Acapulco.
Read more
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Violence Spirals Out of Control South of
The Border
Jan 18, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hit men
from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor
by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war
that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control. Read more
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A Deadly Turf War Over Cuban Illegals
Jan 18, 2008
Policemen hold a suspected gunman who
was injured after a shootout in Cancun, Mexico, January 12,
2008.
Read more
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Gunmen kill six, including three police officers in N Mexico
Jan 16, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- At
least six people died, including three police officers, and four
more were injured in three separate armed attacks on Tuesday in
northern Mexico, local authorities said. Read more
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3 top Tijuana police slain, along with wife, daughter of 1
of them
Jan 16, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen assassinated
three Tijuana police officers, along with the wife and daughter
of one of them, shortly after the police arrested several men on
charges of organized crime.
Read more
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With conflict in one way or another
since 1979, Afghanistan is one of the poorest and most dangerous
nations on earth. A typical extreme tourist trip to Afghanistan
should include encountering Taliban terrorists, being kidnapped
for ransom, visiting the opium fields and getting shot at by
warlord controlled heroin barons.
Read more
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Cancun Beaches in Danger
Jan 15, 2008
CANCUN - The beaches in Cancun are in
danger of disappearing, and the state government of Quintana Roo
is doing whatever it can to save this main tourist attraction on
the Mexican Caribbean. Read more
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Shootout kills 1, wounds 4 in Cancun, Mexico
Jan 14, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico -- A shootout between
heavily armed gunmen and police in downtown Cancun killed one
person and wounded four, officials said.
Read more
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Woman Dies Of Disease After Visit To Mexico
Jan 14, 2008
The disease is passed on through an
infected mosquito bite. According to health officials, about 150
Americans become infected each year. It's rarely fatal, but
there is no treatment and no vaccine. Read more
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Mexico shootout kills 1, wounds 4
Jan 13, 2008
One person has been killed and four
others wounded in a shootout between armed gunmen and the police
in downtown Cancun, Mexico.Read more
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Mexico violence draws mix reactions from Valley residents
Jan 12, 2008
WESLACO — Illinois natives Charles and
Kay Shaw sat comfortably at a bar in Mexico Tuesday sipping
margaritas, enjoying warm weather and retired living.
Read more
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Helpful Advice for Tourists Traveling to Mexico
Jan 10, 2008
The recent outbreak of gun violence
occurred in Rio Bravo earlier this week. The violence didn't end
there, in Reynosa more people were gunned down.. Read more
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Tijuana crime scaring away tourists
Jan 9, 2008
A rise in violent crime in Tijuana has
put a damper on American tourism, which the city relies on
heavily. Dan Grech reports.
Read more
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Mexico adds police as drug killings mount
Jan 8, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, Jan 8 (Reuters) -
Mexico sent hundreds of police reinforcements to the border city
of Tijuana on Tuesday following a rash of organized crime
killings and as Mexican media said two cops were shot dead in
another northern town.
Read more
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A Vacation To Mexico's Baja Beaches May Not Be The Best
Choice Right Now
Jan 7, 2008
It seems that crime has become rampant
and armed and dangerous thugs are setting the tone for that
vacation magic you’re looking for Read more
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Crime-wary Americans shun popular strip of Mexican beaches
Jan 5, 2008
Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to
hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of
the border from San Diego
Read more
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Crime Fears Empty Mexico Beaches
Jan 3, 2008
PLAYAS DE ROSARITO, Mexico (AP) — Assaults on American
tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that
dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego.
Read more
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Smartraveller.gov.au Travel Advice (Mexico)
Dec 31, 2007
We advise you to exercise a high degree
of caution and monitor developments that might affect your
safety in Mexico because of the high level of violent crime.
Read more
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Mexico’s musicians are silenced
Dec 31, 2007
Sergio Gomez’s mutilated corpse was
found by the roadside in his home state of Michoacan
Read more
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Mexico is dangerous for student tourists
Dec 31, 2007
According to the U.S.
Department of State, crime in Mexico is at very high levels,
especially in Mexico City,
Tijuana, Acapulco, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, and the state
The entire police force of the Mexican
town, Rosarito has been disarmed. Their weapons have been
confiscated by the Mexican army under the suspicion of working
with the drug trafficking gangs.
Read more
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Police disarmed in Mexican town
Dec 29, 2007
The Mexican army has confiscated guns
from the entire police force of the town of Rosarito, near the
Mexican border with the US.
Read more
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Surf's up, and so is the crime rate on Baja's beaches
Dec 25, 2007
ROSARITO, Mexico: Surfers talk
endlessly about waves — their size, their intensity, their roll.
And crime waves are no exception.
Read more
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Gunmen kill off-duty Mexican soldiers at mall
Dec 25, 2007
MONTERREY, Mexico, Dec 19 (Reuters) -
Suspected hitmen killed three off-duty soldiers at a shopping
mall in Mexico, the government said on Wednesday
Read more
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A
new website has been launched to create awareness about the
dangers that await travelers to Mexico, and to establish a forum
for victims and families to tell their stories.
Read more
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The 'Merida Initiative' Proposal
Dec 19, 2007
In a nation where drug kingpins have
infiltrated many state and local governments, and where
infighting among drug traffickers has cost more than 4,000 lives
in the past 22 months
Read more
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Musician killings highlight unrelenting violence in Mexico
Dec 16, 2007
High-profile deaths have
left many in Mexico feeling more vulnerable to
drug violence. MEXICO CITY — Mexico is
reeling from the gruesome executions of three
popular musicians this month in a record year
for drug violence, despite a yearlong military
operation against Mexico's major drug cartels.
Read more
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Mexico drug cartels still pack power in crackdown
Dec 11, 2007
RIO BRAVO, Mexico, Dec 11 (Reuters) -
Mexican soldiers fan out across a desert highway and Hummer
military vehicles train their automatic weapons on run-down
buildings in a show of force against drug cartels in this dusty
U.S. border town.
Read more
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Popular Mexican singer slain
Dec 10, 2007
MEXICO CITY – Music fans in Mexico and
the Midwest were in mourning Tuesday over the brutal slaying of
a popular singer who formed his hit band in Chicago.
Read more
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Assassinations shock Mexican musicians
Dec 6, 2007
Mexican musicians are trying to close
ranks after assassins killed two singers in the space of a few
hours - following a year in which at least eight others in the
profession have died violently.
Read more
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Mexican police chief slain in war on drugs
Dec 6, 2007
TIJUANA: Gunmen have killed the police
chief of a Mexican city bordering California, shooting him 50
times in an apparent revenge attack after police found a
drug-smuggling tunnel under the border.
Read more
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Mexico
police chief murder linked to border tunnel
Dec 4, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen killed the
police chief of a Mexican city bordering California Tuesday by
shooting him some 50 times in an apparent revenge attack after
police found a drug-smuggling tunnel under the border.
Read more
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A spate of recent reports in the US
press about carjackings, highway robberies and violent crime in
Baja California, Mexico is threatening to destroy tourism.
Read more
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Baja officials to crack down on extortion
Dec 3, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A wave
of violent carjackings and other assaults is impacting tourism
in Baja California as a new administration there cracks down on
corrupt police officers.
Read more
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Sophisticated Robbers Target Tourists in Baja California
Dec 3, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Masked bandits have
attacked and robbed Baja California tourists at least seven
times in recent months, acting with paramilitary precision and
making off with cash and expensive vehicles, it was reported
Saturday.
Read more
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U.S. renews warnings to Baja travelers
Nov 25, 2007
Driving into Baja California may be
losing its appeal for some North County travelers, as U.S.
government advisories, Internet chatter and hand-wringing around
local surf shops warn of increased trouble for American
motorists in northern Mexico.
Read more
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Mexico: Balconies Killing Canadians
Nov 24, 2007
CTV reports since 1994 28 Canadian
Tourists have met their demise under mysterious circumstances
while vacationing in Mexico. This is the third such Canadian
death in less than three years, two of these deaths in 2007
attributed to what Mexican authorities state is tourists falling
off balconies, certainly contradicts others who state a violent
murder was committed. Read more
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Danger south of the border - CNN
Nov 18, 2007
Mexico is a popular tourist spot, but
CNN's Kara Finnstrom reports visitors need to beware of crime
dangers.
See the video
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Mexico drug hitmen
snatch buddy's body from morgue
Nov 15, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov 15 (Reuters) -
Twenty heavily armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow
trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a
dramatic helicopter crash, police said on Thursday.
Read more
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Shoot out blazes in Mexico as navy fights drug gang
Nov 9, 2007
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican
naval officers fought a ferocious gun battle with suspected drug
hitmen outside a shopping center in the northern port city of
Tampico on Friday, witnesses and Mexican media said.
Read more
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Huge drug haul belonged to Mexico's top drug lord
Nov 5, 2007
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cocaine
shipment seized by Mexico last week could have been worth as
much as $2.7 billion on U.S. streets and the Mexican government
said on Monday it belonged to Mexico's most wanted man, drug
lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Read more
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Mexico travel warnings as floods hit Tabasco
Nov 2, 2007
Holidaymakers are being advised to stay
in close contact with their tour operators after floods hit the
Tabasco region of Mexico. The Foreign Office reports as much as
30cm of rain has fallen in 48 hours in Villahermosa, the state
capital, affecting 400,000 people.
Read more
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Local judge's family victimized during Mexico wedding trip
Nov 1, 2007
It happened over the weekend at his
daughter’s wedding in Tulum, Mexico. A wedding south of
the border hit a sour note for this couple when thieves decided
to attend. Seventy guests flew in for the event at the Eurostars
Blue Resort south of Cancun.
Read more
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MEXICO:Most Dangerous Latin American
Country for Journalists
Oct 16, 2007
"Journalist’s Murder Condemned",
"Newspaper Editor Reported Missing", "Organised Crime May Lurk
Behind Disappearance of Newscaster". Headlines like these appear
ever more frequently in Mexico, the most dangerous country in
Latin America for journalists to ply their trade.
Read more
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US, Mexico pledge more than 8 billion dollars to fight drug
trade
Oct 16, 2007
The United States on Tuesday unveiled a
multi- billion dollar plan to combat the drug trade and
organized crime in Mexico. The project would span over many
years and include military equipment and grants of 1.5 billion
dollars from Washington...
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ROUNDUP: Nineteen people killed in single day in Mexico
Oct 9, 2007
Nineteen people were killed Monday in
Mexico, in attacks carried out in several states, according to
media reports from Tuesday. The daily El Universal reported that
1,981 people have suffered violent deaths in Mexico so far this
year.
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Murders and kidnappings hit record levels in Mexico
Sept 23, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Gangland-style murders
and kidnappings reached record levels in Mexico during the first
half of the year, a new report from Mexico's congress has found,
making Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries.
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Mexico becoming one of world's
more dangerous countries
Sept 23, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe
Calderon's tough new war on drug trafficking, which has sent
thousands of Mexican Army troops into the countryside and a
record number of drug suspects to the United States for trial,
failed to quell violence in the first half of the year.
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Mexico crime continues to surge
Sept 22, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Federal crimes such as
gangland-style murders and kidnappings reached record levels in
Mexico during the first half of the year, a new report from
Mexico's Congress found, making Mexico one of the world's most
dangerous countries.
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Honest cops the goal of Mexican academy
Sept 18, 2007
MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child,
Israel Martínez Bermúdez has wanted to become something
relatively rare in a nation fraught with centuries-old
corruption: an honest and able cop.
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Mexico is 'out of control'
Sept 17, 2007
Unlike Iraq, there is no war in Mexico.
At least officially. Despite that, the country is one of the
most dangerous to work in as a journalist in the world, second
only to Iraq.
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