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Hours after a Calgary
woman found bloody and
beaten in her swank
resort hotel last week
arrived back home for
treatment, Mexican
authorities announced
Friday they had nabbed a
Mazatlan man in the
high-profile case.
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Canadian Sheila Nabb –
badly beaten in a luxury
resort in Mexico – was
cared for like a queen
in a country that too
often treats its own
women worse than
animals. But her case
and the ironic presence
of a North American
women's-rights
delegation headed by
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Jody Williams are
ratcheting up pressure
for change. It just may
happen – if only because
misogyny puts a nasty
damper on tourism.
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The Mexican city of
Mazatlan was on the
Canadian government's
list of dangerous
destinations long before
Calgary's Sheila Nabb
was viciously beaten in
a luxury hotel elevator.
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An
expert on Mexican
security says the story
of an Ontario man who
was viciously attacked
last March sounds like a
familiar scam targeting
tourists in the country.
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An
Ontario couple has come
forward with their story
of being attacked and
scammed in Mexico.
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Canadians have long
sought refuge from this
country's bitter winter
cold in the sizzling
heat of sun-soaked
Mexico. But it seems
paradise isn't always
perfect.
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A former guest at the
Mexican resort where a
Calgary woman was
brutally beaten this
week says she she isn't
surprised by the attack.
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The recent attack on
Calgary's Sheila Nabb at
a luxury resort in
Mexico reminded
Canadians that one of
their favourite tropical
getaways isn't always
safe.
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Sheila Nabb, who was
found badly beaten in an
elevator in a five star
hotel, is just the
latest Canadian to
become a victim of
violent crime while
staying in a luxurious
Mexican resort.
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Officially, Jeff Toews
was wasted on booze and
cocaine, making his fall
from a Cancun resort
balcony an unfortunate
mishap.
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Adam DePrisco, 19, was
killed outside an
Acapulco nightclub while
on vacation in January
2007. Local police said
the Woodbridge teen was
involved in a
hit-and-run accident,
but a friend with
DePrisco said he was
beaten and thrown out of
a bar after dancing with
a man’s girlfriend.
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The parents of a Long
Island Marine combat
veteran who died
mysteriously while
vacationing with his
girlfriend in Cancun are
convinced their son met
with foul play.
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Consular officials are
in contact with the
family of a young
Canadian woman who was
reportedly beaten
unconscious in a hotel
in Mexico's Mazatlan
resort region and are
pressing for an
investigation into the
incident, according to a
statement released
Sunday.
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A
69-year-old Penticton
man threw his wife to
the ground seconds
before taking a bullet
himself as an innocent
bystander in a suspected
gangland shooting in
Mexico.
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A
Honduras metropolis, San
Pedro Sula, topped the
list with 159 murders
per 100,000 inhabitants,
Mexico's Citizen Council
for Public Safety and
Criminal Justice said.
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Texans who normally
travel into Mexico by
vehicle have been
limiting their trips to
only essential touring
or needs because of
escalating crime against
U.S. citizens.
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The perception of safety
in Mexico improved in
2011 from 2010 while
remaining below 2009
levels as violence
attributed to organized
crime continued to claim
thousands of lives and
grab headlines, and
reported- common-crime
numbers rose from a year
earlier, according to
government data.
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The tourism industry
insists that the Mexican
resort destination
Puerto Vallarta is still
safe for Canadian
visitors, despite the
killing this week of a
former Saltspring Island
man in Melaque.
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Canadian consular
officials are now
working closely with
authorities in Mexico as
they try to track down
the killers of a B.C.
man.
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About 12,000 people were
slain last year in
Mexico’s surging drug
violence, according to
grim tallies reported
Monday by the country’s
leading media outlets.
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About 12,000 people were
slain last year in
Mexico’s surging drug
violence, according to
grim tallies reported
Monday by the country’s
leading media outlets.
Annual indexes of
torture, beheadings and
the killing of women all
showed increases.
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Drug war analyst and
former UN official
Samuel Gonzalez says the
problem in Mexico does
not have to do with the
police or judges, but is
bigger because it is
rooted in a government
that is “incapable of
guaranteeing the
security” of the people.
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Christmas is a difficult
time for Louis
Lillywhite. Not only is
it the anniversary of
his mother's death but
the large house in West
London that he shares
with his brother Jamie –
in which they used to
live with their mother –
falls silent as their
other housemates go home
for the festive season.
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As
the Mexican government
continues its crackdown
on organized crime, the
country’s civil society
is finding itself
exposed to acts of
extreme violence. No
sector has been spared:
environmentalists, human
rights activists,
indigenous leaders,
journalists, students,
and university
professors have all been
targeted.
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The Acapulco municipal
government fired two
local police officers
Thursday who were
accused of robbing a
Canadian visitor in the
popular tourist city.
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An
American teenager who
was found dead on
Christmas Eve in Mexico
had gone to see his
girlfriend the day he
died and didn't tell
relatives, perhaps
fearing they wouldn't
let him go, according to
Mexican prosecutors'
documents obtained
Wednesday by The
Associated Press.
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Three U.S. citizens
traveling to spend the
holidays with their
relatives were among
those killed in a spree
of shooting attacks on
buses in northern
Mexico, authorities from
both countries said
Friday.
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Without explanation,
Disney Cruise Line has
canceled four of Disney
Wonder's Mexican Riviera
cruises in December
2012.
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Update, December 19: In
response to Holland
America's announcement
that it is canceling
calls to Mazatlan in
January, February and
March 2012, the Mazatlan
Tourism Trust issued the
following statement: "We
are disappointed by
Holland America's recent
announcement to exclude
Mazatlan from cruise
itineraries ...
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A
recent vacation in
Mexico turned into a
nightmare for a
79-year-old Illinois
man. But it wasn't a
devastating bus crash
that almost killed
U.S.-born Alfonso
Acosta.
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Daniel Zavala left
Portland for Mexico in
spring 2010, chasing a
dream of returning with
his wife Gloria and
their three children to
the country where he was
born and raised.
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Heading south of the
border to shop for the
holidays or taking a New
Year's vacation at a
Baja Beach are
activities many San
Diegans used to enjoy as
a tradition. But for the
past several years,
fears of drug cartel
violence have kept
people away from Tijuana
and Baja California.
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Prosecutors in southern
Mexico said Tuesday they
found an AK-47 assault
rifle, hand grenades and
gasoline bombs at the
scene of a protest where
a violent clash between
student demonstrators
and police resulted in
the death of two
students.
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On
Dec. 1, 2006, within
hours of taking office
after the closest real
election in Mexican
history, President
Felipe Calderon ordered
his military and police
to confront the
drug-trafficking and
criminal organizations
flourishing in his home
state.
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Brighitte Cuesta Sanchez
answered the telephone
the same day a local
newspaper ran a
front-page story that
she was dead.
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Five years after its
president declared a war
on Mexico's drug
traffickers, a two-day
Guardian series of
articles and
interactives assesses
the scale of carnage
that on average kills
someone every hour. In
this first piece, we
look at Acapulco, the
tourist haunt now
haunted by fear, death
and countless acts of
brutality.
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The U.S. Justice
Department has
determined that an
American convicted in
Mexico of drug
trafficking was tortured
by authorities while in
Mexican custody, a move
that immediately freed
him from prison and
added troubling official
allegations of abuse in
Mexico's drug war.
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Nicole Moore was just
grateful to be alive
after Mexican doctors
stitched up her bitten
arm and sewed a chunk of
thigh back on after a
shark attack nearly
killed her.
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Get ready for the hard
sell if you’re
vacationing in Mexico.
The nation’s biggest
hotel chains are
aggressively pushing
travelers to join their
“hotel membership
clubs,” the latest
iteration of the
vacation timeshare.
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One moment, 8-year-old
Brent Midlock was
swimming in a shallow
saltwater pool at an
all-inclusive resort in
Playa del Carmen,
Mexico. The next, he was
gone.
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Mexico’s once buoyant
tourism industry is
feeling the impact of
the country’s ongoing
drug war. After a
warning by the US state
department, a major
American cruise line has
stopped docking in parts
of the Mexican Riviera.
Adam Raney reports.
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The Survivor producer
who is in jail awaiting
extradition to Mexico to
stand trial for the
murder of his wife,
Monica Burges, is eager
to talk to the media,
but he’s hit a major
roadblock.
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Mexican police found 26
corpses yesterday on a
main boulevard in
Guadalajara, the
nation’s second-largest
city, a local official
said yesterday.
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Suspected drug gang hit
men murdered at least 26
people and dumped their
bodies in the center of
Mexico's second city of
Guadalajara on Thursday
as a showdown between
rival drug gangs
intensified.
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It's the time of year
that people start
planning vacations. Data
from the Mexican
National Bank show
people visiting their
country is down.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico — This
city of dazzling hotels
and sunlit beaches rose
to fame as a playground
of Hollywood stars.
Today, Acapulco has now
earned a very different
reputation-for gangland
decapitations,
kidnappings and
extortion.
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Mexico is spending about
$30 million US over
three months to entice
North Americans beset by
winter to visit.
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In
the year after the
Mexican resort blast
that killed Ardrossan
resident Arlene
Ferguson, very little
has changed — except for
the families of those
who lost loved ones.
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As
Mexico's drug war grinds
on, killings in Acapulco
have almost tripled this
year to nearly 900,
making the Pacific
resort one of the most
violent cities in the
world and the
second-deadliest in the
country. The endless
reports of slayings have
kept the drug chaos on
the front page even as
killing slows in some
parts of Mexico, where
in 2010 the war claimed
a record 15,273 lives.
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Months after cruise
lines first began
boycotting Mazatlan,
we've been wondering:
What's going on these
days in the Mexican
Riviera port?
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Homicide was the leading
cause of death for 119
U.S. citizens who died
in Mexico and were
reported to the U.S.
State Department between
Jan. 1 and June 30,
according to statistics.
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The first half of 2011
was the most deadly
six-month period for
U.S. citizens in Mexico
over the past eight
years, according to U.S.
State Department data.
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The body of a US Airways
flight attendant killed
in Mexico arrived in
Phoenix Wednesday night.
Employees of the airline
held an emotional vigil
to pay respects to Nick
Aaronson before his body
was taken to Los Angeles
for a funeral on
Saturday.
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Mexican authorities
found eight bodies in a
remote area in Veracruz
state near a popular
tourist attraction, a
state government
official said.
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A
luxury car dealer and
three companions were
kidnapped by gunmen
outside a restaurant in
the Mexican Caribbean
resort city of Cancun,
prosecutors said.
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A
marine and a suspected
gunman were killed, and
three police officers
were wounded in a
shootout over the
weekend in Los Cabos, a
resort area in the
northwestern Mexican
state of Baja California
Sur, the Navy
Secretariat said.
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The mother of an
American flight
attendant found dead in
his Mexico City hotel
room posted on Facebook
that a suspect was
arrested over the
weekend for her son's
murder.
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Hundreds of people
cowered for about two
hours inside a shopping
mall in this resort town
Saturday while security
forces traded sporadic
gunfire with armed men
in the parking lot and
then searched stores for
suspects.
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Prosecutors said
Saturday that a
15-year-old boy has
confessed to running a
drug trafficking gang on
the Mexican resort
island of Isla Mujeres
and murdering two women
who reportedly worked as
drug dealers.
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Once bustling with
tourists, the port city
of Veracruz has become a
new battleground for
drug cartels. The
arrival of the
mysterious Mata-Zetas
(Zeta Killers) has left
hundreds dead, scared
off visitors and raised
questions about just how
much the local
government knows.
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People are dying in
Mexico’s drug wars every
day. The most recent
government numbers show
34,000 narco killings.
That would be like
wiping out the city of
San Juan. Tracking the
number of deaths is
difficult.
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Two and a half minutes
was all it took to
change Mexico's War on
Drugs and the life of
Samara Pérez Muñiz
forever.
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There are few things in
this world worse than
the Murder of
journalists, and Mexico
is seeing an
unprecedented number of
reporters killed.
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The federal government
wants countries popular
with sun-seeking
tourists to do more to
investigate crimes
involving Canadian
citizens.
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Gunmen opened fire on
former Solidaridad Mayor
Miguel Ramon Martin
Azueta in southeastern
Mexico, killing his
accountant, Quintana Roo
state Attorney General
Gaspar Armando Garcia
Torres said.
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Members of the large
American expatriate
community here in the
western state of Jalisco
have been largely spared
from the violence
engulfing parts of
Mexico, but there are
signs that the danger is
closing in.
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At
least 23 men and a woman
died in drug-related
violence last weekend in
the southern Mexican
state of Guerrero, with
most of the killings
occurring in the resort
city of Acapulco, the
Public Safety
Secretariat said.
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Twelve people have been
shot dead in two of
Mexico’s top tourist
spots, authorities said
Sunday, in two states
that have been hard hit
in the country’s spiral
of drug-related
violence.
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Twelve people have been
killed in two of
Mexico's tourist resorts
in two states that have
long been plagued by
drug-related violence,
authorities said Sunday.
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Mexican police have
found five decomposing
heads left in a sack
outside a primary school
in Acapulco.
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Sarah Jane Finnis, 26,
of Eastbourne, died in
Mexico in May last year,
but the cause of her
death remains unknown.
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A
man has wept as he told
an inquest how his wife,
from East Sussex, fell
ill and died while they
were on honeymoon in
Mexico.
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The U.S. State
Department noted in an
April 2011 bulletin that
drug violence has
increased markedly in
Mazatlan in recent
years, stating that
narcotics gang members
committed more than 300
murders in Mazatlan
during 2010, three times
the number of homicides
committed in 2009.
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As
Mexican President Felipe
Calderon was unveiling a
new campaign and TV
program Tuesday to draw
wary tourists back to
his country, a gang
dumped 35 bodies at a
busy intersection in the
tourist zone in the
coastal city of
Veracruz.
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A
couple have been found
hanging from a bridge in
the Mexican border city
of Nuevo Laredo after
being disemboweled and
mutilated by attackers.
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Cancun – A group of
suspected cartel hit men
fired gunshots at a
Mexican mayor's convoy,
but no one was killed or
wounded, officials said.
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Two dead bodies were
found this week hanging
from a bridge in the
northern border town of
Nuevo Laredo after the
victims had posted
information denouncing
drug gang activity.
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On
Thursday, a federal
prosecutor said that an
owner of a casino in
northern Mexico where 52
people died in an arson
attack received
extortion threats.
Bookmakers see this
situation as being very
problematic, and wonder
what will ultimately
happen.
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As
Mexico's drug war grinds
on, violent homicide has
overtaken car accidents
as the leading cause of
death of young people in
the country.
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A
police major was fatally
shot and one of his
subordinates wounded
Friday in southeastern
Mexico, the Quintana Roo
state Attorney General’s
Office said.
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Quintana Roo’s plush
Playa del Carmen, long a
haven for North American
and European tourists,
was the scene of
presumed narco violence
early this morning.
Shortly before 6:00 a.m.
Tourist Police Chief
Mario Gómez Frías was
shot several times and
found dead in his patrol
vehicle. He had
sustained a head wound.
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Recent fundraising
efforts provided funds
for a sonar search of
the 105-foot mothership
sportfisher Erik that
sank July 3 near Punta
Bufeo south of San
Felipe, but the effort
failed to find the boat
and provide closure to
the families of seven
men who disappeared in
the sinking.
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The fishing boat
belonging to a former
Jay resident missing
almost a week in the
Gulf of Mexico has been
found off the Mexican
coast, according to a
published report in a
Mexican newspaper.
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Masked gunmen killed at
least 53 people at a
casino in northern
Mexico on Thursday,
leaving it ablaze with
patrons trapped inside
in one of the worst
attacks in a major
Mexican city in years.
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A
little past midnight on
a recent Friday, Manuel
López, a 26-year-old
lawyer, accidentally
drives his beige
Volkswagen Polo into a
gun battle between rival
drug gangs in the
tourist resort of
Acapulco. As bullets
tear into his car, he
hits the brakes and
tries to run. He makes
it less than a yard
before falling dead.
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Texas - There has been
another shooting on a
lake along the
U.S.-Mexico border where
a Colorado man was
killed while jet skiing
nearly one year ago,
according to an incident
report released by a
South Texas sheriff's
office
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GUNMEN have hanged a man
from a pedestrian bridge
over a busy avenue in
the Mexican city of
Monterrey and shot him
dead in front of
motorists.
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The tourist zone of
Acapulco has been the
scene of several violent
acts during the height
of the summer tourist
season. In some cases
the violence has
directly affected the
tourists, and in others
they were simply
witnesses to exchanges
of gunfire,
assassinations, or the
burning of cars on the
Costera Alemán.
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Nothing sounds much
better than sun and
sandy beaches during a
long stretch of snow.
But before you begin
planning a winter trip
to Mexico or anywhere
else, it's important to
be informed about your
destination -- perhaps
more so than some people
tend to be.
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The mayor of a village
in central Mexico was
found dead Saturday one
day after he was
kidnapped, security
officials said, bringing
to five the number of
mayors killed in the
country this year.
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Authorities in Mexico
found the decapitated
bodies of four men and a
woman in Acapulco
Saturday, the latest in
a string of slayings in
the popular Pacific
resort this week.
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The bodies of nine
people with gunshot
wounds were found early
Saturday on a highway in
the western Mexican
state of Nayarit,
security officials said.
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Organized crime gangs
have killed at least 13
people over the past
four days in attacks on
taxi drivers and buses
in the Mexican resort
city of Acapulco,
officials in the Pacific
coast state of Guerrero
said.
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Five men were killed in
different places in
Acapulco, a resort city
on Mexico's Pacific
coast, the Guerrero
state Public Safety
Secretariat said.
Two men were gunned down
Tuesday on Miguel Aleman
avenue a short distance
from the Magico Mundo
Marino children's
entertainment center.
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Canada and Mexico will
do more to improve
security for Canadians
in the Latin American
country, Foreign Affairs
Minister John Baird said
on Monday.
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The suspected leader of
a Beltran Leyva drug
cartel cell in
Zihuatanejo, a city in
the southern Mexican
state of Guerrero, was
captured by army troops,
the Attorney General's
Office said Monday.
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Eight of the victims
were killed Sunday and
three on Saturday, said
a statement from the
public safety department
in the state of
Guerrero, where Acapulco
is located.
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“Disappointed,
disgusted, but not
surprised,” is Terra
Charmont’s reaction to a
recent decision by a
Mexican court not to
proceed with criminal
charges related to the
November 2010 explosion
at a hotel in Mexico
that killed Terra’s
husband and son, Chris
and John Charmont.
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The federal government
expressed disappointment
Friday with the decision
of a Mexican judge not
to proceed with criminal
charges in a 2010 hotel
explosion in Playa del
Carmen, Mexico, which
killed five Canadian
tourists and two Mexican
workers.
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Two men were hung alive
from a highway bridge in
the northern Mexican
town of Allende and then
killed with assault
rifles, a security
spokesman in Nuevo Leon
state said Thursday.
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Last week we highlighted
an interactive map of
the most dangerous
places for journalists
in Afghanistan. There
are places, though, that
are even more dangerous.
According to a report
from Reuters, at least
42 journalists have been
killed in Mexico over
the past five years,
making it more deadly
for reporters than
war-torn Afghanistan.
The figure comes from
the Committee to Protect
Journalists; the
country's own human
rights commission puts
the number at 50.
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In
a major upheaval in
Mexico's troubled
attorney general's
office, top prosecutors
in 21 of the country's
31 states and federal
district have abruptly
quit, officials
announced Monday.
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THE CASUALTY rate in
Mexico’s drug war is
higher than that of the
US war in Afghanistan,
leaving 40,000 dead in
the past five years,
mostly civilians. By
comparison, an armed
uprising in southeast
Mexico in January 1994
resulted in 150 deaths
yet prompted nationwide
peace rallies, a speedy
ceasefire and a national
dialogue.
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For many Americans,
vacationing in Mexico
doesn’t have the same
appeal it used to.
Not after drug lords
have killed thousands of
bystanders in recent
years. Or after the
warning the U.S. State
Department issued
against traveling to
that country during the
Fourth of July weekend.
It is just not a risk
worth taking for many
travelers.
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The murder investigation
into the gruesome death
of an Ottawa woman in
Mexico has yielded few
results and efforts to
identify her killer are
proving difficult a
month later.
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Back in the summer of
2010, Mexican Tourism
Secretary Gloria Guevara
stood before a crowd in
Beverly Halls and
proclaimed a new
strategy to recapture US
visitors. In a speech,
Guevara stressed the
myriad cultural
amenities her country
offers tourists.
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THE MAYOR of a town in
Mexico's northern
Zacatecas state was
found dead along with
one other man on
Thursday a day after
they were abducted,
bringing the total to
four mayors killed in
Mexico this year.
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The Los Zetas drug
cartel is suspected in
the kidnapping and
murder of a city mayor
and a prominent rancher
in western Mexico,
Zacatecas state Attorney
General Arturo Nahle
Garcia told Efe
Thursday.
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The family of Los
Angeles reality
television producer
Bruce Beresford-Redman
is preparing for a
showdown with Mexican
authorities who have
accused him of killing
his wife.
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a
“puzzling web of events”
has resulted in the
death of yet another
American in the Mexican
city of Ciudad Juarez,
across the international
border from El Paso,
Texas. BB reported that
three suspects were
arrested Wednesday in
connection with a man’s
kidnapping on July 5,
and a fourth suspect is
sought. The American was
found murdered the day
after the kidnapping.
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Chihuahua state
investigators on
Wednesday detailed a
puzzling web of events
they say led to the
kidnapping and eventual
slaying of a U.S.
citizen who was employed
at the U.S. District
Court in El Paso.
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Relatives of Canadians
recently murdered in
Mexico are complaining
that Canadian
authorities have not
done enough to find the
killers.
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The U.S. Consulate
General in Ciudad Juarez
issued an Emergency
Message for U.S.
citizens in the state of
Chihuahua, Mexico this
weekend. (“Emergency
Messages” were formerly
known as “Warden
Messages”).
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The motives for the
killings are not known,
but officials did not
rule out the possibility
that they are linked to
a dispute between rival
drug gangs.
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Nearly 1,300 children
and teenagers have died
in Mexico since the
beginning of the drug
war in December 2006,
the Network for the
Rights of Children (Redim)
said on Wednesday.
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Mexican authorities say
at least 12 state police
officers and a bystander
have been killed in an
ambush on a highway in
Mexico's western state
of Sinaloa.
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Authorities in Acapulco
say two Mexican tourists
have been killed in a
gun attack at a
restaurant on the main
oceanfront avenue in the
tourist zone of the
Pacific resort. Two
other people are
wounded.
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The former campaign
manager of a Cancun
mayor arrested on drug
charges says a judge has
freed the politician on
those charges but
federal prosecutors have
detained him again.
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Following the recent
arrests of drug cartel
suspects, the United
States on Friday warned
Americans traveling to
or from Chihuahua,
Mexico, that U.S. border
crossings and the local
consulate could become
the targets of attacks.
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Funeral services took
place Wednesday in San
Francisco for the only
passenger who has been
confirmed dead in a
fishing accident that
took place off the coast
of Mexico 10 days ago.
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The Coast Guard ended a
search on Tuesday for
seven California sports
fishermen, now presumed
dead, who have been
missing since the boat
they were on capsized
off western Mexico
earlier this month.
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Ten days after a tourist
fishing boat filled with
Bay Area men capsized in
the Sea of Cortez, the
shipwreck's survivors
gathered Wednesday to
memorialize one of the
dead, even as family
members of those still
missing pressed U.S.
officials to continue
the search.
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The gruesome find of a
woman’s severed head on
the hood of an abandoned
truck in northern Mexico
– left as a bloody
calling card, leading
police to 10 decapitated
bodies inside – caps a
weekend of drug cartel
violence, reportedly
killing more than 40.
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A senior citizen from
Chilliwack, B.C. says
she had her vacation
home in Mexico stolen
out from under her after
she was duped into
trusting the wrong
person.
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The attack takes place
in the downtown of
Monterrey, a prosperous
and once-orderly
industrial hub hit by
over a year of fighting
between the Zetas, known
as the country's most
violent drug gang, and
the Gulf cartel.
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Fighting among the Zetas
gang and other vicious
drug cartels led to the
deaths of more than 40
people whose bodies were
found in three Mexican
cities over a 24-hour
span, a government
official said Saturday.
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As
the storm tossed the
115-foot fishing boat in
and out of giant swells
in the Sea of Cortez,
the anchors slammed
against the bow of the
boat, making it
difficult for Dave
Levine and his two
bunkmates to sleep last
weekend.
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A
survivor of the sunken
fishing ship off the
Coast of Mexico says it
was like the Titanic..
It's been nearly a week
since the fishing boat
"The Erik" sank in the
Sea of Cortez. Seven men
are still missing and
hope is waning. One
survivor, however, is
home on Saturday and
said he's not giving up
on his friends.
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The Bay Area fishermen
who survived when their
boat capsized off the
Mexico's Baja Coast this
past weekend were
expected to return home
Thursday.
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Relatives of seven
Americans missing since
a tourist boat capsized
off the coast of Mexico
over the weekend remain
hopeful that their loves
ones will be rescued, a
family spokesman said.
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The captain of the
fishing boat that
capsized over the
weekend in the Sea of
Cortez has been arrested
in connection with the
sinking of his ship, the
son-in-law of one of the
missing passengers said.
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The Mexican Navy won't
call off the search
Thursday morning as
originally planned,
according to family of
some of the men still
lost at sea after their
fishing boat capsized
Sunday.
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Tourism Secretary Gloria
Guevara asked the United
States on Monday to set
time limits for warnings
issued to U.S. tourists
on travel to Mexico.
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The U.S. Coast Guard and
Mexican Navy are
scouring the Sea of
Cortez by boat and
helicopter in a
continuing effort to
locate the seven U.S.
tourists still missing
after the sinking of a
charter boat off the
coast of Mexico Sunday.
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A search is underway in
the Gulf of California
after a sudden storm
overturns a tour boat
carrying 27 Americans
and 17 crew members.
Some survivors swam for
miles before being
rescued.
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Mexican officials are
looking into calling off
the search and rescue
for survivors of a
chartered fishing boat
that capsized off
Mexico's Baja California
peninsula and focus on
recovery efforts.
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The state of Texas
warned U.S. citizens on
Saturday to stay away
from the border town of
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
over the July 4 weekend,
saying that the violent
Zetas drug cartel was
targeting vacationers
there.
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Security concerns have
caused one cruise line
to cancel upcoming calls
at two popular ports on
Mexico's Pacific Coast.
But local travel agents
said that Mexico's
tourist areas continue
to provide a secure spot
for a vacation at a
great price.
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Attorneys for former
"Survivor" producer
Bruce Beresford Redman
announced Tuesday they
plan to fight his
extradition to Mexico to
face charges in the
murder of his wife
Monica more than a year
ago in Cancun.
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In the latest round of
bad news for travel to
Mexico, Princess Cruises
pronounced parts of
Mexico still not safe
Monday and that they
would not be calling on
Puerto Vallarta or
Mazatlan any time soon.
That's double-bad news
for a struggling Mexico
that just wrapped up a
week-long anti-crime
campaign among other
efforts to rebuild
tourism. Our ongoing
coverage continues.
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In a major development
for Mexican Riviera
cruising, industry giant
Princess has canceled
calls in Puerto Vallarta
for the rest of the
year, citing safety
concerns.
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A journalist, his wife,
and their 21-year-old
son were shot to death
inside their home in
this Gulf coast city
Monday, authorities
said.
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One cold Christmas
morning growing up in
England, my younger
brother, Daniel, and
myself received
identical blood-red
Manchester United soccer
kits.
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More violence over a
wider area in Mexico has
caused the U.S. State
Department to expand a
warning against travel
to the country.
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Your loved one is in a
foreign country, in the
hospital or maybe
they're stuck in prison,
accused of a crime they
didn't commit. It's a
con that took a local
man for thousands of
dollars in cash twice in
the same day.
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Seven municipal police
officers were arrested
in connection with the
kidnapping, torture and
murder of a marine in
the eastern state of
Veracruz, the Mexican
Navy Secretariat said.
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The scrawled note left
beside a woman's
headless body in this
already murder-mired
city offered a simple
promise.
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Mexico’s concern about a
bad image
internationally from its
war with drug cartels
rose again this week
amid negative publicity
in the United States.
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Two dead men have been
found hanging by their
hands off highway
bridges around the
northern Mexico city of
Monterrey in less than
24 hours, police said
Tuesday, in a display
characteristic of
Mexico's drug cartels.
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Four additional bodies
were unearthed from
clandestine graves in
the Mexican Pacific
resort city of Acapulco,
bringing the total so
far to 14, the Guerrero
state police said.
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For several years,
Mexico's tourism
industry has weathered
the storm of violence in
the country, persuading
vacationers to visit its
beaches and ancient
ruins on promises that
drug-related crime
wouldn't affect their
travels.
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Mexico's drug war has
claimed more than 34,000
lives in the past four
years. Despite the
increasingly bleak
headlines that often
mention shootouts,
beheading and mass
graves, Americans have
continued to visit the
troubled country --
until now.
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Another Canadian has
been killed in Mexico,
this time in Puerto
Vallarta. Global News
takes a look at
Canadians who have died
there in the past
several years.
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Greenpeace, an
international
organization that
prioritizes global
environmental campaigns,
has accused Mexico’s
government of promoting
“speculation and the
destruction of
ecosystems,” in the
country, and also says
the government has
promoted a “policy of
tourism completely
incompatible with
protection of the
environment.”
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Mexican Federal Police
officers captured the
suspected leader of the
Los Zetas drug cartel in
the southeastern state
of Quintana Roo, federal
authorities said
Saturday.
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For vacationing
Canadians, Mexico is a
haven of rest and
recreation. But outside
the cloistered confines
of resorts, death takes
no holiday for
journalists trying to
expose the brutality and
corruption surrounding
the country’s ongoing
“war on drugs.”
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Shootings and attacks in
Mexico's Pacific coast
resort of Acapulco left
two police officers,
three suspected drug
cartel gunmen and two
other men dead, police
said Monday.
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ALONG THE USUMACINTA
RIVER, Mexico — If the
border that separates
the United States and
Mexico is fairly easy to
penetrate, then Mexico's
other border — the
southern one, abutting
Guatemala — is virtually
a sieve.
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A
total of 28 men were
killed and four others
were wounded in a gun
battle between members
of rival gangs in the
western Mexican town of
Ruiz, the deadliest of
several violent
incidents in recent
hours in different parts
of the country.
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The Mexican business and
economic newspaper, El
Economista, is reporting
the startling decline of
cruise ship arrivals in
Mexico. The report
starts at the peak year
of 2007 where the
country’s tourism sector
saw 797 cruise ships
dock in ports. Most
years since then there
has been a decline in
dockings.
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Mexican President Felipe
Calderon is touting 2011
as the year of tourism,
and the Mexico Tourism
Board is spending
millions of dollars
plastering billboards
with images of the Great
Pyramid of Cholula and
underwater trees.
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In
one week Mexico has seen
the army called in to
break up a deadly riot
in one prison, and the
discovery of the severed
head of an official from
another, in signs of the
spiraling chaos inside
many of the country's
prisons.
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The widow of a man
killed while jet skiing
on a lake along the
Texas-Mexico border says
the U.S. government
needs to help find her
husband's body.
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President Felipe
Calderon continues to
wage war against the bad
habits that led to the
current bloody struggle
with drug gangs.
Calderon argues that
Mexico’s deep structural
and institutional
problems permitted the
unchecked expansion of
drug cartel power.
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Officials say a man shot
and killed in Mexico’s
capital last week was a
Canadian who owned an
air-conditioning company
in the country.
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Long known as Arizona’s
beach town, tourists and
business owners in Rocky
Point, Mexico, say a
recent State
Department’s travel
warning about this place
is unfair. Victims say
otherwise. They say
cartel violence in
Mexico has quietly crept
in and goes mostly
unreported.
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At
least 15 people were
killed on Saturday in
separate attacks in the
Mexican resort city of
Acapulco, La Jornada
newspaper reported
Sunday.
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Travelers headed to
Mexico are being warned
to stay away from
certain areas because of
the dangerous drug war,
but Valley business
owners say it's hurting
their operations.
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As
the drug war rages on in
Mexico, the country’s
press is becoming more
and more stifled.
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The death toll of
Mexico's drug war in
April has risen to
1,400, the highest
number of monthly
killings since the
beginning of the
government's anti-drug
campaign.
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The U.S. State
Department has expanded
travel warnings for
Syria and Mexico. The
department has advised
Americans in Syria to
leave and others to
defer travel, as the
Syrian government steps
up a crackdown against
pro-reform
demonstrators.
Nonessential U.S.
embassy staff and their
families were ordered to
leave, but the embassy
in Damascus remained
open for limited
services.
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More areas of Mexico
have been added to the
United States travel
warning, including all
Mexican states along the
border of Texas.
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A
record 111 U.S. citizens
were killed in Mexico
last year, nearly half
of them on or near the
Texas border, as the
country's gang-fueled
violence worsened,
according to the U.S.
State Department.
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Spreading drug violence
in Mexico has led the
U.S. State Department to
increase the number of
places it says Americans
should avoid for safety
reasons.
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In
the Border Battle -- the
U.S. State Department is
warning Americans to
stay away from even more
locations in Mexico now.
Cutting off
non-essential travel is
the new warning from the
State Department, and it
means that most
Americans should not go
to parts of 11 Mexican
states.
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Mexico was stunned by a
shocking new massacre
Monday after four women
and a teenage girl who
worked in an Acapulco
beauty parlor were found
stripped and
slaughtered.
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At
the largest mass grave
site ever found in
Mexico, where 177 bodies
have been pulled from
deep pits, authorities
say they have recovered
few bullet casings and
little evidence that the
dead were killed with a
gun.
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Five women, all
apparently connected to
a beauty parlor, were
found brutally murdered
in the Mexican beach
resort of Acapulco on
Saturday morning, state
police said.
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The U.S. State
Department has a fresh
warning that Americans
are in direct danger, of
the increasing violence
in Mexico.
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For the past 18 years,
folk musician Raymundo
Oregon has been playing
his accordion in one of
Mexico's favorite
destinations for
international tourists:
the beach resort of
Acapulco.
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A
tourist has been
attacked by a shark
after ignoring warnings
to stay out of the
water, according to a
lifeguard in the Mexican
resort of Cancun.
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Violence along the
Texas-Mexico border has
been an issue for quite
some time, but a video
shows just how brutal
things can get. Robert
Arnold reports.
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Javier Sicilia, a
Mexican poet who has
ceased writing verse
after the brutal murder
of his son and organized
large-scale rallies for
peace, is holding a
public sit-in to demand
justice while speaking
out about the problems
of a country he says is
"out of control."
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U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul,
R-Austin, gets it. When
drug cartel thugs order
mass kidnappings,
explode bombs, murder
scores of public
officials, behead
victims or hang them
from overpasses, and
post signs in
border-area cities
warning of more violence
if they don’t get their
way, that’s not mere
drug trafficking. That’s
terrorism.
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The Mexican Pacific
resort city of Acapulco,
which has been plagued
by a wave of
drug-related violence,
is dealing with an
unprecedented image
crisis, Guerrero state
Tourism Development
Secretary Graciela Baez
said.
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Top Story — The acting
head of the United
States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA)
said that countries
across the world are
concerned about the long
reach and influence of
Mexican drug cartels.
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The first question a
traveler asks these days
when considering a trip
to Mexico is not the
time-honored "How do I
avoid getting turista?"
or "How many pesos will
I get for my dollar?"
but "Is it safe?" Until
recently, the answer was
easy: Yes, if you keep
informed and stick with
the popular tourist
destinations. In the
past year, that has
begun to change.
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Less than two weeks ago,
Homeland Security
Department Secretary
Janet Napolitano told
reporters at the Bridge
of The Americas border
crossing in El Paso, TX,
that security along the
U.S./Mexican border “is
better now than it ever
has been,” and that the
so-called spillover
violence is not yet a
serious issue.
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A
retired Ontario couple
who spent the winter
touring Mexico in a
Winnebago says their
years of police training
helped them fend off
eight gunmen during an
ambush near the U.S.
border.
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The mother of a man who
fell to his death on
holiday is still looking
for closure after an
open verdict was
recorded in the case.
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The brutal violence
terrorizing Mexican
border towns hit home
for a Colorado family
Thursday. Armed
commandos killed an
Aurora man in Mexico
Wednesday, according to
the family and several
Mexican media reports.
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Tiffany Hartley, the
wife of the American
believed to have died in
a hail of bullets while
jet-skiing on the border
of Texas and Mexico,
marked sixth months
since the incident by
calling on the U.S.
government do more to
find and bring home his
body.
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Today marks the
six-month anniversary of
the murder of David
Hartley. The McAllen man
reportedly shot and
killed by suspected drug
cartel members while
jet-skiing on Falcon
Lake. His wife Tiffany
survived the attack.
She's since moved to her
native Colorado.
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On
the six month
anniversary of his death
on Falcon Lake near the
Texas-Mexico border,
David Hartley's widow
continued to put
pressure on government
officials for answers in
the case.
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A Russian tourist, who
was spending her
vacation in the Mexican
resort city of Cancun,
was attacked by a shark.
According to local
police, the incident
occurred on Thursday.
The woman was
hospitalized with a
20-centimeter wound on
her leg. The tourist’s
name and the city which
she came from were not
disclosed.
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A
Phoenix family is
mourning the loss of a
26-year-old son and
brother they say was
senselessly murdered
while visiting family in
the Mexican border city
of Ciudad Juarez.
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A group of armed men
burst into a bar early
Saturday in the Mexican
resort city of Acapulco
and began shooting,
leaving 10 men dead and
four wounded, officials
said.
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"Oh, Mexico, it sounds
so simple, I just got to
go," James Taylor sang
in his idyllic 1975 ode
to our neighbors to the
south.
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As
eager colleges students
from around the country
prepare to leave school
for spring break, many
ask the question, where
is the best place to go
to have the most fun?
For parents, the
questions that are
pondered and even
discussed with their
children as they prepare
to leave are usually
somewhat different.
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Veronica Perez
Rodriguez, 35, an
archeology professor at
the University of
Northern Arizona was
kidnapped on Friday by
armed gunmen as she
visited her mother in
Ciudad Juarez..
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Students at Texas Tech
University can no longer
travel to Mexico for
study abroad this year
as a result of the
growing violence
spreading throughout the
country. Tech
administrators made the
decision just weeks ago
to cancel all programs
going to Mexico
immediately.
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Spring break arrives in
a few days and students
are eager to find a
place where they can get
their party on. Students
have already made plans
to travel to Mexican
resorts with lax
drinking laws, but state
and federal officials in
the US have warned that
because of the violent
drug war, no place is
totally safe.
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Offering sun, tequila
and south-of-the-border
bonhomie, Mexico is a
veritable paradise for
cash-strapped college
students out for a
spring break fling. But
this year's revelries,
set to begin next week,
have been dampened by
the sternest of warnings
from the DPS: Avoid
Mexico and stay alive.
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The University of
Houston is among the
colleges telling
students to stay out of
Mexico as officials say
it is just too
dangerous, even in the
resort cities that cater
to tourists.
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