Mexico
Honduras, Mexico through, Jamaica ousted in FIFA World Cup qualifying
(AFP)
20 Nov 2008 at 2:49am
AFP - Honduras defeated Mexico 1-0 with the help of an own goal on a waterlogged field to advance in 2010 South Africa World Cup qualifying at the expense of Jamaica.
Interpol probes leaks in Mexico office
(AP)
19 Nov 2008 at 6:50pm
AP - Interpol is sending a special investigative team to Mexico to determine whether sensitive information from its database on criminals and terrorists was leaked to drug cartels, the agency said Wednesday.
US museum head says Mexico should get Mayan jade
(AP)
18 Nov 2008 at 8:39pm
AP - The director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul dredged the artifacts from the sacred lake at the ruins of Chichen Itza.
Head of Interpol Mexico arrested for drug ties
(Reuters)
18 Nov 2008 at 8:19pm
Reuters - Mexico arrested its head of Interpol on Tuesday for allegedly working for a powerful drug cartel and sent the military to take over police duties in the city of Tijuana in another step to flush out corrupt law enforcement.
15th victim dies from Mexico City plane crash
(AP)
18 Nov 2008 at 4:33pm
AP - A woman has died from injuries sustained when a government jet crashed into rush-hour traffic in Mexico City two weeks ago, raising the death toll to 15.
Grenades explode outside Mexican daily’s offices
(AP)
17 Nov 2008 at 2:40pm
AP - A Mexican newspaper’s offices have been damaged by two grenades in the violence-plagued city of Culiacan in northwestern Mexico.
4 divers die while cleaning Mexico water duct
(AP)
16 Nov 2008 at 3:16pm
AP - Four scuba divers died while performing maintenance in an aqueduct that supplies Mexico City, authorities reported Sunday.
Who’s coming to dinner? Two dozen world leaders
(AP)
14 Nov 2008 at 9:02pm
AP - President George W. Bush greeted Mexico President Felipe Calderon at the White House for a working dinner on the financial crisis with a cheery “Hey, amigo, what’s up?”
Mexico City to give out Viagra to men 70 and older
(AP)
13 Nov 2008 at 8:41pm
AP - Mexico City is giving out free Viagra and other impotence drugs to men 70 and older.
Mexican teacher ties boy, 11, to chair for hours
(AP)
13 Nov 2008 at 6:53pm
AP - A human rights watchdog says a Mexican teacher tied up a fifth-grader for hours in what his parents called revenge for their stance against a teacher’s strike.
Shots fired near U.S. consulate in Mexico
(Reuters)
13 Nov 2008 at 6:18pm
Reuters - Shots were fired near a U.S. consulate in northern Mexico on Thursday, the third incident at the building in a month, and officials briefly suspended visa services, police and witnesses said.
Crime reporter shot dead in north Mexico border city
(AFP)
13 Nov 2008 at 12:41pm
AFP - Armed men shot dead a newspaper crime reporter in Mexico’s violent northern border city of Ciudad Juarez as he left for work on Thursday, the daily said on its website.
Mexico mass kidnap in spiral of suspected drug crime
(AFP)
13 Nov 2008 at 3:47am
AFP - Gunmen raided a farm in northwest Mexico this week and abducted 27 workers — who were still missing Thursday — in the latest daring attack blamed on Mexico’s warring drug cartels.
U.S. rules out sabotage in Mexico minister air crash
(Reuters)
12 Nov 2008 at 10:48pm
Reuters - U.S. investigators have turned up no evidence that sabotage or criminal activity caused a Mexican government jet to slam into rush-hour traffic last Tuesday, killing the country’s interior minister, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.
Mexican court upholds moderate leftist’s victory
(AP)
12 Nov 2008 at 9:51pm
AP - A Mexican court upheld a moderate’s victory in disputed leadership elections that deeply split the country’s main leftist party two years after it nearly won the presidency.
Armed men kidnap 27 people in Mexico
(AFP)
12 Nov 2008 at 1:30am
AFP - Armed men kidnapped 27 farm workers on property owned by a suspected member of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel, local state authorities said.
In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers
(Time.com)
11 Nov 2008 at 3:05pm
Time.com - Middle-class tourists taste the migrant experience - ants, gringos, lacerations and all - during a night hike not far from the U.S. border
Tiger escapes, kills caretaker at Mexico zoo
(AP)
11 Nov 2008 at 11:46am
AP - A tiger escaped from an unlocked cage at a commercial zoo and fatally mauled its caretaker before it was captured and killed, officials said Tuesday.
Mexico border city violence leaves 19 dead
(AFP)
10 Nov 2008 at 8:25pm
AFP - Suspected drug-related violence left 19 dead in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez, including a charred, armless body dumped at a police station, local officials said Monday.
US unveils Mexican consulate in busiest visa city
(AP)
10 Nov 2008 at 7:31pm
AP - U.S. State Department officials unveiled a massive new consulate Monday in Ciudad Juarez, a violent Mexican border town that is the world’s busiest for immigrant visas.
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