Category Archives: Mexico

Old remains of 167 people found in Mexican cave

By doris | Published: March 11, 2012

Full Story at Remains of 167 people found in Mexico cave – World news – Americas – msnbc.com MEXICO CITY — Authorities are investigating a mass grave in southern Mexico containing 167 bodies that may have been dumped there at least 50 years ago, a Mexican official said on Saturday. The remains, found in a [...]

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22 Carnival Cruise passengers robbed at gunpoint on ship-sponsored tour in Mexico

By doris | Published: February 27, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.cpm Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET — Twenty-two passengers on Carnival Splendor were robbed at gunpoint Thursday while on a ship-sponsored tour in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. At least one Mexican media outlet said the passengers were returning by bus to their ship at approximately 5 p.m. after spending time in El Nogalito, [...]

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Search under way for 10 oil workers in Gulf of Mexico

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company searched in rough seas Friday for 10 workers missing from a U.S.-owned oil vessel in the tropical-storm-roiled Gulf of Mexico. The workers, contracted by Texas-based Geokinetics, abandoned ship Thursday afternoon after Tropical Storm Nate caused their liftboat to take on water in the Bay of [...]

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More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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Billy the Kid photograph fetches $2.3 million at auction

By doris | Published: June 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 130-year-old photo, billed as the only authenticated picture of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid, sold for $2.3 million at a Denver auction Saturday night. The Kid reportedly paid 25 cents to have the photo taken in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The Old West Show & Auction had estimated [...]

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American college students a no-show in Acapulco

By doris | Published: March 29, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Acapulco, Mexico (CNN) — 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. The 56-year-old knows the seasons and the tourists. He’s seen the good times and the bad, and this is [...]

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Gunmen kill 2 kids, woman in Mexican resort

By doris | Published: March 15, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com MEXICO CITY – A convoy of gunmen chased their target into a home in the resort city of Acapulco and sprayed the residence with bullets on Tuesday, killing two small children and an elderly woman inside, authorities said. Police in Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, said witnesses reported the man [...]

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2011 was a record year for the world’s billionaires

By doris | Published: March 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com This 25th year of tracking global wealth was one to remember. The 2011 Billionaires List breaks two records: total number of listees (1,210) and combined wealth ($4.5 trillion). This horde surpasses the gross domestic product of Germany, one of only six nations to have fewer billionaires this year. BRICs led the [...]

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5 Americans killed in Mexico in past week

By doris | Published: November 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A U.S. university student was shot to death, becoming the fifth American slain in this violent border city in six days, Mexican and U.S. authorities said Wednesday. Eder Diaz, a student at the University of Texas at El Paso, was killed Tuesday evening along with a classmate, [...]

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Authorities seize 105 tons of marijuana in northern Mexico

By doris | Published: October 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have seized 105 tons of marijuana, the largest bust in years, the state news agency reported Monday. Security forces encountered several vehicles suspected of carrying the drug early Monday morning, Notimex said.

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Clinton: U.S. can do more to help Mexico fight drug cartels

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. can do more to help Mexico battle drug cartels that have started operating more like terrorists and insurgent groups. “It is one of my highest priorities,” Clinton said Friday during a speech in San Francisco at the nonpartisan Commonwealth Club. “This [...]

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Wife of American who went missing at lake pleads for help

By doris | Published: October 12, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office gave conflicting information Monday over whether authorities are pursuing a pair of suspects in the case of a U.S. citizen who disappeared during a sightseeing trip on the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas. While Luis Homero Uvalle, a spokesman for the office, [...]

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Igor lashes Canada; Georgette heads toward Mexico

By doris | Published: September 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The storm known as Igor was moving farther away from Canada on Wednesday morning, but could still produce hurricane-force winds in the area. As of 12:30 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET), Igor was about 445 kilometers (277 miles) east of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, according to the Canadian Weather [...]

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Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. declining

By doris | Published: September 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent as the sour economy dried up jobs and increased enforcement made it harder to sneak across the border with Mexico, a new study finds. Much of [...]

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BP ready to try again to stop oil flow, company says

By doris | Published: May 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday. The latest attempt will involve inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe, collecting oil and sending [...]

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Mexican violence scaring off American tourists

By doris | Published: March 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) — On Tijuana’s Avenue de la Revolucion, street vendor and sidewalk philosopher Juan Ramon Rocha leaned on his coin and jewelry cart and waited. But the tourists from across the border never rushed into the streets of T.J., as it’s often called. Rocha made one sale, to a [...]

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Victims with ties to U.S. were targeted, Mexican mayor says

By doris | Published: March 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — Authorities believe assassins targeted a pregnant woman and two other people connected with a U.S. consulate who were killed in drive-by shootings over the weekend, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Monday. The killings were carried out by a local gang, known as Los Aztecas, [...]

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U.S. renews travel alert to Mexico

By doris | Published: February 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States has renewed a travel alert to Mexico, citing increased violence in the country. The alert, issued Sunday by the State Department, is in effect until August 20 and supersedes an alert issued August 20, 2009. “Recent violent attacks have caused the U.S. Embassy to urge [...]

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Thousands mourn slain teacher

By doris | Published: January 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Thousands stuffed the bleachers on both sides of a California high school football field Monday night to remember a beloved teacher who was slain in Mexico a few days ago. Grieving family members, friends and residents of El Monte, California, waved glowsticks in the air and listened to heartfelt stories about [...]

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Super Highway Link Mexico to Canada

By doris | Published: June 7, 2009

Full Story At ClickToNews.com The Bush adminstration is quietly making approval for a super highway 10 lanes wide, train, and oil pipe lines running from the South of Mexico to the Heart of America and onto Canada. This highly restricted highway will eliminate unions as cheap Mexican labour can take all products from the Far [...]

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