Category Archives: Mexico

Mexico to shut down government in flu fight

By doris | Published: April 30, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government is suspending all nonessential activity of the federal government and private business as the number of confirmed swine flu cases jumped. The decision came as global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in [...]

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Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter

By doris | Published: April 28, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Some observers say Twitter — a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages — has become a hotbed of unnecessary hype and misinformation about the outbreak, which is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives in Mexico. “This is a good example of why [Twitter is] headed in that wrong [...]

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Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico

By doris | Published: April 25, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com MEXICO CITY – The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico’s most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on. [...]

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U.S.-Mexico Border To Get $400M Upgrade

By doris | Published: April 2, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the projects will help keep violence from spilling across the border. “Working [...]

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With Mexico’s army in the war on drugs

By doris | Published: March 30, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com REYNOSA, Mexico – Acting on a tip, 30 masked soldiers in combat gear bust down the door of a boarded-up house to find 55 terrified migrants, hostages of the Gulf drug cartel. Amid screams and the smell of urine and sweat, they find a blood-spattered room and a nail-encrusted log used [...]

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Gun Dealer Accused Of Selling To Cartels

By doris | Published: March 10, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (CBS) In Phoenix Monday, a gun dealer went on trial for supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug gangs who are locked in a bloody war with authorities — and each other. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports on a case that’s being watched closely in both the United States, and [...]

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