Campeche, Mexico News

For a warm weather destination, the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico offers a wide variety of accommodations and activities for singles, couples, and families.

Mexico's real estate market and tourism industry have been hard hit by the global recession, concerns of drug violence and the swine flu.

Rising Mexican boxing star, Oscar Arenas, is seeking a new rival for his Oct. 30 match after original rival Juan Sanchez dropped out, promoter Francisco Calderon Lopez said in a Sunday statement.

While Mexico's tourist resorts are still reeling post swine flu, the beguiling city of Campeche and its surrounds is as enchanting as ever.

Helen Tomei of Vancouver's Sacred Earth Journeys at the Mayan site of Calakmul, located at the base of the Yucatan Penninsula in the state of Campeche, Mexico.

Joe Futrell serves spot at the 40th annual Carolina Spot Festival. J.H. Lea & Sons provide the spot filets, and the event raises about $20,000 to be split among the Hampstead Volunteer Fire Department, Sloop Point Volunteer Fire Department, Topsail High School and the Greater Hampstead Civic Association.

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Elizabeth Nelson, Sister Cities founder locally, is also credited for organizing Friends of the Library and Cinematique of Daytona Beach.

The news from Mexico just continues to get worse with bad news from all three of their biggest oil fields, even as our perennial cornucopian talks of "a Mexican surprise." As Gregor noted recently at the beginning of the year Cantarell was producing 862,000 bd and at the end of July this was down to 588,000 bd.

Hijackers seized an AeroMexico passenger plane in Mexico with more than 100 people on board on Wednesday but the incident ended quickly.

MA©RIDA, Mexicoa 'The Mayan calendar might end on Dec. 21, 2012, but we're not buying into the notion that the world will, too.

TEENAGER Alex Wilson-Glab has barely been out of bed in 10 years and dreams of a good night's sleep.

The strong showing by Mexico's opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional in the July 5th local and legislative elections was a vindication of the party's status as the oldest and still the most widely representative in the country, and amounts to a major comeback following a humbling nine years our of power.

Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weighed heavily in Sunday's midterm congressional elections that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies.

Overnight and during the day today, thunderstorms have been building off the Mexican coast over the Bay of Campeche.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: Pemex Exploracion y Produccion , a subsidiary of Mexican state oil company PEMEX, is asking companies to submit bids for the construction of a production platform.

CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, MEXICO: Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos is looking for bids for maintenance of offshore gas-processing platforms and auxiliary equipment in the Cantarell field.