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It took Hurricane Katrina and its scenes of mass death and chaos to transform the place known as "the city that care forgot" into the city that can't forget.

This way of life has changed little over the past thousand years in Mexcaltitan, an isolated Pacific coastal island that's been dubbed the Venice of Mexico because its sunken streets become canals during the ...

The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade ...

He was 69. Rincon Gallardo, born with shortened arms as the result of a congenital birth defect, was the head of the National Council for Preventing Discrimination.

Falling gas prices might not be enough to entice people to travel this Labor Day weekend, with some keeping a wary eye on dangerous Hurricane Gustav, which is threatening the Gulf Coast.

United States Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico Downtown port of entry intercepted two narcotic smuggling attempts worth nearly $200,000 within a six hour period, officials announced today.

Eleven decapitated bodies have been found outside the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, heightening fears that Mexico's recent descent into violence has reached even heavily protected tourist areas.

Frustration with rampant violence and organized crime presented a major test for President Felipe Calderon, who has made crime-fighting a centerpiece of his administration.

The Mexican Supreme Court has ruled 8-3 that a Mexico City law that allows abortion in the first trimester is constitutional.

A subsidiary of Grupo Mexico has filed a reorganization plan with U.S. Bankruptcy Court to regain control of Tucson-based copper producer Asarco LLC.

PARIS : Michelin said Friday that it has scrapped plans for a second plant in Mexico because of slow demand in North America.

The project is likely to transform the village of Punta Colonet Mexico,DF,MEJ - -August 28, 2008: -- Mexico's government is setting sail with the largest infrastructure project in the nation's history, a ...

Forensic experts inspect some of the eleven decapitated bodies, bearing signs of torture, found in a suburb of Merida, capital of Yucatan state, eastern Mexico, on August 28 Eleven decapitated bodies bearing ...

Cameron County residents need to be vigilant after reports of kidnappings in Mexico that could spill over to include the kidnapping of citizens in South Texas, Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos said.

A Mexican national accused of firing as many as 10 gunshots at a Harlingen police officer in an ambush-type attack was indicted Wednesday on an attempted capital murder charge.

Police officers stand next to crosses displayed at the Zocalo main square in Mexico City during a protest against the law that legalizes abortion in the country's capital, Wednesday, Aug.

TUCSON, Ariz. - A Mexican man who had been accused of transporting illegal immigrants after a rollover crash killed nine people faces new charges that could bring the death penalty.

Why do Mexicans paint stripes on their donkeys in Tijuana? Avenida Revolucin Reveller Dear Gabacho: Same reason we put worms in tequila bottles, celebrate Cinco de Mayo and star in Beverly Hills Chihuahua : to ...

UNENDING VIOLENCE: A man was murdered while driving a car in Ciudad Juarez, while police found a body with bullet wounds between Chihuahua and Cuauhtemoc AFP, MEXICO CITY Thursday, Aug 28, 2008, Page 7 Hitmen ...

A Mexican woman broke her ankles early Tuesday scaling the border fence in Douglas.

Border fence construction is scheduled to wrap up by the end of 2008, but the fight over the land it will stand on could drag on for years.

Three decapitated bodies were found Tuesday in an empty lot on the eastern outskirts of Tijuana, the Mexican attorney general's office said.

Heavy rains have killed at least 50 horses at a Mexico City equestrian club and the 71-year-old watchman who tried to save them, officials said Tuesday.

A Texas motorcoach operator forced out of service by federal authorities last week was involved in at least two deadly accidents in Mexico before being shut down, court records show.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Friday ordered Autobuses Rio Verde of Irving to cease interstate operations because of its links to Green River Buses LLC of Dallas, which had received a similar order in April.

Court records examined by The Associated Press show a bus operated by Autobuses Rio Verde was involved in a fatal crash in Mexico on July 3, less than two years after a bus operated by Green River Buses was involved in a similar one.

August 25, 2008 -- Goldrich Mining Company reports drill results completed at the La Jarra zone of the Marisol bulk-tonnage gold prospect in northern Sonora, Mexico.

Warring Mexican drug cartels have given their hit men permission to cross into the United States to kill their targets, according to warnings received by U.S. authorities.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's economy expanded 2.8 percent in the second quarter, up slightly over 2.6 percent growth in the first three months of the year.

Death of 26-year-old man Friday was first reported shooting in border town since May.

As Angel de la Torre built his Houston charter bus company from one bus to a fleet of six that won contracts from churches, Boy Scout troops and schools, he also built a contradictory reputation.

A Mexican national wanted in connection with the 1998 drug-related massacre of 19 people in the Baja California resort town of Ensenada has been captured and turned over to Mexican authorities, U.S. immigration officials said Sunday.

Officers confronted Jesus Ruben Moncada, 33, at his Los Angeles home Thursday night as he took out the garbage.

Moncada, who did not resist arrest, was taken into custody on administrative immigration violations and was returned under heavy security Friday to Mexico where he faces first degree murder, attempted murder and kidnapping charges.

The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: 'The End.'

For those deported from the United States, the words are an unnecessary reminder. Nearly every hour of the day, guards unlock this gate that leads back into Mexico, clicking open the padlocks hung on each side, in each nation.

Every time the gate slams shut, it wipes out a dream, divides a family, ends a life lived in the shadows of the law.

On average, 700 Mexicans expelled from the United States walk through this gate daily, according to Mexican government figures. They include farmers, construction workers, prisoners, nannies, children, entire families.

As part of their settlement with the Brownsville Navigation District, Dannenbaum Engineering Corp.

PACHUCA: The Hidalgo state police chief was kidnapped and shot to death, a police officer was killed in southeastern Tabasco state and nine people were murdered in northern Chihuahua state, local officials said ...

By Michael O'Boyle

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A fight over abortion between Mexico's federal government and the capital's leftist lawmakers goes to the Supreme Court next week, with the attorney general urging judges to reinstate a ban on women terminating pregnancies on demand.

The Catholic Church, a powerful force in the world's second-biggest Catholic country, backs the federal government's call to overturn a 2007 law allowing abortions in Mexico City.

But the capital's administration, headed by Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, says women have a right to safe abortions rather than risking their lives in unhygienic back-street clinics.

Tropical Storm Julio formed off Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday and was headed toward the Baja California Peninsula.

The storm was forecast to brush the west coast of the peninsula near Cabo San Lazaro on Monday morning, and make landfall Tuesday further north near Punto Abreojos.

Forecasters said Julio was not expected to become a hurricane. The storm packed maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (64 kph) and was centered on Saturday about 250 miles (405 kilometers) south-southeast of the tip of the Baja Peninsula, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Mexican police have captured a suspected drug cartel hit man in a crowded Tijuana casino after a chase through the city streets.

Mexico's federal Public Security Department says agents arrested a man believed to be Ruben Rios Estrada at the Caliente racetrack casino in Tijuana. It says Rios is a key gunman for the Arellano-Felix cocaine cartel. Another suspected gang member also was arrested.

Mexican media report that casino officials complained that the raid endangered some 1,300 customers, who were ordered to the floor.

Most of the $231,130 in hurricane -related overtime pay for city workers in Harlingen and San Benito will be returned to the cities through a public assistance grant, officials said.

Known by the scientific name Vanilla tahitensis, Tahitian vanilla is found to exist only in cultivation; natural, wild populations of the orchid have never been encountered.

Students at New Mexico State University are being warned by campus police about traveling to the Mexican border city of Juarez.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna take part in the XXIII Session of National Public Security at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on August 21, ...

City officials have told a popular Mexican restaurant that also serves as a nightclub that it can no longer serve hard liquor.

Mexican authorities have released a former Sacramento priest who was awaiting extradition to California on charges of child sexual abuse.

Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter's playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home ...

The Jordan twins form quite a formidable pair at the plate. Bryce Jordan homered and his brother, Beau, had an RBI double to back up starter Kennon Fontenot's 11-strikeout night as Lake Charles, Louisiana, ...

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QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) - Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

Kidnapping jumped almost 40 percent between 2004 and 2007 in Mexico according to official statistics. Mexico ranks with conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia as among the worst countries for abductions.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has convened a security meeting to discuss strategies to tackle a wave of kidnappings and drug-related murders.

Red Cross workers stopped treating gunshot victims for several hours in a violent city across the border from Texas after receiving death threats over their radio frequencies, officials said Wednesday.

Mexican authorities have released a former Sacramento priest who was awaiting extradition to California on charges that he sexually abused two minors nearly 17 years ago.

After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, and waited for his son's safe return.

Instead, the boy and his driver turned up dead, their bodies found in car trunks. Days later, prosecutors alleged that a police detective was a key participant in the kidnapping plot.

Suspicions of police involvement in such kidnap-killings have moved a nation where many had grown numb to kidnappings and the drug cartels' beheadings and midday shootouts. Mass street protests are planned in several cities. Some lawmakers are even changing their minds about opposition to capital punishment, saying police who kidnap and kill should be put to death.

Socorro Fierro, a 17-year-old resident of Palomas, Mexico, was arrested Monday in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a Deming man last month, after calling the Luna County Sheriff's Office from Mexico to ...

In this undated photo released by Proyecto Vaquita, a porpoise lies dead on a beach at the Gulf of California.

Dallas Zoo officials recommended this morning that the zoo's troubled elephant, Jenny, remain in Dallas rather than be transferred to a facility in Mexico or to a facility in Tennessee.

MEXICO CITY * Mounting drug-related violence and 800 murders so far this year have driven some 3,000 families from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into the United States, a border expert said on Friday.

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A mother here says she experienced 2-1/2 hours of panic recently when her son, Sebastian, 6, was lost due to a school busing mix-up. Last week, at the end of his school day at Rio Colorado Elementary School, ...

Miniskirts are making some Mexicans ruddy with indignation. The outrage is directed at the Roman Catholic Church for warning women that the skimpy clothing can provoke sexual violence.

The mayor of a Mexican town says he saved seven alleged kidnappers after they were brutally beaten by angry townspeople who accused them of trying to snatch a local man.

Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby.

Emergency workers rescued dozens of trapped residents Monday after torrential rains deluged more than 400 homes in southern Texas and forced the temporary closure of the main road through the Rio Grande Valley.

Officials used any available boat to pluck about 60 people from their flooded homes after more than 13 inches of rain fell on parts of Starr County.

The Department of Public Safety had recommended that U.S. Highway 83 be closed near Rosita, about midway between Roma and Rio Grande City, because a creek was more than a foot above the guardrails, said Starr County Judge Eloy Vera. Not even emergency vehicles were permitted to pass.

There's still time to register at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, where the fall semester begins Wednesday and enrollment is on track to meet or beat last year's levels.

Tropical Storm Hernan continues to weaken far out in the Pacific. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that the storm's maximum sustained winds had decreased to around 50 mph as of 0900GMT Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the continuing increase in retail prices of essential commodities, the Communist Party of India-Marxist Saturday said that the Manmohan Singh government's "neoliberal ...

Sun, Aug 17, 2008 Mexican authorities say gunmen killed 13 people at a family party in the border state of Chihuahua.

Jesus Sauceda of Matamoros, Mexico, struck out all 12 batters in the first perfect game at the Little League World Series in 29 years on Sunday.

Sauceda needed to pitch only four innings, instead of the usual six, in the 12-0 victory over Emilia, Italy. It was the fifth perfect game at the Little League World Series and the first since Chao-An Chen of Taiwan tossed one in 1979.

Sunday's game ended after the top of the fourth inning because of Little League's 10-run mercy rule.

Sauceda also had a big day at the plate. He went 3-for-3 with six RBIs, including a grand slam in the third.

A new farmworker survey suggests that nearly a quarter of such laborers in Western Washington are indigenous Mexicans or Central Americans.

Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:43am EDT - Archeologists Victoria Rojas and Lara Hindersten work at a site at the village of Tahtzibichen in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, April 12, 2008 .

Drug-related murders in Mexico have already exceeded last year's total despite the deployment of 30,000 troops to tackle the issue, media reports say.

A vague unease whispered through this tiny town in northeastern Iowa, where the rolling hills are a study in vivid colors _ red barns, white clapboard houses, and vibrant green cornfields plowed with almost ...

X Games Mexico will return to Mexico City for a second consecutive year September 20 and 21 at the Palacio de los Deportes.

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. - Authorities say 16 Mexican nationals are in custody and face deportation after their small boat was intercepted at sea off Imperial Beach.

Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges.

She doesn't look capable of causing such a controversy. But Jenny, a five-ton African elephant and a favorite at the Dallas Zoo for 22 years, is moving on.

Seventeen suspected illegal immigrants jammed inside an SUV that rolled on a rural highway southeast of Phoenix last week had crossed the desert on foot for two days before being picked up for the second leg of ...

A transgendered Mexican woman who was granted asylum in the U.S. should be released immediately from the immigration jail while her case is under appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit ...

Hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people.

Several hundred Chrysler manufacturing workers, many of whom face imminent layoffs in St.

A Mexican citizen wanted by the Long Beach Police Department on charges of homicide was detained Saturday morning by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico downtown port of entry.

Brownsville Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Angela R. Burton is in the intensive care unit at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen following a motorcycle accident late Sunday, chamber board ...

View of one of the galleries at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico which is showing an exhibition of Spanish civilization.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon, dogged by a rising wave of violence, urged Congress on Thursday to pass a bill that would sentence kidnappers to life imprisonment without parole.

Calderon's appeal came days after the body of the 14-year-old son of a sports retail tycoon was found in the trunk of a car in Mexico City. The teenager was kidnapped more than a month ago and killed despite his family paying a ransom.

Several policemen have been arrested for the kidnapping.

A deputy police chief and a second commander in western Michoacan state were slain, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest outbreaks of violence that has killed at least half a dozen officers across Mexico in ...

Tropical Storm Iselle has gained a little strength as it swirls Thursday off Mexico's southern Pacific coast.

Six members of a government crime-fighting unit have been arrested on suspicion of working for a powerful drug cartel run by the country's most-wanted man, the attorney general's office said on Wednesday The ...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday.

AeroMexico today announced it will double its existing service between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Monterrey, Mexico, while also switching to a more convenient schedule for business travelers.

American businesswoman Veronica was stepping out of her car in California when two men forced her into the passenger seat at gunpoint, pushed her teenage daughter into the back and drove them into Mexico.

A 38-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death Monday by her commonlaw husband, who one neighbor described as a "harmless drunk." Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said a witness described to deputies how ...

Peter Strom, CEO of March Networks. March Networks has landed a deal with the government of Mexico's capital to provide its Internet protocol -based mobile digital video surveillance software.

Jorge Saavedra, head of Mexico's HIV/AIDS prevention effort Whereas the anti-gay reputation for Latin American countries once was enough in and of itself to all but guarantee gay refugees asylum status in the ...

A 33-year-old Mexican man smoked marijuana before getting behind the wheel of an SUV packed with suspected illegal immigrants that later crashed, killing nine people, federal authorities said.

Quite a polemic issue in Mexico, yet AIDS in Mexico is alarmanly growing. On one hand there is rejection of preventive measures and also of religious believes but on the other hand "zero risk" abstinence and ...