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Oct 13 2009
Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest H1N1 flu patients in Mexico and Canada suggest a scary worst-case scenario for what doctors in the United States will face as winter flu season sets in, new reports suggest.
Oct 13 2009
The Mexican government faced off with the powerful Electrical Workers Union Monday after announcing the closure of a state-run power company that serves more than one fifth of the country.
Oct 12 2009
Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish Peninsulares. I know our politics, religion, sociology and the statistics of all...
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Oct 12 2009
One ‘Bulletproof Lawyer’ survived four assassination attempts before being gunned down. Such unsolved killings highlight the violence within a judicial system manipulated by powerful drug cartels.
Oct 12 2009
The mummies of Guanajuato happened by accident, but it’s no accident that they’re making their first appearance outside of Mexico at the Detroit Science Center today.
Oct 12 2009
The mystery has come to haunt Mexico as unrelentingly as one of its beloved soap operas: where is Bermeja, an island off the Yucatan coast that appears to have vanished without trace?
Oct 12 2009
The executioners burst through the gates of the Anexo de Vida (Annexe of Life) drug rehabilitation centre at almost the exact moment that Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón, and mayors across the country, including the one in Juárez, rang bells...
Oct 12 2009
Assailants armed with assault rifles burst into a hospital in the northern Mexican state of Durango and killed three men being treated for gunshot wounds, the state attorney general’s office said.
Oct 12 2009
Stiff competition from thousands of small-scale marijuana farmers in the US threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organisations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, police and pot growers say.
Oct 12 2009
On Thursday afternoon, the bullet-riddled body of Mayor Estanislao García was discovered, along with his burned-out truck. Garcia had been mayor of Palomas, Mexico for nearly two years, and is only the latest of several Mexican officials to be gunned...