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Mexico's drug cartels targeting specific politicians with death threats
July 17, 2008
MEXICO CITY – Having terrorized police
and prosecutors across the country, Mexico's drug cartels are
escalating their battle with the government by turning their
sights on politicians. The most recent threat target is the
governor of Chihuahua state, which borders Texas.
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Gunmen in Mexico kill 12 in brazen attack
July 11, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen shot 12 people to
death in broad daylight near the center of Culiacan on Thursday,
marking one of the more bloody and brazen recent attacks in the
capital of a state beset by drug trafficking and violence.
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Charred bodies dumped in drug gang-hit Mexico city
July 7, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, July 7 (Reuters) -
Police found six charred bodies, one still on fire, dumped on a
street in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana on Monday, in the
latest brutal killing on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Family agonizes over son kidnapped in Tijuana
June 30, 2008
Angel Sanchez Perez envisions his son
every time a kitchen helper passes by pushing a tray cart at the
Hotel del Coronado.
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US to help fund Mexico drug cartel crackdown
June 28, 2008
Mexico is to receive hundreds of
millions of dollars in aid from the United States to fight drug
cartels.
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Another Mexican police commander killed as questions mount over anti-narco tactics
June 27, 2008
A gunman killed a high-ranking
commander in the federal police and a bodyguard as they ate
lunch at a busy restaurant here yesterday
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Barbecue Fundraiser for Teacher Hurt in Mexico
June 26, 2008
People in one
community have made it their mission to
help a teacher in need. Missy
Jones was critically hurt when a van
fell off a cliff in Mexico last month.
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Mexican police commander, bodyguard slain in restaurant
June 26, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Unknown assailants
shot to death a Federal Police commander and his bodyguard in a
Mexico City restaurant at mid-day on Thursday, Mexican officials
said.
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Suspect in officer's death is freed by Mexican authorities
June 25, 2008
U.S. officials have expressed shock
that a Mexican judge had freed a man imprisoned in connection
with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in California this
year, according to a statement issued Wednesday by Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
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Mexico nightclub tragedy caused by inept police and an ignored youth, advocate says
June 13, 2008
Mexico nightclub tragedy caused by
inept police and an ignored youth, advocate says
A tragedy in Mexico City last weekend, in which 12 people were
suffocated or trampled to death in a bungled police raid at the
News Divine night club, was due to an inept police force and a
lack of public policy directed at the city’s youth, says a
sociologist and longtime activist for youth-related programs.
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Human error led to Grand Prairie teen's death on Cancun boat trip
June 13, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexican officials
said that human error caused the weekend boat accident near
Cancun that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old Texas woman.
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Mexico cites human error in boat mishap
June 13, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials
said Thursday that human error caused the weekend boat accident
near Cancun that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old Texas
woman.
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Crew Abandons Sinking Ship, Leaves Teens
June 12, 2008
More than 100 teenagers celebrating
their high school graduation watched their snorkeling tour turn
into a nightmare when the boat's crew abandoned the sinking
vessel and forced the teens to swim for their lives Saturday off
the coast of Cancun, Mexico.
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GradCity suspends snorkeling cruises in Cancun after tragic accident takes life of high school student
June 11, 2008
GradCity has suspended all snorkeling cruises for students
traveling to
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Woman brain dead after accident in Cancun
June 10, 2008
Tourism has contributed significantly
to Mexico's employment, foreign direct investment and economic
growth over the past three decades. However, challenges and
obstacles could prevent the industry from achieving its full
potential.
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Will Mexico's Drug Wars Hurt Business?
June 9, 2008
If the violence worsens, investors
could decide to pull back from the country—at least that's the
fear of local businessmen
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Mexican president losing war on drugs, polls indicate
June 7, 2008
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderón
is losing the fight against drug traffickers on the field of
public opinion, two polls this week show, as he faces calls to
change tactics and the possible collapse of an anti-drug package
with the U.S.
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Sharks are hunting humans
June 7, 2008
SCIENTISTS fear packs of bull sharks
are now actively hunting humans for the first time after a
series of horrifying attacks in the waters off a popular resort.
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Is it safe to go back in the water?
June 5, 2008
It had to happen. Determined to move
forward and in search of answers after a string of three shark
attacks last month left two victims dead, one an American
citizen
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Mexico army marches into drug war -- again
June 3, 2008
Troops have been deployed to a greater
extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics
fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the
military.
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Violence in Mexico is on the rise
June 2, 2008
Mexico is beginning to look like a real
war zone. The headlines in the news media are reminiscent of
those from some of the most brutal days of the Iraq War. They
speak of executions, beheadings, cryptic messages and dozens of
people killed in a single day. But the war against drugs that
Mexico is waging is not one that can easily eliminate the
enemies.
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Two dead, several hospitalized after driver careens into Matamoros bike tour
June 2, 2008
dead and at least five people remain
hospitalized at a number of Rio Grande Valley hospitals after
being struck by a car as the group, along with other cyclists
participated in the third annual Bike Tour Matamoros-Playa
Bagdad Sunday morning.
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Mayor of town in western Mexico is shot dead
June 2, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of a small
town in western Mexico was forced from his car and shot dead,
officials said Monday.
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Mexico Feeling Impact of Drug Violence
June 2, 2008
BUSINESS ACROSS THE BORDER: I am being
increasingly asked by my friends and contacts on the U.S. side
of the border about the drug-related violence striking Mexican
border cities such as Juárez.
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Deadly shark attacks shake Mexico resort
June 1, 2008
Shark attacks near Zihuatanejo have
created an uproar in the Mexican beach resort, with three
surfers attacked by sharks in less than a month. Two of the
surfers died.
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Drug Massacre Leaves a Mexican Town Terrorized
May 31, 2008
A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy
town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept
Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police
forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for
the authorities to assert themselves.
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Shark attacks have Mexico resort community on edge
May 30, 2008
The storyline may sound strikingly
familiar to fans of 1970s horror flicks: A sudden series of
gruesome shark attacks in a resort area has officials caught
between public safety concerns and the interests of the local
tourist industry.
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Shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic
May 28, 2008
ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico - No one could even remember a shark
attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast
popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large
predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen.
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Madison AIDS Activist Slain While On Mexican Vacation
May 27, 2008
The U.S. State Department has added its
big voice to the growing chorus reporting that violence in areas
of Mexico near the border with the United States has become so
prevalent that travelers need to consider whether they should
visit.
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Mexico’s War Against Drugs Kills Its Police
May 26, 2008
The assassination was an inside job. The federal police
commander kept his schedule secret and slept in a different
place each night, yet the killer had the keys to the official’s
apartment and was waiting for him when he arrived after midnight.
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Shark attacks American tourist on Mexico's Pacific coast
May 25, 2008
Chilpancingo, Mexico, May 25, 2008 (EFE via COMTEX) -- -- A
shark attacked an American tourist who was surfing in the
Mexican Pacific resort city of Zihuatanejo, a day after a
Mexican man was killed in another shark attack, emergency
services officials said.
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Mexico drug-related killings soar
May 24, 2008
The number of murders in Mexico linked to organized crime
has jumped by almost 50% so far this year to 1,378, according to
Mexico's attorney general.
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Mexico homicides jump 47 percent
May 23, 2008
Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in
2008, Mexico's attorney general said Friday in a rare
confirmation of how bad violence has become.
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Local man who witnessed crime held by Mexican authorities
May 22, 2008
A Round Lake Park man chose to spend a week at an exclusive
new hotel at a Mexican resort for some fun in the sun. But the
night before he was to return home, Michael Thompson became
entangled in a murder investigation near Cabo San Lucas, and the
good time vanished.
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Consul general meets with Mexican police over Canadian tourist's shooting death
May 21, 2008
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs
says it's pressing its Mexican counterparts for a thorough
investigation into the shooting death of a Canadian citizen. The
Canadian embassy was advised early Friday of the shooting in
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, spokesman Rodney Moore said.
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Shooting witness held by police
May 21, 2008
U.S. man says he came to the aid of Canadian victims of fatal
attack last Thursday at five-star hotel in Cabo San Lucas.
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It's not just Mexico's war
May 21, 2008
Within weeks of being sworn in as Mexico's president in
December 2006, Felipe Calderon launched a scorched-earth assault
on the drug cartels that infest the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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U. S. witness held in Mexico after Canadian slain
May 21, 2008
Mexican authorities are holding a U. S. man who witnessed the
shooting death of a Canadian in Cabo San Lucas even though his
father says he tried to help the victims during the crime last
Thursday.
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Four Found Executed In Mexico, At Least One Is From US
May 20, 2008
Over the weekend in Baja California, Mexico,
officials say they found four decomposing bodies, at least one
of which was from the U.S. Police say the victims, two of which
were found in a car with California license plates, were
executed.
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Mexican police search for suspect after Canadian killed
May 19, 2008
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
could not confirm reports Monday that a Canadian wounded in a
shooting at a Mexican hotel was still in Mexico, being protected
by Cabo San Lucas police.
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Four or more Americans Executed in Mexico
May 19, 2008
Six gangland style murders four or more
are believed Americans who were shot and killed on Sunday as
they were traveling on the main highway between Tijuana and
Rosarito Beach. According to Baja preventive police five victims
were executed, four of them appear to be Americans three men and
a women.
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Gunmen kidnap seven tourists in Mexico
May 18, 2008
Mexico City, May 18 (Xinhua) Seven
Mexican tourists have been kidnapped by some gunmen on a highway
in southern Mexico, the police have said. According to the
police, the kidnapping was occurred Saturday on a highway
leading to the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco.
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Cartel drug carnage tears Mexico apart
May 17, 2008
The lash of a dust-laden wind wrestled
with the weeping of women, the scrape of shovels and the ballad
of a corrido band as two murdered brothers were buried under the
heat of the desert sky.
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What's Wrong With Mexico?
May 16, 2008
President Felipe Calderon has just sent
thousands more troops into the northern state of Sinaloa to
fight the drug cartels, which evidently have taken over both the
Mexican side of the border with the United States and large
swaths of Mexico proper near the border.
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As drug violence intensifies, some Mexican police chiefs seek asylum in U.S.
May 15, 2008
WASHINGTON – Drug cartel attacks
against Mexican police have become so violent and so common that
some Mexican police chiefs are seeking safety in the United
States.
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Echoes of Colombia in Mexico drug war
May 14, 2008
MEXICO CITY — On the home turf of
Mexico's deadliest drug cartels, they hang banners that mock
Mexican authorities trying to maintain order. "Little tin
soldiers, federal officers made of straw," read one banner in
the state of Sinaloa.
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Mexican troops take on cartels
May 14, 2008
The Mexican government is sending
thousands of extra troops and police to combat the country's
drug cartels.
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US says shocked by Mexico's violence
May 12, 2008
The US State Department refers to
violence against police officers in Mexico as a "serious threat"
to democratic institutions there.
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Mexico's police chief third official killed in capital this week
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY – An assassin lying in wait
Thursday gunned down a top police commander, one of the
architects of Mexico's bloody battle against paramilitary
cartels.
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Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico’s Police
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Gunmen assassinated the
acting chief of Mexico’s federal police early on Thursday
morning in the most brazen attack so far in the
year-and-a-half-old struggle between the government and
organized crime gangs.
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Mexico's Top Police Are Latest Targets of Cartels
May 9, 2008
Mexico's top police officers are being targeted and killed as
drug traffickers retaliate for arrests and
record seizures stemming from President Felipe Calderon's
crackdown on narcotics gangs.
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More Americans shot in Mexico
May 9, 2008
Four Americans were shot and wounded on
Thursday as they were leaving the Arriba Chihuahua nightclub in
the ProNaF tourist zone in the violent Mexican border city of
Juárez. The shootings were apparently deliberate attempts on
Americans. They were targeted not just random bystanders caught
up in the wave of violence that has recently engulfed Juárez,
Mexican authorities said.
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Top police killed in Mexican assassination wave
May 9, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Gunmen assassinated
a commander of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping police Friday, the
fourth top police authority slain in 10 days here as the toll
from a rising organized crime wave hits top brass.
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It's not just Mexico's war
May 5, 2008
Within weeks of being sworn in as Mexico's president in
December 2006, Felipe Calderon launched a scorched-earth assault
on the drug cartels that infest the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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'We are going to win this battle, and purge our state of criminals'
Apr 30, 2008
TIJUANA – As hundreds of soldiers and
police officers stood in formation outside City Hall yesterday,
top federal, state and municipal officials urged intensified
measures to bring criminals to heel in a city rattled by
violence.
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Tijuana drug violence threatens hospital
Apr 29, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers held
Tijuana's main hospital in a virtual lockdown Tuesday as doctors
treated eight drug traffickers wounded in running shootouts in
this border city.
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Death Toll Rises From Tijuana Shootout
Apr 28, 2008
Thirteen people were killed in the
initial shootout, Tijuana officials said, and nine others were
wounded. Two more people had succumbed to their injuries on
Monday, NBC 7/39 reported
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Tijuana - once a tourist paradise is now a battlefield hell
Apr 27, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Massive
gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who
fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated
streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13
people and wounding nine.
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Horror in Mexico: 'It's happening to us'
Apr 24, 2008
TIJUANA (KABC) -- Is it safe south of
the border? A California couple was robbed in Mexico, and the
girlfriend raped. They revealed disturbing details of their
frightening ordeal to Robert Holguin, who travelled to Tijuana
to talk to officials about the escalating violence along the
U.S.-Mexico border and the sharp drop in tourism. These two
seasoned travelers say they're never going back to Mexico.
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U.S. visits to Tijuana drop 90 percent
Apr 24, 2008
TIJUANA (KABC) -- More police and
soldiers are now patrolling the streets of U.S.-Mexico border
towns like Tijuana. There's been a rise in street violence and
drug wars and the all-important tourist trade is taking a hit.
Authorities in Mexico hope the increased police presence will
make residents and tourists feel safer. Eyewitness News reporter
Robert Holguin visited Tijuana to discover what was once a busy
tourist area is now for all intents and purposes a ghost town.
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Are Canadians safe in Mexico?
Apr 23, 2008
Brenda Martin's legal quagmire in
Mexico, which culminated this week with her conviction for
Internet fraud, will not deter most Canadian tourists from
seeking winter refuge in the resorts of Acapulco, Cancun and the
Mayan Riviera, according to many industry watchers.
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Alarming Sensitive U.S. Government Report on Mexico Violence
Apr 22, 2008
The question remains why have not the
U.S. President George Bush ordered the State Dept. to issue the
Highest level travel alert in regards to Mexico for the many
dangers that are likely to confront Americans traveling in
Mexico today.
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Drug wars slashing Mexico tourism
Apr 21, 2008
MONTERREY, Mexico — The last thing
Debra Fassold's travel business needed was another warning to
tourists about violence in Mexico.
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Mexican Drug cartels using terrorist beheading tactics
Apr 21, 2008
Mexican Drug cartels are ordering
decapitations blind folding and hooding victims before they
shoot them. The Cartels are sending a chilling message to the
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by adopting
methods of intimidation made notorious by Middle Eastern
terrorist groups.
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Editorials: U.S. warning travelers to be careful in Mexico
Apr 19, 2008
Mexico is heading for its third
straight year of more than 2,000 drug-related deaths — casualty
figures usually associated with war.
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Violence in Mexico deterring tourists
Apr 18, 2008
The number of Americans kidnapped while
in Mexico doubled in 2007 from the previous year. The rise in
crime has not only reduced tourism, it is affecting the future
of real estate projects, such as Donald Trump's Tijuana towers.
Jill Barshay reports.
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Tijuana tourism plunges amid drug violence
Apr 17, 2008
The one-time party mecca is a ghost of
its former self. But merchants say beautification efforts and
police crackdowns have left downtown safer and spiffier than in
years.
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Poll: Bribery spending rising in Mexico
Apr 16, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans spent a whopping
US$2.58 billion in bribes in 2007, some 42% more than they doled
out just two years ago, according to a poll released Wednesday.
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U.S. issues warning for travel to Mexico
Apr 16, 2008
Due to growing drug-related violence in
Mexico, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for
Americans visiting the border regions
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Plane Stolen From US Tourist Family in Mexico at Gunpoint
Apr 16, 2008
A U.S. family in Baja California,
Mexico was held up at gunpoint and stripped of its Cessna
Stationair right before take off at an airstrip in Mulege. A
Detective says a car pulled in front of the plane and forced
them out.
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Martin imprisonment deterring Canadians from visiting Mexico
Apr 9, 2008
Quinte West – Brenda Martin's
imprisonment in a Mexican jail has turned into a "tourist
inhibitor," according to a Mexican newspaper.
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Why not a Warning for Mexico travel?
Apr 7, 2008
El Paso/Juarez Metro-Borderplex —
Thousands of Mexican soldiers have been sent to CD. Juarez,
after many pleas for help from the Juárez Mayor José Reyes
Ferriz.
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Cdn's death in Mexico a mystery
Apr 7, 2008
It's a report that should hold all the
answers to a grieving family's many questions.
But in reality, autopsy results expected early this week from
the provincial medical examiner promise little else than more
uncertainty for the family of Josh Iwasiuk, they said.
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U.S. warns it may heighten Mexico travel alert
Apr 5, 2008
MEXICO CITY— The U.S. ambassador to
Mexico warned that the United States may issue a heightened
travel alert next week. In recent years, Mexico has
suffered a wave of organized crime and drug-related violence
that killed more than 2,500 people last year alone.
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US ambassador alarmed by Mexico border violence
Apr 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY, April 4 (Reuters) - The
U.S. ambassador to Mexico warned on Friday of an "alarming"
surge in violence in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez
and said he could heighten a travel alert for U.S. citizens
traveling there.
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Scuba victim's mum: 'I'll fight to the end to bring her killer to justice'
Apr 3, 2008
In 2000, singer Kirsty MacColl - famous
for her Christmas duet Fairytale Of New York - was killed by a
speedboat aged 41, while scuba diving in Mexico with her two
sons. The story made world news, but the truth about who was
steering the boat - owned by one of Mexico's richest men - was
never properly established. In a new book, her 85-year-old
mother Jean MacColl, describes the sad legacy of the tragedy,
and her fight to bring the man she believes killed her daughter
to justice...
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Hoop star's father says son is innocent
Apr 3, 2008
The father of a former North Vancouver
basketball star now playing for a Portland university team and
accused of a savage assault in Mexico says his son is innocent.
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Basketball star maintains innocence in brutal Mexico beating
Apr 3, 2008
A Canadian college basketball player
who spent two days in a Mexican jail accused of beating a
Michigan man close to death says it was the most terrifying
experience of his life.
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Dad claims Canadian hoops star 'wrongfully arrested'
Apr 2, 2008
VANCOUVER - A Canadian college
basketball star has been released from Mexican jail after being
arrested for a vicious assault his family contends he had
nothing to do.
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Slain Student's Accused Murderer Released
Apr 1, 2008
A Mexican police official has been
suspended after one suspect in the fatal shooting of a U.S.
college student last week walked out of a Puerto Vallarta jail
Friday and remains on the run.
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Mexican Soldiers Flood Juarez: Violence Scares Away Tourists
Mar 29, 2008
El Paso is the second safest city in
the United States, for it's size, then you cross the border and
you're in a war zone. A war between the drug cartels and
Mexican government.
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South Windsor couple’s dream vacation trip turns to nightmare
Mar 24, 2008
Instead of warm memories, a South
Windsor couple recently returned from a vacation in Mexico with
tales of confusion and death.
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Baja counts on spring-break boom
Mar 22, 2008
The spring breakers are assembled by
the broad beach at the center of town, descending on taco stands
and on clubs that pound out hip-hop rhythms, shuffling in
boisterous clusters down the sidewalks of Boulevard Benito
Juarez.
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Mexico And Canada: Not Always The Best Of Friends
Mar 19, 2008
As two MPs meet with an imprisoned and
suicidal Canadian on Wednesday, there are plenty of reminders
that this isn't the first big dispute between the countries that
sandwich the U.S.
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Acapulco hotel fire sends spring breakers home
Mar 18, 2008
A hotel fire at the Best Western Playa
Suites in Acapulco sent student spring-break travelers rushing
down stairs to safety on Sunday morning. At least one student
went to the emergency room for smoke inhalation
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U.S. students brave Mexico despite drug-war threat
Mar 17, 2008
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Fearless students
from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas State and colleges
across the country are injecting badly needed cash into fading
resorts like Acapulco this spring break season. But analysts
warn that even they cannot save a stagnant tourism industry as
long as Mexico is awash in drug violence, police corruption and
drugs openly sold on the streets.
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Students return after Spring Break hotel fire
Mar 17, 2008
The fire broke out at the Best Western
Playa Suites Hotel in Acapulco. It was packed with college
students - many from our area. One girl says she awoke to
screams and breaking glass. In a phone interview, Penn State
Junior Devon Herrick of Malvern described how she awoke to
screams of fire.
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Mar 17, 2008
ACAPULCO, Mexico – Fearless students
from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas State and colleges
across the country are injecting badly needed cash into fading
resorts like Acapulco this spring break season. But analysts
warn that even they cannot save a stagnant tourism industry as
long as Mexico is awash in drug violence, police corruption and
drugs openly sold on the streets.
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Local Students Escape Hotel Fire In Mexico
Mar 17, 2008
A group of local college students
vacationing in Acapulco for spring break narrowly escaped a
hotel fire at the Best Western Playa Suites. CBS 3's
Elizabeth Hur was at Philadelphia International to talk to some
of the students as they returned home. The parents of the
students waited anxiously at the airport terminal for their
children to return home safely
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UNH Students Evacuated In Mexico Fire Report Items Stolen
Mar 17, 2008
DURHAM, N.H. -- Parents of University
of New Hampshire students who were evacuated during a fire at
their Mexico hotel said that some of them were robbed, and at
least one ended up in a hospital emergency room.
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Westfield State Students Heroes in Acapulco Hotel Fire
Mar 17, 2008
A spring break trip to Acapulco for
several Westfield State College students ended with a terrifying
hotel fire, and some real heroism, as the 25 students - along
with thousands of students from other colleges - managed to
escape uninjured
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WAR ZONE: Baja, Mexico!
Mar 17, 2008
Traveling to northern Baja, Mexico
along the picturesque coastline of the blue Pacific Ocean was
once an enjoyable leisure activity. Apparently, times there have
changed dramatically - dangerously so.
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More murderous mayhem in Mexico
Mar 16, 2008
WASHINGTON – A murderous slaughter of
almost unimaginable proportions is taking place below America's
southern border – and it goes almost unnoticed by U.S.
government officials here.
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Danger lurks for spring breakers
Mar 14, 2008
As students put the books away and
prepare to depart for fun-in-the-sun spring break destinations,
they should take heed of serious warnings about dangers lurking
south of the border.
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Mexico: Sand, sunshine but no justice
Mar 14, 2008
Maureen Webster's life has changed
since her son, Nolan, died during a vacation in Mexico, a little
more than one year ago.
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Mexican Drug Wars Keep Spring Breakers From Heading South of the Border
Mar 13, 2008
For college students, March Madness
usually means basketball and Spring Break. But on South Padre
Island in Texas, March Madness is taking on a whole new meaning.
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Mar 12, 2008
Marjorie Bletcher was already worried
because she had not heard from her daughter in months when she
received a frightening telephone call.
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Mexico police seize guns, grenades in Cancun resort
Mar 10, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico, March 10 (Reuters) -
Mexican police hunting drug gangs seized a cache of automatic
weapons and grenade launchers at a luxury flat in the Caribbean
resort of Cancun on Monday, near hotels full of foreign
tourists..
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South Padre's 'Two Nation Vacation' down to one for spring break
Mar 9, 2008
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – Michigan
State senior Paul Bonenberger avoided temptation during this
island's season for wild college revelry by leaving his passport
at home.
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Boycott Baja
Mar 8, 2008
On Friday, March 7, Gutierrez’ workers
took over another home, looting it and even removing all the
windows. They told some witnesses that they plan to tear down
all the homes during the next few weeks, although this matter
has yet to be decided in the Mexican court system. The Rosarito
Police Department was contacted twice but never showed up to
help the occupants and stop the looting.
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Tijuana tourism halved by kidnapping scares
Mar 7, 2008
A wave of kidnappings in Mexico has
halved the number of tourists visiting the country's most famous
popular destination and left foreigners working in the country
terrified for their families.
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American Tourist Kidnappings Rise In Mexico
Mar 7, 2008
San Diego, CA -- Well-organized
kidnappers are targeting Americans who visit tourist towns in
Mexico. The State Department says US citizens should be extra
careful. And for Americans living near the border, even
their own backyard may not be as safe as they once thought.
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Americans Being Kidnapped, Held and killed in Mexico
Mar 4, 2008
Born in Tenn. 27 year old American from
El Paso Kyle Mostello Belanger- believed missing in Juarez
Mexico. Close friends and relatives believe he was a solder for
the El Paso Barrio Azteca gang. The real question here was Kyle
kidnapped taken to Juarez and murdered as some believe?
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Mexico City bomb query moves closer to drug cartel
Mar 4, 2008
MEXICO CITY, March 4 (Reuters) - A
probe into a botched bomb attack in Mexico City moved closer to
the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel on Tuesday as a top prosecutor
said an arms dealer from the northwestern state ordered the
attack.
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Too little, too late?
Feb 26, 2008
The older brother of a man who died
while vacationing at a resort in Cancun last May feels a recent
federal safer international travel initiative is too little and
is too late to be an effective preventive safety measure for
Canadians abroad.
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‘I Will Never Return to Mexico’
Feb 25, 2008
Amid a surge of American kidnappings at
the U.S.-Mexico border, a survivor's story.
Roberto, a San Diego machinist in his mid-30s, used to visit his
family across the border in Tijuana every few weeks. But in the
summer of 2005, while he was relaxing at a family home there, a
group of approximately 20 masked men burst in suddenly
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Students Warned About Spring Break Travel To Mexico
Feb 21, 2008
In a letter to students, SDSU Police
Chief John Browning urged them to consider the recent wave of
violence in Mexico before traveling south for the spring
vacation. The letter does not directly state that students
should not travel to Mexico, but it says students should take
precautions if they decide to go there.
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Police: Mysterious Voice Answers Missing Pastor's Phone
Feb 21, 2008
Charles Lanier, 51, pastor of the Unity
Fellowship Church, was reported missing last Friday. His family
said he went to the store and never returned home.
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Is Mexico's Drug War Escalating?
Feb 19, 2008
German tourist Jurgen Kohl was window
shopping in Mexico's trendy Zona Rosa district last Friday
afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a
thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes
later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find
three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a
crude plastic explosives device.
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Tijuana tourism plunges amid drug violence
Feb 17, 2008
The one-time party mecca is a ghost of
its former self. But merchants say beautification efforts and
police crackdowns have left downtown safer and spiffier than in
years.
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Boy dies in Mexico after falling in contaminated river
Feb 15, 2008
Mexico City - An 8-year-old boy died at
a hospital in the western Mexican state of Jalisco after falling
into a contaminated river and being poisoned with a substance
that could be arsenic, Mexican media reported Friday. The boy
fell into the Santiago river, in the municipality of El Salto,
on January 27. He was rescued from the water, then spent 19 days
in a coma before his death.
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Bomb explodes in Mexico City killing at least one
Feb 15, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — At least one person
died and two others were injured after a bomb exploded in Mexico
City's central tourist area Friday, the city's Public Security
Chief Joel Ortega said.
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What Mexico's president said at Harvard
Feb 12, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mexican President
Felipe Calderon on Monday decried anti-immigrant perceptions in
the United States and argued that Mexican immigrants complement
American workers.
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Mexican leader urges U.S. action on drug cartels
Feb 11, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Feb 11 (Reuters) -
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said closing the border would
be a "very, very big mistake" for the U.S. economy, although he
urged Washington on Monday to do more to fight illegal drug
cartels.
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Erosion transforms Mexico beaches
Feb 10, 2008
My perfect beach paradise
is gone. Not gone entirely, thankfully,
but severely damaged, and almost overnight.
Blame Mother Nature or the human response, but
this much is clear: There are no guarantees when
it comes to planning the perfect vacation.
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Mexican gangs try to bribe army as drug war flares
Feb 8, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb 8 (Reuters) -
Mexican drug gangs are trying to corrupt the army into siding
with them in a turf war near the U.S. border, threatening to
blunt President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the cartels.
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Soldiers take arsenal in marijuana bust
Feb 8, 2008
MEXICO CITY - Mexican soldiers seized
nearly 10 tons of marijuana, a machine gun, scores of assault
rifles and three grenades in a raid just across the border from
Texas, the military said.
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Kidnappings of U.S. citizens on rise
Feb 6, 2008
Organized, well-financed and violent
Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S.
citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other
California residents.
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Number of San Diego Tourist Kidnapped While in Mexico is Up
Feb 6, 2008
The number of San Diego tourists
kidnapped and held for ransom while in Mexico is up, it was
reported Wednesday
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Violence in Mexico Costing Tourism Dollars
Feb 5, 2008
NUEVO PROGRESO, Mexico - Nuevo
Progreso's tourism market has dropped more than 50 percent.
Bloody violence in Rio Bravo and Reynosa has plummeted border
business.
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Stay out of Mexico
Jan 30, 2008
Here's a stat for southbound snow-birds
to ponder: In less than a year, three Canadian tourists have
accidentally "fallen" to their deaths from hotel balconies in
Mexico.
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MEXICO: Crime-Ridden City Where Anything Goes - And Frequently Does
Jan 29, 2008
"Keep your heads down, close your eyes
and put your hands on your knees, bitches," said the man who
climbed into the old taxi, holding up the couple inside at
gunpoint. Seconds later another man joined him, wielding a
butcher’s knife. Another armed robbery in the Mexican capital
was under way.
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Mexico is proving a deadly vacation spot for Canadians
Jan 29, 2008
Twenty years ago the only warning
Canadians heard before travelling to Mexico was “beware of
Montezuma’s Revenge,” a colloquial reference to the unhappy
consequences of eating food that isn’t properly washed. Today,
Canadians travelling to Mexico appear to need instructions on
how to navigate hotel balconies. In less than a year, three
Canadians have apparently fallen to their deaths from hotel
balconies in Mexico.
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Another Canadian dies in fall in Mexico
Jan 29, 2008
SELKIRK, Man.—The family of a Manitoba
man who Mexican authorities claim died after falling off a
10th-floor balcony say the autopsy raises disturbing questions.
“They said that he just had trauma . . . to the back of the
head,” Michelle Iwasiuk, the victim’s sister, told CTV Winnipeg.
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Culver makes progress in Mexico wedding theft case
Jan 29, 2008
The office of U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson,
D-Stafford, has become involved in a local judge's quest to
resolve a large-scale theft that rocked a Mexican destination
wedding in November.
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U.S. working to help contain drug violence in Mexico
Jan 26, 2008
U.S. officials are warily watching
Mexico's fierce response to the escalating drug violence
plaguing border cities, fearful that the bloody gun battles
erupting in places like Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez may soon
break out on the U.S. side.
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Mexico's Narco-Insurgency
Jan 25, 2008
Mexican federal police officers escort
detained men from a home in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
Eleven alleged hit men for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel were
captured.
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Baja tourist bid enters crisis mode
Jan 24, 2008
TIJUANA – With cross-border visits
showing marked declines, business and tourism officials in Baja
California are going into full-scale damage control in hopes of
regaining ground lost over the past year.
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Marked by assassins, chief fights criminals and apathy in Tijuana
Jan 24, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico - The bullet holes
pockmarking the walls of his home were just three days old when
Alberto Capella Ibarra took over the police force of this
violence-plagued city.
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Kidnap victims found dead after Mexico gunfight
Jan 19, 2008
The bodies of six kidnap victims were
found inside a house in Mexico yesterday following a three-hour
shootout between gunmen and soldiers and police.
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Foreign Affairs probes another Canadian death
Jan 19, 2008
Consular officials are investigating an
accident in Mexico that killed a Canadian and injured another
this week, as questions still swirl around another Canadian's
death in Acapulco.
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Violence Spirals Out of Control South of The Border
Jan 18, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hit men
from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor
by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war
that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.
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A Deadly Turf War Over Cuban Illegals
Jan 18, 2008
Policemen hold a suspected gunman who
was injured after a shootout in Cancun, Mexico, January 12,
2008.
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Gunmen kill six, including three police officers in N Mexico
Jan 16, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- At
least six people died, including three police officers, and four
more were injured in three separate armed attacks on Tuesday in
northern Mexico, local authorities said.
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3 top Tijuana police slain, along with wife, daughter of 1 of them
Jan 16, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen assassinated
three Tijuana police officers, along with the wife and daughter
of one of them, shortly after the police arrested several men on
charges of organized crime.
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World’s 10 most Dangerous Holiday Destinations
Jan 15, 2008
With conflict in one way or another
since 1979, Afghanistan is one of the poorest and most dangerous
nations on earth. A typical extreme tourist trip to Afghanistan
should include encountering Taliban terrorists, being kidnapped
for ransom, visiting the opium fields and getting shot at by
warlord controlled heroin barons.
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Cancun Beaches in Danger
Jan 15, 2008
CANCUN - The beaches in Cancun are in
danger of disappearing, and the state government of Quintana Roo
is doing whatever it can to save this main tourist attraction on
the Mexican Caribbean.
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Shootout kills 1, wounds 4 in Cancun, Mexico
Jan 14, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico -- A shootout between
heavily armed gunmen and police in downtown Cancun killed one
person and wounded four, officials said.
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Woman Dies Of Disease After Visit To Mexico
Jan 14, 2008
The disease is passed on through an
infected mosquito bite. According to health officials, about 150
Americans become infected each year. It's rarely fatal, but
there is no treatment and no vaccine.
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Mexico shootout kills 1, wounds 4
Jan 13, 2008
One person has been killed and four
others wounded in a shootout between armed gunmen and the police
in downtown Cancun, Mexico.
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Mexico violence draws mix reactions from Valley residents
Jan 12, 2008
WESLACO — Illinois natives Charles and
Kay Shaw sat comfortably at a bar in Mexico Tuesday sipping
margaritas, enjoying warm weather and retired living.
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Helpful Advice for Tourists Traveling to Mexico
Jan 10, 2008
The recent outbreak of gun violence
occurred in Rio Bravo earlier this week. The violence didn't end
there, in Reynosa more people were gunned down..
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Tijuana crime scaring away tourists
Jan 9, 2008
A rise in violent crime in Tijuana has
put a damper on American tourism, which the city relies on
heavily. Dan Grech reports.
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Mexico adds police as drug killings mount
Jan 8, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico, Jan 8 (Reuters) -
Mexico sent hundreds of police reinforcements to the border city
of Tijuana on Tuesday following a rash of organized crime
killings and as Mexican media said two cops were shot dead in
another northern town.
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A Vacation To Mexico's Baja Beaches May Not Be The Best Choice Right Now
Jan 7, 2008
It seems that crime has become rampant
and armed and dangerous thugs are setting the tone for that
vacation magic you’re looking for
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Crime-wary Americans shun popular strip of Mexican beaches
Jan 5, 2008
Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to
hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of
the border from San Diego
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Crime Fears Empty Mexico Beaches
Jan 3, 2008
PLAYAS DE ROSARITO, Mexico (AP) — Assaults on American
tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that
dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego.
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Smartraveller.gov.au Travel Advice (Mexico)
Dec 31, 2007
We advise you to exercise a high degree
of caution and monitor developments that might affect your
safety in Mexico because of the high level of violent crime.
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Mexico’s musicians are silenced
Dec 31, 2007
Sergio Gomez’s mutilated corpse was
found by the roadside in his home state of Michoacan
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Mexico is dangerous for student tourists
Dec 31, 2007
According to the U.S. Department of State, crime in Mexico is at very high levels,
especially in Mexico City, Tijuana, Acapulco, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, and the state
of Sinaloa.
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Mexican Troops Disarm Police In Rosarito
Dec 30, 2007
The entire police force of the Mexican
town, Rosarito has been disarmed. Their weapons have been
confiscated by the Mexican army under the suspicion of working
with the drug trafficking gangs.
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Police disarmed in Mexican town
Dec 29, 2007
The Mexican army has confiscated guns
from the entire police force of the town of Rosarito, near the
Mexican border with the US.
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Surf's up, and so is the crime rate on Baja's beaches
Dec 25, 2007
ROSARITO, Mexico: Surfers talk
endlessly about waves — their size, their intensity, their roll.
And crime waves are no exception.
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Gunmen kill off-duty Mexican soldiers at mall
Dec 25, 2007
MONTERREY, Mexico, Dec 19 (Reuters) -
Suspected hitmen killed three off-duty soldiers at a shopping
mall in Mexico, the government said on Wednesday
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Mexico Vacation Awareness Website Publicizes Travel Risks
Dec 20, 2007
A
new website has been launched to create awareness about the
dangers that await travelers to Mexico, and to establish a forum
for victims and families to tell their stories.
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The 'Merida Initiative' Proposal
Dec 19, 2007
In a nation where drug kingpins have
infiltrated many state and local governments, and where
infighting among drug traffickers has cost more than 4,000 lives
in the past 22 months
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Musician killings highlight unrelenting violence in Mexico
Dec 16, 2007
High-profile deaths have
left many in Mexico feeling more vulnerable to
drug violence. MEXICO CITY — Mexico is
reeling from the gruesome executions of three
popular musicians this month in a record year
for drug violence, despite a yearlong military
operation against Mexico's major drug cartels.
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Mexico drug cartels still pack power in crackdown
Dec 11, 2007
RIO BRAVO, Mexico, Dec 11 (Reuters) -
Mexican soldiers fan out across a desert highway and Hummer
military vehicles train their automatic weapons on run-down
buildings in a show of force against drug cartels in this dusty
U.S. border town.
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Popular Mexican singer slain
Dec 10, 2007
MEXICO CITY – Music fans in Mexico and
the Midwest were in mourning Tuesday over the brutal slaying of
a popular singer who formed his hit band in Chicago.
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Assassinations shock Mexican musicians
Dec 6, 2007
Mexican musicians are trying to close
ranks after assassins killed two singers in the space of a few
hours - following a year in which at least eight others in the
profession have died violently.
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Mexican police chief slain in war on drugs
Dec 6, 2007
TIJUANA: Gunmen have killed the police
chief of a Mexican city bordering California, shooting him 50
times in an apparent revenge attack after police found a
drug-smuggling tunnel under the border.
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Mexico police chief murder linked to border tunnel
Dec 4, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen killed the
police chief of a Mexican city bordering California Tuesday by
shooting him some 50 times in an apparent revenge attack after
police found a drug-smuggling tunnel under the border.
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Violent Crime Threatens Baja California, Mexico Tourism
Dec 3, 2007
A spate of recent reports in the US
press about carjackings, highway robberies and violent crime in
Baja California, Mexico is threatening to destroy tourism.
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Baja officials to crack down on extortion
Dec 3, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A wave
of violent carjackings and other assaults is impacting tourism
in Baja California as a new administration there cracks down on
corrupt police officers.
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Sophisticated Robbers Target Tourists in Baja California
Dec 3, 2007
LOS ANGELES — Masked bandits have
attacked and robbed Baja California tourists at least seven
times in recent months, acting with paramilitary precision and
making off with cash and expensive vehicles, it was reported
Saturday.
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U.S. renews warnings to Baja travelers
Nov 25, 2007
Driving into Baja California may be
losing its appeal for some North County travelers, as U.S.
government advisories, Internet chatter and hand-wringing around
local surf shops warn of increased trouble for American
motorists in northern Mexico.
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Mexico: Balconies Killing Canadians
Nov 24, 2007
CTV reports since 1994 28 Canadian
Tourists have met their demise under mysterious circumstances
while vacationing in Mexico. This is the third such Canadian
death in less than three years, two of these deaths in 2007
attributed to what Mexican authorities state is tourists falling
off balconies, certainly contradicts others who state a violent
murder was committed.
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Danger south of the border - CNN
Nov 18, 2007
Mexico is a popular tourist spot, but
CNN's Kara Finnstrom reports visitors need to beware of crime
dangers.
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Mexico drug hitmen
snatch buddy's body from morgue
Nov 15, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov 15 (Reuters) -
Twenty heavily armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow
trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a
dramatic helicopter crash, police said on Thursday.
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Shoot out blazes in Mexico as navy fights drug gang
Nov 9, 2007
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican
naval officers fought a ferocious gun battle with suspected drug
hitmen outside a shopping center in the northern port city of
Tampico on Friday, witnesses and Mexican media said.
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Huge drug haul belonged to Mexico's top drug lord
Nov 5, 2007
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cocaine
shipment seized by Mexico last week could have been worth as
much as $2.7 billion on U.S. streets and the Mexican government
said on Monday it belonged to Mexico's most wanted man, drug
lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
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Mexico travel warnings as floods hit Tabasco
Nov 2, 2007
Holidaymakers are being advised to stay
in close contact with their tour operators after floods hit the
Tabasco region of Mexico. The Foreign Office reports as much as
30cm of rain has fallen in 48 hours in Villahermosa, the state
capital, affecting 400,000 people.
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Local judge's family victimized during Mexico wedding trip
Nov 1, 2007
It happened over the weekend at his
daughter’s wedding in Tulum, Mexico. A wedding south of
the border hit a sour note for this couple when thieves decided
to attend. Seventy guests flew in for the event at the Eurostars
Blue Resort south of Cancun.
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MEXICO: Most Dangerous Latin American Country for Journalists
Oct 16, 2007
"Journalist’s Murder Condemned",
"Newspaper Editor Reported Missing", "Organised Crime May Lurk
Behind Disappearance of Newscaster". Headlines like these appear
ever more frequently in Mexico, the most dangerous country in
Latin America for journalists to ply their trade.
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US, Mexico pledge more than 8 billion dollars to fight drug trade
Oct 16, 2007
The United States on Tuesday unveiled a
multi- billion dollar plan to combat the drug trade and
organized crime in Mexico. The project would span over many
years and include military equipment and grants of 1.5 billion
dollars from Washington...
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ROUNDUP: Nineteen people killed in single day in Mexico
Oct 9, 2007
Nineteen people were killed Monday in
Mexico, in attacks carried out in several states, according to
media reports from Tuesday. The daily El Universal reported that
1,981 people have suffered violent deaths in Mexico so far this
year.
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Murders and kidnappings hit record levels in Mexico
Sept 23, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Gangland-style murders
and kidnappings reached record levels in Mexico during the first
half of the year, a new report from Mexico's congress has found,
making Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries.
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Mexico becoming one of world's more dangerous countries
Sept 23, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe
Calderon's tough new war on drug trafficking, which has sent
thousands of Mexican Army troops into the countryside and a
record number of drug suspects to the United States for trial,
failed to quell violence in the first half of the year.
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Mexico crime continues to surge
MEXICO CITY — Federal crimes such as
gangland-style murders and kidnappings reached record levels in
Mexico during the first half of the year, a new report from
Mexico's Congress found, making Mexico one of the world's most
dangerous countries.
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Honest cops the goal of Mexican academy
Sept 18, 2007
MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child,
Israel Martínez Bermúdez has wanted to become something
relatively rare in a nation fraught with centuries-old
corruption: an honest and able cop.
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Mexico is 'out of control'
Sept 17, 2007
Unlike Iraq, there is no war in Mexico.
At least officially. Despite that, the country is one of the
most dangerous to work in as a journalist in the world, second
only to Iraq.
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Drug war allies
Sept 2, 2007
Mexican President Felipe Calderón met
with his Canadian and U.S. counterparts in a “Security and
Prosperity Partnership” summit on Aug. 20-21
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The War Next Door
Aug 9, 2007
Marcelo Garza Y Garza didn't want a lot
of security around when he went out with his family one night
last fall. Like most residents of Monterrey--a modern,
U.S.-friendly metropolis in northern Mexico--Garza believed his
city was still one of the safest in the country.
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Who killed Brad Will?
Aug 7, 2007
Oaxaca, Mexico — Those of us who report
from the front lines of the social-justice movement in Latin
America share an understanding that there's always a bullet out
there with our name on it. Brad Will traveled 2,500 miles, from
New York to this violence-torn Mexican town, to find his.
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Mexican police find bullet-riddled body of Cuban-American in Cancun
July 31, 2007
CANCUN, Mexico -- The body of a
Cuban-American who was under investigation in a migrant
smuggling case was found riddled with bullets along a road
outside this Caribbean resort, authorities said Tuesday.
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Mexico removes its top police
June 25, 2007
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico temporarily removed all 284 of its top federal police officers from their jobs and is forcing them to prove they will not be corrupted in the fight against drug trafficking, the government announced Monday.
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After latest death, how safe is Mexico?
June 25, 2007
The mystery surrounding the death of
Grande Prairie's Jeff Toews while he was vacationing in Mexico
and the apparent speed with which Mexican authorities ruled out
foul play justifiably raises concerns that tourist security is
getting short shrift on the Mayan Riviera.
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Violence Making Mexican Vacations Risky
June 4, 2007
BY now, most Canadians know the sad
story of Jeff Toews, the 33-year-old Grande Prairie, Alta., man
who died of massive head injuries while vacationing in Mexico
earlier this month. But far less has been said about another
deadly incident in downtown Cancún, just four days before Toews
suffered his fatal injuries.
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Ten most dangerous places for tourism
May 31, 2007
Democratic Republic Congo is on the
seventh place. Since times of the Second World War 4 million
people have died in this country, and fragile political
conditions holds Congo on the verge of civil war
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Drugs Fuel Crime Wave in Mexico
May 16, 2007
Last year, 2,000 Mexicans were murdered
by drug-related violence, but with 1,000 murders so far this
year, 2007 may prove to be even deadlier.
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Mexican justice goes south
May 12, 2007
Surf, sun, sand and smokescreen? Or do
the words stonewall or suppress fit the bill better? A
disturbing pattern is emerging when it comes to violent crimes
perpetrated against Canadian tourists in Mexico.
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Mexico dangerous for Canadians: Report
May 11, 2007
Mexico is the most dangerous
destination for Canadians, according
to a new report released by the
federal government.
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Gunmen Dressed as Cops Kill Police Chief in Mexico
May 9, 2007
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico—Gunmen disguised
as federal agents shot dead the head of police in a state
capital near Mexico's Acapulco beach resort on Wednesday, the
third killing of a senior cop in five days.
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Gunmen attack police chief in Cancun beach resort
May 4, 2007
CANCUN, Mexico, May 4 (Reuters) -
Gunmen attacked the police chief of Cancun, a major Mexican
beach resort with rising cases of drug gang violence, killing
one of his bodyguards but leaving him unharmed, the government
said on Friday.
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Acapulco police chief killed in Mexico drug feuding
April 28, 2007
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and
killed a local police chief on Saturday in Acapulco, a Mexican
beach resort that has been sucked into a bloody turf war between
drug gangs in northern and western Mexico, local media reported.
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Mexican police search for Israeli tourist missing near Cancun
April 27, 2007
Cancun, Mexico - Police were searching
Friday for an Israeli tourist who disappeared last month near
the eastern Mexican resort town of Cancun.