- Mexico (News/Activism) -

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Last Update: Mon Jun 9 21:47:00 2008

- Note, head found near Mexican newspaper office - VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico — A note threatening a Mexican journalist was found outside the office of a newspaper in [...] was found outside the offices on Saturday. Soldiers later located his body in another part of the city alongside...

- Boeing awarded contract on border fence: Chertoff (two sections of "virtual fence" get OK) - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has decided to award Boeing contracts for the construction of two sections [...] ground sensors and software linking border agents to give them a "common operating picture" of...

- Guatemala to put army on border in drug war [Border w/ Mexico] - Guatemala plans to send hundreds of troops, elite presidential guards and anti-drug police to its border with Mexico to [...] Mexico, suspected drug gunmen dumped a man's head outside a newspaper in Tabasco state on Saturday...

- US Lawmakers to Review Mexico Aid Terms - MONTERREY, Mexico - U.S. lawmakers will review the language of a US$1.4 billion anti-drug plan that Mexican officials ...

- Euthanasia tourists snap up pet shop drug in Mexico - Elderly foreign tourists are tapping Mexican pet shops for a drug used by veterinarians to put cats and dogs to sleep [...] to locate back-street pet shops and veterinary supply stores near the US border. There they can buy a bottle for $35...

- [Mexico:]Anti-drug aid expected to be top subject at summit - MONTERREY, Mexico — U.S. legislators visiting this sun-baked industrial metropolis over the weekend can [...] on Mexico cleaning up its human rights record. Mexican officials were incensed. “We trust that they...

- Surf And Turf And Oil - Energy: Mexico and the United States engage in an energy dispute in the Gulf of Mexico. So why does Mexico want to [...] Clinton not vetoed drilling in its frozen tundra in 1995. In arguing that Saudi Arabia "holds the key...

- Border watcher says man drove truck at him - BISBEE — An employee of American Border Patrol, a non-governmental organization, was threatened on Thursday [...] said Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol. A short time later, the man revved the engine of...

- Mexico Violence Brings Wounded Man To Thomason Hospital[lockdown in El Paso, Texas] - Thomason Hospital was on lockdown Friday night after a patient arrived with ties to the violence in Mexico. [...] had been flown to Juarez from another Mexican community and then was taken to the Bridge of the Americas,"...

- `Other than Mexicans' a rare sight for border agents[except in Rio Grande Valley sector] - LA JOYA, Texas — Local police are accustomed to dealing with illegal border crossings, but they were [...] La Joya Police spokesman Joe Cantu. The immigrants were silent, able to communicate only with hand gestures. One man...

- Mexico's missing $3 billion: The mystery over Pemex - The price of oil keeps climbing and Mexico exports oil. When that happens the government should earn extra money from [...] oil windfall is about more than government largesse, although that is certainly part of the issue. Under the law, a...

- Woman whose daughter was sent to Mexico sues government - CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Texas woman whose American-born daughter was deported to Mexico with the father and not [...] border. Castro did not find and regain custody of her daughter until three years later, according to Texas RioGrande...

- Photo catches driver plowing into bike racers near U.S.-Mexico border, killing one - A car plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others. Police [...] drunk ... A photograph taken by a city official shows bicyclists and equipment being hurled high in to the air...

- Chertoff blisters Congress over aid for Mexico - Security chief stresses that funds would fight drugs in speech at Rice Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on [...] Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate have balked...

- [Laredo hit man conviction] Overturned; Teen unaware of admission's consequences - The murder conviction of a Laredo teenager allegedly hired by the Gulf cartel to execute a rival gang member has been [...] to kill Lopez by high-ranking cartel member Miguel Treviño Morales, or "El Cuarenta."...

- Mexico's Poor Seek Relief From Tortilla Shortage - Mexico's Poor Seek Relief From Tortilla ShortageLorne Matalon in Reynosa, Mexico for National Geographic [...] Mexico's poorest citizens. Tortillas are filling—Mexicans eat up to ten every day—but...

- Rare tuberculosis cases linked to Mexican cheese - Researchers have found a potentially deadly strain of tuberculosis infection spreading through Latino communities in [...] 2 million people worldwide every year. The strain of tuberculosis that researchers found in San Diego County is...

- Married police couple killed in Mexico - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A husband and wife, both state police officers, were shot dead Wednesday while leaving their [...] home base of the powerful Juarez drug cartel across from El Paso, Texas, has been among the hardest-hit cities in...

- Mexico asks World Court to stay executions in US - AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Mexico appealed to the U.N.'s highest court Thursday to block the executions [...] States "must take any and all steps necessary" to ensure that none of its citizens is executed,...

- Federal police shut down Nuevo Laredo radio station [Mexico] - Mexican federal agents shut down a Nuevo Laredo radio station Wednesday. Authorities said it was taken off the air for [...] to the police. La Jornada called the raid "violent" and reported that banging on doors and...

- Mexico's poor thank Algore - The rising cost of fuel and corn has caused tortilla prices to soar, a grave concern for Mexico's ...

- Mexico Security Memo: June 2, 2008 - <p>Last month’s 493 drug-related killings in Mexico made May the [...] albeit not too surprising — trends.</p>

- Live Oak authorities look for immigrants[South Texas illegals] - The Live Oak County Sheriff's Office searched for as many as 19 undocumented immigrants from Honduras on [...] said Deputy Nick Chaviz was patrolling the area alone and fired multiple shots at the Toyota after the truck rammed...

- June 3/4 COAST TO COAST AM - Jerry Corsi, documentary "Border", nutjob Alex Jones - LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI IN LOS ANGELES Tue 06.03 >> Author Jerome Corsi and filmmaker Chris Burgard [...] border with Mexico. First Hour: John M. Curtis comments on the election; Alex Jones reports on the Bilderburg meeting.

- Movin' To Mexico - Autos: Word that Ford will build its new fuel-efficient Fiesta "global car" in Mexico City is bad [...] vehicles. This should be something that workers in Michigan and other Midwestern states with decades...

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