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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
In Mexico, Tourists Try to Find a Way Home
 Ricardo Sandoval & Susan Ferriss
Exhausted and confused American tourists were trickling into Mérida, Yucatán Sunday, looking for any way off the Yucatán peninsula, which for two days has been battered by Hurricane Wilma.more »»»
Wilma Guts Maya Riviera
 Greg Brosnan
Wilma wrought destruction across the "Maya Riviera," a strip of tropical coastline that draws planeloads of tourists to its pristine white sands, turquoise sea and Maya ruins.more »»»
Top Concern: Health Crisis
 El Universal and wire reports
Winds began to diminish and Hurricane Wilma slowly pulled away from the Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday, leaving behind damaged hospitals ill-equipped to deal with the growing disaster.more »»»
Owners to Limit Growth at Oasis
 Sandra Dibble
It is one of Mexico's most remote regions, a vast landscape of water and earth where migratory birds feed, mangroves thrive and gray whales migrate to breed and bear their young. For years, conservation groups from both sides of the border have fought to preserve the Laguna San Ignacio and its surroundings.more »»»
Presidential Hopeful for Mexico's Former Ruling Party Drops Out Amid Scandal
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Arturo Montiel, one of two main contenders for his party's 2006 presidential nomination, dropped out of the race on Thursday following allegations of alleged million-dollar property and bank transactions by him and his family.more »»»
Frenk to Present Bird Flu Action Plan
 El Universal
The health secretary will present a plan on Thursday that details Mexico's response to a possible bird flu outbreak, although to date, there are no reported cases in the country, according to the president's office.more »»»
Actor Mel Gibson Donates $1 Million USD to Mexico's Hurricane Relief
 Associated Press
Actor Mel Gibson, sporting a long beard and no socks, met with Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday and donated $1 million USD to help Mexico recover from Hurricane Stan.more »»»
Mexico: Bush Proposal 'Significant'
 Wire services
Mexico described as "significant" the immigration-reform positions laid out by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday, but said any U.S. plan would have to "recognize the contributions of migrants" and take into consideration those already living north of the border.more »»»
López Obrador Hopes Hot Line Will Raise Cash
 Wire services
The front-runner ahead of next summer's presidential elections said Tuesday he is dialing up a new approach to fundraising: a 1-900, charge-by-the-minute telephone hot line.more »»»
Saddam Invades Capital Billboards
 Wire services/El Universal
A civic group is using images of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Mother Teresa to urge courteous behavior in Mexico City, prompting disbelief on Tuesday. The newspaper Reforma announced, "Saddam Hussein gives classes on civic behavior in Mexico City," in a front-page headline.more »»»
Mexico Smugglers' Village Booming on U.S. Border
 Tim Gaynor
For decades, residents of this Mexican desert village on the border with the United States baked bricks and ranched cattle to make a meager living. Sasabe was barren and isolated then. Now it is a boomtown studded with bars, flophouses and taco stands as that isolation has made it a popular and thriving hub for smugglers hauling undocumented migrants north into America, authorities say.more »»»
Sex Plaza In Mexico Gives New Meaning to Strip Mall
 S. Lynne Walker
A sex-oriented shopping center in Mexico City's historic center is a place where dancers strip in the food court and shops offer lingerie, exotic oils and porn videos. Opponents of the new center fear it will scare away longtime customers of nearby businesses.more »»»
López Obrador to Offer Funds from Campaign
 Wire services
The former mayor of Mexico City and front-runner ahead of next summer's presidential race said Thursday he planned to donate 10 percent of his campaign war chest to victims of flooding in southern and central Mexico, and hoped other candidates will do the same.more »»»
Desperate Town Waiting For Help
 Wire services
Stranded and still waiting for aid a week after torrential rains, desperate villagers have been forced to walk for days along hillside trails in search of food for their hungry children. Residents from the surrounding communities have gravitated here to look for essential supplies.more »»»
Mexico Wary of Rights Violations on U.S. Border
 AP
Mexico says it will be keeping an eye out for human rights violations after Texas Gov. Rick Perry pledged $9.7 million to step up security along the Mexico-Texas border. In a statement Mexico said it understood that the fight against crime and violence along the border must be fought on both sides.more »»»
Dollar Stores Take Off in Mexico
 Wire services
As sales gimmicks go, "11.3 pesos" doesn't quite have the ring of "99 cents." But Mexican shoppers such as Jaime Plata don't seem to care. Savings, not slick marketing, draw him to Waldo's Dólar Mart de México, this nation's largest chain of so-called dollar stores.more »»»
US2.3 Billion to be Spent on Recovery
 EFE/El Universal
The federal government said that it anticipates spending as much as US2.3 billion on the recovery from Hurricane Stan, which is blamed for at least 27 deaths nationwide and has forced more than 100,000 people into shelters.more »»»
Mexican Businessmen Now Vocal in Politics
 Mark Stevenson
With an avowed leftist leading presidential polls, Mexico's business magnates are taking a more open role in politics, throwing their weight around after decades in which they were expected to pony up donations in private but keep quiet in public.more »»»
Rescue Teams Race to Reach Flooded Towns
 AP/El Universal
The skies over Chiapas finally cleared on Saturday, giving military and emergency relief workers the chance to distribute essential supplies to thousands of refugees stranded from flooding following Hurricane Stan. With roads flooded and bridges down, many rural towns have been cut off from emergency services for days.more »»»
Band in Hot Water Over Use of Flag
 Susan Ferriss
When the Tex-Mex group Kumbia Kings appeared on a nationally televised Mexican talk show last month with a guitar emblazoned with the colors and symbols of Mexico's flag they thought it would be clear the guitar was a gesture of pride in their Mexican heritage. Wrong.more »»»
Situation Dire for Chiapas
 Susana Hayward
Rescuers with emergency supplies of food and water can't reach more than 300,000 people in mountainous regions of the southern state of Chiapas cut off by flooding and mudslides in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan, officials said Friday.more »»»
Mexican State to Use US-Style Trial System
 Tim Gaynor
Mexico's Chihuahua state plans to use oral trials instead of traditional, written criminal hearings to try serious crimes beginning next year, prosecutors said on Thursday.more »»»
US Says Help En Route
 AP/The Herald Mexico
The US government has pledged aid to Mexico to help areas hit hard by Hurricane Stan, just weeks after Mexican military missions went to the US to assist with reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina.more »»»
Poet: Court Ruling Violates Free Speech
 Wire services
The Mexican Supreme Court refused to dismiss flag-desecration charges against a man who wrote a poem about using the flag to clean up urine, a decision that the writer described as an attack on freedom of expression.more »»»
Mexican Church Under Fire for Admitting it Accepts Money from Drug Dealers
 Lisa J. Adams
When a Mexican bishop declared that drug traffickers often donate to the church, shock waves ran through this predominantly Roman Catholic nation – not because the news was a surprise, but because admitting it was tantamount to confessing that nothing, not even God, is sacred when it comes to organized crime in Mexico.more »»»
Death Toll from Hurricane Stan Rises in Central America
 Diego Mendez
Authorities searched flooded and mud-caked communities Wednesday for victims of storms spawned by Hurricane Stan that left a trail of destruction and killed 82 people across Central America.more »»»
Jennifer Lopez Films in Nogales
 Wire reports
Traffic backed up around the set and hundreds of people crowded the streets of Nogales, across from Nogales, Arizona, to get a glimpse of Lopez, who was accompanied by her husband, singer-actor Marc Anthony, local newspapers reported Tuesday.more »»»
Late President Honored for Giving Refuge
 EFE
One of Spain's top universities paid homage to late Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas and to some 200 scholars who were among the more than 20,000 Spaniards given refuge in Mexico after the fascist victory in their country's 1936-39 civil war.more »»»
Hurricane Stan Slams into Mexico's Gulf Coast, Dozens Killed in Central America
 Miguel Hernandez
Hurricane Stan slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast Tuesday, forcing authorities to close one of the nation's busiest ports and spawning related storms across the region that left at least 66 people dead, most from landslides in El Salvador.more »»»
Mexican Coastal Areas Experiencing a Surge in Housing Construction
 Sandra Dibble & Lori Weisberg
Step out onto the balconies of the newest condominiums rising along the Pacific Ocean and catch colorful sunsets, misty mornings, dolphins leaping from the waves – and giant cranes lifting steel beams for a new tower next door.more »»»
Lopez Obrador Attacks Fox on Economy
 Sergio Chapa
Corruption and economic inequality have emptied entire villages in southern Mexico as the poor migrate to the United States in search of jobs they can’t find at home, Mexican presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a Sunday evening campaign stop here.more »»»
Hopes Fading for Justice in 1968 Mexican Massacre
 Lorraine Orlandi
Exactly 37 years after a brutal crackdown on students ushered in an era of state terror in Mexico, hope that President Vicente Fox can bring former top officials to justice for the bloodshed is quickly fading.more »»»
Ex-Fox Aide Vows to Stay in Mexican Race
 Reuters
A former Mexican minister seen as President Vicente Fox's favorite to succeed him vowed Monday to stay in the presidential race despite serious setbacks in the ruling party's primaries.more »»»
Cardinals Defeat Niners
 Greg Beacham
Robert Griffith sprinted out of the giant inflatable helmet, charging through the smoke and the corridor of cheerleaders. The Cardinals safety was screaming - and wildly waving a Mexican flag.more »»»
Mexican Citizens Can Now Register in US to Vote by Mail
 Wire services
Starting Saturday, Mexican citizens are given a chance to register in the United States to vote by mail in Mexico's presidential election next year. An estimated 11 million Mexicans in the United States could cast ballots in next year's election.more »»»
Hurricane Causes Floods in Western Mexico
 Jorge Barrera
The outer bands of Hurricane Otis lashed the coast of western Mexico Saturday as the storm crawled toward the Baja California peninsula, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate their homes and flooding roads in this resort city.more »»»
Mexican Panda Home After Failed Tokyo Love Match
 Catherine Bremer
Mexican giant panda Shuan Shuan was back in her Mexico City enclosure on Thursday, jet-lagged and chewing glumly on a pile of bamboo leaves after failing to find passion with a suitor in a Tokyo zoo.more »»»
'Alternative Honorary Nobel' for Francisco Toledo
 webindia123.com
The 2005 Right Livelihood Award went to 65-year-old Mexican artist and philanthropist Francisco Toledo, founder and patron of a number of cultural institutions in his native Mexican state of Oaxaca.more »»»
Officials Begin Ballot Distribution
 Wire services
Electoral officials have begun distributing 1 million voting forms for Mexicans living outside of Mexico, the latest step in the nation's historic first attempt at allowing absentee voting, officials said Wednesday.more »»»
NFL a Hit with Mexican Gamblers
 Chris Hawley
When the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers play in Mexico City on Sunday, their Mexican hosts won't have hometown pride on the line, but they will have money riding on the game, and a lot of it.more »»»
In Mexico, NFL Has Untapped Market
 Daniel Brown
Tony Parrish, the 49ers defensive back, spent three days in Mexico during the summer promoting his team's game Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals in Mexico City. He found he didn't have to do much promoting.more »»»
Ex-Members of Guatemalan Forces Held
 Wire services
Security officials said Tuesday they have detained five former members of an elite Guatemalan counterinsurgency unit known for its brutality. They said the men may have been invited to Mexico to work with the feared drug hit men known as the Zetas.more »»»
Mexican President Appoints Intelligence Chief To Top Police Post
 Mark Stevenson
President Vicente Fox appointed Mexico's former intelligence chief to the country's top police post on Tuesday, replacing an official killed last week in a helicopter crash. Fox told Eduardo Medina Mora that his primary responsibility as secretary of public safety was the battle against organized crime.more »»»
Protesting Mexican Sugar Workers Take Over Mills
 Miguel Hernandez
Thousands of workers went on strike and took over mills in Mexico's 15 sugar-producing states on Tuesday to protest the federal government's opposition to a new production law.more »»»
Medical Students Learn On 'Breathing' Robots
 Reuters
On Monday, Mexico City's UNAM University opened the world's largest "robotic hospital" where medical students practice on everything from delivering a baby from a robotic dummy to injecting the arm of a plastic toddler.more »»»
Whale-Rich Mexican Sea Named World Heritage Site
 Reuters
The 244 islands, along with miles of mainland beaches in Mexico's Baja California, Sonora and Nayarit states, were declared World Heritage sites by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, a presidential spokesman told reporters.more »»»
Army to Leave U.S. After Historic Mission
 Wire services
After nearly three weeks of providing food and medical care to thousands of hurricane victims, a relief team from the Mexican army prepared to return home Monday. Among their accomplishments were preparing and serving nearly 160,000 hot meals and performing 660 dental and medical exams.more »»»
Mexico's Coahulia Elects Governor in Final State Race Before 2006 Presidential Elections
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Mexico's former ruling party Sunday was the favorite to win the governorship of Coahuila state, which borders Texas, in the last state election before next summer's presidential race.more »»»
New Study Ranks 'Most Livable' Cities
 Miryam Audiffred
Perhaps they are not the first names that jump to mind when one thinks of the nation's finest towns, but according to a new study, the most livable cities in Mexico are Queretaro, Monterry, Chihuahua, Saltillo and Mexico City.more »»»
Now That's a Big Hug: 14,000 Embrace in Juarez
 Associated Press
More than 14,000 people in this infamously violent city on the US-Mexico border embraced and held on tight Sunday for a 15-minute "Giant Hug," that attempted to set a Guinness World Record.more »»»
More than a Million Mexicans Unemployed
 Prensa Latina
More than a 1.5 million people are unemployed in Mexico, according to reports by the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information. Economic analysts said there is no sign that unemployment has lessened in the largest cities.more »»»
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