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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
Zapatistas Ready to Disband Army, Enter into Politics
 USNewswire
The self-styled Subcomandante Marcos, spokesman for the Zapatista rebels of the southern state of Chiapas, aims to transform the insurgent "army" into Mexico´s principal leftist party, La Cronica newspaper reported Monday.more »»»
Women Threaten Mexican Machismo
 Prensa Latina
The news coming from the eastern state of Vera Cruz in Mexico caused so much surprise it made headlines in a country where machismo is practically the norm: many men are victims of women´s aggression.more »»»
Mexico's Snowy 'Smoking Mountain' Spits Ash, Rocks
 Reuters
Mexico's giant Popocatepetl volcano threw up an ash column almost 2 miles (3 km) high and spat glowing rocks down its snow-clad slopes on Sunday, but nearby towns were not affected, officials said.more »»»
US Builds Up Its Fences Against Migration
 Diego Cevallos
The US was roundly criticised again this year for the continued hardening of its immigration policy, which is largely to blame for the death of about 300 migrants a year. But the criticism has not had any effect, and some observers predict even greater difficulties in 2006.more »»»
American Nun Shuns Luxury for Mexican Jail
 Elliot Spagat
The cell at the end of the dark hallway barely fits a cot, a desk and a folding chair. This is home for Sister Antonia Brenner, an American nun who was raised in Beverly Hills but abandoned a life of privilege to live in a notorious Mexican jail.more »»»
Mexican Homecomings Change Workers Into Heroes
 Dane Schiller
While living in the shadows inside the US, Mexican immigrants stoke controversy from the Rio Grande to Washington. But when they return home, they're hailed as heroes. They're seen as triumphant soldiers who have risked their lives in the war against poverty.more »»»
Into the Santa Swirl
 Reed Johnson
The Santa Clauses, all 42 of them, were waving, dancing and shaking their fake-o bellies. Hip-hop and ranchera blasted from a half-dozen loudspeakers. Vendors shilled, children shrieked and the twilight sky was tinged with pink cotton candy wisps. It was beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at the Plaza de la Revolucion.more »»»
Cancun Comeback
 Mike Williams
Although Mexican officials have poured massive resources into Cancun's recovery in hopes of completing most of the repair work in time for the mid-December start of the winter tourist season, there is still much work to be done.more »»»
Mexico City Combats Sidewalk Pornography
 Mark Stevenson
Some 600 city police confiscated thousands of pirated pornographic videos from a five-block stretch Tuesday in an effort to force some of the city's unlicensed street vendors to be more discreet with their X-rated wares in this socially conservative society.more »»»
Mexico Reacts with Anger and Shame to US Congressional Approval of Border Wall
 Greg Flakus
Mexico's Foreign Minister, Luis Derbez, says he plans to visit Washington next week to raise objections to a proposed wall along the US/Mexico border, which was approved by the US House of Representatives last week.more »»»
Mexicans Head North to Snare Holiday Bargains
 Richard Marosi
The pedestrian lane at the San Ysidro port of entry backed up nearly a quarter-mile into Mexico, weaving past the churro vendors, discount drugstores and tin-shack candy booths.more »»»
Working for the Rights Of Children "Because Grown-Ups Forget To Do It"
 Mariana Echandi
In November, the municipal authorities in Mexico City organized a two-day workshop for children from the 16 municipalities of the capital. More than 120 children between the ages of 10 to 17 attended the workshops, designed to give children a say in the way Mexico City reaches decisions that shape their lives.more »»»
Fox Hires Lobbyist for U.S.
 Sam Enriquez
President Vicente Fox has rehired the Texas public relations man and GOP political consultant who quietly helped engineer his election victory in 2000. This time, Fox wants Rob Allyn & Co. to put the brakes on growing anti-immigration, anti-Mexican sentiment in the US.more »»»
Official Decries Poor Treatment
 Miami Herald
The federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged that the country mistreats many migrants - mainly Central Americans - and uses some of the same methods on them that it opposes in the US. The admission comes as the government has launched a diplomatic offensive against a U.S. House of Representatives immigration enforcement bill.more »»»
Chavez Praises Fox After Insult
 Reuters
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a left-winger and Washington's foe, applauded Fox's public statements last week where he denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" a proposal to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.more »»»
Mexico Asking Latin American Countries to Unite Over Fight Against U.S. Immigration Bill
 Associated Press
Foreign Secretary Luis Derbez said that Mexico has contacted several governments in the region to ask them to denounce the U.S. measures, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Friday, to build a 700-mile wall to keep out migrants.more »»»
Children Smuggled North for Holidays
 Lynn Brezosky
An increasing number of smuggling suspects have been arrested trying to bring children from Mexico, an annual problem as illegal immigrants working in the United States arrange to have their kids shipped north for holiday reunions.more »»»
Mexican Drug Gangs Force Indians to Grow Opium
 Tim Gaynor
Mexican Indians have grown maize, worshiped nature and lived by the light of pine torches in the canyons of the western Sierra Madre mountains for centuries. But this way of life is abruptly changing.more »»»
Mexico Rejects Morales Plan
 AP
Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said on Tuesday that while the Mexican government supports Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales, it does not support his idea of creating a Latin American trade bloc against the United States.more »»»
South of the Border, the Christmas Bonus Is Sacred
 Marla Dickerson
The Christmas bonus is fast disappearing in the United States, a casualty of pay-for-performance and corporate cutbacks. But south of the border, that fat December paycheck is a near-sacred entitlement protected by law and tradition.more »»»
Mexico Retaliates for Border Wall Plan
 Mark Stevenson
The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, has struck back with radio ads urging Mexican workers to denounce rights violations in the US.more »»»
U.S. Money Helps, Hurts Mexicans
 Hugh Dellios
The boys and girls of this central Mexico town will soon play in a $1.2 million sports center. Part of the money came from residents who emigrated to the United States and send some of their wages back home. But not all that arrives with the money is so good.more »»»
Riddle of "Corpse Bride" Draws Crowds
 Tim Gaynor
Peering through the glass at a mannequin's veined hands, sparkling eyes and eerie smile, the small crowd gathered outside a store in northern Mexico tries to settle a macabre riddle beguiling many.more »»»
Media Ads Gobble Up Campaign Funds
 Wire services
From the elections of 1994 to the mid-term vote in 2003, the nation’s political parties invested more than 50 percent of their campaign budgets in TV, radio and internet advertising.more »»»
Fox Raps US on Plan for Fence
 Pravda.ru
President Vicente Fox likened a U.S. plan to build 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) of fence along its border with Mexico to the Berlin wall, saying it was a hypocritical move coming from a nation of immigrants.more »»»
Mexico's High Court Decision Opens an Extradition Pipeline
 Hugh Dellios
Prosecutors in the United States are gearing up to target elusive drug kingpins and fugitive murder suspects in Mexico in the wake of a landmark Mexican Supreme Court decision paving the way for extraditions even if the suspects face life sentences in the United States.more »»»
Mexico Denounces US Decision to Extend Border Fence
 Xinhuanet
The Mexican government denounced on Friday a decision by the U.S. Congress to build more fences along the U.S.-Mexican border. "A migratory reform that only addresses security will not resolve the bilateral immigration problem," a spokesman for President Vicente Fox, told reporters on Friday.more »»»
Madrazo Learning a Lesson from La Maestra
 Sam Enriquez
Elba Esther Gordillo's political betrayal by candidate Roberto Madrazo has thrown a wrench into his campaign and threatens to upend the calculus of next year's presidential election as Gordillo and her powerful teachers union shop for a new champion.more »»»
Mexico Sees Bigger Butterfly Migration
 Anahi Rama
Wildlife officials say good weather should bring a surge in the number of monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico this year, after last year's cold resulted in the lowest numbers in more than a decade.more »»»
Mexican Park Rangers Protect Butterflies
 Ioan Grillo
With assault rifles over their shoulders and body armor strapped to their chests, Roberto Paleo and his 17 officers are among the world's most heavily armed park rangers. Yet they guard one of nature's most delicate creatures — the monarch butterfly.more »»»
Mexico Resorts Getting Back in the Swim
 Marnie Hunter
Tourism officials in the hurricane-battered Mexican state of Quintana Roo hope to have 80 percent of the accommodations and amenities in the affected Caribbean coast resorts fully operational by February.more »»»
One Faith Fits All - or Else
 Héctor Tobar
In the rural hamlet of San Nicolas, there are people who use a bulldozer and a backhoe as instruments of God. Angry Catholics used the backhoe to cut off Nicolasa Vargas' water after she and her farmworker husband were conspicuously absent from the fiesta honoring the village's patron saint, St. Nicolas of Tolentino.more »»»
Mexican Phony-Money Ring Busted
 CNN News
Mexican investigators announced Wednesday the dismantling of a cross-border counterfeiting ring that printed an estimated $5 million in fake $100 bills in Mexico and sold them in the United States.more »»»
US-Mexico Border Wall Would be 'Disgraceful' - Fox
 Reuters
President Vicente Fox denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" yesterday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.more »»»
Pawning Helps Pay for the Piñata in Loan-Poor Mexico
 Marla Dickerson
Aurora Rico Torres is hosting a big holiday party this week, part of a celebration leading up to Christmas. Before buying the pozole, punch and piñatas, she took part in another Mexican tradition: pawning.more »»»
Mexican Village Mob Lynches Neighbor
 Reuters
Some 200 people dragged a neighbor from his house in a Tzotzil Indian village in southern Mexico and beat him to death in revenge for the death in a brawl of another man, the daily El Universal said on Tuesday.more »»»
U.S. Border Patrol Trains Mexican Officials on Search and Rescue
 Associated Press
A U.S. Border Patrol search and rescue team will teach officials at Mexico's southern border how to assist migrants who find themselves in danger after sneaking into the country from Central America.more »»»
Wilma-Damaged Cancun Still Under Construction
 AP
The Mexican government had pledged Cancun would be three-quarters recovered from Hurricane Wilma by Thursday. But bulldozers are still easier to find here than tourists.more »»»
Education Lags Despite Boosts in Spending
 Wire reports
Mexico's long-underfunded schools now have more money but the quality of education especially in high schools has not significantly improved, Education Secretary Reyes Tamez said this week.more »»»
Relations Secretary Derbez Calls House Immigration Bill 'Wrong'
 Associated Press
A bill that would toughen U.S. immigration enforcement is "wrong," Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said on Monday, and he called for U.S. groups to lobby against the measure.more »»»
Millions Journey to Pay Their Respects to the Virgin of Guadalupe
 Associated Press
Mexico City officials estimated more than 4 million pilgrims journeyed to the basilica in Mexico City to celebrate the appearance of the virgin before Indian peasant Juan Diego in 1531.more »»»
Mexican Casino Plan Dies Yet Again
 Barnard R. Thompson
The Tourism Committee of Mexico’s federal Chamber of Deputies, the lead working group among three in Congress considering reforms to the 1947 Federal Gaming and Raffles Law – legislation that could include the reintroduction of full fledged casinos in Mexico, will not move the reforms out of committee.more »»»
Image of Guadalupe a Big Pop Hit
 Yvonne Wingett
The image of the beloved Virgin of Guadalupe has moved from the solemn walls of Catholic churches and onto the stylish hips of fashionistas. For almost five centuries, since her legendary appearance to a peasant Aztec atop a Mexican mountain, she has been the religious icon of the devout. Today, la Virgen de Guadalupe is also a pop icon.more »»»
Obrador Accepts Party Nomination
 Mark Stevenson
Tens of thousands filled the Mexican capital's massive main plaza Saturday as a fiery former mayor considered the 2006 presidential race's front-runner formally accepted the nomination of a coalition of leftist parties.more »»»
Frida Kahlo Sells Tequila
 Jerry Hirsch
First there was the art, now there is the tequila. The heirs of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo have launched a line of high-end spirits using the name and likeness of the style icon. "Tequila was her favorite drink, and she drank a lot of it," said Mara Romeo Pinedo Kahlo, a grand-niece.more »»»
Felipe Calderon Makes Migrants an Issue
 Arturo Salinas
Presidential hopeful Felipe Calderon took his campaign to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, saying the United States should view Mexican migrants as people seeking a better life, not as a threat to national security. more »»»
Coming Soon: Estefan Bistro, Album, Movie
 Miami Herald
If making movies and hit songs wasn't enough, Estefan and her producer husband are also planning to extend their chain of restaurants throughout Mexico. This week they opened the Bonguitos Cuban Cafe in Mexico City's international airport and on Jan. 18 they will open another eatery in Puerto Vallarta.more »»»
Leading Presidential Candidates to Suspend Campaigns for the Holidays
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Presidential candidates for the country's three main political parties will suspend their campaigns during the Christmas holidays to give potential contenders from two smaller parties a chance to catch up.more »»»
Ex-Police Commander Gets 40 Years in Shooting Death of Roman Catholic Cardinal
 Luis Carlos Sainz
A court has sentenced a former police commander to 40 years in prison in the 1993 shooting death of a Roman Catholic cardinal. The court said Humberto Rodriguez Banuelos was part of a gang of gunmen that riddled Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo with bullets while he was sitting in his car at the airport in Guadalajara.more »»»
Junkyard Dogfight for Presidency
 Sylvia Moreno
The race for Mexico's presidency has featured mudslinging, backstabbing, revelations of a questionably obtained Miami penthouse, videotapes of cash-filled suitcases and allegations of communist leanings - all this before the campaign has even officially begun.more »»»
Death Penalty Officially Abolished
 El Universal
The government formally abolished the last vestiges of the death penalty on Friday, the eve of International Human Rights Day. President Vicente Fox described as "historic" the constitutional change.more »»»
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