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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
Human Drama Unfolds At Photojournalism Biennial
 Theresa Braine
Though marked by controversy, the Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Photojournalism was far from overshadowed as the Centro de Imagen in Mexico City showcased some 240 photos snapped by 55 of Mexico's most talented photo chroniclers.more »»»
City Park Reopens Without Vendors
 Wire services
The battle to control millions of street vendors underwent a new test on Sunday as Mexico City's main park was reopened to the public without the hundreds of food and trinket stands that once crowded winding, leafy walkways.more »»»
Mexico's Poor Get Cash Benefits Tied to Education, Health Care
 Hugh Dellios
At a time when parts of Latin America are suffering from instability and disillusionment with the free market and democratic systems, officials from Colombia and other nations have gone to Mexico to examine whether its anti-poverty program could help their struggling poor.more »»»
Mexican Newspaper Editor gets Daniel Pearl Journalism Award in LA
 Associated Press
Sixty-eight-year-old Jesus Blancornela was honored for his work in the weekly Zeta, which has investigated government corruption and drug cartels, and whose editors have repeatedly been the targets of assassination attempts.more »»»
Abuse Rampant Among Huichols
 Ulises Zamarroni Martínez
The director of a state domestic violence agency, Luz Elia González Navarro, says that nearly all Huichol women endure domestic violence and almost all Huichol men are prone to a violent alcoholism.more »»»
A Mexican Manual for Illegal Migrants Upsets Some in US
 James C. Mckinley Jr
The Mexican government drew fire from American advocates of tighter borders recently for publishing a pamphlet that instructs migrants how to safely enter the United States illegally and live there without being detected.more »»»
Flights for Illegal Immigrants Start Anew
 Associated Press
Ninety-four deported migrants arrived in Mexico's capital Friday on the first flight of a renewed United States repatriation program that left some pledging to try to cross again, while others said their border crossing days were over.more »»»
Mexican Authorities Vow Action in Border City Gripped with Fear
 Ioan Grillo
The Mexican government has deployed 80 federal agents to this Nuevo Laredo to lead the investigation into the brazen killing of the police chief. A funeral was held for the father of three, who was slain just hours after taking the oath of office.more »»»
Fox Aide Calls for Fiscal Discipline
 Anthony Harrup
A top aide of President Vicente Fox urged the oppositiondominated Congress to help beat a smooth economic path through next year's presidential election by accepting a balanced budget and avoiding the kind of controversy that erupted over this year's spending plan.more »»»
Lawmakers to Continue Debate on Migrant Vote
 Wire services
Congress has called a special session to take up the issue of Mexicans voting abroad, but the proposal still faces potential hurdles ahead of a July 1 deadline for approval, a leading legislator said Thursday.more »»»
Salinas Murder Conviction Overturned
 Reuters
Mexican judges overturned a murder conviction against Raul Salinas, the brother of a former Mexican president, on Thursday and ordered him released from prison, Salinas' lawyer told local media.more »»»
Mexican Volcano Rumbles Back to Life
 Mark Stevenson
The Volcano of Fire has rumbled back to life with its strongest eruptions in 20 years, spewing lava and ash clouds that had some residents who remained in their homes Wednesday casting nervous glances at the peak.more »»»
Presidential Hopeful Has Left In Sights
 Alistair Bell
A close ally of President Vicente Fox vowed on Wednesday to defeat a high-flying Mexican leftist in next year's presidential elections by offering voters stability and practical economic policies.more »»»
Heat Wave Still Going Strong
 Wire services
An intense heat wave now sweeping across Mexico has broken records in the capital and is expected to continue for at least another eight days, health officials said Wednesday.more »»»
Dwarfs Face Bulls In Mexico's Mini-Fights
 Catherine Bremer
The rousing trumpet music, the swish of the cape and the shouts of "Ole!" as the bull charges are all familiar to anyone who has seen a bullfight. The unnerving thing in the bullring is that bull and bullfighter are standing eye to eye, both about four feet high.more »»»
Pirated Goods: A Fake For Every Desire
 Wire services
It's easy to get lost at the Tepito marketplace, Mexico's largest collection of pirated goods and illegal merchandise. Booths form tight alleyways that stretch for what seems like miles and thousands of vendors hawk everything from pirated DVDs to Adidas footwear.more »»»
Families Forced Into Tiny Housing Units
 Juan Manuel Barrera
With real estate prices on the rise, many families are heading to new housing projects on the outskirts of the capital. But for some, their dream of owning a home has become a nightmare.more »»»
Special Envoy Gives Blessing to Milan Match
 Wire services
President Vicente Fox's envoy to Chiapas said Tuesday he sees no problem with a soccer match pitting Italian powerhouse Inter Milan against skimasked Zapatista rebels in Mexico City.more »»»
Evacuations Ordered After Mexican Volcano Erupts For Second Time
 KWTX.com
Evacuations began Tuesday in villages in western Mexico after the Volcano of Fire erupted for the second time in two days. A monitoring station of the University of Colima says the eruption hurled burning rock high in the air and shot a column of ash three miles over the crater.more »»»
Poll: Support for Church-State Separation High
 Associated Press
Mexico's strict separation between church and state still enjoys wide support, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll in a country with a history of violent battles between religious and secular leaders.more »»»
Mango Name Incites Spat
 Wire services
Since the thriving galleon trade between New Spain and the Philippines first brought the seedlings of the Manila mango to Acapulco more than 200 years ago, Mexico has gradually made the fruit its own.more »»»
Mexican Funeral Insurance Handles Final Journey
 Will Weissert
They live and die in the United States, but for the families of many Latin Americans, burial must be in their home country. It is a journey that can be delayed for months by the expensive and confusing process of negotiating international borders.more »»»
Aguilar Zinser Dies in Crash
 El Universal
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexico's former ambassador to the United Nations, was killed in a car accident Sunday afternoon in Tepoztlan, Morelos, where he had a weekend home. He was 55.more »»»
City Gives Soccer Match Ok
 E. Eduardo Castillo
It's hard to say which would make the bigger sensation arriving in Mexico City: Italy's powerhouse Inter Milan soccer team or Chiapas' masked Zapatista rebels, in what would be one of the stranger charity soccer matches of all time.more »»»
Mexico Pressured to Stop Attacks on Ecologists
 Lorraine Orlandi
International rights groups demanded on Wednesday that the Mexican government do more to protect environmental activists from violent attacks as they campaign against logging.more »»»
U.S. Couple Sentenced to 27 Years
 Wire services
A judge has convicted an Alabama couple of abducting a girl while she was playing in her front yard outside this northern Mexican city and sentenced both to 27 years in prison, local media reported.more »»»
Volcano of Fire Registers Eruption
 Wire services
The Colima Volcano in western Mexico also known as the Volcano of Fire registered two powerful eruptions within an hour, emitting a column of smoke and steam six kilometers (almost four miles) high, the University of Colima reported Thursday.more »»»
Fox Taps PAN Stalwart for Creel's Post
 José Luis Ruiz
President Vicente Fox on Thursday tapped Labor Secretary and National Action Party (PAN) ally Carlos Abascal to take over the reins at the Interior Secretariat after Santiago Creel resigned the day before.more »»»
Fox Ally Creel Quits Interior Ministry Job To Run For President
 Wire services
Mexico's interior secretary announced Wednesday that he was stepping down to start his campaign for the presidential nomination of Mexico's ruling National Action Party.more »»»
Mexico City Mayor Announces Free Home Medical Care For Elderly
 Associated Press
Nearing the start of his presidential campaign, Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday announced free home medical care for all of the capital city's 350,000 elderly.more »»»
Numbers for President Fox Drop in Mexico
 Angus Reid
Fewer Mexican adults are satisfied with Vicente Fox, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky. 53.9 per cent of respondents approve of the president’s performance, an 8.5 per cent drop since February.more »»»
Plan to Boost Tax Revenues
 Orquídia Soto
President Vicente Fox's administration has prepared a strategy designed to entice workers in the nation's informal economy into paying taxes, according to a senior official.more »»»
Activists Angered By Fox's Comments
 Wire services
President Vicente Fox said Tuesday a majority of 12 years of killings against women in Ciudad Juárez had been solved, again angering activists and victims' family members still fuming over his suggestion the slayings had been blown out of proportion.more »»»
Mexico's Municipalities Empowered By Ruling
 Carlos Avilés
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that municipalities can create their own solutions for local problems, from public lighting issues to regulating nightlife. Justice Olga Sánchez Cordero, who authored the opinion that was approved, could barely contain her excitement.more »»»
Large New Blast From Mexico's Volcano Of Fire
 Associated Press
An explosion shook western Mexico's Volcano of Fire early Monday, sending a plume of ash and smoke 3 miles into the air and scattering hot rocks on the mountain's slopes, according to local officials.more »»»
Ugalde Promises Clean '06 Elections
 David Gaddis Smith
Three years before he was named president of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute in 2000, Luis Carlos Ugalde wrote a book in which he listed five steps that Mexico's Congress needed to take to become an effective institution. So far, only one of them has been taken.more »»»
Candidates Posture To Announce Plans
 El Universal
Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, a member of President Vicente Fox's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, said Saturday that he will announce his decision whether to run for the presidency on Wednesday.more »»»
Indigenous Communities Shunning Eggs Over Rumor
 Wire services
Indigenous communities in the southern state of Chiapas have stopped eating eggs, generally a major part of their diet, due to mass hysteria prompted by rumors that a supposedly malevolent "black worm" was found in a yolk.more »»»
Mexico City Mayor Pledges To Cut Presidential Salary In Half If Elected
 Mark Stevenson
Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the presidential front-runner, pledged Thursday that he would cut the presidential salary by half if elected and eliminate pensions given to former presidents.more »»»
Protests Turn Tequila Sunrise To Sunset
 Sean Mattson
A farmers organization has been disrupting tequila production as prices for blue agave, the primary ingredient of this country's trademark firewater, dipped to their lowest levels in almost a decade.more »»»
Mayor Outlines Fiscal Policy
 John Authers, Richard Lapper & Sara Silver
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftwing frontrunner for the presidential contest next July, has made a strong attempt to define himself as an economic pragmatist, arguing that he would maintain both a cautious fiscal policy and central bank independence if elected.more »»»
Mexico's Volcano Of Fire In Colima State Spouts Ash, Hot Rock In Major Eruption
 Mark Stevenson
A major eruption shook the Volcano of Fire in the state of Colima Monday, sending a pyroclastic flow of burning gas and rocks fragments more than 2.5 miles down the slopes and clouds of ash 2 miles into the air.more »»»
President Fox Declines To Apologize
 Wire services
President Vicente Fox again refused to issue a formal apology Monday for remarks about blacks that some people construed as racist, but he accepted an invitation from a U.S. civil rights activist to meet with blacks in New York.more »»»
President Fox Takes To U.S. Airwaves
 Morgan Lee
President Vicente Fox on Sunday defended his commitment to minorities and human rights on a U.S. radio program, in his first public response to his controversial comment that Mexicans take the U.S. jobs that "not even" blacks want.more »»»
Crack Cocaine Sweeps Across Mexico
 Jeremy Schwartz
Officials say Mexico is facing its own homegrown drug epidemic, spearheaded by an alarming increase in crack use throughout the country. Some worry that Mexico may be headed for the type of violence the introduction of crack visited upon U.S. cities in the 1980s.more »»»
Mexico Leftist Vows To Win Presidency Or Go Home
 Alistair Bell
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the mayor of Mexico City, said this week that he would retire to his home state of Tabasco if he loses the 2006 ballot. His vow is unusual in Latin America, where politicians often cling onto jobs in public life despite losing support.more »»»
All Eyes On Mexico As Cannes Fest Wrapping Up
 El Universal
Though only one Mexican film is in competition for the Palme d'Or, Carlos Reygadas' "Batalla en el Cielo" (Battle in Heaven), Mexican cinema had its greatest presence in history at the 58th Cannes Film Festival.more »»»
Jackson: Fox Remark Opened Up Dialogue
 Ginger Thompson
Five days after President Vicente Fox provoked a storm of outrage in the US by saying that Mexican migrants do work that "not even blacks want to do," the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said in a visit to Mexico on Wednesday that he welcomed the remarks, in a backhand sort of way.more »»»
Electoral Officials Offer Resignation
 Juan José Arreola
Councilors presiding over the IEEM that oversees local elections resigned on Wednesday after pressure continued to build over allegations they accepted millions of pesos in bribes.more »»»
Congress Calls For Electoral Investigation
 Lourdes Martínez Pérez
Amid growing controversy in the run-up to the State of Mexico gubernatorial elections, Congress on Monday ordered an investigation into allegations of kickbacks being handed out to state electoral officials.more »»»
Fox's Office Issues An Apology
 Wire services
President Vicente Fox apologized Monday for saying that Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won't, but many Mexicans stung by a new U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants said Fox was just stating a fact.more »»»
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