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Starr County Sheriff Guerra arrestedFederal agents arrested Starr County Sheriff Reymundo "Rey" Guerra on Tuesday, charging him with participating in a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Gulf Cartel.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 16:35
Witnesses testify in case of man accused of killing wife
The belief his wife was having affairs with younger men drove Francisco Salazar Gonzales to plant tape recorders in their Bass Boulevard home and to eventually shoot her to death after a two-hour argument, ...
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 11:56
Actress Cantoral Gives Birth to Baby Girl
Mexican actress ITATI CANTORAL has given birth to her third child in a Mexico City hospital.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 07:34
Journalists targeted in latest Mexico drug violence
As drug-related violence continues to worsen across the border in Mexico, journalists are being increasingly targeted.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 03:02
Marine fights extradition in killing of pregnant corporal
A Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant comrade is fighting extradition in a move that prosecutors said could delay or endanger the chances of him going to trial in the ...
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 22:40
Calif. Mexican Citrus Growers Meet On Tree Disease
California citrus growers are hopeful that two days of meetings in Mexico will result in renewed efforts to combat an insect that carries a bacterial disease fatal to citrus trees.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 18:07
Seven Killed In Tijuana Drug Cartel War
Seven people were killed and three others wounded in the latest round of Tijuana, Mexico, drug cartel violence, officials said.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 13:30
Mexican town helps migrants flee police
An angry crowd in central Mexico attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers, officials said Monday.
Hundreds of people attacked police as they were trying to load the 34 immigrants into a van Sunday in the farming town of Rafael Lara Grajales, Puebla, state prosecutor Rodolfo Igor Archundia said.
The migrants fled in the chaos, but 21 were quickly caught. Police were searching for the other 13.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 08:58
2 Carrollton women killed in parasailing accident near Canc n, Mexico
Two Carrollton women vacationing in Mexico fell to their deaths Sunday in a parasailing accident after the rope tying their parachute to a boat broke, authorities said.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 04:27
Official: Gunmen Open Fire on U.S. Consulate in Mexico
The gate at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey was pockmarked with bullet holes Monday, a day after assailants shot at the building and threw a grenade that failed to explode.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 23:44
Experts compare current immigration situation to deportation of Mexicans in 1930s
Oct. 12--The stock market tanked, unemployment rose and cries grew forceful against Mexican immigrants.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 19:16
Woman accused of getting US passport illegally
A woman accused of entering the United States illegally used her U.S. passport 89 times before federal agents detained her on her way back from Matamoros, Mexico, in mid-September, her attorney said.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 12:05
Life in Mexico's deadliest drug war city
Ignacio Alvarado, 40, is a freelance investigative reporter and Reuters contributor in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where he was born and now lives with his wife and two children. He has been a journalist for 20 years -- seven in Mexico City, the rest in Ciudad Juarez. In the following story, he describes life in an increasingly lawless city where it's becoming almost commonplace to see daylight drug gang shootings and walk past dumped bodies.
By Ignacio Alvarado
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - My neighbor has been kidnapped and my six-year-old daughter witnessed an armed robbery at the local store. A friend was almost killed by a stray bullet in a gun battle at a set of traffic lights.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 07:35
Norbert weakens to tropical depression over Mexico
Norbert dissipated into a tropical depression over the northern mountains of mainland Mexico on Sunday, after ripping off roofs, flooding streets, and forcing thousands to seek shelter in Baja California.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 03:08
Mexico's mountains break Norbert into tropical storm
NEWS RELEASE U.S. NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTRE ************************** NORBERT CONTINUES TO WEAKEN, MOISTURE SPREADING NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE SOUTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 19:21
Attorney: Marine fighting extradition from Mexico
YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Sunday, October 12, 2008 Last modified on Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:45 AM MDT In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Marine Cpl.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 14:17
7th person sentenced in endangered turtle case
A man who made boots for President Bush and former Mexican President Vicente Fox has been sentenced to two years in prison for his part in smuggling endangered sea turtle skins and other exotic leathers from ...
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 06:30
Mexico offers reward in bar massacre investigation
Officials are offering a reward of 500,000 pesos (US$37,300) for the capture of gunmen who killed 11 people in a northern city bar.
Unknown assailants walked into the Rio Rosas bar in Chihuahua before midnight Thursday and began shooting indiscriminately.
The Chihuahua state government announced the reward in a statement Saturday after a meeting between Gov. Jose Reyes Baez and security officials.
Authorities also stepped up security patrols and installed checkpoints on the main roads leading into the city.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 02:01
Mexico sells more foreign reserves to boost peso
Mexico's central bank held three separate auctions to sell US$6.4 billion in foreign currency reserves on Friday in an increasingly aggressive push to boost its sagging peso.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 21:26
Ag leaders in Mexico, U.S. to fight insect together
Leaders in agriculture on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are collaborating on ways to combat the Asian citrus psyllid, a disease-carrying insect that could have catastrophic effects on the state's citrus ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 16:58
Venezuela pulls Pan Am bid; Toronto, two other cities still in running
Toronto has one fewer competitor in its quest to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's office says the group representing the city of Caracas, Venezuela, announced Friday that it had ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 12:22
Gunmen Kill 11 in Northern Mexican Bar
Gunmen opened fire in a northern city bar, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate criminal attacks, police said Friday.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 07:53
Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California
Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 03:20
Drug hitmen kill 11 in bar in Mexico
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen believed engaged in a drugs feud burst into a bar in northern Mexico and shot dead 11 people in the third drugs-related massacre in the state since July, officials said.
The black-clad gunmen opened fire with assault rifles at the Rio Rosas bar in Chihuahua city near Texas on Thursday night after pushing their way in and identifying themselves as federal police, the Chihuahua attorney general's office said.
The killings were believed related to a feud between gangs jockeying over drug smuggling routes into the United States.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 22:44
Mexico Under Watch For Tropical Storm Odile
The Mexican government posted a tropical storm watch Friday as Pacific Tropical Storm Odile became better organized, U.S. forecasters in Miami reported.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 18:05
Mexico: 16 killed in rough border state
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that 16 people were killed in 24 hours in the northern state across the U.S. border from California.
State officials blamed warring cells of the Arellano-Felix drug cartel for the killings and other homicides plaguing the area in recent weeks.
The Baja California state prosecutor's office said seven people were shot to death in the border city of Tijuana in four separate gunbattles. Another man was found handcuffed with a bag over his head, and two other bodies wrapped in blankets were dumped in a residential neighborhood.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 13:40
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert on hand as Dallas Regional Chamber launches Mexico City office
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert met with Mexican business leaders Thursday as part of a trade mission of more than 30 North Texas executives to launch the Dallas Regional Chamber's trade and investment office here.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 09:07
Grenade attack kills 5 state police in Mexico
Five state police officers were killed in the western Mexican state of Jalisco by grenade-lobbing gunmen who fired more than 800 bullets in the attack, authorities said Thursday.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 04:44
Have mummy, will travel: Mexican corpses on tour
First they jet-setted to Monterrey in specially designed glass cases. Crowds lined the streets to watch them pass.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 00:18
Court dismisses N.M. grassland appeal
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has dismissed an appeal of oil and gas leases in south-central New Mexico as moot since the leases no longer exist.
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 19:57
Aeromexico Suspends Non-Stops to Mexico from T.I.A.
Mexican airline Aeromexico has suspended non-stop flights from Tucson to Hermosillo, Sonora.
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 15:35
35 charged in SoCal drug smuggling ring
A federal grand jury charged 35 people with roles in groups that smuggled cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States and returned to Mexico with cash stashed in secret vehicle compartments, according to ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 10:57
Bank of Mexico steps in to support peso's value - and limit damage to Texas economy
The peso's value dropped like an Acapulco cliff diver Wednesday because of the global financial crisis, prompting Mexico's central bank to prop up the currency - and perhaps limit potential damage to Texas ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 06:35
Norbert Turns Into Category 4 Storm Off Mexico
Hurricane Norbert strengthened Wednesday into a powerful Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast as it churned on a path expected to take it over the southern half of the Baja California peninsula this ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 01:57
Nextel Mexico Uses ...
Two months after leading the deployment of wireline and wireless number portability in Mexico, Telcordia today announced that Nextel Mexico, one of the world's leading providers of fully integrated wireless ...
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 21:23
Vicious killings escalate in Mexico drug war
Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid. Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 15:12
Police: Men kidnapped woman for $200
A woman entering McAllen from Reynosa was held for ransom here last week for $200, according to a probable cause complaint.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 10:48
Mayor in Mexico killed in gunmen attack
MEXICO CITY. October 5. KAZINFORM. Mayor of the central Mexican city of Ixtapan de la Sal was shot dead on Saturday, with drug cartel suspected to be responsible for the murder, Mexican police said.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 05:12
Colombian official ties FARC to Mexican drug cartels
Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 21:05
Notable deaths: Servando Gonzalez
Servando Gonzalez Hernandez rose from gofer at a Mexican film studio to become a director in Hollywood.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 16:15
Latam stocks plunge on concern economic slowdown deepening across world
Latin American stocks plunged Monday, led by a stunning 15 percent intraday drop in Brazilian shares, on concern the world is descending into a severe economic slowdown that could devastate the region's ...
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 11:54
Updated at 10:44 AMAlmost 500 Pryor manufacturing jobs moving to Texas, Mexico
Labinal Inc. announced today that it will close its Pryor facility in 2009. The plant employs 485 people in the Mid-America Industrial Park in Pryor, which has a population just less than 10,000. It builds ...
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 07:20
Mexico: Tropical Storm Norbert on the West, Tropical Storm Marco on the East
Update 10/06/08 22.25 GMT : Tropical Storm Norbert is predicted to become a hurricane and could get closer to land later in the week.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 01:26
Jobs scarce for immigrant laborers in New Jersey
Around 5 every morning, Jorge Narbaez-Lopez, 25, and Manuel Lopez-Lopez, 22, make their way from their homes in Freehold to the muster zone on Throckmorton Street to wait for work.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 19:07
TS Norbert could strengthen, Marie is stationary
Tropical Storm Norbert continues to move westward in the Pacific while farther out in the ocean, Tropical Storm Marie has become stationary.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 14:37
Mexico seizes pseudoephedrine shipment at airport
Mexican authorities say they have seized 7 million pills of pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient used to make methamphetamine, at the Guadalajara airport.
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 10:14