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- In Mexico, credit card use is up, but the economy is going down. more info
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Charred bodies dumped in Tijuana
Police found six charred bodies, one still on fire, dumped on a street in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana today, in the latest brutal killing on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tijuana is one of the most gruesome fronts in Mexico's three-way war between rival drug cartels and security forces, as Mexico's most-wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman tries to wrestle control of smuggling routes into California from the city's long dominant Arellano Felix cartel.
Following two months of relative quiet in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, drug murders and kidnappings are rising again. Shootouts between drug gangs have killed some 300 people in the city this year, making up a chunk of the more than 1,700 drug murder victims across Mexico since the start of 2008.
Today's burnt bodies were found two days after suspected drug hitmen in southern Mexico dumped a severed human head inside a black bag in the tourist city of Oaxaca, along with a threatening message for Mexican law enforcement.
Police found six charred bodies, one still on fire, dumped on a street in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana today, in the latest br... more -
Graduating & Illegal
Bianca and Lorena are sisters who crossed the US/Mexico border when they were 10 and 11. They started a life in Oregon. Now, as they reach the end of high school, they still want to continue their education, career and life here. In the current US cultural climate with strong opinions about immigration and illegal aliens is this going to be possible? Bianca and Lorena are sisters who crossed the US/Mexico border when they were 10 and 11. They started a life in Oregon. Now, as they r... more
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U.S. border agents, lured by the other side
Al otro lado. To the other side. U.S. Customs officers and Border Patrol agents have recently come under the radar of the Department of Homeland Security for accepting financial incentives from smugglers in Mexico. The Homeland Security Department, established in 2003, had dissolved an internal affairs unit at the time, but has since renewed its internal criminal investigation team and is expected to employ 200 investigators by the end of this year in light of recent cases involving customs officers and border agents alleged to have assisted smugglers with illegal immigration trafficking for bribes. In one case, brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal who worked as U.S. Border Patrol agents have been identified as assisting smugglers help immigrants from Mexico and Brazil enter the United States. Now, the Villarreals have since abandoned their posts and fled to Mexico. Read more in Randal C. Archibold and Andrew Becker's article "U.S. border agents, lured by the other side" (International Herald Tribune, May 27, 2008).
Photo: Customs agents unloading drugs found in Otay Mesa, California. Agents looking the other way instead are an increasing problem. (Sandy Huffaker/The New York Times). Al otro lado. To the other side. U.S. Customs officers and Border Patrol agents have recently come under the radar of the Department o... more -
Mysterious cave at Mexican pyramid
Archaeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.
The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico.
But little is known about the civilization that built the immense city, with its ceremonial architecture and geometric temples, and then torched and abandoned it around the year 700.
Archaeologists are now revisiting a cave system that is buried 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the towering Pyramid of the Sun and extends into a tunnel stretching for 295 feet (90 meters) with a height of 8 feet (2.4 meters).
They say new excavations begun this month could be the key to unlocking information about the sacred rituals of the people who inhabited the city, later dubbed "The Place Where Men Become Gods" by the Aztecs, who believed it was a divine site. Archaeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious ... more -
Archeologists open secret cave under Mexican pyramid
Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.
The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500 AD, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico.
But little is known about the civilization that built the immense city, with its ceremonial architecture and geometric temples, and then torched and abandoned it around 700 AD.
Archeologists are now revisiting a cave system that is buried 20 feet beneath the towering Pyramid of the Sun and extends into a tunnel stretching for some 295 feet (90 meters) with a height of 8 feet.
Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious c... more -
Season's first hurricane forms in Pacific off Mexico
Forecasters say a tropical storm in the Pacific is now a hurricane over the ocean far to the west of Mexico.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that Boris strengthened into the first hurricane of the season.
The storm is moving farther toward the west and packing maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kilometers per hour).
Forecasters say a tropical storm in the Pacific is now a hurricane over the ocean far to the west of Mexico. ... more -
Border fence will skirt environmental laws
In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it will waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal.
The two waivers, which will allow the department to slash through a thicket of environmental and cultural laws, would be the most expansive to date, encompassing land in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas that stretches about 470 miles.
The waivers are highly controversial with environmentalists and border communities, which see them as a federal imposition that could damage the land and disrupts wildlife.
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Fences solve nothing and this waste of effort is at the expense of a diverse ecosystem. How this is not seen an unconstitutional baffles me.
In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of this year, the Department of Homeland Security announ... more -
Instead of securing the southern US border, Congress gives Mexico $1.6 billion for...
In a country where drug-related violence has killed nearly 2,000 people this year, including four police commanders, a beleaguered Mexico cheered U.S. congressional approval of a record $400 million to help it battle narcotics gangs.
In a 92-6 vote late Thursday, the U.S. Senate authorized a three-year, $1.6-billion package to combat drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America. The bill includes $65 million in anti-narcotics assistance for Central America this year.
President Bush, who originally proposed $1.5 billion in aid for Mexico and Central America under the provisions of the Merida Initiative, is expected to sign the measure into law.
"The United States is finally recognizing that this is a joint problem, a bilateral problem, and that it has a responsibility in this fight to work with the Mexican government," said Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexico's interior minister, who oversees internal security.
The news came as another top police official was gunned down in the capital Thursday night. Igor Labastida, a federal police commander who was investigating corruption within the force, was eating tacos when a hit man opened fire with an Uzi submachine gun. Labastida and one of his bodyguards were killed and another one was wounded.
Labastida was the fourth top police commander killed in the capital in just two months. The most senior was Edgar Millan, who coordinated the civilian wing of the anti-narcotics effort. He was shot to death in May at the door to a Mexico City condo where he sometimes stayed.
"It's part of the battle that the Mexican state is waging against organized crime and it's their way of responding," said Mouriño.
However, he and other top officials have conceded that Mexico's security forces are outmatched. Of the more than 4,000 slain since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug gangs in January 2007, some 450 are police, soldiers or government officials.
The new anti-narcotics aid package — which is more than 10 times the $37 million disbursed to Mexico last year — is in the form of equipment, not cash. It would enable Mexico to buy more military transport planes, beef up border security to stem the flow of illegal weapons, and equip its inspectors with high-tech computer detection equipment.
However, about $57 million is contingent upon the government meeting human rights conditions.
"The United States wants to work with Mexico on these issues, including the need to hold accountable members of the military and the police who violate human rights," said a U.S. Senate aide who helped draft the bill. "This is not a blank check."
The plan calls for $73.5 million to be spent on judicial reform, institution-building and other activities aimed at strengthening the rule of law and combating corruption in Mexico. It also allocates $3 million to help Mexico create a national police registry.
However, some human rights activists said the $116 million earmarked for buying military equipment and technology was excessive. In a country where drug-related violence has killed nearly 2,000 people this year, including four police commanders, a beleaguered Mex... more -
Los Fancy Free - Voltage is OK
Los Fancy Free are a Mexico City based band, led by the son of Mennonites who grew up in Mexico and Sweden. The music is kind of an absurd electro. It's great.
http://www.bungalow.de/losfancyfree/bio.htm Los Fancy Free are a Mexico City based band, led by the son of Mennonites who grew up in Mexico and Sweden. The music is kind of an ab... more -
Police Blamed In Club Stampede
Mexico City Police accused of causing teen deaths in a botched disco club raid.
(click on the link to watch the video_i cant get it to show up) Mexico City Police accused of causing teen deaths in a botched disco club raid. ... more -
Mexico police fired over club stampede
The authorities in Mexico City have fired 17 police officers after a nightclub raid caused a stampede that killed 12 people.
The man in charge of the raid could now face homicide charges. He allegedly told his officers not to let anyone else out of the club, because police vans were full.
Nine young club-goers, including a 13-year-old girl, were killed in the crush. Three police officers also died and 20 other people were injured.
It all happened during a police raid on the News Divine club to investigate claims of underage drinking and drug sales.
Police blamed the club owner for the tragedy, saying he had announced that officers were there to arrest everybody. But now a video released by the city's public security department appears to show police blocking one of the main exits. They are shown forming a barrier on the stairway that leads to the exit.
The authorities in Mexico City have fired 17 police officers after a nightclub raid caused a stampede that killed 12 people. ... more -
Court OK's border fence despite environmental worry - Yahoo! News
The Supreme Court has given it's approval to the construction of a "better" fence on the Mexican border.
The fence has been touted as a solution to our immigration and national security issues. Others view it as an unnecessary security measure and destroying the ecosystems of both nations along the border.
While not siding with any particular issue one Representative summed the issue up best, "without a comprehensive plan, this fence is just another quick fix."
The Supreme Court has given it's approval to the construction of a "better" fence on the Mexican border. ... more -
The Great Wall of America: the Mexican-U.S. border
"The smuggler was surprised to see us. It's his business to monitor traffic along his stretch of the border, and he had just watched from his hiding place as a white-and-green patrol truck rolled slowly past on the U.S. side. The day shift was ending for "la migra," the border patrol, so it was time for him to move.
He urged his clients--11 illegal aliens--to get over the fence quickly. Within minutes, all were safely across the border about five miles (8 km) west of Naco, Ariz.--roughly the same spot where Coronado and his conquistadores made the first recorded crossing in 1540. The smuggler was brushing their footprints from the border road when our four-wheel-drive rental appeared unexpectedly over the hill.
He did what smugglers always do when spotted: he bolted. In an instant he was safely back on the other side, leaving his customers to their fate. They followed him, bewildered, only gradually realizing that we were journalists, not federal agents. In this way, we had a chance to see how a group of ordinary Mexicans--one a grandmotherly woman, another a 10-year-old boy--cope with the U.S. government's new $1 million-per-mile border-security fence.
Passions don't shake out neatly along party lines. Republican John McCain wove frantically through last winter's debates trying to avoid the scarlet A-for-amnesty. His sin was promoting a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented workers. Democrat Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, tripped on a debate question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Senator Barack Obama has stepped carefully with the issue, voting for the fence and for more agents on the border while saying that this covers "only one side of the equation."
In this cloud of intangibles, the fence is something solid. After years of talking about it, Congress last year put $1.2 billion into the project, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) promptly started hiring posthole diggers. DHS aims to complete more than 650 miles (roughly 1,000 km) of barrier by the end of the year, built in sections by National Guard units and private contractors. That represents only about one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border; on the other hand, the fence clearly delineates, for the first time, a frontier that was previously just a four-strand cattle fence at best.
New fence goes up every week in Arizona and California, mile after mile of posts and plates and screens and rails marching across sun-blasted deserts and up rugged, rock-strewn hillsides. No one seems able to keep track of it all. Even agents of the newly reorganized Customs and Border Protection (CBP) department find themselves coming upon sections they've never seen before. The work is less advanced in New Mexico and stalled in Texas, where fierce local opposition has delayed construction--a coalition of border-town mayors and chambers of commerce has sued DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, alleging he is trying to seize land at inadequate prices. But Texas already has more than 1,200 miles (almost 2,000 km) of well-marked border in the form of the Rio Grande."
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Source: Time Magazine "The smuggler was surprised to see us. It's his business to monitor traffic along his stretch of the border, and he had just watched f... more -
12 dead in Mexico underage drinker stampede
A raid on underage drinkers in the Mexican capital last night has led to at least 12 deaths caused by crushing and asphyxiation, as over 1,000 young party-goers rushed to get out of a crowded nightclub. Nine youths, including several minors, and three police officers suffocated in the scramble to leave the News Divine disco after a tip-off from its owner that police were in the building. The emergency exit was partly blocked by boxes.
Police arrested more than 30 youths and the nightclub's owner. Selling alcohol to people under 18 is illegal in Mexico and nightclubs are only allowed to operate within certain time limits. However, those laws are largely ignored by bar and nightclub owners. A raid on underage drinkers in the Mexican capital last night has led to at least 12 deaths caused by crushing and asphyxiation, as ov... more -
Ramiro's Story
Ramiro is an immigrant from Mexico who doesn't have papers to live in the U.S. This is his story about how he is overcoming this obstacle. Ramiro is an immigrant from Mexico who doesn't have papers to live in the U.S. This is his story about how he is overcoming this obsta... more
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Metro Vancouver man murdered in Mexico
A B.C. man shot three times in the head while staying at a Cabo San Lucas hotel with his girlfriend was the victim of a botched robbery, according to a Mexican police official who confirmed Thursday two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the May murder.
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San Diego drivers appreciate Mexico's cheap gas
SAN DIEGO (AP) — If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it's about $2.54 — even less if you pay in pesos. SAN DIEGO (AP) — If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San ... more
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Tijuana Woman Invents Recycling Machine to Improve Scavengers' Lives
Think recycling is a good idea? Think of it how good Europe, the US and other countries/continents have had it, when within miles of the US border, most people have never been exposed to a recycling system or culture ever in their lives, and it all goes to one place: the landfill. Until now.
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One step at a time.
TIJUANA, BC MEX. In Tijuana, a new machine is poised to help clean up some of the city’s social and environmental problems. A Tijuana teenager dreamed up the contraption ten years ago. She’s since dedicated her life to making the project a reality. KPBS Border Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.
As a teenager, growing up in Tijuana, Miroslava Enciso Limon always wanted to be a firefighter. But her dream changed when her high school teacher assigned her to visit Tijuana’s dump.City officials eventually hope to recycle 60-percent of Tijuana’s trash.
City dump trucks back up to Enciso’s recycling machine. It’s up and running at a facility on Tijuana’s east side. The machine is not especially high tech.
Blades rip open the garbage bags and spill the contents onto a conveyor belt. At times, the stench makes your eyes water.
About thirty workers dressed in navy coveralls, face masks and latex gloves sort the trash. All of them used to be scavengers at the dump. New employee, Luisa Marquez says it was much harder when she was a scavenger.
Marquez (translated): Before, I left at 4 a.m, before the sun came up because it’d get too hot….We’d have to open the bags. We’d get dirty. We’d get covered in food. We didn’t have uniforms. We didn’t have protection or a roof.
The machine’s inventor, Enciso, says she could have automated the process more. But the idea is to employ as many scavengers from the dump as possible -- about 200 when the machine is fully operational.
City officials eventually hope to recycle 60-percent of Tijuana’s trash. Think recycling is a good idea? Think of it how good Europe, the US and other countries/continents have had it, when within miles of t... more -
Manuel Uribe - World's Most Obese Man Celebrated his 43rd Birthday
Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house.
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Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his h... more -
Dr. Vandana Shiva: Now Monsanto Is After Our Water
For years now, Monsanto has been buying up seed, plant and biotech companies in order to establish control over the world's food. According to Mr Robert Farley of Monsanto, "what you are seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it's really a consolidation of the entire food chain. Since water is as central to food production as seed is, and without water life is not possible, Monsanto is now trying to establish its control over water. During 1999, Monsanto plans to launch a new water business, starting with India and Mexico, since both these countries are facing water shortages."
In other words, the crisis of pollution and depletion of water resources is viewed by Monsanto as a business opportunity:
"The business logic of sustainable development is that population growth and economic development will apply increasing pressure on the natural resource markets... These are the markets that are most relevant to us as a life sciences company committed to delivering food, health and hope to the world, and there are markets in which there are predictable sustainability challenges and therefore opportunities to create business value."
The crisis of pollution and depletion of water resources
is viewed by Monsanto as a business opportunity.
By 2010 about 2.5 billion people in the world are projected to lack access to safe drinking water. At least 30 per cent of the population in China, India, Mexico and the US is expected to face severe water stress. By 2025, the supply of water in India will be 700 cubic km per year, while the demand is expected to rise to 1,050 units. Control over this scarce and vital resource will, of course, be a source of guaranteed profits. As John Bastin of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has said, "Water is the last infrastructure frontier for private investors."
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Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of the book, Water Wars, and renowned environmentalist and activist for environmental democracy knows full well of the intentions of Monsanto. Their true intent must be brought to light to as many people as possible. Their intent is world domination of food and water sources at the expense of many lives by taking advantage of others' misery for their own economic benefit. And it isn't just control of the seeds, it is control of the water that grows them. Insidious. For years now, Monsanto has been buying up seed, plant and biotech companies in order to establish control over the world's food. Acco... more
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