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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2006 
This Week in Mexico
 Union-Tribune
| | Officially gone: A miner who works at the Pasta de Conchos coal mine near San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico, listens to the press conference where authorities announced that the 65 miners trapped since Sunday are dead according to analysis results that show the air below ground to be deadly. (AFP/Omar Torres) |
Presidential poll: Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador held onto his 2-year-old lead in the July 2 Mexican presidential race. López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor from the Democratic Revolution Party, was preferred by 39 percent in a poll by the newspaper El Universal. Felipe Calderón, the candidate of President Vicente Fox's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, had 34 percent. Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with 25 percent.
Expatriate poll: Mexican citizens living in the United States picked Calderón as their preferred leader in a Pew Hispanic Center poll. Calderón was favored by 27 percent of the nearly 1,000 respondents, while Madrazo was favored by 17 percent and López Obrador 11 percent. More than 40 percent didn't have a clear first preference.
Aznar's preference: Mexican officials looked into whether former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar violated Mexican law when he publicly expressed hope that Calderón would win the presidential election during a visit to PAN headquarters.
Drug poll: Almost all Mexican voters regard drug trafficking and spreading narco-violence as serious problems going into the presidential election, according to a poll conducted for The Dallas Morning News and El Universal. Concerns about the drug war have jumped dramatically since a similar survey of Mexicans in the last presidential race six years ago.
Seven executed: The bodies of seven handcuffed people executed in what appeared to be drug-related violence were found Wednesday in a sugar cane field in Amatlan de los Reyes in Veracruz state. Each body was found with a small wooden crucifix.
Fugitive captured: A fugitive captured by Mexican police in the 2002 slaying of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy will likely be extradited, and prosecutors plan to seek a life sentence, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Friday. Jorge Arroyo García was arrested Thursday in Tonala in Jalisco state.
Trade surplus: Mexico recorded its biggest trade surplus in nine years in January as a record month of oil exports reversed the usual deficits posted by Latin America's second-largest economy. A big increase in auto exports, which are mainly shipped to the United States, also contributed to the $398 million surplus.
House of Mexico: San Diego's House of Mexico invested Eunice Munro as its president. It also plans a networking mixer at 6 p.m. Thursday at Chuey's Restaurant.
Canadians slain: Authorities were investigating the fatal stabbings of a Canadian couple in their five-star hotel room 12 miles south of the beach resort of Playa del Carmen. Domenico Ianiero, 59, and his wife, Annunziata, 55, were found with their throats slit Monday at the Barcelo Maya Hotel. They had planned to attend the wedding of their daughter.
Kansas crash: A pickup truck carrying 19 illegal immigrants from Mexico crashed on a rural Kansas highway after a rear wheel came off, killing three people and injuring 16.
Compiled by Foreign Editor David Gaddis Smith: (619) 293-2211; david.smith@uniontrib.com |
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