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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
Chávez Warns: 'Don't Mess With Me, Because You'll Get Pricked'
 Reuters
Mexico threatened to recall its ambassador in Venezuela on Sunday after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at his Mexican counterpart in a growing fight between the two Latin American countries.more »»»
Grenade Attack on Police Post Injures Two Officers in Acapulco
 AP Wire Reports
Two men in a moving car lobbed a grenade at a state police post in this Pacific resort city Sunday, injuring two officers. The attack was the latest in a string of violence against police in Acapulco this year.more »»»
Madrazo Wins Easily in Pri Primary Vote
 Wire services/El Universal
Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party rolled to a presidential primary win Sunday in a contest that was little-disputed despite deep divisions among core supporters.more »»»
Fox Still Sees Hope for U.S. Guest-Worker Program
 Susan Ferriss
In the final year of his presidency, Vicente Fox still thinks the U.S. will endorse a guest-worker program, and he says Latin America, like China, should embrace more international trade as the path out of poverty.more »»»
Mexico, Venezuela Continue To Discuss Venezuelan President's Criticisms
 Associated Press
The foreign secretaries of Mexico and Venezuela had a friendly telephone conversation Saturday, as this country seeks an explanation for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stinging criticism of his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox.more »»»
Mexico to Take 'Appropriate Steps' if Venezuela Fails to Explain Chavez's Criticism of Fox
 Ioan Grillo
The Mexican government said Friday that Venezuela must give a satisfactory explanation for President Hugo Chavez's biting criticism of his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, or it will take "appropriate steps." more »»»
Three Killed, Three Injured In Lightning Strike In Mexican Graveyard
 Associated Press
The accident occurred late Wednesday when rain forced participants at a funeral gathering to take shelter under a tree in the graveyard of San Francisco Acuautla, a town on the eastern outskirts of the capital.more »»»
Mexican Villagers Homeless, Scared After Hurricane
 Frank Jack Daniel
Thousands of Mexican villagers whose homes were wrecked by Hurricane Stan's flooding and landslides last month are clawing through the mud to rebuild on the same perilous mountainsides.more »»»
Mexican Government Offended by Chávez Remarks
 AP
The Mexican government said on Wednesday it is calling in the Venezuelan ambassador to explain remarks by President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called President Vicente Fox "a puppy" of the United States.more »»»
Mexican Opposition Party May Seek Investigation into Finances of Rival Presidential Candidate
 Associated Press
Mexico's largest leftist party said Wednesday it may ask federal authorities to investigate whether a presidential candidate from a rival party has hidden millions of dollars in illicit funds in overseas bank accounts.more »»»
Americas Summit Incites Continued Rancor
 Fernando Marino-Aguirre
President Vicente Fox said on Nov. 7 that Diego Maradona "does not have a good brain to speak with because he said many foolish things." Fox was referring to Maradona's statements during the People's Summit last Saturday in Mar del Plata, Argentina, when he described George Bush as "human trash."more »»»
US and Mexican Officials Launch Outreach Campaigns
 Associated Press
Estimating not even 50 percent of Mexicans in the United States who are eligible for Department of Agriculture programs take advantage of them, U.S. and Mexican officials pledged Tuesday to make Hispanics more aware of programs available to them.more »»»
Mexican Foreign Secretary To Speak With Argentina about Fox's Alleged Criticism of Kirchner
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said he would discuss with his Argentine counterpart an exchange of harsh words between the presidents of the two countries following the Americas Summit.more »»»
Mexico Smugglers' Village Booming on US Border
 Tim Gaynor
For decades, residents of this Mexican desert village on the border with the United States baked bricks and ranched cattle to make a meager living. Sasabe was barren and isolated then. Now it is a boomtown as that isolation has made it a popular and thriving hub for smugglers hauling undocumented migrants north into America.more »»»
Population Resurgence Could Bring 200 Million Monarch Butterflies to Mexico
 Will Weissert
As many as 200 million Monarch butterflies may migrate to Mexico this year – a nearly tenfold increase over 2004, when unfavorable weather, pollution and deforestation caused a drastic decline in the population, environmental officials said Tuesday.more »»»
New Survey: López Obrador Still Leading
 Wire services
Former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to lead public opinion polls in advance of the 2006 presidential election, a new survey revealed Monday.more »»»
Fox, Bush Pass On Immigration at Summit
 Wire services
U.S. President George W. Bush has said immigration reform ranks near the top of his second-term agenda, but he and Mexican President Vicente Fox passed up an opportunity over the weekend to discuss the controversial issue at a hemispheric summit here.more »»»
Mexican Churches Trying to Stem Their Losses
 Chris Hawley
It was a still night in June when someone smashed in the ancient door of St. Anthony of Padua Church. The latches ripped right out of the worm-eaten wood, opening to a dazzling treasure: a collection of colonial-era paintings that would make a museum curator cry.more »»»
Cancun's Image Damaged
 Wire services
In recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Wilma, hardhit resorts like Cancun face two equally daunting challenges. The first to physically restore and rebuild, the second to repair the public relations damage.more »»»
Mexican Coral Reef Damaged by Hurricane Wilma Needs 100 Years to Recover
 Xinhua
It will take at least 100 years for a coral reef damaged by Hurricane Wilma last month in southeast Mexico to recover, Alfredo Arellano, head of Mexico's Protected Natural Areas Commission (Conamp) in Yucatan, southeast Mexico, said on Friday.more »»»
Cárdenas Tentatively Backs López Obrador
 El Universal
The spiritual leader of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, offered support, though less than wholeheartedly enthusiastic, for fellow PRD member and erstwhile rival for the party's presidential nomination, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.more »»»
Drug Cartels Bring Rivalry and Death to Southern Mexico
 Héctor Tobar & Carlos Martínez
A spreading conflict between rival drug cartels and the police is bringing the gangland-style violence of Mexico's northern border to the southern states of Michoacan and Guerrero.more »»»
Mexican Presidential Candidate Pledges to Open Up Nafta
 CBC News
Mexico's opposition leader says he will renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement if he is elected president next year. Roberto Madrazo said that the agreement among Canada, the United States and Mexico needs improvements to help Mexican farmers.more »»»
Marital Rape Now a Crime
 Carlos Avilés Allende
The nation's Supreme Court (SCJN) will make public on Friday a decision that establishes marital rape as a crime, according to court sources. The decision is a reversal of a 1994 Supreme Court ruling that rape within a marriage was the "improper exercise of a right" to intimate relations but had no criminal implications.more »»»
Activist Ends Flight Along Butterfly Migration Route
 Wire services
A conservation activist trying to draw attention to the fragility of the Monarch butterflies' winter habitats in Mexico ended a 3,000-mile (4,500-kilometer) flight along the insects' migration route Thursday.more »»»
Fox Says Hurricane Damage Could Top $2.8 Billion
 Associated Press
In a speech on infrastructure this week, Fox said that following recovery efforts for Hurricanes Stan and Wilma, the federal disaster relief fund was left with about 4 billion pesos (US$370 million; euro307 million).more »»»
Government Offers Security for Candidates
 Wire services
The government has always and will continue to offer security for presidential candidates who want it, the presidential spokesman said Wednesday, a day after the frontrunner's campaign complained that he had received death threats.more »»»
Mexico's Fox Sees Fast Recovery for Cancun; Experts Say No Way
 Bloomberg
Mexican President Vicente Fox says the seaside resort of Cancun, devastated by Hurricane Wilma, will be rebuilt by Christmas. Hotel operators and engineers say it can't be done.more »»»
Fox Announces Aid for Chiapas Reconstruction
 Bloomberg News
President Vicente Fox asked Congress to designate 10 billion pesos (US929 million) from next year's budget to post-hurricane reconstruction efforts in southeastern states on Tuesday. The lion's share 8.5 billion pesos (US790 million) would go to Chiapas, hard-hit by the floods caused by Hurricane Stan.more »»»
Mexico Celebrates 'Day of the Dead' with Flower- and Food-Laden Altars to Spirits of the Deceased
 Mark Stevenson
Mexicans marked the annual Day of the Dead holiday on Tuesday with a towering, 30-foot (10-meter) pile of giant skulls, huge skeletons, vast altars to the dead and large carpets of marigold petals in Mexico City's main square.more »»»
Banks Make Up to US3 Billion Available
 Wire services
Luis Pazos, director of the public works bank Banobras, said municipalities and states hit by Hurricanes Stan and Wilma are eligible to borrow close to US2 billion from Banobras for public works.more »»»
Job Growth Doesn't Meet Expectations
 Bloomberg
Many blame President Vicente Fox, whose election in 2000 ended seven decades of one-party rule that had caused a cascade of recurrent peso devaluations, official corruption and government lethargy.more »»»
University System Takes Novel Approach
 Wire services
There are no entrance exams at the Autonomous University of Mexico City. No checking of school records. No interviews. No financial aid forms, since attendance is free.more »»»
Mexico's Vineyards are Small, but the Buzz is Big
 Noelia Santos
The existence of a Wine Route, and the Mexican wine country through which it wends, has become one of the more pleasant additions to a nation generally more known for tequila and beer. But the buzz on the region's expansion is too loud to ignore.more »»»
Mexico's Bid to Lure Boaters a Tough Sale
 Sandra Dibble
Mexican President Vicente Fox called it "a stairway to prosperity," a tourist mega-project to draw boaters and investors to the Gulf of California region through a series of linked ports.more »»»
Speedy Recovery Crucial to Cancun
 S. Lynne Walker
A steady drumbeat is pulsing through Cancun, a sense of urgency stirred by the fierce winds of Hurricane Wilma and shared by everybody from Mexico's president to the city's poorest residents: Cancun must be rebuilt by December.more »»»
Mexicans: End US Blockade of Cuba
 Prensa Latina
Mexican organizations of solidarity with Cuba have demanded the immediate end of the US-imposed economic, financial and trade blockade of the island for more than four decades.more »»»
Mexico 100th Nation to Ratify
 El Universal
Despite pressure from the United States, Mexico became the world's 100th nation to ratify the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mexico's Ambassador to the United Nations Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo ratified the treaty in a ceremony at U.N. headquarters in New York.more »»»
Transsexuals Protest Police Raid
 Mark Stevenson
Transsexuals protested this week against a raid by Mexico City police that forcibly rounded them up, photographed them and took their fingerprints as part of a search for a serial killer who allegedly dresses as a woman to gain access to his victims.more »»»
Mexican Candidate Up for a Challenge
 Laurence Iliff
Felipe Calderon was considered a long shot to represent the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, in next year's presidential election. He fought publicly with President Vicente Fox, who can't run for re-election and who was widely seen as favoring Santiago Creel.more »»»
Cancun Empties Out After Wilma
 Will Weissert
Some 10,000 storm-struck tourists trapped on Mexico's Caribbean coast by Hurricane Wilma prepared to leave Friday, even as Mexico's hotels planned for planeloads of new guests.more »»»
Mexican Tourists Praise Cuba's Hurricane Preparedness
 AIN
Mexican tourists visiting Cuba applauded the effectiveness of the island's Civil Defense forces, whose efforts to prepare for and protect the public against Hurricane Wilma were described by the guests as "excellent."more »»»
Government Favors Plan by U.S. Senators
 Wire services
The Mexican government favors immigration legislation proposed by U.S. senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain that would allow currently undocumented migrants to work in the United States for up to six years, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox said Thursday.more »»»
Wilma Clean Up Bill Continues to Escalate
 Wire services
Mexican insurance companies said on Thursday that Hurricane Wilma was likely to be the country's most costly disaster ever, and President Vicente Fox announced a US18.5 million program to restore Caribbean beaches ravaged by Hurricane Wilma.more »»»
Cancun Residents Arm Against Looters, Tourists Trapped by Wilma Wait for Flights
 Will Weissert
Tourists camped out to wait for flights Thursday out of Mexico's hurricane-ravaged Caribbean coast, and some residents of Cancun's poorer neighborhoods armed themselves with cudgels and machetes and erected barricades to ward off looters.more »»»
American Tourists Find Their Way Home After Hurricane Wilma
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
In the annals of modern travel, few horror stories can compete with those being told by American tourists who thronged the airport, trying desperately to find a way home after surviving Hurricane Wilma.more »»»
Fox Boils as Relief Effort Takes Shape
 Wire services
"I want the command operating at 100 percent, now!" barked President Vicente Fox, inspecting the hurricane strike zone for a second day. The eruption came during a meeting of local and federal officials, who argued over who was in charge of public safety.more »»»
Mexico's Tourism Industry Hit Hard
 Noel Randewich
Luxury hotels in Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts have shut down and will not reopen for the peak Christmas season because of multimillion-dollar damage caused by Hurricane Wilma.more »»»
In Cancun, Hurricane Uncertainty Replaced by Looting Chaos
 Will Weissert - Associated Press
As soon as the soldiers left, hundreds of people sloshed down downtown alleys, ripping off the metal shutters of stores and cleaning out merchandise. Only price tags were left, floating in the flooded streets.more »»»
Mexican Red Cross Delivers Immediate Aid to Victims of Wilma in the Yucatan Peninsula
 Monica Planas
Hurricane Wilma, the 21st named hurricane of the 2005 hurricane season, has left a trail of destruction across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Yucatan and Quintana Roo are the most affected areas.more »»»
Mexican Resorts Survey Damage
 CNN
Residents of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula were cleaning up Sunday after two days of pounding by Hurricane Wilma. Wind and water damage were evident across the resort city of Cancun, as many of the hotels were heavily damaged by the flooding.more »»»
Fidel Castro Offers Medical Assistance to Mexican Hurricane Victims
 AIN
Cuban President Fidel Castro offered medical assistance for the victims of hurricane Wilma, which hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico over the past two days. Fidel participated in an informative round table discussion aired on Cuban radio and television.more »»»
Mexico's Governing Party Chooses Presidential Candidate
 John Rice
Mexico's ruling party on Sunday chose the nation's former energy secretary as its candidate for presidential elections next July, all but setting the slate of major candidates that will compete in the historic vote, officials said.more »»»
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