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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
Gunmen Nab Crime Reporter
 Dane Schiller
A Mexican newspaper reporter on the Arizona border remains missing after he was snatched by armed men who chased him to a police station. Saúl Martínez Ortega, 36, apparently drove to the Agua Prieta police station to seek help during the high-speed chase early Monday.
Grenade Attack Causes No Injuries
 El Universal
No one was hurt when unidentified assailants hurled a grenade at the offices of the Cambio newspaper in the northern city of Hermosillo, an editor at the daily told EFE Wednesday
Three Die in Mexican Drug Shootout on US Border
 Reuters
Police battled an armed group of drug traffickers in this northern border city on Wednesday in a series of shootouts that left two policemen and one drug gang member dead, witnesses and authorities said.
Kid Bullfighter Survives Goring
 Mark Stevenson
A 14-year-old matador who left Spain to escape a ban on bullfighters under the age of 16 has been nearly gored to death in Mexico, his lung punctured by a 414kg beast.
US Arms Mexican Drug Traffickers
 Prensa Latina
Organized crime in Mexico has a weapons power and potential today because of arms smuggling from the United States, where weapons sales are uncontrolled, a Mexican intelligence report revealed on Tuesday.
Mexico Researchers Find Child Sacrifices
 Mark Stevenson
Archeologists have discovered the remains of two dozen children who were apparent sacrificial victims to a rain god by Mexican Indians nearly a thousand years ago.
Church Seeks Vote on Mexico City Abortion Bill
 Reuters
The Catholic Church is wants a referendum to be held on Mexico City's plan to legalize abortion in hopes of thwarting the controversial bill. Mexico City's leftist-controlled assembly is due to vote next week on legalizing abortion.
Miss Mexico Tones Down Pageant Dress
 Julie Watson
Miss Mexico is toning down her Miss Universe pageant dress — not because it's too slinky or low-cut, but because its bullet-studded belt and images of hangings from a 1920s uprising have outraged Mexicans.
Mexico Arrests Border City Chief of Drug Gang
 Reuters
Mexican police have arrested the local head of the notorious Gulf Cartel drug gang in a city on the U.S. border as part of President Felipe Calderon's nationwide crackdown on organized crime.
100 Cops Detained Over Drugs Near Monterrey
 Associated Press
Mexico's army detained more than a hundred police for alleged ties to drug traffickers on Monday, as authorities reported a spree of drug-related murders.
News Along the Borders
 Newswires
The mass influx of illegal immigrants across Mexico's southern border and the level of violence and corruption there is the unhappy focus of authorities; a newspaper journalist is abducted by several men in the border city of Agua Prieta; and residents US/MEX Naco play a game of volleyball over the border fence that divides the two towns.
Mexico Releases Names of Bus Crash Survivors
 Louie Gilot
Mexican officials on Monday released a list of the 20 survivors of a bus crash that killed 28 people in Samalayuca, Chihuahua, just south of Juárez.
Mexico Might Ban Nudes From Pyramids
 Reuters
Mexico is unlikely to allow US artist Spencer Tunick stage a nude photo shoot at its famous Teotihuacan pyramids, citing possible damage to the ancient site.
Police Find 17 Bodies Across Mexico
 E. Eduardo Castillo
Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or dumped on streets in garbage bags across Mexico on Monday in the latest wave of violence apparently triggered by warring drug gangs.
Mexico Finds Bones Suggesting Toltec Child Sacrifice
 Monica Medel
The grisly find of the buried bones of 24 pre-Hispanic Mexican children may be the first evidence that the ancient Toltec civilization sacrificed children, an archeologist studying the remains said on Monday.
Teen Bullfighter Badly Gored in Mexico
 Mark Stevenson
A 14-year-old matador who left Spain to escape his home country's ban on young bullfighters was nearly gored to death in a Mexican ring, his lung punctured by a 900-pound bull.
Mexican Officials Rescue 54 at Border
 Anna Cearley
“The objective was to prevent them from becoming victims of the criminals that operate in these zones,” according to a joint news release from seven state and federal agencies.
In Mexico, A Refuge For Aging Sex Workers
 Reed Johnson
Though technically illegal, prostitution is widespread in many parts of Mexico, often poorly regulated and still a taboo subject in this roughly 80 percent Roman Catholic country. In the past, sex workers who survived to their golden years could expect to be broke and living on the streets.
Pro-Choice Advocates Step Up Campaign
 El Universal
Capital legislators in favor of legalized abortion kicked off an information campaign Sunday, starting off on Paseo de la Reforma where they were joined by supporters who handed out pro-choice literature.
Mexico Bus Crash Death Toll Rises to 28
 Associated Press
The toll from a bus crash near Ciudad Juarez rose to 28 dead and 21 injured, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Authorities said the bus driver, who was among the dead, was speeding when the vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer early Saturday.
Urban-Rural Abortion Divide Evident in Mexico
 Angus Reid Global Monitor
Mexican adults hold differing views on pregnancy termination, according to a poll by Parametría. 44 per cent of respondents in Mexico City agree with allowing abortion in the first 14 weeks of gestation, while only 23 per cent of respondents in the rest of the country concur.
CPJ Welcomes Calderón’s Signature on Landmark Defamation Law
 CPJ.org
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s signature on legislation that effectively eliminates criminal defamation, libel, and slander at the federal level, making Mexico the second country in Latin America to repeal defamation as a criminal offense.
Mexico to Maintain Tortilla Price
 Tarique
Mexican Economy Secretary Eduardo Sojo has confirmed the possibility of continuing implementation of a January agreement that set the price of a kg of tortillas, the staple food of Mexicans, at 70 US cents, an agreement due to expire April 30.
Zapatista Comandantes Arrive at Mexico-US Border
 Dan Bacher
This article by Brenda Norrell from Narco News gives an excellent account of the arrival of the Zapatista comandantes at the Mexico-US Border on their way to the Cucapa Camp on the Colorado River.
Mexico Could Legalize Euthanasia
 PVNN
Lately there has been lots of movement in Mexico City on the part of leftist senators towards the legalization of abortion, sparking a heated public debate that is raging on. Now Mexico is on its way to the legalization of yet another controversial practice: euthanasia.
Thousands of Mexicans Wait Patiently for US Visa
 Chris Hawley
Unlike Americans, who can enter Mexico simply by showing a passport, birth certificate, or driver's license, Mexicans need a pre-approved visa to enter the United States. Mexico City is the State Department's busiest visa office in the world, according to the embassy.
Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico, No Injuries
 Gerardo Torres
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.0 shook Mexico early on Friday, sending thousands of tourists in Acapulco fleeing into the streets in panic and knocking out electricity as far away as the capital.
Mexico Decriminalizes Libel, Defamation
 Associated Press
Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed a law Thursday eliminating prison sentences for libel or defamation, drawing praise from media watchdog groups.
Mexican Traffickers Wage Publicity War
 Julie Watson
Drug traffickers are waging a highly effective publicity campaign in Mexico that began with a chilling show of brutality in Acapulco.
Chiapas: Campesinos Protest Illegal Land Sales
 Bill Weinberg
Representantives of dozens of ejidos (agricultural collectives) in the northern zone of Mexico's Chiapas state issued a statement denouncing the approval of illegal sales of collective lands.
Mexican Alliance Drives Drug Flow
 Alfredo Corchado
The heroin showing up in Dallas schools as "cheese" is the end product of a dangerous new trafficking alliance that is funneling increasing amounts of the drug through the El Paso-Juarez area en route to new U.S. markets, law enforcement officials on both sides of the border say.
Mexico Civil Rights Worker Killed
 Associated Press
A Mexican employee of an Ohio-based union that fights for the rights of Mexican migrant guest workers in the U.S. was found beaten to death in the northern city of Monterrey, officials said this week.
In Mexico, Two Men Arrested in Connection with Journalist’s Murder
CJP.org
Mexican authorities detained two men in connection with last week’s murder of veteran broadcast journalist Amado Ramírez Dillanes in Acapulco.
Jalisco's Martín Ramírez Wins Recognition
 El Universal
His studios were California mental wards, his canvas bits of paper assembled from trash bins and his pigments melted crayons. Self-taught draftsman Martín Ramírez dealt with schizophrenia and estrangement from his family in Mexico with an outpouring of hypnotic drawings and collages unique in 20th-century art.
Ancient Mexicans Took Sacrifice Victims from Afar
 Reuters
Ancient Mexicans brought human sacrifice victims from hundreds of miles (km) away over centuries to sanctify a pyramid in the oldest city in North America, an archeologist said on Wednesday.
Colombia, Mexico to Work More Closely on Drug Gangs
 Reuters
Mexico and Colombia will work more closely to hunt down cartels shifting drugs like cocaine between the two countries, Colombia's top drugs official said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Mexico to Investigate Oaxaca Row
 Prensa Latina
Mexican courts will investigate possible violations of individual rights during the political and social conflict in Oaxaca that shook the region in 2006.
Archaeologists Find 3 Prehistoric Bodies in SE Mexico
 Lin Li
Mexican archaeologists found remains of two women and a man that can be traced to more than 10,000 years ago in the Mayan area of Tulum, Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute said in a statement on Tuesday.
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