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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
PRI Votes for Madrazo to Continue Post
 Chris Kraul
A year before the presidential election, this nation's oldest, most powerful party headed toward a destructive split, resulting from the bitter enmity between its top leaders probable presidential nominee Roberto Madrazo and teachers union leader Elba Esther Gordillo.more »»»
Legendary Crime Boss Returned to Mexico
 Jose Luis Magana
Top crime boss Alfredo Rios Galeana, who blasted his way out of a Mexican courtroom almost two decades ago and spent nearly 19 years as a fugitive, was returned to Mexico to face charges of robbery, homicide and assault.more »»»
Mexico's Largest Party Decides On Open Primary, Puts Off Battle Over Leadership
 John Rice
Mexico's largest party decided Tuesday to let all Mexicans vote in a primary for the candidate who will try to recover the presidency the party lost for the first time in 2000.more »»»
Icepick Used to Kill Leon Trotsky Resurfaces After Six Decades in Mexico
 Mark Stevenson
One of history's most infamous murder weapons, the icepick used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced after being lost for decades, just weeks before the 65th anniversary of his Aug. 20, 1940, assassination.more »»»
Mexican Leftist's Lead Cut In Presidential Race
 Reuters
The left-wing front-runner for Mexico's presidential elections next year has seen his lead cut sharply since the government dropped criminal charges against him, a new opinion poll showed Monday.more »»»
Mexico: Stop Those 'Chocolate Cars'
 Ivan Castano
Mexican new-car dealers association Amda has asked the government to reject proposals to legalise imports of US and Canadian used cars to Mexico before 2009, the deadline set under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) treaty.more »»»
Off-the-Books Bash Celebrates Creel Candidacy
 Alejandro Torres
Amidst much fanfare, former Interior Secretary Santiago Creel on Sunday officially registered his candidacy for the National Action Party's nomination to contest the presidency in 2006.more »»»
Mayor Plays Down Terror Threat in Mexico City
 John Rice
A day after federal officials warned that Mexico was vulnerable to a terrorist attack, Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday dismissed such fears and said his city was taking no special precautions.more »»»
Controversial Mexican Comic Book Re-Issued, but Stamps Won't Get a Second Run
 Mark Stevenson
A re-issue of the controversial "Memin Pinguin" comic book went on sale Thursday in Mexico, just a week after a postage stamp depicting the cartoon character with exaggerated black features stirred anger in the United States.more »»»
Fox Condemns London Bombings
 El Universal
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday sent his condolences to the citizens of London and totally condemned a series of terror attacks that claimed at least three dozen lives.more »»»
Mexico On Heightened State Of Alert
 Wire services
Mexico said Thursday it was implementing a heightened antiterrorism plan after a series of explosions in London, as well as the move to an elevated state of alert in the United States.more »»»
Mexican Bishops Urge Anti-Euthanasia Law
 Catherine Breme
Mexico's Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday said there was no such thing as a right to death amid pressure by some lawmakers, doctors and academics to have a national debate on euthanasia.more »»»
Government to Release 800 Indians
 El Universal
The Mexican government on Wednesday announced that it is moving to release from jail some 800 indigenous prisoners who are either innocent or were duped into committing federal crimes.more »»»
Mexico Braces for Next Move by Elusive Leader of Zapatista Rebels
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
The sign on the road outside this Zapatista town says "Closed for Red Alert," and the normally bustling cluster of shops, schools, a shoe factory and a health clinic is quiet. The masked rebels who usually oversee Oventic have been called to a meeting in the jungles of Mexico.more »»»
Final Results Confirm Landslide Victory for Former Ruling Party in Mexico's Biggest State
 Associated Press
The party that ruled Mexico for seven straight decades received just under 48 percent of the votes cast to easily take the governorship of the nation's most-populist state, according to final results released Wednesday night.more »»»
Mexico Opens Up Phone System to Resellers
 Wire services
Mexico will allow companies to lease lines from its telecommunications carriers to provide long-distance calls, seeking to lower prices by increasing competition for former state monopoly TelMex.more »»»
Tijuana Orders Fashion Makeover for Street Vendors
 Elliot Spagat
Recent city regulations will require street vendors in Tijuana to wear either traditional dress or a city issued uniform. Throngs of street vendors are being ordered to comply, or else.more »»»
Mexico President's Backers Hold Controversial Celebration on Anniversay of Victory
 John Rice
President Vicente Fox returned Saturday to Mexico's Independence Monument for a repeat celebration of his victory five years ago that toppled a 71-year-old regime and signified Mexico's emergence as a democracy. But the rally also showed Mexicans are still debating what that democracy means as Fox's victory slips back into history.more »»»
Group To Offer 'Cure' For Homosexuals
 Thelma Gómez Durán
Courage Latino has embarked on a campaign in Mexico to "cure" gays with the backing of the Catholic church using a highly controversial therapy.more »»»
Discount Airlines In Mexico
 Brendan M. Case
Compañía Mexicana de Aviación launched Click Mexicana in a country where millions scorn pricey air travel for affordable bus service, low-cost carriers emulating Southwest, Ireland's Ryanair and Great Britain's easyJet vow to put hordes of new customers in the air.more »»»
Fox Defends Memín As Beloved Image
 Morgan Lee
President Vicente Fox on Friday rejected calls to withdraw a new postage stamp that U.S. activists called racist, saying critics didn't understand the beloved comic book character on which it was based.more »»»
Fees For Receiving Long Distance Calls To Be Eliminated
 Adriana Arai
Mexico plans to do away with charges that mobile-telephone users pay to receive long-distance calls, a measure that may spur completion rates and boost phone usage. The telecommunications regulator probably will publish this month new rules that transfer the interconnection costs to the person who makes the call.more »»»
President Fox Signs Into Law Absentee Voting Bill For Mexicans Living Abroad
 Mark Stevenson
Millions of Mexicans living abroad will now be able to vote in the 2006 presidential elections under a bill signed into law by President Vicente Fox on Thursday. Fox signed the bill on the deadline for approval, two days after it was approved in the lower house of Congress.more »»»
Government Defends Stamps
 Wire services
The government insisted Thursday that a black cartoon character with exaggerated features is a historical icon who deserves to be celebrated on a postage stamp and that U.S. leaders charging racism do not fully understand Mexican culture.more »»»
Fox Warns of Return to Authoritarianism
 José Luis Ruiz
Days before a planned celebration of the end of single-party rule in Mexico, President Vicente Fox warned the country could be on the verge of a "fatal regression" that could mark the return of authoritarianism.more »»»
Rebels Ready to Wage Peaceful Civil Movement
 Wire services
The Zapatista rebels pledged Thursday to build a political alliance of the left, "without guns, with a peaceful, civil movement," and said they would send a delegation on a nationwide tour to drum up support ahead of next year's presidential race.more »»»
Mexican Stamp Called Offensive To Blacks
 Associated Press
The Mexican government has issued a postage stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, just weeks after remarks by President Vicente Fox angered U.S. blacks.more »»»
Mexican Rebels Announce Plans To Join Mexican Politics
 Will Weissert
Mexico's Zapatista rebels have announced a "new political initiative" – a decision the government interpreted Tuesday as a move toward joining mainstream politics and away from the armed struggle they launched more than a decade ago.more »»»
Kidnap Victims Now Target Of Investigation
 Wire services
Forty-four people rescued by police from two safe houses in Nuevo Laredo are being investigated by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) for possible criminal ties, officials said Tuesday.more »»»
Mexico To Let Citizens Abroad Vote
 Lennox Samuels
The lower house of Congress on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a law that allows millions of Mexicans living outside Mexico to vote by mail in the country's 2006 presidential election, a decision supporters hailed as historic.more »»»
Mexico To Consider 'Zero-Tolerance' Laws
 Wire services
Mexico wants to get tougher on gang members and would consider a national "zero tolerance" crackdown similar to ones that prompted the arrests of thousands of teens across Central America.more »»»
It's Official: Madrazo to Seek Pri Nomination
 Wire services
The leader of the party that governed the nation for 71 uninterrupted years until 2000 announced on Sunday that he will seek the nomination to run for president in 2006.more »»»
Groups Call for End to Impunity
 Wire services
Demonstrations were held in at least eight state capitals as well as Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela, where protesters sent a message to Mexican officials condemning the relentless pattern of violence in the northern state.more »»»
Gov't Says It Won't Attack Zapatistas
 Wire services
The government said Friday it will not attack the Zapatista rebels, who recently declared a "red alert" and withdrew from public view to discuss the future of their movement.more »»»
Mexico Cracks Down on Organized Crime
 Gregory Alan Gross
Motorists are being stopped and questioned at checkpoints manned by heavily armed Mexican soldiers and federal police during a government crackdown on organized crime.more »»»
Mexican Rebels Promise End to Attacks
 Reuters
Mexico's Zapatista rebels, who surprised the country this week by putting their forces on "red alert," announced they were not planning a return to violence. The Zapatistas pulled out of villages they controlled in the southern state of Chiapas and shut down their radio station in order to consider "a new step in the struggle."more »»»
PRD Sparks UFO Rumors
 Wire services
Gubernatorial candidate Yeidckol Polevnsky may be trailing in the polls, but campaign aides suggested Thursday that she's gaining energy from an unlikely source: objects some describe as UFOs.more »»»
Death Penalty to be Stricken
 Wire services
The Chamber of Deputies on Thursday approved a measure striking the death penalty from the constitution and inserting language expressly prohibiting capital punishment. The amendment now must be passed by legislatures in a majority of the nation's 31 states, where it is expected to face little opposition.more »»»
Shark Attacks U.S. Tourist Along Southern Baja Coast
 Associated Press
Mexican naval authorities were patrolling the beaches along Baja California's southern tip after a shark bit a 34-year-old Colorado man that was surfing this week at San Luis beach.more »»»
System Could Be In Place By 2006
 Wire services
A proposed mail-in voting system is technically sound and could be up and running in time for millions of Mexicans living abroad to participate in next year's presidential elections, federal officials told Congress.more »»»
Expatriates in U.S. Seek a Voice in Mexico Vote
 S. Lynne Walker
Mexico's immigrants send and the Mexican government receives. For decades, it has been a one-way transaction. Now, immigrants working in the U.S want something in return for sending their dollars home. They want a voice in the way Mexico is governed.more »»»
Rebel Leader Slams Mexican Presidential Hopeful Lopez Obrador
 Associated Press
Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos issued a blistering criticism on Sunday of Mexico's leftist front-runner in the 2006 presidential race, Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, accusing him of being authoritarian and overly ambitious.more »»»
Officials Prepare For The Worst
 Sean Mattson
The explosion last week was one of a dozen major blasts since May 10 and specialists worry a major eruption is brewing beneath the soil of the tiny Pacific state of Colima that could threaten or disrupt the lives of about 400,000 people.more »»»
Mexican Government Says Violence on Border is Shared Problem
 Will Weissert
Mexican and U.S. officials met Friday to find ways of fighting an escalating wave of violent crime along their border, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox said Friday.more »»»
Desert Communities Face Water Shortage
 Roberto Aguilar Grimaldo
According to Tula's municipal president, Cruz Walle Meza, when the communities start to run out of potable water, they begin turning to the pond and ditch water meant only for animals.more »»»
Ice-Pick That Killed Leon Trotsky Found in Mexico
 Wire services
One of the most notorious murder weapons in modern history, the ice-pick that killed Leon Trotsky, appears to have been found, 65 years after it was apparently stolen from the Mexican police.more »»»
Mexico to Allow U.S. Inspections
 Wire services
An official said this week his government plans to launch a pilot program in which U.S. authorities could provide "preclearance" inspection on flights headed to the United States from the Caribbean resort of Cancun.more »»»
Carrillo: Ex-President to Stand Trial
 El Universal
Triumphant, Special Prosecutor for Past Crimes Ignacio Carrillo Prieto said, "There is no way out," for former President Luis Echeverría following a Supreme Court ruling opening him to genocide charges.more »»»
Salinas Free But Still Facing Legal Problems
 John Authers & Martin Arnold
Raúl Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former President Carlos Salinas, was released from prison early yesterday after a court cleared him of masterminding the murder of his former brother-in-law. However, his legal troubles are still not over.more »»»
Poverty Rate Fell Over Last Two Years
 Julián Sánchez
According to a new study authorized by the Social Development Secretariat (Sedesol), the number of people living in poverty in Mexico declined by 3.5 million between 2002 and 2004.more »»»
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