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Mexico Now Has a Stronger, More Efficient IMSS that Is Financially Viable: President Felipe Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
This week at the Los Pinos Official Residence, President Felipe Calderón witnessed the presentation of an Additional Agreement for Retirements and Pensions for Recently-Admitted Permanent Workers, whereby the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) will improve its service and ensure its financial viability.
Mexican Cartels 'Threaten State'
 BBC News
The head of Mexico's intelligence service has said that drug cartels are threatening the country's democratic institutions, including Congress.
Group to Demand US Clear Mexican Tomatoes
 Associated Press
Mexico's health secretary says a team of health and agriculture officials has traveled to the United States to demand that Mexican tomatoes be cleared of any suspicion in a recent salmonella outbreak.
Mexico Gunmen Take Hostages After Police Murder
 Miguel Gutierrez & Cyntia Barrera Diaz
Gunmen dressed in police uniforms killed a police chief in the drug gang-ridden Mexican state of Sinaloa and then took dozens of restaurant patrons hostage for several hours before escaping, officials said.
Mexico Finds No Salmonella in Tomatoes
 Associated Press
Mexico's Agriculture Department says its tests found no salmonella in Mexican tomatoes. It says Mexican officials took samples from the same soil, water and tomatoes recently examined by U.S. inspectors and found no evidence of the bacteria.
Joint Press Statement by Governments of Mexico and China
 Presidencia de la República
Summing up his first state visit, President Felipe Calderón said that as a result of his meetings with the three main authorities and businessmen in China, progress had been made in strengthening the strategic partnership between the two nations.
Mexico Plan Adds Police To Take On Drug Cartels
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
The Mexican government plans to nearly double the size of its federal police force in order to reduce the role of the military in combating drug trafficking, under a confidential anti-narcotics strategy that officials made available Thursday.
12 Gunned Down in Brazen Attack in Culiacan
 Marla Dickerson
Gunmen shot 12 people to death in broad daylight near the center of Culiacan on Thursday, marking one of the more bloody and brazen recent attacks in the capital of a state plagued by drug trafficking and violence.
Entrepreneurs Lug Cheap Mexican Fuel Across Border
 Lizbeth Diaz
U.S. and Mexican entrepreneurs with an eye for a quick buck are buying subsidized fuel in bulk in Mexico and hauling it across the U.S. border to make big profits, officials say.
Mexico Launches Battle for Tulum Beach
 Traci Carl
The federal government's closure of at least five small, exclusive hotels on Tulum's breathtaking stretch of white-sand beaches has created an uproar over who has the title to one of the few still-to-be-fully-developed coastlines left along the exclusive Riviera Maya.
 Police in Spotlight After Disco Crush Deaths
 Catherine Bremer
Mexico's government is under new pressure to tackle rampant police incompetence after a damning report by human rights investigators blamed police commanders for a fatal disco raid that killed 12 people.
Mexico Rights Body to Probe Police Torture Course
 Mica Rosenberg & Miguel Angel Gutierrez
Mexico's human rights commission said on Tuesday it was investigating police training methods after videos showed a cadet being made to roll through vomit and another having his head shoved into a pit of excrement.
Mexico Looks For "Dirty War" Graves on Army Base
 Gerardo Torres
Forensics experts began digging for secret graves on an army base in southwestern Mexico this week to find proof of government atrocities during the country's 1970s 'dirty war.'
Mexico City Police Chief Resigns Over Disco Deaths
 Miguel Angel Gutierrez
Mexico City's police chief and its top prosecutor resigned after a botched disco raid killed 12 people last month, the capital's mayor said on Tuesday, vowing a major overhaul of public security.
6 Burnt Bodies Appear in Tijuana, Mexico
 Dan Keane
Police on Monday found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
Mexico Defends Its Produce, Says It Is Free From Salmonella
 dbTechno
Mexico has come out and defended its produce on Sunday, stating that there has been nothing found which links it to the salmonella outbreak in the U.S.
Mexico Plants 8 Million Trees in Latest Green Project
 Mariano Castillo, Rodolfo Pena & Jason Lange
Mexicans went out and planted more than 8 million trees across the country on Saturday as part of a government push to shed its reputation for environmental mismanagement and rampant illegal logging.
Tomato Farms Scoured But No Salmonella Source Found
 Associated Press
Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears no closer to finding the source of a mysterious salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 900 people.
Cubans Using Mexico as Springboard to U.S.
 Dudley Althaus
At least 11,500 Cubans entered the U.S. overland from Mexico last year, nearly double the 6,100 in 2004. All but a few hundred of the Cubans claiming "dry foot" asylum on the border last year crossed from Brownsville to Laredo, an average of 30 people a day.
More Headless Corpses Found as Mexican Drug Wars Rage
 Agence France-Presse
Three decapitated corpses were discovered in Mexico's northwestern Sinaloa state Friday, bring to a total of seven headless bodies found and 11 police assassinated in a bloody week of often drug-related violence in the country, officials and news reports said.
Spying Claim May Be New Snag For Mexico Oil Debate
 Jason Lange
Mexican President Felipe Calderon's efforts to get a divided Congress to back an oil reform proposal are facing a new snag as a key opposition lawmaker accuses the government of spying on him.
McCain, in Mexico, Faults Obama on Trade
 Jeff Mason
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain took a veiled swipe at Democratic rival Barack Obama over trade on Thursday in the final leg of a Latin American trip aimed at showcasing the Arizona senator's foreign policy credentials.
 Researchers Open Secret Cave Under Mexican Pyramid
 Miguel Angel Gutierrez
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.
McCain to Meet Mexican President
 Associated Press
John McCain has insisted that his trip through Mexico and Colombia was not supposed to be campaign-related. But there have been plenty of political overtones throughout.
Chihuahua’s Highway of Doom?
 Frontera NorteSur
In addition to 14 dead, 46 people were reported injured. Sadly, the June 29 tragedy was but the latest in a series of fatal bus accidents that have haunted the stretch of the Pan American Highway between Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City in recent years.
4 Decapitated Bodies Found in Culiacan
 Associated Press
Four decapitated bodies were found Wednesday on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan and authorities said they believe the killings were drug gang-related.
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Denied Entry Into Zaachila
 El Chapulin
Oaxaca is not in peace. The conflict that exploded in 2006 continues unresolved, and is an open wound for everyone to see. Under the surface things are boiling and social conflicts seem ready to erupt at any moment. And that's exactly what happened June 20 in Zaachila.
Mexico in Uproar Over 'Torture' Videos
 Traci Carl
Videos showing city police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture by lawmen.
President Calderón Fulfills Promise to Indigenous Communities, Handing Over more than 200 Infrastructure Works
 Presidencia de la República
At the start of his working tour of Mexico State, President Felipe Calderón handed over 200 works as part of the Basic Infrastructure Program for Attending Indigenous Peoples, which includes electrification, safe drinking water, highways and financial support for regional productive projects.
More Charges Over Mexico Stampede
 BBC News
The owner of a Mexican nightclub where 12 people died in a stampede during a police raid is to be charged with manslaughter, prosecutors have said.
Researchers Whistle, Croak and Grunt to Recreate Sounds of Pre-Columbian Society
 Julie Watson
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle. If death had a sound, this was it.
Civilian Victims in Mexico's Drug War
 Ioan Grillo & Santiago de los Caballeros
Since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and sent out 25,000 troops to take on the mafias, soldiers have killed at least 13 unarmed civilians.
Mexico Determined to Work for Greater Mesoamerican Integration: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
During the dinner he hosted for the Heads of State and Government gathered together for the 10th Summit of the Tuxtla Dialogue and Agreement Mechanism, President Felipe Calderón stated that from the beginning of his administration, he has worked to reinforce the Puebla-Panama Plan, giving it a new boost.
US Includes Rights Language in Mexico Anti-Drug Aid
 Mark Lacey
With a deadly drug war spreading around the country, beleaguered Mexican officials are welcoming $400 million in anti-narcotics assistance in a bill that was given final congressional approval in Washington.
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