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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A massive fire that burned for more than 24 hours aboard a fuel tanker ship loaded with thousands of barrels of oil on board was put out Sunday without having caused spills, a Mexican state-owned oil company said. The 31 crew members of the oil firm Pemex’s Burgos tanker were safely evacuated. The vessel, which burned just off the eastern port city of Veracruz, was carrying more than 160,000 barrels […]
by Pedro Juarez Mejia LA PAZ, Mexico (AFP) — Hurricane Newton charged across Mexico’s northwestern resort of Los Cabos on Tuesday, blowing away trees and tin roofs but apparently sparing the region of major damage as thousands of tourists hunkered down. The storm packed winds of 145 kilometers (90 miles) an hour when it made landfall before dawn at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. But the region prized by American and Canadian […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican authorities have arrested a suspected lieutenant of the Sinaloa drug cartel who is wanted in the United States, officials said Monday. National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said the suspect, Martin “N,” was arrested on Friday in Zapopan, western Jalisco state. Sales said the suspect crashed his vehicle and injured a police officer when he was captured under a warrant to extradite him to the United States. While he did […]
by David SANTA CRUZ MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical Storm Newton grew into a hurricane on Monday as it rushed toward Mexico’s popular northwest resorts of Los Cabos, two years after powerful Odile wreaked havoc in the region. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that “preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion” in parts of the Baja California peninsula and that Newton would make landfall on Tuesday. The Mexican […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AFP) — Floods and landslides caused by a tropical depression have damaged or affected some 70 homes and schools and trapped around 200 people in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco, authorities said Sunday. Torrential rains which began Saturday morning caused 33 rock and landslides on interstate highways and the Ayutla-Cruz Grande federal highway, Guerrero state authorities said. The downpour also caused a road to collapse in central Acapulco, sending two cars falling […]
PHOENIX, United States (AFP) — Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to tell President Enrique Pena Nieto that he will erect a border wall if elected, but controversy erupted over whether they discussed who would pay for it. The tense international trip saw Trump navigating a political tightrope just 69 days before the US presidential election, as he seeks to clarify his stance on his campaign’s signature issue: immigration. Trump spent […]
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — Gunmen stormed a bar and kidnapped at least 10 people Monday in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, state prosecutors said, linking it to a war between rival gangs. The heavily armed men arrived in pickup trucks around dawn and abducted their victims from the bar of a restaurant called La Leche in the city’s upscale hotel district, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement, citing witnesses. Chief […]
by Pauline DE DEUS MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Colorful gondolas lazily ferry tourists around the floating gardens of Mexico City’s Xochimilco district, but not all is green in this idyllic vestige of the Aztec empire increasingly choked by urbanization. Criss-crossed with natural canals and artificial islands, Xochimilco is the last reminder of how the Aztecs lived 500 years ago at the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived, when Mexico City was mostly covered in water. […]
PUEBLA, Mexico (CCTV) — Tropical storm, Earl has left thousands of families affected by flooding and at least 46 dead as of Sunday in Mexico. Victims include 33 in the state of Puebla and 13 in Veracruz. The country’s civil protection authorities have said that rescue and relief work is still underway. According to the Puebla authorities, the most affected region in the state is Sierra Norte in the municipality of Huauchinango. The rainfall in […]
PUEBLA, Mexico (AFP) — Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Earl’s remnants have killed at least 40 people in Mexico, officials said late Sunday, as a new storm threatened the country’s Pacific coast. Hardest-hit was the central state of Puebla, where 29 people died, including at least 15 minors, as landslides buried several homes in the state’s northern mountains, the local government said. Another 11 died in similar circumstances in the eastern state of Veracruz, its […]
(Reuters) — Over 100 nursing mothers gathered in Mexico City on Saturday (August 6) to nurse their babies in a public park as part of The Global Big Latch On (La Gran Tetada) to promote worldwide breastfeeding. The mothers gathered at Chapultepec Park in the capital city as part of an initiative to encourage nursing in Mexico where only 19 percent of babies are exclusively breast-fed at six months of age, according to UNICEF. Despite […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico’s president hit back Sunday at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that if elected, he would make Mexico build a wall along its US border. The bombastic billionaire has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and insulted Mexican immigrants by calling them rapists, criminals and drug dealers. As his party’s presumptive presidential candidate, Trump is now eyeing a clash in the November election with his Democratic rival Hillary […]
