Crisis, crackdown turn Mexicans off American dream
ACATZINGO, Mexico, 5:03 a.m. Oct. 15 (REUTERS)
Caught by the U.S. economic crisis and a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Mexican workers are increasingly quitting the United States and coming home, disillusioned with the American dream.
When the U.S. economy began to slow, Ernesto Lorzo and Margarita Martinez first halted construction on the house they were building in Mexico with the dollars they earned in the United States.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, 2:57 p.m. Oct. 15 (AP)Honduras asks Mexico to extradite murder suspect: Honduras will ask Mexico to extradite an alleged gang member suspected in the killings of at least 43 people, including 28 in a 2004 Christmas bus massacre, officials said Wednesday.
CHICAGO, 12:31 p.m. Oct. 15 (AP)
Mexican workers in U.S. during WWII can get back pay: Mexican laborers in a World War II-era guest-worker program can soon apply for money that was withheld from their paychecks and sent to the Mexican government.
MEXICO CITY, 12:28 p.m. Oct. 15 (REUTERS)
Mexico peso, stocks pounded by U.S. recession fears: Mexico's peso weakened sharply Wednesday after a new batch of U.S. economic data reinforced views the United States, Mexico's top trading partner, is facing a recession despite efforts to rescue its banks.
MONTERREY, Mexico, 3:03 p.m. Oct. 13 (AP)
Assailants attack U.S. consulate in Mexico: Additional police guarded the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey on Monday as investigators analyzed a security video in search of assailants who shot at the building and threw a grenade that failed to explode.
LAS GRAJALES, Mexico, 6:18 p.m. Oct. 13 (AP)Mexican town helps migrants flee police: An angry crowd in central Mexico attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers, officials said Monday. CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, 7:27 p.m. Oct. 12 (AP)
Gunmen kill 6 at party in northern Mexico: Gunmen killed six young men at a family party in the gang-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Sunday.
Oct. 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The week in Mexico:President Felipe Calderón said Mexico has enough foreign reserves to face the global financial crisis.
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico, 3:02 p.m. Oct. 12 (AP)Norbert weakens to tropical depression over Mexico: Norbert dissipated into a tropical depression over the northern mountains of mainland Mexico on Sunday, after ripping off roofs, flooding streets, and forcing thousands to seek shelter in Baja California.
MEXICO CITY, 7:46 a.m. Oct. 10 (AP)
Mexico auctions off $3 billion to prop up peso: Mexico's central bank has auctioned off US$3 billion in foreign reserves to prop up the falling peso.
TIJUANA/MEXICO CITY, 2:14 p.m. Oct. 9 (REUTERS)
Mexico could slip into recession on exports, credit: Mexico could fall into a recession because trouble in the U.S. economy is hitting demand for its exports and a global credit crisis is putting strain on companies, analysts said.
MEXICO CITY, 8:31 p.m. Oct. 9 (AP)Hurricane Norbert weakens slightly: Hurricane Norbert weakened to Category 1 storm Thursday as it headed toward Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula but was still expected to be a hurricane when it hits land over the weekend. MEXICO CITY, 7:51 p.m. Oct. 9 (AP)
Grenade attack kills 5 state police in Mexico: Five state police officers were killed in the western Mexican state of Jalisco by grenade-lobbing gunmen who fired more than 800 bullets in the attack, authorities said Thursday. MEXICO CITY, 6:43 p.m. Oct. 9 (REUTERS)
Mexican finmin urges interest rate cut-media: Mexico should consider cutting interest rates to ease the effects of a growing financial crisis on the local economy said the country's Finance Minister Thursday, Mexican newspapers reported. MEXICO CITY, 12:55 p.m. Oct. 9 (REUTERS)
Mexico to tender telecom spectrum early 2009: Mexico expects to tender spectrum for cellphones, WiMax and mobile Internet in the first quarter of next year, a senior government official said Thursday. MEXICO CITY, 12:22 p.m. Oct. 9 (AP)
7 soccer team members detained for drug links: Mexican authorities have detained seven members of a third-division soccer team for alleged ties to drug traffickers. MEXICO CITY, 2:24 p.m. Oct. 8 (AP)
Norbert becomes Category 4 hurricane in Pacific: Hurricane Norbert strengthened Wednesday into a powerful Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast as it churned on a path expected to take it over the southern half of the Baja California peninsula this weekend.
MEXICO CITY, 1:41 p.m. Oct. 8 (AP)
Mexico, Brazil prop up struggling currencies: Mexico's central bank said Wednesday it was auctioning off US$2.5 billion in reserves to prop up the struggling peso, the strongest sign yet that the U.S. economic meltdown was hitting its southern neighbor hard.
GUATEMALA CITY, 2:04 p.m. Oct. 7 (AP)Mexico extradites ex-Guatemalan leader: Mexico extradited former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo on Tuesday to face corruption charges, and the ex-leader told a judge there is no evidence to support the allegations against him.
TIJUANA, Mexico, 10:20 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Vicious killings escalate in Mexico drug war: Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid. Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges. Others have their tongues cut out before being murdered – Mexican gangs are using horrifying methods to outdo each other in an already harrowing drugs war.
MEXICO CITY, 6:16 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Mexico peso falls 3% to new low of 12.4 per dlr: Mexico's peso plummeted over 3 percentTuesday to an all-time low of 12.40 to the dollar, extending huge losses from Monday, when it fell more than 6 percent.
ACAPULCO, Mexico, 9:00 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Mexico: Ex-ruling party rebounds in local election: The party that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years has rebounded in local elections, returns showed on Monday, and a poll had it jumping into the lead for next year's national congressional vote.
MEXICO CITY, 2:04 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)Mexican film director Servando Gonzalez dies at 85: Servando Gonzalez Hernandez rose from gofer at a Mexican film studio to become a director in Hollywood. But he may be most remembered in Mexico for a film that nobody ever saw. MEXICO CITY, 10:46 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Mexico's peso hits lowest level against dollar: Mexico's Central Bank says the country's currency has fallen to its lowest real level against the dollar amid turmoil on world markets, with a daily benchmark FIX rate of 11.7667. MEXICO CITY, 8:24 a.m. Oct. 6 (REUTERS)
Mexico peso tumbles to 4-1/2-year low, stocks dive: Mexico's peso weakened Monday to its lowest in 4-1/2 years and stocks shed nearly 8 percent as fresh signs of financial trouble in Europe stoked worries of a sharp downturn in the world economy. MEXICO CITY, 8:05 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Tropical Storm Norbert strengthens off Mexico: Tropical Storm Norbert is growing toward hurricane force off Mexico's Pacific coast and forecasters say it might bring weekend rains and wind to the Baja California Peninsula.
Oct. 5 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The week in Mexico:Mexican soldiers found five small planes stolen by 20 heavily armed men last week. Security officials say the planes were found on a ranch in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. The planes had been seized this year in an anti-narcotics operation.
MEXICO CITY, 9:15 a.m. Oct. 3 (REUTERS)
Oil firms gloomy over Mexico's reform prospects: International energy companies' hopes of tapping Mexico's oil reserves are dimming as President Felipe Calderón's oil reform proposal faces dilution by opposition parties in Congress.
MEXICO CITY, 8:16 a.m. Oct. 3 (AP)
Mexican soldiers find stolen planes on ranch: Mexican soldiers have found five small planes that were stolen after they were seized in an anti-drug operation.
MONTERREY, Mexico, 3:08 p.m. Oct. 1 (AP)World's heaviest man to wed Oct. 26 in Mexico: The world's most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in a civil ceremony at a location still to be decided. MEXICO CITY, 2:45 p.m. Oct. 1 (AP)
Tropical Storm Marie forms far off Mexico's Baja: Tropical Storm Marie formed over the Pacific on Wednesday, hundreds of miles (kilometers) southwest of the Baja California Peninsula.
MEXICO CITY, 11:02 a.m. Oct. 1 (AP)
Missing in Mexico: One condom-mobile: Missing in Mexico: One truck carrying 5,000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot (7 meter) inflatable prophylactic.
MEXICO CITY, 9:36 a.m. Oct. 1 (AP)
Money sent home by Mexicans in U.S. drops 12 percent: Mexicans living in the U.S. sent home 12 percent less money in August, the largest drop on record since the Bank of Mexico began tracking remittances 12 years ago, the central bank reported on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY, 6:54 a.m. Oct. 1 (AP)
Gunmen in Mexico steal suspected drug planes: Police in Mexico say 20 heavily armed men have stolen five small planes that the army seized in anti-drug operations.
MEXICO CITY, 6:49 p.m. Sept. 30 (AP)
Mexican president sends security bill to congress: Mexican President Felipe Calderón on Tuesday sent a sweeping security initiative to Congress aimed at weeding out police corruption and streamlining the exchange of information on criminals.
MEXICO CITY, 8:44 p.m. Sept. 30 (REUTERS)Mexican thieves steal five small planes: Armed men stole five small planes from a private airstrip in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa Tuesday by overpowering a police officer and flying away, security forces said. MEXICO CITY, 8:01 p.m. Sept. 30 (AP)
Slim: U.S. should buy stakes in failing institutions: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim suggested Tuesday that the U.S. government acquire temporary stakes in failing financial institutions, rather than simply buy up their bad assets. MEXICO CITY, 2:00 p.m. Sept. 30 (AP)
Mexico fines both sides in disputed 2006 election: Mexico issued multimillion-dollar fines for misconduct Tuesday to both sides in the bitterly disputed 2006 presidential elections. MEXICO CITY, 11:09 a.m. Sept. 30 (REUTERS)
Mexico refining talks break down in Senate: Talks have broken down between Mexico's ruling party and key centrist lawmakers over how to boost oil refining and cut costly fuel imports, senators said.
MEXICO CITY, 11:24 a.m. Sept. 29 (AP)
7,500 Mexicans evacuate: Mexican officials have evacuated 7,500 people and are keeping oil wells shut in Veracruz due to severe flooding from heavy rains along Mexico's Gulf coast.
MEXICO CITY, 9:00 p.m. Sept. 28 (AP)
Mexico pushes for national weight loss: Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.
Sept. 28 (UNION-TRIBUNE)The week in Mexico: Tijuana philanthropist dies: Tijuana philanthropist José Fimbres Moreno, a founder of the Calimax supermarket chain and of CETYS University, died last Sunday in a San Diego hospital. He was 78.
MEXICO CITY, 6:29 a.m. Sept. 28 (AP)
Mexico pushes national campaign to lose weight: Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.
MEXICO CITY, 3:49 p.m. Sept. 28 (AP)Mexican police find 97 tons of marijuana in field: Mexican authorities say they have found and destroyed 97 U.S. tons (88 metric tons) of marijuana in a field in the northern border state of Sonora.
MEXICO CITY, 5:55 p.m. Sept. 26 (AP)
Mexico arrests 3 suspects in grenade attack: Mexican federal prosecutors have arrested three drug gang members accused of throwing grenades into crowds of Independence Day revelers, an unprecedented attack on civilians that killed eight people.
MEXICO CITY, 5:48 p.m. Sept. 26 (REUTERS)Mexico violence drives demand for bulletproof cars: German carmaker Volkswagen is making armored cars for the Mexican market as more kidnapping gangs ambush drivers with automatic weapons and rival drug cartels stage gun battles in the streets.
MEXICO CITY, 6:07 p.m. Sept. 25 (AP)
Reports: 3 beheaded bodies found in Mexico: The decapitated bodies of three men were found on a road Thursday in a western Mexican state plagued by drug violence, local media reported. The heads were found in sacks nearby.
VERACRUZ, Mexico, 9:14 p.m. Sept. 25 (AP)
Storms kill 5 Mexicans: Storms flooded hundreds of people out of their homes in southeastern Mexico and caused the death of a woman and four children whose car plunged into a swollen irrigation ditch.
MEXICO CITY, 8:41 p.m. Sept. 25 (REUTERS)
Former Mexican mayor shot while jogging: The former mayor of a town in southern Mexico was shot and killed in front of his daughter Thursday as he jogged along a highway, state police said.
MEXICO CITY, 12:15 p.m. Sept. 24 (REUTERS)
Mexico banks weather crisis, but stem lending: Mexico's banks, mostly owned by foreign heavyweights, are in good shape to weather a crisis shaking industry leaders on Wall Street, but caution is leading them to put the brakes on years of speedy growth.
MEXICO CITY, 2:05 p.m. Sept. 24 (AP)Mexico seizes circus animals after elephant escape: Mexico has seized 12 animals from a circus a day after one of its elephants wandered onto a highway and was struck and killed by a bus. MEXICO CITY, 12:12 p.m. Sept. 24 (REUTERS)
Mexican peso knocked down by bailout fears: Mexico's peso slumped Wednesday on unease about a proposed U.S. bailout designed to calm the global credit crisis, while bonds rose after inflation data came out lower than expected.
MEXICO CITY, 8:32 p.m. Sept. 23 (REUTERS)
Strong quake hits off Mexico's Pacific coast: A strong earthquake struck off Mexico's Pacific coast late Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there was no immediate report of damage.
MEXICO CITY, 4:32 p.m. Sept. 23 (AP)
Mexican AG: Gulf cartel suspected in grenade blast: A group of Gulf cartel hit men are on the list of suspects in a grenade attack that killed eight people during Independence Day celebrations, Mexico's attorney general said Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY, 2:10 p.m. Sept. 23 (AP)
Bus crashes into escaped circus elephant in Mexico: A five-ton elephant escaped from a circus and wandered onto a busy highway, where it was hit by a bus. Both the driver and pachyderm were killed early Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY, 8:14 p.m. Sept. 22 (AP)
Mexico: No proof student tied to Colombian rebels: Mexico's attorney general says investigators have found no evidence that a Mexican student who survived a Colombian military raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador had ties to the guerrillas.
MEXICO CITY, 10:18 a.m. Sept. 22 (AP)
Mexican oil production falls 9 percent: Mexico's state-run oil company says output fell 9 percent to 2.83 million barrels a day in the first eight months of the year.
Sep. 21 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The week in Mexico:The heads of a U.S.-Mexican intergovernmental agency were among four people killed when a light aircraft they were traveling in slammed into mountains in northern Mexico.
MORELIA, Mexico, 9:14 a.m. Sept. 20 (AP)Mexico combats police corruption with mortgages: Mexican police are testing a new weapon against widespread corruption in their ranks: home ownership.
MORELIA, Mexico, 11:41 a.m. Sept. 20 (AP)
Boy's death raises toll to 8 in Mexican explosion: Officials say a 13-year-old boy has died from wounds sustained during a grenade attack on a Mexican Independence Day celebration, bringing the death toll to 8.
MORELIA, Mexico, 2:44 p.m. Sept. 19 (AP)Banners hung in Mexico blame hit men for attack: Mexican police on Friday were trying to determine who hung several banners in this colonial city blaming Gulf cartel hit men for a grenade attack that killed seven people in an Independence Day crowd.
MEXICO CITY, 6:29 p.m. Sept. 18 (AP)
Mexican troops finds $26 million in drug cash: The military seized US$26.2 million in cash believed to belong to members of the Sinaloa drug cartel – the second largest such discovery in Mexico's history – an official said Thursday.
MEXICO CITY, 1:31 p.m. Sept. 18 (AP)
Mexico suspects drug gang behind grenade attack: Federal investigators suspect the powerful La Familia drug gang was behind a grenade attack that killed seven people in an Independence Day crowd and increased violence-scarred Mexicans' sense that no place is safe.
MEXICO CITY, 12:21 p.m. Sept. 17 (REUTERS)
Mexico markets slammed by global credit fears: Mexican stocks, bonds and the peso slumped on Wednesday as investors dumped emerging market assets after a spike in interbank rates abroad fanned fears that credit may be drying up in the global financial system.
PRESIDIO, Texas, 1:58 p.m. Sept. 17 (AP)Plane carrying IBWC officials found in Mexico: The U.S. Border Patrol says it has found a plane carrying two International Boundary and Water Commission officials and two others in a rugged section of the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, 9:13 a.m. Sept. 17 (REUTERS)
Mexico weekly gasoline hikes to begin on Friday: Mexico said Wednesday it will start raising gasoline prices weekly beginning this Friday, in a new policy that will be closely watched by investors concerned with rising inflation.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, 4:09 p.m. Sept. 16 (AP)
Plane crash kills Mexican, U.S. officials: A Mexican state governor says a small plane carrying the U.S. and Mexican heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission has crashed, killing all four on board.
MEXICO CITY, 12:25 p.m. Sept. 15 (REUTERS)Mexican stocks down 3% on financial worries: Mexican stocks extended steep losses Monday as the collapse of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers sparked fears about the stability of the U.S. financial system and investors dumped emerging market assets.
ALLENDE, Mexico, 6:28 a.m. Sept. 13 (AP)
Few safeguards for Mexican produce heading north: At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyer belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected only by a corrugated metal roof.
Sep. 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The week in Mexico :A gas pipeline caught fire Friday, sending flames more than 100 feet into the air, injuring two people and closing a main highway north of Mexico City.
SANTIAGO, Mexico, 2:17 p.m. Sept. 13 (AP)300 people 'fish' for trash in Mexican reservoir: Hundreds of Mexicans wearing rubber gloves are fishing for bottles, plastic bags and tin cans in a competition to clean a reservoir near Texas.
Sept. 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
We've 'lost that NAFTA spirit': Mexico's secretary of communications and transportation urged stronger ties between Mexico and the United States this week, telling leaders from both sides of the border that “we have lost that NAFTA spirit.”
MEXICO CITY, 11:05 a.m. Sept. 12 (AP)Mexico, U.S. find no al-Qaeda links since 9/11: Mexico says it has arrested 12 people on terrorism charges in the years since the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S., but an official said none were linked to Muslim extremist groups like al-Qaeda nor were any planning to strike in the United States.
CUAUTITLAN IZCALLI, Mexico, 8:58 a.m. Sept. 12 (REUTERS)
Large fire hits Mexico gas pipeline in accident: A Mexican gas pipeline caught fire Friday in an accident near the capital, sending flames more than 100 feet into the air and closing a main highway into the city.
8:42 a.m. Sept. 12 (REUTERS)Brutal crime wave shakes Mexico to the core: By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY – A gruesome crime wave is shaking Mexico to its core, with children murdered, headless bodies left in piles and ordinary Mexicans losing the little faith they have in the police and government.
MEXICO CITY, 3:02 p.m. Sept. 11 (REUTERS)
Mexico, Cuba eyeing clampdown on U.S.-bound migrants: Cuba and Mexico are discussing how to clamp down on the flow of illegal Cuban immigrants through Mexico to the United States, Cuba's Ambassador Manuel Aguilera said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10
Mexican truck plan could be shut down: The House overwhelmingly voted to end the disputed cross-border trucking pilot project yesterday, raising the possibility that Congress could shut down the program before year's end.
NEW YORK, 4:09 p.m. Sept. 10 (AP)Mexico's Slim, family buy 6.4% of NY Times Co.: Mexican financier Carlos Slim Helu and members of his family now own 6.4 percent of publicly traded shares in The New York Times Co., according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. EL PASO, Texas, 11:08 a.m. Sept. 10 (REUTERS)
Mexicans fleeing drug war help El Paso house market: Mexicans fleeing a gruesome drug war are buying homes across the border in El Paso, helping keep the Texan city's property market afloat despite the worst U.S. housing crisis in decades.
MEXICO CITY, 8:47 a.m. Sept. 9 (AP)
Mexican inflation hits highest rate in 5 years: Mexican inflation has hit its highest rate in five years. The Bank of Mexico says annual inflation reached 5.57 percent in August. That's the highest point since March 2003, when inflation was at 5.64 percent.
MEXICO CITY, 2:49 p.m. Sept. 9 (AP)Mexico urges U.S. to release anti-drug aid package: The Mexican government is urging the United States to release a US$400 million package of anti-crime aid approved by the U.S. Congress in June. MEXICO CITY, 12:53 p.m. Sept. 9 (REUTERS)
U.S. housing worries hit Mexican stocks: Mexican stocks fell Tuesday as concern about investment bank Lehman Brothers' ability to raise much-needed capital renewed fears about the impact of mortgage losses on the U.S. economy. MEXICO CITY, 12:29 p.m. Sept. 9 (AP)
Mexico unveils Web site to reduce auto emissions: Mexico's government is giving car buyers a Web site where they can check on just how environmentally friendly their new vehicle might be. MEXICO CITY, 4:50 p.m. Sept. 8 (REUTERS)
Mexico seeks more funds to fight crime, drug gangs: Mexican President Felipe Calderón wants to hike spending on fighting organized crime and drug gangs by 39 percent next year, as rampant violent crime poses the biggest test of his presidency.
MEXICO CITY, 9:04 a.m. Sept. 8 (AP)
Mexico detains suspects in kidnap-murder of boy: Mexico City police said Monday they have detained five suspects in the kidnap and killing of the 14-year-old son of a prominent businessman that prompted a wave of anti-crime protests across the nation.
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