Posted by: socalgolfer on: March 10, 2010
Forbes released its annual list today on the wealthiest people in the world and the new number one wasn’t the usual face of Bill Gates that we are used to. Carlos Slim Helu, the telecom giant of Mexico has overtaken the title of World’s Richest Man. This is only the second time in the last [...]
Posted by: nsebastian93 on: January 31, 2010
Saturday night a group of armed men stormed a party on the Mexican border, in Ciudad Juarez. Thirteen high school and college students were killed, ten died on the scene and three died at local hospitals. These group of young adults gathered to watch a boxing match in a housing complex when suddenly two trucks [...]
Posted by: gonzaloasis on: October 6, 2009
The American authorities sent back to Mexico 90,000 minors who had crossed the border illegally in 2008. There should be nothing wrong with that, but the National Commission of Human Rights claims that the kids were often left by themselves in deserted areas in the middle of the night. The report says that almost always the [...]
Posted by: joanna200 on: September 2, 2009
Mexico City is the capital of Mexico and it is also the most populated city in the entire world. Lately, Mexico has been having some major problems with their government due to the poverty rate in the city. There are many people who basically have no jobs and no way to earn money, and having [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 7, 2009
News officials have been stopping by local shops and restaurants around the Mexico City area all week talking with store owners about the business, or lack there of. Fernando Bazen runs a small business packing parcels in Central Mexico. Usually he gets a steady stream of customers all day long but since the Swine Flu [...]
Posted by: trubino on: April 30, 2009
exico is not only having problems with the drug wars but now is having problems with the Swine flu again. It has been noted that the first couple of cases started originating in Mexico. After one of my class mates said “OMG I am afraid of Mexicans now” just so that people know it has spread [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: April 29, 2009
What is Swine Influenza? It is a respiratory disease of pigs that rarely spreads to humans. However, it has already killed many people in Mexico City (where the disease started). The symptoms of swine flu are similar to the regular flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, chills, etc. Human cases of swine [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: April 29, 2009
Seven police officers were assassinated over the course of one hour in Mexico. Authorities say is a coordinated effort that followed eight months of relative calm in a border city stricken by a drug-fueled violence. The government has no control in Mexico right now, the police are not even considered a force anymore, and the [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: April 28, 2009
La organizacion Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha advertido que el brote epidemico de la gripe porcina en Northeamerica es una “emergencia de salud publica” y que tiene una posibilidad de convertirse en una pandemia (enfermedad que se propaga internacionalmente, afectando a gente de diferentes naciones en una region muy grande, ya sea continente o [...]
Posted by: trubino on: April 23, 2009
Mexico’s drug war is still in action. It has been several months since we have been hearing about the drug war and it seams that the end isn’t close yet. One of the “cartels”, a group of people or a gang that is involve in illegal actions has been told by their leaders to avoid heavy [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: March 23, 2009
Cinco cabezas de personas fueron encontradas en hieleras de hielo seco el jueves debajo de un árbol en el estado de Jalisco. Parece ser el pleito entre narcotraficantes la causa de tantas muertes en el país. La policía municipal de Ixtlahuacan del Rio fue informada a las dos a.m. Cada cabeza fue encontrada en hieleras [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: March 19, 2009
President Barack Obamawill be visiting Mexico next month. His visit is the his second trip to the outside of the country as a president. He went to Canada for a quick, 6 hour visit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last month. Mexico’s government has announced that Obama will visit Mexico on April 16th and 17th. [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: March 18, 2009
El narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín Guzmán Loera alias “el Chapo”, con una fortuna de mil millones de dólares, aparece este año en la relación de la revista estadounidense Forbes de los más ricos del planeta, que se dio a conocer. Guzmán es el mayor sustentor de cocaína en USA, dijo la coordinadora del estudio, Luisa Kroll, que [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 3, 2009
Juan Camilo Mouriño was the former Government Secretary, he died in a terrible plane crash in the middle of Mexico City on November 4, 2008. He left one widow and 3 children. Background He was born on August 1, 1971 on Spain but he lived most of his life in Mexico, he even was naturalized as [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: November 5, 2008
Yesterday, a plane crashed in Mexico City, killing Mexico’s interior secretary, Mourino, and at least 7 other people. The cause of the plane crash is unknown, but it appeared to be accidental. The plane crashed in a wealthy neighborhood and set fire to over 20 cars. 1,800 people had to be evacuated from nearby office buildings. [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: September 8, 2008
As I had written in one of my previous posts, Mexico is having a big drug problem. This has become such a big problem that the Mexican government asking the United States to release a US$400 million package anti-crime aid package which was approved by the U.S Congress in June. The Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinoza [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: August 30, 2008
Mexico has had a vicious drug war going on over the last few years and it has been getting worse and worse.This past Thursday eleven headless bodies were found near a graveyard in Merida, Mexico. A farmer found the 11 bodies that showed signs of torture, 5 miles from a colonial city in the Yucatan peninsula. [...]
