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Tropical Storm Bud Pelts Mexico's Pacific Coast

2012-05-26T10:35:19Z

MIAMI — Bud is weakening and becoming increasingly disorganized in the Pacific just off Mexico.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami sai...

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Mexico Front-Runner: Central Theme Is 'Diminishing Violence'

2012-05-25T15:01:44Z

MEXICO CITY -- Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a sal...

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Hurricane Warning Issues In Mexico

2012-05-25T05:29:55Z

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday as heavy rain began to pelt a string of laid-back beach resorts and small moun...

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Drug Cartel Launches Brutal Attack Near U.S. Border

2012-05-25T05:11:39Z

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- Suspected drug cartel gunmen opened fire on a hotel being used as a police barracks then attacked it with a car bomb Thursd...

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Mom Allegedly Gouged Son's Eyes Out In Drug-Fueled Ritual

2012-05-24T19:31:43Z

MEXICO CITY — Police in a Mexico City suburb arrested a mother and several relatives Thursday for allegedly gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-o...

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Guess What Country Has The Longest Working Hours

2012-05-24T15:11:36Z

While the global recession has compelled at least one national leader -- Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague -- to encourage employees to "work ...

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Prison Gunfight Erupts

2012-05-24T09:16:55Z

MEXICO CITY -- State officials say three prisoners have been killed and six wounded in a gunfight at a prison in the violent northern Mexico border st...

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Undocumented Immigrants Arrested In Phony UPS Van

2012-05-24T07:59:07Z

NILAND, Calif. -- It was a special delivery indeed – 13 suspected undocumented immigrants from Mexico stuffed in a phony UPS van.

The U.S. Border...

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Fundacion MEPI: The Youth Vote -- Mexican Politicians Fail to Inspire in 2012

2012-05-23T15:39:07Z

Smart Mexican politicians should probably be talking to Humberto Fuentes, a young voter who will be at the polls July 1. "I like politics, but I haven't joined the ranks of any party," he said. "Politicians do not understand our language."

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WATCH: 10 Year-Old Goes To College

2012-05-23T07:45:32Z

10 year-old Dafne Almazán Anaya is Mexico's youngest college student. She is currently enrolled at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey ("Technolo...

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Eileen Truax: Si Muero Lejos De Ti: Primavera Mexicana

2012-05-23T07:00:00Z

La primavera llegó a mi país. Llegó un año tarde, tras un letargo que permitió que le pasara de largo la "Ola Verde" de los países árabes, la primavera europea de los indignados y el vecino movimiento Occupy. Sin embargo ahora aparece, tímidamente primero y con el puño en alto después. Los jóvenes han tomado las calles para decir que tienen voz e ideas propias, y que aunque los políticos no los representan, de cualquier manera los tienen que oír.

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Hyper-Violent Drug Cartel Blamed For Leaving Dozens Of Mutilated Bodies In Town Square

2012-05-21T18:22:30Z

MEXICO CITY -- The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in ...

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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Vanishing Hawaiian Beaches, Mexican Wind Boom and More

2012-05-21T15:50:50Z

Every day is Earth Day, folks. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a clean, safe future.

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Mexican Soldiers Arrest Alleged Perpetrator Of Mass Beheadings

2012-05-20T21:03:00Z

By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetrator of the massacre of 49 people who...

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Mexico Army Generals Investigated For Drug Cartel Ties

2012-05-17T18:34:51Z

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's army said it had detained a third general for questioning on Thursday, hours after a judge placed the two other officers under...

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Jamie Haase: Violence South of the Rio Grande Leads Back to U.S.

2012-05-17T17:15:15Z

While it's often hard to blame Americans for overlooking the bloodshed below the border, we can't continue to ignore the 50,000 plus lives that our neighbor to the south has lost in just five years as a result of our destructive drug laws.

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LOOK: On The 'Train Of Death'

2012-05-15T14:17:54Z

In order to reach the American Dream in "El Norte," thousands of undocumented migrants from Central America climb onboard "La Bestia," a freight train...

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Lisa Paul Streitfeld: (R)evolution in San Francisco: Ana Castillo Seizes the Reigns of Feminist Spirituality for 2012

2012-05-17T11:56:53Z

It was clear to many in the room that she was providing the missing feminine voice capable of renewing the Goddess Movement on a global level after it disappeared underground following the backlash of its New Age commercialization in the '80s.

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Grisly Death Cult Slayings

2012-05-17T06:22:33Z

HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Mexican prosecutors have formally charged eight people in the grisly cult slayings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old wom...

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Mexican Army Generals Detained By Anti-Drug Prosecutors

2012-05-16T14:15:01Z

MEXICO CITY -- Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by anti-drug prosecutors and are being questioned for ...

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Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Mexico City: High Art in Thin Air

2012-05-16T08:45:24Z

Capital Soars with Huge New International Street Art Murals

An Amazing Week in DF with Interesni Kazki, El Mac, Saner, Sego, Roa, Herakut, Vhils, and...

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Zetas Cartel Denies Role In Massacre

2012-05-16T04:13:29Z

MEXICO CITY — Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people...

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Carlos Fuentes Dead: Mexican Novelist, Essayist Dies At Age 83

2012-05-15T15:19:56Z

MEXICO CITY — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the M...

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Jenny Block: Modern Mexican Painting From the Blaisten Collection at the Meadows

2012-05-15T15:03:32Z

European art always seems to get top billing. The good news is that a show in Dallas has the strength to change all of that.

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Voto Latino: Five Questions for Rodrigo y Gabriela

2012-05-15T06:50:13Z

I got the chance to see them perform live at the Hollywood Bowl last year, and was blown away by their mastery of the guitar and strumming speeds that leave you wondering how they still have fingers.

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