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Rare egg laid in Mexico

Posted by Alain: Excited ornithologists waited with baited breath to see whether the Condor egg laid in Mexico, will hatch. This is the firs time since the 1930s that a Californian Condor has laid in Mexico. Original source: The Australian . Condor's egg has landed in Mexico
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Sandy beaches for Mexico City

Posted by Alain: Mexico City, which is landlocked, opened its first 'beach'. People were able to play volleyball and munch on tacos, on the sand surrounded by soaring apartment buildings. A total of 4 are planned for the city. Original source: Seattle Times . A beach getaway in landlocked Mexico City
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Abortion to be legalized in Mexico

Posted by Alain: Mexico with its liberal dominated legislature is set to pass the highly controversial abortion bill, a measure that is roundly opposed by large segments of the population. Original source: New York Times . Bill to Legalize Abortion Set to Pass in Mexico City
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Archaeologists open window to sites in Mexico

Posted by Alain: Archaeologists in Mexico are providing guided tours of sites, known as "archaeological windows, whereby inaccessible buried ruins can be viewed via glass-covered shafts. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070331/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ window_ archaeology_ 1;_ ylt=ApCIrUYzdbbUB5B3_
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Dengue outbreak controls in place in Mexico

Posted by Alain: Worried health officials are dispatching special spraying teams to tourist resorts ahead of the holiday period to make sure that garbage and standing water is removed to prevent mosquitoes breeding. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070331/ ap_ on_ he_ me/ mexico_ deadly_ dengue_ 6;_
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Film director takes hard look at life on the border

Posted by Alain: Director Robert Kelly has produced a hard hitting documentary film, Borderlands, which looks at life in two small towns separated by an international boundary. Original source: Washington Post . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. washingtonpost. com/ wp -dyn/ content/ article/ 2007/ 03/ 30/ AR2007033001367. html, anchor: Film takes gritty look
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Drug raid leads to arrest of Escobar

Posted by Alain: In a surprise raid on a safe house, police arrested suspected drug kingpin Victor Magno Escobar in Tijuana on Saturday. He is reputed to be a leader of the cartel that dominates drug smuggling along California's border with Mexico. Original source: Reuters . Mexico arrests suspected Tijuana drug kingpin
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The President s elusive emigre relatives

Posted by Alain: The Mexican President Felipe Calderon, revealed recently that large numbers of his family members now live in the United States, but no one in his home town seems to know who they are. Original source: Los Angeles Times . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. latimes. com/ news/ printedition/ asection/ la -fg -calderon22mar22,1,1292669. story,
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Mexican wines attracting attention

Posted by Alain: A flourishing wine producing industry has blossomed in Mexico and is attracting a lot of interest from north of the border. Original source: New York Times . Baja Bottled
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Police deaths in Mexico have risen 50

Posted by Alain: Police deaths arising out of incidents involving organized crime in Mexico have escalated by fifty per cent over the past year, according to official statistics released. Original source: BBC news . Police deaths in Mexico jump 50%
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500 die in drug related crimes over past year

Posted by Alain: Despite intensive efforts to stamp out drug trafficking by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, over 500 people have been killed in drug related crimes over the past year. Original source: Los Angeles Times . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. latimes. com/ news/ nationworld/ world/ la -fg -mexdrugs24mar24,1,5528358. story coll=la -headlines
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U.S. customs off icial jailed for Mexican border offences

Posted by Alain: A 10-year veteran of U.S. Customs and Border Protection was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for taking cash and cars from smugglers, allowing them to shuttle illegal immigrants from Mexico into the United States. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070326/ ap_ on_ re_ us/
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2 victims bodies found in plastic bags

Posted by Alain: The bodies of two murder victims were found in plastic bags behind the TV station in the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The discovery was made by a person delivering food to the building. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070327/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ bodies_ found_ 1;_
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Singer-actress donates minivan to orphanage

Posted by Alain: Singer-actress, Jessica Simpson, paid a visit to a Mexican orphanage accompanied by other family members, and donated a minivan. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070328/ ap_ en_ ce/ people_ jessica_ simpson_ 9;_ ylt=Am7b. KL7o2PTeThvzNcM9xAdl. 0A, anchor: Jessica Simpson visits Mexican
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Mexicans lose ties with their emigrant kin

Posted by Alain: The Mexican President has said that ties between Mexican families and their relatives who have moved across the border to the U.S. fade with time. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070322/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ president_ s_ kin;_ ylt=AntbpgN197jH7LxO7gWBOKcHcggF, anchor: Mexican
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Mexican trucks not ready to roll across border yet

Posted by Alain: The keenly anticipated go ahead for Mexican based trucks to haul their goods across the border and deep into the United States looks like it will be delayed even further. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070323/ ap_ on_ go_ co/ mexican_ trucks;_ ylt=AtM4XpydijNaS_ biHimKnwIHcggF, anchor:
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Calderon: we will cap domestic Corn prices

Posted by Alain: Mexican President, Felipe Calderon said he would try and strike a new deal with corn flour producers to cap corn prices and thereby keep inflation down. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ nm/ 20070323/ wl_ nm/ latam_ summit_ inflation_ dc;_ ylt=AtXj46heqigEhdyIirzllRkHcggF, anchor: Mexico to keep
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Drug bust even bigger than thought.

Posted by Alain: The new estimate for the world's largest drug bust, when an enormous amount of cash was seized in a private home, has risen to more than $207 million. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070323/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ drug_ money;_ ylt=AvloBCEtMFDaZn5iWQP_ j44HcggF, anchor: Mexican
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Tourist drowns

Posted by Alain: The body of a Canadian tourist who went missing while swimming has been found. Police say that he drowned. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ cpress/ 20070323/ ca_ pr_ on_ wo/ mexico_ drowning_ cda;_ ylt=AheCoO. YVP4siPhRi. sNdWgHcggF, anchor: Canadian man in Cancun, Mexico, for spring break
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Mexico offers to swap computers for guns

Posted by Alain: Imagine how Mexico City would be if there were no guns," Mexico City Public Safety Secretary Joel Ortega said. Now police are trying to achieve this by offering citizens to swop. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070328/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ gun_ swap_ 2;_ ylt=AtdMX23LCR6K22DM_
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Why choose Mexico to retire

Posted by Alain: Because Mexico has it all The United States' closest southern neighbor, with its perfect climate, highly affordable living, fascinating culture and a wonderfully varied landscape from golden beaches to emerald jungles. Original source: Internationalliving.com . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. internationalliving. com/ mexico/ why_ mexico.
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Slim: Nationalization not widespread in Latin America

Posted by Alain: Billionaire Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, the world's third richest man claims that despite Venezuela's nationalization of telecommunications and energy companies, the move to nationalization will not be widely followed in other Latin American countries. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ nm/
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Vatican promotes aggressive ant-abortion campaign

Posted by Alain: The Vatican is making strong efforts in the campaign against legalizing abortion in Mexico, with an aggressive campaign to oppose the measure. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070324/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ abortion;_ ylt=Ain44uZYn. 8eIX0DsToL9qUHcggF, anchor: Vatican pushing
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14th police officer slain in north Mexico

Posted by Alain: In a wave of drug related shootings, another police officer was killed in the north Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, bringing the number of such killings for the year to 14. Original source: CNN . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. cnn. com/ 2007/ WORLD/ americas/ 03/ 23/ mexico. violence. ap, anchor: Police officer slain in northern Mexico]
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Latinos discriminated against says diplomat

Posted by Alain: A Mexican diplomat has castigated San Jose police for blatant racialism. A local store keeper, who is an Hispanic, and his nephew were roughed up by local police after a routine traffic stop. Original source: keralanext.com . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. keralanext. com/ news/ id=991501, anchor: Mexican Diplomat Scolds San Jose Police]
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Mexican sewage treatment plant opened

Posted by Alain: Mexico's National Water Commission has announced that a waste water treatment plant has been opened in the city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, Calif. The plant will divert treated waste into the Hardy River, rather than dumping it untreated into waterways that run into California's seas. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check:
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Clerics to march against proposed abortion bill

Posted by Alain: The bid to legalize abortion in Mexico has clerics united in a stand against the move, with leaders of 3 of the main denominations saying they will organize protest marches against it. Original source: Yahoo News . [404 Check: was link to http:/ / news. yahoo. com/ s/ ap/ 20070322/ ap_ on_ re_ la_ am_ ca/ mexico_ abortion;_ ylt=AufWPRNK8Uu0.
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