Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Felipe Calderon

Felipe Calderon stories: 32 news summaries

21 - 32 of 32 Stories | << Prev 1 2

Switch to grid view »

Flood Victims Fight for Food

20,000 still trapped on rooftops as workers focus on 'selective evacuations'

Nov 5, 07 6:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Mexican flood victims fought for food and medicine today, as workers continued efforts to rescue 20,000 still stranded on rooftops, the AP reports. Some camped on upper floors or roofs to guard possessions, while others went looking—some looting—for food. One worker said rescuers were focusing on "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • Felipe Calderon • flood • rescue • Tabasco • disaster

Message From Rooftop: 'Send the Police'

Thousands await aid
in Mexican floods; 800,000 homeless

Nov 4, 07 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - People in southeastern Mexico endured another day huddled in shelters or perched on rooftops as the flooding that has left 800,000 people homeless continued unabated, Reuters reports. The death toll rose to eight—seven in Chiapas state and one in Tabasco. But people are desperate for faster help: "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • Felipe Calderon • flood • natural disaster • Tabasco • Chiapas

'Biblical' Flood Ravages Mexico

Million flee homes amid fears of disease, food and water shortages

Nov 3, 07 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shortages of food, drinking water, and medicine threaten southeastern Mexico, where muddy flood waters cover 80% of the state of Tabasco and almost a million people have had to flee their homes. "The scene here is terrible, it's biblical," a Red Cross official told the Guardian, as a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • Felipe Calderon • flood • evacuation • Red Cross • rescue • Tabasco

Mexico Floods Strand 300,000

Rescuers scramble in Gulf state of Tabasco

Nov 2, 07 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers are racing to southeastern Mexico by boat and helicopter to free 300,000 people trapped in their homes by massive flooding, the BBC reports. Nearly 70% of the state of Tabasco is under water and all crops have been obliterated. "We are just like New Orleans," the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • Felipe Calderon • flood • natural disaster • Tabasco

US Cocaine Supply Plummets

Prices rocket to highest in 20 years

Oct 3, 07 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The cocaine supply has dropped sharply in the last year in 37 US cities, which law enforcement officials attribute to a crackdown on drug cartels by Mexican authorities and a record volume of drugs seized at sea. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco were among major cities experiencing sharp... More »

MORE ABOUT:
War on Drugs • San Francisco • Mexico • New York • cocaine • Felipe Calderon • Los Angeles • drug trafficking • San Diego • drug cartel

Dean Lashes Mexican Coast

Category 5 storm packs severe winds, but leaves no immediate deaths, damage

Aug 21, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tearing into history as the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades, Hurricane Dean today pounded the Yucatan peninsula, battering Mayan ruins and swinging toward oil rigs, the AP reports. Pummeling homes and trees in sparsely populated, mostly evacuated areas, the fierce Category 5 storm shrunk to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
weather • Mexico • Atlantic Ocean • Felipe Calderon • storm • hurricane • Cancun • Mayan • Hurricane Dean • Yucatan Peninsula • Gulf of Mexico • Chetumal • Majahual • Bay of Campeche • Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Dean Hastens 'Three Amigos' Summit

Bush meets neighbors, Calderon leaves early, protests turn violent

Aug 21, 07 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush met with his counterparts from north and south yesterday at a Canadian summit overshadowed by Hurricane Dean and greeted with violent protests. The so-called "Three Amigos" met in a Quebec château ringed by a huge security wall, outside which police used tear gas and rubber bullets... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • Canada • Felipe Calderon • United States • protests • Arctic • Stephen Harper • hurricane • Three Amigos • Raging Grannies • drug trade • passport • George W. Bush

Hotel Snubs Nobel Laureate

Oooops: Five-star Cancun resort mistakes  Rigoberta Menchú for beggar

Aug 17, 07 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Staff at Cancun's five-star Coral Beach Hotel had egg on their faces after trying to throw out a woman in indigenous Mayan garb, assuming she was a beggar or street vendor. Turned out the person they tried to hustle out of their lobby was Rigoberta Menchu—Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Felipe Calderon • Cancun • Mayan • Rigoberta Menchu • Coral Beach Hotel • Guatemala • Nobel Prize

US Nears Deal to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels

Aid package would signal new level of cooperation

Aug 8, 07 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration will send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Mexico to combat drug cartels in a deal that's on the verge of approval, the Washington Post reports. The package, which would include equipment and training for anti-drug teams, represents a new level of cooperation. "The... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Bush administration • drugs • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • Colombia • Mexican drug war • drug cartel

In Anti-Drug Move, Mexico Purges Police

Surprise replacement of chiefs intended to root out corruption

Jun 26, 07 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico has dismissed all of its federal police chiefs in an effort to kick-start the country's stalled war on drugs. Corruption within law enforcement is a major factor in the failure of President Felipe Calderon's six-month drug crackdown, the LA Times reports. Six federal officers were arrested this month for... More »

MORE ABOUT:
drugs • Mexico • police • cocaine • Felipe Calderon • corruption • Mexican drug war

Mexico Deploys Soldiers to Fight Drug War

Law-enforcement gaps, budget woes give traffickers upper hand

May 17, 07 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - In its battle against drug traffickers, the Mexican army fights not just the cartels but also a lethal combination of corruption, power vacuums, and even geography. Desertion rates are high, salaries low, and the assignment difficult if not impossible. The LA Times visits Apatzingan, a drug-war hotspot whose police chief... More »

MORE ABOUT:
drugs • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • Mexican army

Mexico City Legalizes Abortion

City leaders defy bitter opposition
from government and church

Apr 25, 07 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico City has passed a law legalizing first-trimester abortions and offering them virtually free. The move by the city's predominantly leftist leadership was bitterly opposed by the Catholic Church and Mexico's conservative government, CNN reports. More »

MORE ABOUT:
abortion • Latin America • Catholic Church • Mexico City • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • rape • pro life • pro choice

21 - 32 of 32 Stories | << Prev 1 2


from our news partners