Million flee homes amid fears of disease, food and water shortages
Guardian (UK) Nov 3, 07 5:58 AM CDT
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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 huge effort was mounted to rescue 300,000 people still trapped on roofs by surging waters.
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Rescuers scramble in Gulf state of Tabasco
BBC Nov 2, 07 6:55 AM CDT
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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 governor said of his low-lying state. One person has died.
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Breaks $93 a barrel on news of Mexican storm
Associated Press Oct 29, 07 6:28 AM CDT
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Oil prices topped $93 today, breaking another record on news that Mexican production would drop by 20% due to a storm. "This is on top of what has already been simmering,” said an analyst in Singapore. Prices have been breaking records for a week due to US-Iran tensions and Turkish-Kurdish border skirmishes. Experts also cite the weak American dollar.
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Bloomberg Oct 28, 07 7:48 AM CDT
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Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao is ten years old this week, freshly buffed and looking better than ever, Bloomberg reports. The birthday is marked by a successful show of American heavyweights like Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Richard Serra. Bilbao continues to benefit from the cultural attention garnered by the building, but Guggenheim projects seeking to replicate the "effect" elsewhere have stalled.
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Six more found dead; 60 injured
Reuters Oct 26, 07 2:54 AM CDT
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Four charred bodies found in the mountains near the Mexican border and two others discovered in a house in San Diego County boosted the death toll of the California wildfires to 12, with 60 others injured. Authorities confirmed yesterday that the 25,000-acre Santiago Fire in Orange County was arson, set by someone with particular knowledge of how wildfires spread.
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Mexican producers try to stall imitations
USA Today Oct 17, 07 4:57 PM CDT
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Tequila is more popular than ever, and the Mexican tequila industry is mobilizing to clamp down on knockoffs, USA Today reports. Imitations range from the good—quality tequila made outside of Mexico—to the ugly—cheap and possibly contaminated sugarcane liquors made in basements. "These phony products are a cancer that affect us all," says an official of the drink's regulatory council.
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French fries and 'tacostadas' aimed at setting chain apart from traditional taquerias
Canadian Press Oct 10, 07 2:03 PM CDT
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Taco Bell is acting on its own long-standing imperative to run for the border, but as it re-enters Mexico, it’s not trying to pass as traditional—instead maxing out its American identity. The restaurant has its first Mexican branch since a failed 1990s incursion, but adding french fries to the menu hasn’t fended off early insults, the Canadian Press reports.
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'Shortcut' helped '06 hopeful win Berlin race
Associated Press Oct 9, 07 4:13 PM CDT
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Mexican politician Roberto Madrazo, who placed a distant third in last year's presidential election, was stripped of his victory in the Berlin Marathon yesterday, the AP reports. Madrazo, dressed in suspiciously warm pants and a jacket, won the men's age-55 category last week in 2:41:12, but a review of electronic checkpoints revealed that he took a shortcut.
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Planning to travel? Head to a country where flashing a few dead presidents still means something
foXnoMad Oct 6, 07 6:23 AM CDT
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It hurts when even a dollar-friendly country like Canada is giving your green the cold shoulder. Get your money's worth in these countries from foXnoMad : Morocco Thailand Mexico
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Prices rocket to highest in 20 years
Los Angeles Times Oct 3, 07 5:46 AM CDT
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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 reductions in supply. The shortage has driven the price of cocaine to its highest level in almost 20 years.
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US is quickly expanding the barrier to include rural areas
Los Angeles Times Sep 30, 07 12:32 PM CDT
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After a slow start, the federal government has ramped up construction of the fence along the Mexican border in recent weeks. The steel barrier now reaches far into rural areas for the first time, in response to a shift in smugglers' strategy, the Los Angeles Times reports. Workers have finished 145 miles of fencing, including a 32-mile stretch—the barrier's longest continuous section—from San Diego to the Tinajas Atlas mountains.
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New immigration
laws cited for fewer youngsters
Christian Science Monitor Sep 24, 07 6:26 PM CDT
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Student enrollment is down at schools across Arizona, California and Texas—especially at those with high Hispanic populations. Why? Some cite the sudden dearth of construction jobs as the housing boom has petered out. But anecdotal evidence points to immigration crackdowns, and school districts are feeling the effects: Mesa, AZ, for instance, is looking at $5.6 million less funding this year because of dwindling attendance.
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Union rips deal opening US roads to foreign rigs
Associated Press Sep 7, 07 3:49 AM CDT
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Teamsters are protesting the launch this week of a program allowing Mexican trucks to travel anywhere in the US, rather than just 20 miles inside the border. Union officials argue that Mexican trucks aren't safe because they're subject to different environmental and inspection standards, and that regulations regarding shifts and drug use will be difficult to enforce.
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