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Cancun stories: 9 news summaries

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Alleged bank fraudster caught in Cancun

Oct 14, 09 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fugitives of the world, take note: If you’re having the time of your life hanging out in Cancun, you probably shouldn’t brag about it on Facebook. And you definitely shouldn’t add an ex-Justice Department official as a friend. Take it from Maxi Sopo, a 26-year-old who... More »

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US attorney • Facebook • fugitive • Cancun

(Newser) - World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan told a summit in Mexico today that, though most cases of swine flu were not deadly, the virus cannot be stopped, the BBC reports. “With well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus emerges, its further international spread is... More »

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United Nations • Mexico • Cancun • World Health Organization • summit meeting • pandemic • swine flu • Margaret Chan • H1N1 virus

 Just in Time 
 for Spring Break: 
 Cancun Torture Probe 

Cancun, like Mexico, 'is at war,' says local editor

Mar 2, 09 6:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Those headed to Cancun for spring break might want to hold off just a tad before slathering on Mexican suntan oil—while authorities investigate torture and murder charges against the ousted local police chief. Mexico's out-of-control drug war is seeping into nearly every community in the nation—including one of... More »

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torture • Mexico • murder • corruption • Mexican drug war • vacation • Cancun • college student • spring break

Cancun Police Chief Busted in Drug Czar's Torture-Murder

Just in time for spring break

Feb 11, 09 6:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Federal authorities have arrested Cancun's police chief in the recent torture and murder of a retired general who had just been appointed to a drug-fighting task force, reports CNN. The military has taken over the police force in the beach town popular with college students on spring break. In another... More »

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drugs • Mexico • police • corruption • Cancun • gun violence • spring break • corrupt cops

Top Mexican Drug Fighter Murdered
on First Day

Official tortured, shot 11 times within 24 hours

Feb 5, 09 4:20 AM CST
(Newser) - A retired army general appointed as Mexico's new top drug-fighting official spent his first day on the job being tortured and murdered, CNN reports. The corpses of the general, his aide and his driver were found in a pickup truck on a road near Cancun. The general's body showed signs... More »

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torture • Mexico • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Cancun

Search for Missing Cruise Woman Suspended

Family believes she jumped from ship

Dec 30, 08 1:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The search for a woman missing from a cruise ship off Mexico since Christmas has been suspended, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Jennifer Ellis-Seitz of is believed to have gone overboard from the Norwegian Pearl near Cancun in what may have been a suicide. Her husband—arrested in April for... More »

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Coast Guard • Cancun • Gulf of Mexico • cruise ships • missing boater • missing person

(Newser) - The FBI is looking into the disappearance of a Florida woman who was reported missing from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, Fox News reports. Jennifer Seitz’s husband reported her missing, and the Coast Guard says surveillance video shows a woman going overboard. Meanwhile, a... More »

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FBI • Coast Guard • Cancun • Gulf of Mexico • cruise ships • missing boater • missing person • search and rescue • Jennifer Seitz

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 »

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

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 »

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

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