Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2183 world World - Mexico en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:23:54 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2183 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_swine_flu ap/20090704/lt_swine_flu AP world Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:23:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.b6b999bbce264e349383d3ab236d6259.mexico_swine_flu_summit_mxmt106.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=ga6EaLGVKXaYuukWFRPY3Q--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Pan American Health Organization Director Mirta Roses Periag speaks during the 'Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu' summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)" border="0" /></a>AP - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.b6b999bbce264e349383d3ab236d6259.mexico_swine_flu_summit_mxmt106.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=ga6EaLGVKXaYuukWFRPY3Q--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Pan American Health Organization Director Mirta Roses Periag speaks during the 'Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu' summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/usfinancefraudcourtstanford_20090703215540 afp/20090703/usfinancefraudcourtstanford AFP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:53:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/usfinancefraudcourtstanford_20090703215540"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246657977917-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=WagEZmXxyO8t8OYSppidLg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Stanford Financial chairman and CEO Sir Robert Allen Stanford leaves the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse after a bond hearing in June 2009 in Houston, Texas. Two US legal firms announced Friday that they have filed a class action suit against a London-based insurer on behalf of the Mexican victims of fraudulent financier Allen Stanford.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Two US legal firms announced Friday that they have filed a class action suit against a London-based insurer on behalf of the Mexican victims of fraudulent financier Allen Stanford.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/ts_alt_afp/usfinancefraudcourtstanford_20090703215540"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246657977917-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=WagEZmXxyO8t8OYSppidLg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="Stanford Financial chairman and CEO Sir Robert Allen Stanford leaves the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse after a bond hearing in June 2009 in Houston, Texas. Two US legal firms announced Friday that they have filed a class action suit against a London-based insurer on behalf of the Mexican victims of fraudulent financier Allen Stanford.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_elections ap/20090703/lt_mexico_elections AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:48:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.5bb613f93d4248e99440ce29d1393423.mexico_swine_flu_summit_mxmt108.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XsIlNe_Z8V.QqRcRJXcUXA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, speaks during the 'Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu' summit in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.5bb613f93d4248e99440ce29d1393423.mexico_swine_flu_summit_mxmt108.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XsIlNe_Z8V.QqRcRJXcUXA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, speaks during the 'Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu' summit in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/usquakemexico afp/20090703/usquakemexico AFP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:39:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/usquakemexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1236442342509-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XHoIFfLNkBh0No1JtPPyaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A scientist points to a seismograph. An earthquake measuring 6.0 in magnitude shook northwestern Mexico but caused no damage.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An earthquake measuring 6.0 in magnitude shook northwestern Mexico early Friday but caused no damage.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/usquakemexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1236442342509-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XHoIFfLNkBh0No1JtPPyaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A scientist points to a seismograph. An earthquake measuring 6.0 in magnitude shook northwestern Mexico but caused no damage.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_drug_trafficking ap/20090703/us_drug_trafficking AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:17:43 GMT AP - Federal agents busted a drug-trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico in Washington state and carried unusually powerful weaponry, injecting a dangerous new factor into drug crime in the region. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugsunrest afp/20090703/mexicocrimedrugsunrest AFP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:07:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugsunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246588758532-1-0.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=bu7nPQmJDRLPEbNOLypm3A--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="A member of the Mexican Federal Police uses a Molecular Detector to find particles of illegal substances in the air at a checkpoint in Ciudad Juarez on June 25. At least four men have been found decapitated and 12 others murdered in suspected drug violence in the last 24 hours, Mexican officials said.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)" border="0" /></a>AFP - At least four men have been found decapitated and 12 others murdered in suspected drug violence in the last 24 hours, Mexican officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugsunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246588758532-1-0.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=bu7nPQmJDRLPEbNOLypm3A--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="A member of the Mexican Federal Police uses a Molecular Detector to find particles of illegal substances in the air at a checkpoint in Ciudad Juarez on June 25. At least four men have been found decapitated and 12 others murdered in suspected drug violence in the last 24 hours, Mexican officials said.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_endangered_wolf_pups ap/20090703/us_endangered_wolf_pups AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:22:54 GMT AP - Wildlife agents rescued two Mexican gray wolf pups found abandoned in a New Mexico forest, but three others from the same litter were found dead, officials said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_swine_flu ap/20090702/lt_mexico_swine_flu AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:44:17 GMT AP - Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wl_nm/us_mexico_drugs_grave nm/20090702/us_mexico_drugs_grave Reuters world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:57:22 GMT Reuters - Police have found the charred remains of 14 bodies in a mass grave in central Mexico, victims of drug hitmen fighting over smuggling routes into the United States, an attorney general's office said on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_border_midwives ap/20090702/us_border_midwives AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:32:43 GMT AP - Citizens delivered by midwives along the U.S.-Mexico border will get to reapply for passports for free under a tentative settlement with the State Department over stalled applications. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_drug_war_mexico ap/20090702/lt_drug_war_mexico AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:28:04 GMT AP - Police said Wednesday that they have uncovered a mass grave in central Mexico with the remains of 14 or 15 people believed to have been executed by the Zetas drug gang. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_mexico_drugs nm/20090701/us_mexico_drugs Reuters world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:11:07 GMT Reuters - Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/us_nm/us_usa_savingsclubs nm/20090701/us_usa_savingsclubs Reuters us Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:07:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/us_nm/us_usa_savingsclubs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r451063743.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=x90FkS5slqaqX6ItZOFWYw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Mexican currency is seen in the cash register drawer alongside U.S. Dollars as a cashier makes change for a customer in Dallas, Texas, August 25, 2007. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A year ago, waitress Erica Rendon was invited by a Mexican colleague at the steakhouse where she works to put $50 a week into a fund with nine co-workers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/us_nm/us_usa_savingsclubs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r451063743.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=x90FkS5slqaqX6ItZOFWYw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Mexican currency is seen in the cash register drawer alongside U.S. Dollars as a cashier makes change for a customer in Dallas, Texas, August 25, 2007. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/ts_nm/us_usa_mexico_tunnels nm/20090701/us_usa_mexico_tunnels Reuters topstories Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:45:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/ts_nm/us_usa_mexico_tunnels"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r37065628.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LPY8Fm4GBkdlbc1Thw5wVw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An uncompleted tunnel shored up with wooden studs and a plywood ceiling reaches under the streets of Nogales, Arizona toward the namesake city of Nogales, Mexico, in this file photograph from the U.S. Border Patrol, dated June 11, 2009. Border police discovered the tunnel after a tip, and arrested two Mexican nationals working to finish it. Authorities in Nogales have found 16 tunnels reaching under the border since Oct 1 2008, a sharp spike in activity as Mexican drug cartels head underground to try and avoid increased vigilance. REUTERS/U.S. Border Patrol/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A resident walking near the rusted boundary fence in this Arizona border city last month reported suspicious knocking coming from an abandoned warehouse to the Border Patrol.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/ts_nm/us_usa_mexico_tunnels"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r37065628.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LPY8Fm4GBkdlbc1Thw5wVw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An uncompleted tunnel shored up with wooden studs and a plywood ceiling reaches under the streets of Nogales, Arizona toward the namesake city of Nogales, Mexico, in this file photograph from the U.S. Border Patrol, dated June 11, 2009. Border police discovered the tunnel after a tip, and arrested two Mexican nationals working to finish it. Authorities in Nogales have found 16 tunnels reaching under the border since Oct 1 2008, a sharp spike in activity as Mexican drug cartels head underground to try and avoid increased vigilance. REUTERS/U.S. Border Patrol/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090701/wl_csm/odu0701 csm/20090701/odu0701 The Christian Science Monitor world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - • A daily summary of global reports on security issues. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/wl_nm/us_mexico_election_poll nm/20090630/us_mexico_election_poll Reuters world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:59:03 GMT Reuters - Mexico's opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, held a firm lead heading into congressional elections on July 5, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky published on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_border_troops ap/20090630/us_us_border_troops AP politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:15:53 GMT AP - The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_human_trafficking ap/20090629/lt_mexico_human_trafficking AP world Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:28:04 GMT AP - A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the United States, police said Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugs afp/20090627/mexicocrimedrugs AFP world Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:51:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090627/capt.photo_1246135833634-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=43KkTZntgzgKX3SKo0UWsw--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Mexican Federal Policemen patrol the streets in Ciudad Juarez on June 25, 2009 as part of the Chihuahua Joint Operation in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Mexican army captured a suspected drug dealer in the powerful Beltran Leyva cartel with a list of the names of 33 apparently corrupt police, military officials said Saturday.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Mexican army captured a suspected drug dealer in the powerful Beltran Leyva cartel with a list of the names of 33 apparently corrupt police, military officials said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrugs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090627/capt.photo_1246135833634-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=43KkTZntgzgKX3SKo0UWsw--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="Mexican Federal Policemen patrol the streets in Ciudad Juarez on June 25, 2009 as part of the Chihuahua Joint Operation in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Mexican army captured a suspected drug dealer in the powerful Beltran Leyva cartel with a list of the names of 33 apparently corrupt police, military officials said Saturday.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mexico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_mexico_fire_schwarzenegger ap/20090627/us_mexico_fire_schwarzenegger AP us Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:57:30 GMT AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has toured a Sacramento hospital that is treating children burned earlier this month in a blaze at a day care center in northern Mexico.