Dec 20 2010
(CNN) — At least 28 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico, the country’s state-owned oil monopoly said. The cause of Sunday’s explosion in San Martin Texmelucan, in Puebla state, was under...
Nov 12 2010
Mexico’s ambassador to the US has criticised the international media for paying excessive attention to the drug-related violence in his country.
Jun 30 2010
A strong earthquake rattled southern Mexico on Wednesday, sending people fleeing into the streets in Pacific coast towns and in the nation’s capital. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.2 quake was centered in a sparsely populated,...
Apr 2 2010
In a ratcheting up of tactics in a long, bloody war, drug cartel gunmen made seven especially brazen assaults on Mexican soldiers in one day this week, throwing up roadblocks near army garrisons and spraying checkpoints with automatic weapons fire. The...
Feb 11 2010
MTV cancelled the Mexican broadcast of an episode of the “South Park” cartoon featuring President Felipe Calderon because it lacked permission to show the Mexican flag, a spokesman said Wednesday. The channel has now requested permission to...
Oct 21 2009
After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke out of the window of his modest family home. “I don’t care if the neighbors...
Sep 1 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - It was a street party at a popular gathering place, typical of Saturday nights in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Drinks, a musical band, a joining together of the mostly young. Then, shortly before midnight, a white...
Jun 11 2009
The leader of Peru’s Amazon Indians will be flown to exile in Nicaragua after seeking asylum following violent demonstrations that killed scores of police and protesters. Alberto Pizango, the head of Aidesep, which represents 56 tribes, spent...
Oct 8 2008
Jose Luis Garza has died of heart failure at the age of 47. Massively obese, Garza had appealed to the public — and to fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe — to help him in his battle to lose weight and become healthy:
Oct 6 2008
It’s now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the ‘dark web’.