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MTV pulls broadcast of South Park in Mexico

Kevin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:20:09 +0000

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 show the flag, he added, following speculation that the widely-promoted episode had been censored by Mexican authorities after it failed to air on Monday.

'Legalize it' - Mexico, Latin American countries move towards decriminalizing drugs

Kevin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:44:37 +0000

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 call the police on me. They can’t arrest me for this anymore,” he said behind lightly glazed eyes. “But then police here never cared much about a bit of marijuana anyway. Everything has just stayed the same really.”

Almost two months after Mexico decriminalized the possession of small amounts all major narcotics — including marijuana, cocaine and heroin — the most notable thing is how little has changed.

8 killed at street party in Mexico

Kevin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:49:13 +0000

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 double-cabin pickup screeched to a stop on Palm Tree Street in the town of Navolato. At least four gunmen burst from the vehicle and sprayed the party with semiautomatic gunfire.

Eight people were killed, among them women and teenagers. Several more were seriously wounded and remained hospitalized Sunday, said Jose Luis Leyva of the state prosecutor’s office in Culiacan, the state capital about 20 miles to the east.

The jungle massacre: Perus tribal chief flees country

Kevin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:50:11 +0000

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 yesterday at the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima. Dozens of his followers died during protests against new laws that will leave swathes of their ancestral homelands open to oil and gas exploration. He has been charged by his own government with “sedition, conspiracy and rebellion”.

World's Fattest Men is Dead

Kevin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:41:08 +0000

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...

Will Google Use Chrome to Index Password Protected Web?

Kevin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:23:59 +0000

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...