Hired guns and people who make murder’s evidence disappear by dissolving bodies in acid have become some of Mexico’s best-paid jobs.
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/ 23 October 2005
Six people were listed as killed and two as missing early on Sunday after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico’s famous Yucatan resorts. More than 71 000 people, many of them foreign tourists, remained in emergency refuge centers for a second night as slow-moving, powerful Wilma continued to pummel the region with high winds and rains.
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/ 22 October 2005
Sea water rushed into the Mexican resort city of Cancun early on Saturday as Hurricane Wilma whipped up a massive storm surge and unleashed heavy rain and driving winds over a resort area known for its picturesque beaches. The Category Four storm hit the Yucatan peninsula packing sustained winds of 215km an hour, felling trees and tearing roofs off buildings, as tens of thousands of tourists and residents cowered in emergency shelters.
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/ 21 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma battered deserted resorts along Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with howling winds and torrential rain on Friday, toppling trees and power lines. The heart of the fearsome hurricane moved slowly on to the Mexican coast, and authorities have warned it could be one of the most dangerous storms in decades.
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/ 21 October 2005
Mexico braced on Thursday for a major hit from a monstrous Hurricane Wilma as the powerful storm threatened to grow even stronger before making landfall in this touristic coastline. The storm forced thousands of European and American tourists to flee Cancun resort hotels, while tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Cuba.
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/ 20 October 2005
A monstrous Hurricane Wilma barrelled toward Mexico and the storm-weary United States coast on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands to flee coastlines after it mushroomed into the most powerful storm recorded to date in the Atlantic. Cuba has started to evacuate 235 000 people.