We’ll never know what difference US participation in an arms trafficking treaty might have made thanks to the gun lobbies, argues Bernd Debusmann.
Since raising the A(H1N1) alert on April 23 2009, Mexico has registered more than 72 000 cases, including almost 1 200 deaths.
Families south of the Mexico-California border readied to sleep outside for a second night on Monday after dozens of aftershocks rattle the area.
Despite crackdown by Mexico President Felipe Calderón, more than 2 000 people killed this year as drug cartels vie for turf.
After a turbulent period that saw three coaches come and go and more than sixty players, Mexico have returned to calmer waters under Javier Aguirre.
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/ 8 November 2009
Tropical Storm Ida became a Category-One hurricane again late on Saturday in the north-western Caribbean.
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/ 6 November 2009
One day a year cemeteries in Mexico City burst with life. Jo Tuckman joins locals at one on the outskirts of the capital.
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/ 15 October 2009
We’re somewhere between the petroleum age and renewables, writes Kevin Davie.
Ed Vulliamy reports from the Mexican city where death squads roam the streets at night and criminal anarchy reigns.
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/ 3 September 2009
At least 18 people were killed on Wednesday when gunmen stormed into a drug treatment centre in Mexico’s violence-plagued city of Ciudad Juarez.
Mexico’s volatile border city of Ciudad Juarez has the world’s highest murder rate, a Mexican security watchdog said on Wednesday.
Scorched by a blistering desert sun, military troops near Ciudad Juarez form the frontline security cordon in a bitter battle against crime.
A global hunt for swine flu turned up new infections all around the world on Tuesday, and governments warned people to stay away from Mexico.
The world’s top epidemiologists fought on Tuesday to curb the spread of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
Governments acted to stem a possible flu pandemic on Monday, as a virus that has killed 103 people in Mexico was confirmed to have reached Europe.
A new flu virus that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico could start a global epidemic, the World Health Organisation warned on Saturday.
Mexican and US health officials searched on Saturday for signs an outbreak of a new flu strain is spreading further, after it killed up to 68 people.
While on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, each morning I enjoyed a 39 peso (R26) buffet at a pleasant family-run restaurant.
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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/ 24 January 2009
A Mexican drug suspect has confessed to dissolving the bodies of 300 rivals with corrosive chemicals near the United States border.
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/ 13 December 2008
A nude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover of the Mexican edition of Playboy has prompted an apology from the company.
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/ 20 October 2008
At least 17 prisoners died in a jail riot in Mexico near the United States border on Monday, some in a fire after a gun battle between rival gangs.
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/ 17 October 2008
As markets sink and fears grow of global recession, Latin America is banking on gains as well as losses from tourists tightening their purse strings.
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/ 15 October 2008
Caught by the United States economic crisis and a crackdown on illegal immigrants, Mexican workers are increasingly quitting the US and coming home.
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/ 13 October 2008
Hurricane Norbert, which ravaged Mexico’s Pacific coast on the weekend, has claimed three lives in the north-west state of Sonora.
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/ 11 October 2008
Hurricane Norbert, a category-two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, crashed ashore on north-western Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday.
Hurricane Norbert weakened to a category-three storm early on Thursday on a path expected to take it to Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula.
Two headless corpses wrapped in blankets, five beaten and bound men asphyxiated in a car, and the mayor of a sizeable town riddled with bullets.
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/ 30 September 2008
Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
Former United States president Bill Clinton was to take centre stage at the International Aids Conference in Mexico on Monday.
At least 510 000 South Africans enrolled for the antiretroviral treatment (ART), the Deputy Minister of Social Development said on Sunday.