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Mexico City mayor on a quest for increased quality of life

MEXICO CITY - The world's second-largest city has a lot of problems: kidnappings for ransom, drug-related murders, severe poverty. But if there's one thing that really sets off Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, it's gum. "Throwing your chewing gum on ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY AND SERGIO SOLACHE, AZ Central.com,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Vicente Fox,  Carlos Alberto

Did early man kill off ancient creature?

MEXICO CITY - Scientists have found evidence that cavemen near the Arizona-Mexico border were butchering gomphotheres, an elephant-like beast with a crocodilelike snout that was believed to be nearly extinct in North America by the time humans appeared ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  9 Nov 2009

Mexico's death museum lives up to morbid name

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico - Dead men may tell no tales, but death itself is another story. In Mexico, the subject fills an entire museum. The National Museum of Death, founded two years ago in this central Mexican city, explores the country's macabre ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lyndon B. Johnson,  Barry Goldwater, Jr.

Mexico now embracing U.S. training in drug war

SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico - At a police academy ringed by brick walls and razor wire, dozens of American agents are helping to train Mexican police recruits as part of a $1.4 billion U.S. aid project aimed at helping Mexico fight its drug cartels. The ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  US State Department,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Drug Enforcement Administration

Colossal market in Mexico fades amid Walmart era

MEXICO CITY - It was 1 a.m., potato time in Mexico's mother of all markets. They came in by the truckload, dozens of trailers heaving up to the loading docks to discharge the previous day's harvest into giant potato-cleaning machines. Brokers picked ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Costco,  North American Free Trade Agreement

Mexico develops 'smart' speed bump

TOLUCA, Mexico - As car ownership skyrockets in Mexico, government-backed inventors have come up with an innovation they hope will help the country bring order to its rapidly filling streets. It's a speed bump that automatically lowers into the ground ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  6 Oct 2009

Lack of authority, bad image hinder police in Mexico

URUAPAN, Mexico - One of the police station's doors is riddled with bullet holes. Shrapnel from grenades has scarred nearby walls. Inside, a makeshift shrine to the Virgin Mary honors officers who have lost their lives fighting drug traffickers. So ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Virgin Mary

Hijacking of flight from Cancun ends safely

MEXICO CITY – Hijackers seized a jetliner as it departed the resort city of Cancun on Wednesday and held everyone aboard hostage for about an hour on the tarmac in Mexico City, Mexico’s transportation secretary said. All of the passengers were freed ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Aeromexico,  Boeing

Bold new cartels emerging in Mexico

ZITACUARO, Mexico - Back when President Felipe Calderón first dispatched army troops to quell drug violence in December 2006, Mexico's criminal landscape was fairly clear: There were four main cartels, each with its own turf, and they fought mostly ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  30 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  National Security Council

Mexicare: $250 a year covers it all

MEXICO CITY - It sounds like the perfect health plan: medical care with no limits, no deductibles, free medicines, tests, X-rays, eyeglasses, even dental work - all for a flat fee of $250 or less a year. To get it, all you have to do is move to Mexico. ...

From CHRIS HAWLEY, AZ Central.com,  29 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Javier Lopez,  David Warner

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