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Search for baby exposes clinic kidnap ring

A mother's desperate year-long search for her missing baby has revealed a group of doctors and nurses who allegedly tricked patients into believing that their newborns had died, and then sold the children for a few hundred pounds. The gang was ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Nov 2009

Mexican mayor announces death of drug boss hours before body found

Mauricio Fernandez, the mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia. Photograph: AP Mauricio Fernandez could have been forgiven for sounding triumphant when he announced that the drug boss who had threatened to assassinate him had been shot dead by police in ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

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Cancún beach project suspended

Cancún is among Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts recently affected by shifting sands. A huge project to replenish eroded beaches in Mexico's main Caribbean coastal resorts, including Cancún, has been suspended after legal action by ...

From JO TUCKMAN, The Observer,  1 Nov 2009

A Day of the Dead to remember

Eternal flame ... An all-night vigil marks the Day of the Dead at the cemetery in San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico City. Photograph: Alamy A melancholy man lovingly decorates the grave of his dead wife with marigold petals and prepares for an all-night ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Oct 2009

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2012: The end of the world according to Roland Emmerich

Prepare yourself for the end. Or at least, prepare yourself for a rush of films, books and heated discussion inspired by the purported Mayan prophecy that armageddon will arrive on 21 (or perhaps 23) December 2012. But film director Roland Emmerich, ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Oct 2009

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Lawyers risk death in Mexico's drug war

Saúl Trejo checks his rear view mirror constantly as he drives, but he insists he is not really that scared. Perhaps he should be. As one of the select band of lawyers willing to defend drug suspects, Trejo is at the frontline of Mexico's war on drugs. ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Oct 2009

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Hijacker 'wanted to warn president of earthquake'

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off The man who hijacked a passenger plane in Mexico yesterday claimed to be on a divine mission, officials said, after the plane's crew and 104 passengers were freed unhurt. The Aeromexico flight was ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Sep 2009

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Latin Americans ditch 'war on drugs'

Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards decriminalising drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored "war on drugs". Argentina's supreme court has ruled it unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana ...

From RORY CARROLL, JO TUCKMAN, TOM PHILLIPS, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Aug 2009

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Private lives

Jacinta Francisco Marcial is serving a 21 year sentence for kidnapping six federal agents. Photograph: Jo Tuckman I am a Mexican Indian and growing up I didn't learn Spanish. I spoke only my mother tongue, Otomi. I spent my childhood looking after ...

From JO TUCKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Aug 2009

Drugs 'Taliban' declares war

The male voice on the line was not a typical contributor to the Voice and Solution TV programme where residents of the Mexican state of Michoacán air their everyday grievances. "We want President Felipe Calderón to know that we are not his enemies," ...

From JO TUCKMAN, ED VULLIAMY, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Jul 2009

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