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Money Starts to Trickle North as Mexicans Help Out Relatives

MIAHUATLÁN, Mexico During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Nameless Storm Is Disaster for El Salvador

MEXICO CITY A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact did not even merit a name small comfort after at least 130 people were killed when rivers burst ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dave Roberts,  Mauricio Funes,  World Food Programme,  World Vision

Mexico City Journal: Where the Swearing Is All About the Context

MEXICO CITY Two teenage girls slurped iced coffee drinks at a sidewalk cafe the other afternoon and chatted away about boys, clothes, their weekend plans, whatever seemed to pop into their heads. They were clearly friends, but repeatedly referred to ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Octavio Paz

Migrants Going North Now Risk Kidnappings

TECATE, Mexico For 37 days, the Salvadoran immigrant was held captive in a crowded room near the border with scores of people, all of them Central Americans who had been kidnapped while heading north, hoping to cross into the United States. He finally ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  17 Oct 2009

In Mexican Drug War, Fear Compounds Investigators’ Troubles

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico The hit men moved in on their target, shot him dead and then disappeared in a matter of seconds. It would have been a perfect case for José Ibarra Limón, one of this violent border city’s most dogged crime investigators had he not ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Mexico Says It Is Closing a Provider of Electricity

MEXICO CITY The government, in the midst of a fierce labor dispute with electrical workers, said Sunday that it was disbanding a state-run company that supplies power to Mexico City and the surrounding region after ordering hundreds of police officers ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Luz y Fuerza del Centro

Experience Guides Mexico as Swine Flu Cases Surge

MEXICO CITY The man in the hospital bed complained of muscle aches and a fever so high he was sweating into his sheets. Two other patients, also confirmed to be infected with the swine flu virus, shared a special room with him, cut off from the general ...

From MARC LACEY AND ANTONIO BETANCOURT, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: World Health Organization

Still Fragile, Haiti Makes Sales Pitch

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti They came in pinstripes and clutched Blackberries that surprised them by going off the same way they did back home. Some said they were taken aback, on the way from the airport to their luxury hotel, by the commotion on the ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Bill Clinton,  Levi Strauss,  American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.,  US State Department

In Mexico City, a Political Deal Redone

MEXICO CITY Back-room deals have long been a staple of Mexican politics, but no one has focused more attention on what goes on in the country’s smoke-filled rooms than a political neophyte who goes by Juanito. Just months ago, Juanito, whose real name ...

From MARC LACEY, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

In Honduras, Talking, Takeout, but No Accord

MEXICO CITY It looked for a while as though the next bizarre twist in the political standoff in Honduras would come about because of hunger pangs. Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president, had been complaining for some days that the Brazilian Embassy, ...

From MARC LACEY AND ELISABETH MALKIN, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Burger King,  US State Department,  Santos, Ltd.

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