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Mexican environmentalists denounce beach ruling

MEXICO CITY Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Cancun beaches with tons of sand extracted from the Caribbean. ...

From MARK STEVENSON, San Diego Union-Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Mexico reaches record 100 extraditions to US

Mexico has extradited a record number of criminal suspects to the United States this year, underscoring a dramatic improvement in cross-border law enforcement cooperation _ and an urgent attempt to clean up the country's crime-addled prisons. ...

From MARK STEVENSON, eTaiwan News,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Felipe Calderon,  Eric Holder

Mexico reaches record of 100 extraditions to US

MEXICO CITY—Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a "record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries." The milestone underscored ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eric Holder

Mexico's Telmex: More computers could help profits

Telecommunications giant Telefonos de Mexico SA said Thursday that the only way to continue its explosive growth in broadband Internet services is to get more computers into Mexican homes. Reporting an 11.9 percent drop in third-quarter net ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Taiwan News,  22 Oct 2009

Mexico fells trees to save butterfly reserve

Authorities who have struggled to stop illegal logging in Mexico's famed monarch butterfly reserve now are cutting down thousands of trees themselves to fight an unprecedented infestation of deadly bark beetles. Biologists and park workers are ...

From MARK STEVENSON, eTaiwan News,  19 Oct 2009

Pacific Hurricane Rick weakens, blamed in death

MEXICO CITY—Hurricane Rick was still more than a day away from the resorts of Baja California on Monday but the 13-foot (4-meter) waves it kicked up already have killed one person in Los Cabos, which lies almost directly in the hurricane's forecast ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Boston Globe,  19 Oct 2009

Hurricane Rick weakens in Pacific, still dangerous

Hurricane Rick weakened in the eastern North Pacific on Sunday but was still a dangerous storm that forecasters said could veer into resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula by midweek. Rick's winds had decreased by Sunday night to 145 ...

From MARK STEVENSON, eTaiwan News,  19 Oct 2009

Cat 5 Hurricane Rick threatens Mexico resort city

MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Rick, the strongest eastern North Pacific storm in more than a decade, weakened slightly over open seas Sunday as forecasters said it could veer into resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula by midweek. ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  18 Oct 2009

Next apocalypse? Mayan year 2012 stirs doomsayers

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Taiwan News,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ann Martin,  History Channel,  White House,  Cornell University,  John Major

2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. ...

From MARK STEVENSON, Buffalo News,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ann Martin,  Cornell University,  White House,  John Major

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