Slim pickings
Story Summary The news that Carlos Slim, one of the richest people on the planet, is focusing efforts on investing some of his vast fortune in Israel should come as […]
Violence up 5 percent worldwide since 2008: Report
The world has grown more hostile in recent years, according to the Global Peace Index. Hopes that we can all just march toward ever-greater peace and equality saw a serious […]
Vatican declares Mexican Death Saint blasphemous
Source: BBC A senior Vatican official has condemned the cult of Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, in Mexico as “blasphemous”. The president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal […]
Why Cinco de Mayo?
A Muslim Times’ original Op-Ed By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson America is a nation of immigrants. That is one of the principle reasons that we have been able to develop […]
210 more billionaires in past year amid rising global poverty
Tue Mar 5, 2013 SOURCE: PRESSTV Amid the surging poverty across the globe, a newly released list of richest people in the world points to the climbing number of billionaires […]
Mexican Narcoterrotist Region May Abandon Catholicism for Islam
Mexican Narcoterrorist Region May Abandon Catholicism for Islam By Daniel Greenfield FRONT PAGE It would seem as if Bishop Ruiz’s brand of Liberation Theology has had the same effect on Chiapas as on Europe. Chiapas is poor, but it’s now also appearing to trend Islamic as any region under the influence of the […]
Ancient chocolate discovered in Mexico
RT: It’s a good thing one of our ancestors was too lazy to do the dishes: A group of archaeologists in Mexico has just discovered traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate left on a plate excavated in the Yucatan peninsula. It’s the first time researchers have come across ‘antique’ chocolate residue on […]
Canadians flocking to Mexico despite deadly drug war
Source: National Post …Canadians aren’t afraid of Mexico, despite hand-wringing over the questionably safety of the country that’s embroiled in a drug conflict. If anything, tourism is growing. Travelers continue […]
Mexican smugglers dig tunnel under US border
Source: Telegraph Mexican troops have discovered an unfinished 980-foot tunnel beneath the US border designed to smuggle drugs and people. The entrance to the tunnel was inside a house in the border town of Tijuana that was made to appear as though it was under construction, said Mexican General Alfonso […]
Markets Evoke Memories of Mexico
Source: New York Times MADERA, Calif. — Every Sunday, Juan Enriquez, a former farmworker from Mexico, shows off his culinary art, sculpturing sweet white meat from young coconuts with a […]
Mexican town’s entire police force resigns after attack
Source: Telegraph An entire police force of 26 officers quit their posts in a northern Mexican town after two of their colleagues were killed in an armed attack. The mass resignation follows several attacks in recent weeks on police in the town, which lies on major drug-trafficking routes to the […]
Quetzal birds tripled in number in Mexico after 25 years of Conservation efforts
Source: mexicotoday.org Over the last 25 years, Mexico’s conservation efforts have brought the quetzal back from the brink of extinction, tripling its numbers according to Mexican Environment Secretariat, Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada. The […]
San Cristobal de las Casas
Source: Mexico Today San Cristobal de las Casas is a scenic, well-restored colonial town in the mountains of Chiapas. Hippies from the US, Argentina, and all points in between line the streets selling jewelry and exchanging greetings with traditionally dressed Mayan women selling fruit and their own handicrafts. Its center […]
Prisoners open fire on rival drug gang in Mexico jail
Source: Telegraph CCTV footage shows inmates armed with automatic weapons taking part in a riot that left 17 prisoners dead at a jail in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Click to see Video: Prisoners Open Fire
Mexico judge sentences teenage assassin to three years
Source: The Telegraph A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old American boy to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teen […]
Mexico seizes over 800 tonnes of meth chemicals
Source: Yahoo News MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican army has seized just under 840 tonnes of chemicals used for making methamphetamine in a raid in central Mexico, one of the biggest finds of its kind ever made in the country. The seizure took place in a warehouse in an […]
More Than 20 Shot Dead in Monterrey, Mexico
Source: New York Times MEXICO CITY — At least 20 people were killed — even the hot dog vendor outside — when armed men sprayed gunfire on a bar in Monterrey, Mexico, late Friday, the latest sign of the business hub’s slide into violence in the past year and one […]
Mayan Warrior Sculptures Discovered In Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican archaeologists have found two 1,300-year-old limestone sculptures of captured Mayan warriors that they say could shed light on the alliances and wars among Mayan cities during the civilization’s twilight. (Scroll down for photos) The life-size, elaborate sculptures of two warriors sitting cross-legged with hands tied behind their backs […]
8 Missing in Mexico After Vessel Sinks
A charter fishing boat with 44 people aboard sank into the Sea of Cortez off Mexico on Sunday, leaving at least one person dead, the United States Coast Guard said. Eight people, seven of them Americans, were still missing late Monday night. “Initial reports from Mexico are that it was bad […]
Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North
AGUA NEGRA, Mexico — The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research […]