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A Hopeful Juarez Is Finally Back on the Map

Like any city, El Paso, Texas, makes goofy, oversimplified tourist maps for visitors, but in 2010 it oversimplified the map so much that it deleted its violence-plagued neighbor to the south, Ciudad Juarez.

By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 21, 2012

Being a Journalist in Mexico Can Be Deadly

Marco Avila, a reporter in Sonora, Mexico was buried over the weekend after being found in a black garbage bag. He's the sixth current or former journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 16, 2012

Mexicans Seek Normal Lives When 'Normal' Includes 49 Headless Bodies

How exactly do you cope with the very real (but unreal) fact that 49 decapitated bodies were found on the side of a road or that your country has a murder training camp? Shrug it off, apparently, as some Mexicans have according to The New York Times.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Apr 24, 2012

Mexican Immigration Is Actually Moving Backwards

A new study says that for the first time since the Great Depression, there may be fewer Mexican immigrants coming into the United States than there are moving from the United States back to Mexico.

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By Connor Simpson

Apr 21, 2012

The Illicit Behaviors of Wal-Mart de Mexico

The New York Times released a mammoth investigation that accuses Wal-Mart de Mexico of using millions to bribe Mexican officials, and then spending years covering their tracks.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 19, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

BP Spill Sickens People; What Thoreau Tells About Global Warming

The Nation on the health toll of the oil spill, USA Today on the EPA's failure with smelting, Mother Jones on seabirds, and The New York Times on greening Europe and reading Thoreau

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 10, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

A Garden Grows in Mexico City; Big Rigs Get Green

The New York Times on pollution in Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times on green big-rigs, Scientific American on renewable energy in Hawaii, Bloomberg Views on food safely, and Capital New York on bioluminescence

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By Seth Abramovitch

Mar 24, 2012

Drug Violence and Communism on Pope's 'To Eradicate' List

The Pope makes his first journey to Latin America with a three-day trip to Mexico. Next stop: Cuba.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Mar 23, 2012

Pope Condemns Drug Cartels Even As Some Vow to Protect Him in Mexico

Pope Benedict XVI had some fighting words for Mexican drug cartels ahead of his visit to the country today

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 20, 2012

7.6 Earthquake Rocks Acapulco, Mexico

Details are sketchy so far, but the United States Geological Survey reports a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the region of southwestern Mexico, about 100 miles east of Acapulco, at midday on Tuesday.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 23, 2012

Will Someone Please Hug Jose Canseco?

Onetime baseball star Jose Canseco is having such a good day he wants to hug a stranger -- in fact, he's feeling so touchy-feely he's begging his Twitter followers to hug him and looking for feel-good signs from Mother Nature.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 21, 2012

Mexico Prison Riot Was a Diversion For Escape

That deadly Mexican prison riot on Sunday was no random act of violence but rather a calculated escape plan carried out with the help of guards, authorities said, taking a lot of the power out of one of the country's main tools to fight drug violence.

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By Seth Abramovitch

Feb 19, 2012

44 Dead in Mexico Prison Riot

At least 44 inmates at a prison just outside Monterrey, Mexico, are dead after a riot broke out in the early morning hours.

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By Eric Randall

Feb 9, 2012

Mexican Army Seizes $4 Billion Worth of Methamphetamine

Mexican troops seized 15 tons of methamphetamine in a western state of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which if sold in the U.S. would be worth $4 billion.

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By Dino Grandoni

Feb 7, 2012

Obama Doesn't Want Your $200,000 (If It's Tied to Drugs)

What would make President Obama return some $200,000 in campaign donations? Oh, its connection to a drug smuggler and "casino czar" who fled to Mexico will about do it.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 2, 2012

Superhuman Pilot Lands a Plane After Propeller Falls Off

A Cessna pilot in Mexico appeared so calm while landing a plane without its propeller that we watched the whole video of his miraculous save and could only identify the disaster point by the change in engine sound.

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By Dino Grandoni

Jan 27, 2012

U.N. Pouches Are a Pretty Good Way to Mail Cocaine

In a rather ingenious method of international drug smuggling, two diplomatic bags were shipped from Mexico to the U.N. headquarters in New York containing about 35 pounds of cocaine.

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By Adam Martin

Jan 9, 2012

U.S. Expels Venezuelan Diplomat After Hacking Plot

The U.S. State Department has labeled Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata and ordered her out of the country by Tuesday after some Mexican students said she'd expressed interest in their offer to hack U.S. government websites and nuclear plants.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 27, 2011

The Zetas Cartel's Radio Network Sounds Horrifying

The Mexican military has been trying and failing for months to bring down a jerry-rigged radio system that the brutal Zetas cartel uses to run both its drug business and its related killing sprees.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 19, 2011

Robots Are Exploring Drug Tunnels So You Don't Have To

Now that robots have proven they can clear IEDs, tour the then-radioactive Fukushima nuclear power plant, and observe endangered tortoises, the next natural step for these overachievers is investigating dangerous drug tunnels.

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By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica

Dec 13, 2011