Ariz. man drowns after trying to save niece in Mexico
A Tucson man has lost his life in Mexico after trying to save the life of his 5-year-old niece.
It occurred in the Gulf of California resort city of Puerto Penasco - commonly known as Rocky Point in Arizona.
Police said the little girl was swimming when she was caught by high waves that pulled her out to sea.
Police said her 21-year-old uncle, Steven Rodriguez, jumped into the ocean to save the girl. They said a larger wave tore the girl away from Rodriguez. The girl was carried safely back to shore, but police say Rodriguez drowned.
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Mexico to Save $350 Million After Prepaying Debt, Garcia Says
Mexico will save as much as $350 million after borrowing in domestic markets to pay $12.4 billion of foreign debt ahead of schedule, Deputy Finance Minister Alonso Garcia Tames said.
The government yesterday sold local bonds to pay $9 billion of debt owed to the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank and to buy back $3.4 billion of dollar-denominated bonds. Mexico raised more money from the sale than the $7 billion it originally sought.
This transaction has contributed to the perception that the outlook for Mexican debt is positive, Garcia
Latest Frida merchandise sparks debate in Mexico
The mass marketing of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's image has sparked debate in her homeland as a company plans to sell dolls in her likeness in December.
A Mexican doll maker will launch the 20-inch (50-cm) Kahlo replicas in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain, said Mara de Anda, a descendant of the legendary painter.
A line of jewelry, clothing and even a tequila with the artist's name have been marketed by her family in recent years after her niece, Isolda Pinedo Kahlo, obtained rights to register the name as a brand.
Some
Area firefighters save homes in Mexico
North County fire crews returned triumphantly Friday after saving a poor neighborhood in the Mexican town of Tecate from the flames of a raging fire at the U.S. border.
But they didn't do it alone Thursday.
Mexican bomberos (firefighters) and Tecate residents young and old pitched in with hoses and shovels to help save their often flimsy homes. Overhead, air tankers and helicopters from the United States provided critical water and fire retardant drops.
Still, it was the firefighters from Escondido to Oceanside, Fallbrook to Rancho Santa Fe who earned and got much of the glory. A
U.S. motorists seek out cheaper gasoline in Mexico
Border residents struggling with high U.S. gas prices are turning to Mexico as a more affordable alternative.
Pemex gas station cashier Fabian Tinoco said he has seen 30 percent more Arizona license plates at the gas station in the border community of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, where gas in more than 50 cents cheaper per gallon.
Dora Dural, a secretary at another Pemex in San Luis Rio Colorado, said she has also seen gas sales increase but that's because more Mexicans are deciding to purchase their gasoline in San Luis Rio Colorado instead
WASHINGTON -- The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week be bulldozed is among hundreds of similar sites along the border sponsored and maintained by the Mexican government.
Many of the sites are marked with blue flags and pennants to signal that water is available. Others, such as the Las Chepas site that Mr. Richardson denounced, are a collection of old, mostly abandoned buildings or ranch houses where illegals gather for water and other supplies -- sometimes bartering with smugglers, or "coyotes," for
Stockton-Mexico airline service may be approved
AeroMexico Airlines could begin flights from Stockton to Guadalajara, Mexico, in the spring if San Joaquin County supervisors vote to approve the plan on Tuesday.
At issue is whether the county should accept a $2 million loan from the San Joaquin Council of Governments to build a customs and immigration inspection facility at Stockton Metropolitan Airport.
The airport currently has no airline service but supports growing airfreight activity.
Federal grant money would be used to repay the loan, but some supervisors have gone on record questioning the fiscal responsibility of accepting a loan, given the airport’s history of
Mexico, U.S. Break Up Counterfeit Ring
Mexico and the United States broke up a counterfeiting ring that printed an estimated $5 million in fake $100 bills in Mexico and sold them across the border, officials said Wednesday.
The ring, based in the western state of Jalisco, operated more than four years, selling fake $100 bills in Santa Ana, Calif., San Diego, Calif, and Phoenix, Ariz., said Jose Luis Marmolejo, of the attorney general's organized crime division.
The bills, produced with offset printing equipment, were "one of the best falsifications we've seen," Marmolejo said.
Authorities arrested six people, including a man they
Officials discover tunnel at U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego
U.S. Border Patrol agents stumbled on a cross-border tunnel after it caved in and the asphalt roadway above it collapsed, officials said.
The 35-foot-long tunnel, which was found Monday, ended in a patch of vacant land on the U.S. side near the San Ysidro port of entry, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
The primitive tunnel was about 3 feet by 3 feet and appeared to have been used recently, she said.
The exit on the U.S. side was sealed with
In Mexico, two guards drown in pond at Mexican president's ranch
Two members of Mexico's presidential guard drowned in a pond at President Vicente Fox's ranch, the government said Friday.
The two guards, who were not identified, were swimming together Monday when one of them developed a leg cramp and the other tried to save him, the president's office said in a news release. No other details of the accident were released.
The two guards formed part of the security detail at the president's San Cristobal ranch, located in the central state of Guanajuato.
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Jennifer Lopez Filming Movie in Mexico
Dressed in a blue shirt, khaki pants and a blond wig, Jennifer Lopez chased a bus and attended a street protest as a crowd of onlookers broke into applause.
The 37-year-old actress-singer was filming scenes Monday in the Mexican border city of Nogales for "Bordertown," a movie about the largely unsolved killings of women in Ciudad Juarez.
Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter sent to Mexico to investigate the killings. The film, directed by Gregory Nava, also stars Antonio Banderas.
Traffic backed up around the set and hundreds of people crowded the streets of Nogales, across
