Mexico rescues 18 Cubans adrift in flimsy boat
The Mexican Navy rescued 18 Cubans adrift in the Caribbean Sea on a flimsy vessel that was blown off course in a failed bid to reach Florida, the immigration department said on Monday.
A one-year-old baby was among the passengers in the boat, spotted floating off the Isla Mujeres island near the resort of Cancun on Friday.
“A boat spotted them and passed this information on to the Navy, which rescued them,” said a spokeswoman for Mexico’s immigration institute in Cancun.
The Cubans left their homeland on Dec. 27 in a bid to reach the United States, the spokeswoman said.
They had no documentation with them, she said.
The Cubans, including three women, were taken on Sunday to a detention center in the city of Chetumal and were determined to be in good health.
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Local agents help Mexico in rescue
Border Patrol agents rescued a man from rising waters during the heavy rains Thursday.
A press release sent to the News-Herald from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs states that around noon Thursday the Border Patrol received a telephone call from Mexican authorities requesting assistance with the rescue of an individual in the Rio Grande.
According to the release, agents responded by launching the agency’s airboats into the “very high and rapidly” flowing river.
Once they located the man, who was clinging to a tree branch in the middle of the river, it was
Fishermen rescued from Gulf of Mexico after boat goes up in flames
Clearwater, Florida - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two commercial fishermen Sunday morning. John Garrett and Greg Arcond had been out in the Gulf of Mexico fishing since Tuesday. On Sunday morning, they ran into trouble.
Garrett says he originally called the Coast Guard when he first ran out of gas, but it wasn’t until later when he actually needed them. The men were trying to transfer gas from another tank into the engine, when the fire started.
John Garrett, Fisherman:
“I’m on deck, he’s on the back and flames come out
Mexicos lost fishermen reunited with families
The three Mexican fishermen who say they survived nine months adrift faced another storm on arrival in Mexico City -- this time of raucous welcomes and throngs of reporters asking for the lurid details of their odyssey.
From the moment the men appeared at the Mexico City airport on Friday morning -- the last leg of a series of flights that brought them from the Marshall Islands -- the three men issued vehement denials when reporters asked whether they had been involved in drug smuggling or had resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Despite having nearly
Two D.C. Teens Rescued Off Coast of Mexico
Two young men from the District are lucky to be alive after nearly drowning in Mexico on Christmas Day.
Police there say 17-year-old Carolos Rivera and 18-year-old Antonio Rivera were pulled from the water more than 800-feet away from the beach at a Puerto Vallarta resort.
The pair were swept out by a powerful undercurrent.
Both were rescued along with a Mexican teen, and were taken back to shore in a motor boat. None of the three suffered serious injuries.
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Mexico-US row over Cuban eviction
The authorities in Mexico say a US-owned hotel in Mexico City may have broken the law by expelling a group of Cuban officials.
The delegation was ordered out of the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton last week at the behest of Washington, because of the US embargo against Cuba.
Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said the US law could not be applied in a third country. Some 30 people held an anti-US rally outside the hotel.
The Cuban government said the incident showed US policy had been affecting other countries.
The Cuban officials were due to meet
Isla Aguada
Eleven kilometres beyond Carmen is the Rancho EIFfriix, with an interesting iguana (lagarto) hatchery. Highway 180 runs northeast along the Isla del Carmen and crosses the bridge to Isia Aguada (C Hotel Tarpon Tropical. D Motel La Cabana and Trailer Park at former boat landing just after the toll bridge. Full hook-up, hot showers, laundry facilities, quiet, US$12 for vehicle and two people), actually a narrow peninsula with more deserted shell-littered beaches on the Gulf shore. The road then undulates its way northeast through tiny fishing villages towards Campeche; there are many offshore oil rigs to be seen. At
Aid effort for Mexico moving ahead
The McAllen Economic Development Corp. ramped up efforts Friday to gather much-needed aid for Reynosa residents affected by Hurricane Emily.
The Mexican government officially declared a state of emergency Thursday for 23 cities in the state of Tamaulipas, including Reynosa, due to extreme damage in outlying colonias and ejidos — rural farming communities — suffered during the hurricane.
The storm left 5,000 homeless in Reynosa, flooded 40 of its poorer subdivisions, spawned power outages for 5 percent of its population, and destroyed tin roofs on hundreds of flimsy homes. Many families lost all their belongings in
US says migrant deaths at record on Mexico border
Deaths of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border soared to an all-time high in the past year, as a brutal heatwave killed hundreds in the remote Arizona desert, the U.S. agency in charge of border security said on Monday.
The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection said at least 464 immigrants died crossing the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border during the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, a rise of 43 percent on the previous year and the highest number since records began.
Spokesman Mario Villarreal, speaking in a phone call from Washington, said well
Anti-US protest blocks hotel in Mexico City
Protesters waving Cuban flags blocked the entrance to a US-owned Sheraton hotel in Mexico City yesterday, calling for it to be closed because it evicted Cuban officials on orders from Washington.
About 30 people shouted "Yankees out" as they demonstrated outside the hotel over its eviction of the 16 Cubans who were staying there last week for a conference with US energy companies.
Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Mexico was looking into the evictions and would apply the full force of the law against the Sheraton if a crime had been committed.
"It
Mexico Reports First Death From Hurricane
Mexican authorities on Friday reported the first death from Hurricane Emily, which destroyed thousands of buildings and drove 90,000 people from their homes as it tore through northern Mexico this week.
The report of a woman swept away by floodwaters in the northern city of San Pedro Garza Garcia came just as President Vicente Fox toured the devastation caused by the hurricane.
Officials said the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the Yucatan area and along Mexico's northern Gulf coast helped avoid more extensive tragedies.
``You see what preparation and foresight are: No
