Will Mexico come clean?
PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX of Mexico took office in 2000 vowing to finally prosecute officials responsible for the deaths, “disappearing” and torturing of hundreds in that nation’s “dirty war” of the 1970s. Victims’ families have waited for decades to uncover what happened to their loved ones. Although plenty of new findings have come to light, disappointingly little has been done to prosecute those responsible for the illegal repression.
One reason to hope that this might change is a draft of a new report prepared by President Fox’s special prosecutor’s office. It documents the kidnapping and torturing of hundreds of students, opposition leaders and insurgents from the late 1960s and early ’70s. Its most gruesome parts describe large-scale torture (for example, forcing people to ingest gasoline), summary executions, forced starvation and “death flights” in which suspected subversives were dropped from aircraft into the Pacific Ocean.
The report was leaked by its authors last week and made public by the Washington-based National Security Archive. Many of its allegations have been described before in eyewitness accounts. What makes the report unprecedented is that the incidents have been corroborated by official military documents that identify individuals and military units involved.
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Company says Mexico to allow pipeline for Arizona refinery
The Mexican government will permit construction and operation of a pipeline to deliver crude oil to a proposed new Arizona gasoline refinery that would be the first such project built in the United States in nearly 30 years, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma said it has reached an understanding with a Mexican ministry, the Secretariat of Energy of Mexico, regarding the pipeline, an offloading facility for tanker ships and a tank farm for temporary storage of oil.
David Traenor, a spokesman for Scottsdale-based Arizona Clean Fuels, called
Paamul, just south of Playa del Carmen and about 92 km south of Cancun, is a fine beach on a bay, planned for development, with chalets (C with bath, fan, terrace for hammocks, comfortable, pretty, clean, recommended) and campsites (recom¬mended). There is snorkelling and diving and a reef a few metres offshore. Sec¬ond-class buses from Cancun and Playa del Carmen pass.
Agua Caliente: Guadalajara
This is a place of the entertainment to stop especially if you have children and need a rupture of the cultural stops with Guadalajara. This park has hardly especially that you will need to camp and to enjoy you. It is of étinceler clean and has higher slides of the notch. Impulse of road 80 of Mexico de Guadalajara of the west towards the coast. The impulse through the crown of the country cottage beyond the park and the Hot Water of the water of "Chimulco" is less than 2 km right in the road.
Francisco Escarcega
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Mexico tourist magnet Tijuana cleans up brothels
The Mexican border city of Tijuana, a weekend playground for U.S. visitors, plans to give prostitutes electronic health cards and regulate brothels in an effort to clean up its gritty image.
Under a bylaw passed last month, the city is forcing about 50 clandestine brothels to meet public safety and hygiene standards, like putting clean sheets on beds, or face closure.
"We have a lot of prostitution but few controls," Martha Montejano, head of the council's health and human development commission, said on Wednesday. "This aims to combat sexually transmitted diseases and bring order to the
It would seem to be a perfect time to invest in a new refinery.
With gas prices flirting with the $70-a-barrel mark and the nation's refining capacity strained, refiners are raking in huge profits. Further highlighting the need for more capacity are hurricanes that have battered and disrupted Gulf Coast refinery production this month.
A local group, Arizona Clean Fuels, is seeking to build the nation's first new refinery in three decades. After securing an air-quality permit this spring for a 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery, the group is courting investors to fund the $2.5 billion project, planned at an old citrus grove 40
Doctor visits outsourced to Mexico
There are world-class hospitals in San Diego, not far from where Luis Gonzales lives. But when he or a member of his family needs routine health services, they drive 50 miles south to a clinic in Tijuana.
The Gonzaleses are members of a Blue Shield of California HMO that provides all of the family's nonemergency care in Mexico. They are among 20,000 California workers and their dependents in health plans that cost 40 to 50 percent less than comparable care in the United States because the doctor's visits are outsourced south of the border.
With health-care costs
Damaged barge capsizes in Gulf of Mexico
The 441-foot barge left Houston late Thursday en route to Tampa, Florida, when it hit debris in the water about 100 miles east of Galveston.
That gouged a 30-by-six-foot hole in the starboard bow. The Coast Guard and other responding crews erected a containment boom around the vessel. But the Coast Guard says progressive flooding caused the barge to list onto its side and it capsized.
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Mexico pig manure project enters Kyoto pollution scheme
A scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions from pig manure has become Mexico's first project to win approval under the Kyoto Protocol rules on investing in poor countries, the project's developer said on Tuesday.
The scheme, which covers 23 farms, has gained United Nations registration under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), said Ireland-based AgCert International in a statement.
"We are delighted to be the first company to have a CDM project registered in Mexico and we will now be moving toward certification as soon as possible," said AgCert's chief executive officer Bill Haskell.
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California health costs send patients to Mexico facilities
There are world-class hospitals in San Diego, not far from where Luis Gonzales lives. But when he or a member of his family needs routine health services, they drive 50 miles south to a clinic in Tijuana.
The Gonzaleses are members of a Blue Shield of California HMO that provides the family's nonemergency care in Mexico. They are among 20,000 California workers and dependents in plans that cost 40 to 50 percent less than comparable care in the United States because doctor's visits are outsourced south of the border.
With healthcare costs in the
