Mexico: 1 killed, 2 abducted in attack
Chaos engulfed the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca on Tuesday as gunmen killed one man in an attack on protesters, who seized broadcasting stations and sealed off the city with burning barricades.
Hospital sources said one man died of gunshot wounds. Protesters supporting the three-month-old strike by local schoolteachers said two others had been abducted by the attackers.
Federal authorities claimed the gunmen were deployed by the state Governor Ulises Ruiz in a bid to dislodge the protesters from a state-run radio building they seized on August 1. The governor, however, denied any responsibility.
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Cruz Azul's Technical Director Abducted in Mexico
Omar Romano, the technical director of the Mexican football team Cruz Azul has been abducted by a well organized group of kidnappers.
According to the police, armed people in a car kidnapped the 47-year-old Argentinean technical director Thursday. The incident took place near a training field in Mexico City, renowned for its worst abduction statistics in the world. Investigations are underway it was reported.
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Grenade attack at newspaper in southern Mexico injures 3
Two grenades were thrown at the door of a newspaper Friday in southern Mexico, and one exploded, breaking windows and injuring three people, officials said.
The attack against the Por Esto! office in Merida was the second against the newspaper chain in a little over a week. On Aug. 23, assailants threw several grenades at the Por Esto! office in Cancun, damaging the front of the building but causing no injuries.
Roberto Acevedo, spokesman for the local federal Attorney Generals office, told The Associated Press by telephone that police had
Grenade attack injures 2 police officials in Mexico
A grenade lobbed from a movingcar at a police post injured two officials in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, on Sunday.
The attack took place at a police barricade outside Tres Vidas,where conflict between a private hotel and farming interest has sparked a series of conflict.
Farmers who originally lived in the area claimed that they never agreed to sell their territory. Groups of peasants stormed the area in and around Tres Vidas in recent days, seizing land they claim was stolen
7 killed in new wave of violence in Mexico
Seven people were killed and 19 others arrested in a new wave of violence affecting several regions of Mexico over the past 24 hours, police said Sunday.
Among the victims were three guards of a prison near the city of Monterrey in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, police said.
The guards were thought to be killed in a revenge by drug-traffickers operating on the Mexican-US border.
So far this year, a total of 25 people have been killed in
Truck, bus crash kills 38 in Mexico
Thirty-eight people were killed in northwest Mexico when a truck hauling ammonium chloride plowed into a passenger bus, El Universal reported Thursday.
The majority of those killed were burned by the harsh chemical that spilled at the tanker and bus slid down an embankment after impact.
Two dozen women and four children were among those killed.
Four other adults injured in the crash were taken to a local hospital for various injuries.
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Mexico's 1968 massacre heads for big screen
As Mexico struggles for justice in a 1968 massacre of students, the darkest chapter of political violence in its recent history, American and Mexican filmmakers are taking the bloodshed to the big screen.
"Tlatelolco: Mexico 68" focuses on the student protest in Mexico City that ended in slaughter just days before Mexico hosted the 1968 Olympic Games.
Government security forces opened fire on protesters on Oct. 2, 1968, marking the start of a long and violent campaign against dissidents.
The attack has inspired books, documentaries and local low-budget films, but this is the first time a
Fresh calls for probe in Mexico after gunmen storm newspaper
An attack on a newspaper in the violence-plagued border city of Nuevo Laredo brought renewed demands yesterday for investigations into the slayings and disappearances of Mexican journalists covering the country's escalating drug war.
Jaime Orozco Tey, a veteran reporter for the newspaper El Mañana, was critically injured after being shot five times by masked gunmen who burst into the offices of the fiercely independent paper Monday night and began firing on the reception area with assault rifles.
As Orozco lay in critical condition in a Nuevo Laredo hospital with a
New security mininster appointed after helicopter crash in Mexico
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday appointed Rafael Rios as the new public security minister after his predecessor Martin Huerta was killed in a helicopter crash.
Rios is undersecretary for citizen participation and criminal policy in the ministry. He spent most of his career in the National Security and Investigation Center, the government's intelligence institution.
Meanwhile, Tomas Valencia, another top official killed in the crash, will be replaced by Arturo Jimenez as the Federal Police Commander.
The National Human Rights Commission has not announced who is to replace Jose Antonio Bernal, inspector
Violence breaks out in parts of Mexico
Assailants lobbed a grenade at a hotel and a prison director and police chief barely survived separate attempts on their lives in an outbreak of violence in several parts of Mexico.
The grenade attack happened early Saturday in the resort city of Zihuatanejo, 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Acapulco. The grenade exploded about 4 a.m. (1000 GMT) in the parking lot of the Hotel Posada Colonial, shattering windows and injuring a person who was hit in the leg by a fragment of the weapon, Preventive Police official Miguel Garcia said.
The incident marked the third
Zapatista rebel chief launches attack on Mexico's politicians
The leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement emerged from hiding and for the first time in four years showed his masked face to the public, launching a broadside against the country's politicians.
He told supporters in San Rafael: ''They'll pay for everything they have done to us. They are a bunch of shameless scoundrels."
The leader, known as "Subcomandante Marcos", was speaking near the jungles of Chiapas state, where the rebels have their stronghold.
He targeted the former mayor of Mexico City and front-runner in next year's presidential elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "They say: 'Maybe
