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 detained one man and were interrogating him to see if the two attacks were related.
A receptionist, a cleaning lady and a security guard were all treated at the scene for injuries from broken glass.
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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
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
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
Fireworks explosion kills 7 and injures 4 in Mexico
Fireworks stored at a building that also illicitly sold gasoline exploded Saturday, killing seven people and injuring four, a local official said.
The building also housed video game machines, and five of the dead were children who frequented the video parlor on weekends, local authorities said.
The blast occurred in the tiny hamlet of Tlacotepec, high in the mountains of southern Guerrero state, about 75 miles north of Acapulco, Ayala Mata said.
Blood vessel problem sends Chirac to hospital
Paris -- French President Jacques Chirac has been hospitalized after suffering a blood vessel problem in
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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Club-carrying union members end newspaper standoff in Mexico
Union members wearing masks and carrying clubs Monday broke into the offices of a newspaper in Oaxaca where editors and reporters have been besieged for a month, putting the journalists to flight and attempting to shut down the publication.
About 31 newspaper employees had been holed up in the offices for four weeks while an umbrella union with close ties to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controls this state, staged a strike outside, demanding higher wages and more vacation.
Many newspaper employees have said the union does not represent their interests and have
Metro to start newspaper in Mexico
Metro International and Mxshares SA de C.V. are entering a joint venture to publish a new edition of the free Metro newspaper in Mexico City.
Metro International SA, which publishes newspapers from Santiago to Helsinki, will publish a new edition of its free Metro newspaper in Mexico City through a local joint venture to tap the country's growing advertising market.
Metro and Mxshares SA de C.V. will each have 35 percent stakes in a new company, while 30 percent will be owned by Immobiliaria Torraco SA de C.V., Metro said in a statement Monday. London-based Metro said
Concerns grow after journalist shot in Mexico
Mexico became Latin America's most dangerous country in which to be a journalist in 2005, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday.
The organization issued a statement expressing concern about the safety of journalists in Mexico a day after police in the southern state of Oaxaca announced that a radio news reporter had been shot and critically wounded by assailants.
In northern Mexico alone this year, six journalists have been killed and a seventh is still missing, according to Mexican newspaper editors.
In September, Mexican President Vicente Fox said he would appoint a special
U.S. sends agents to patrol Mexico border
The U.S. is dispatching federal agents to Texas to combat violent crime along the Mexican border, a source of tension between the two countries in recent months.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the issue would be the focus of his meeting in San Antonio on Thursday with his Mexican counterpart, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca.
The Violent Crime Impact Team will go to the border city of Laredo, Gonzales told reporters Wednesday at the Justice Department. Such teams previously have been sent to about 20 U.S. cities that are struggling with violent crime problems despite a
Bus drives into ravine in southern Mexico
OAXACA, Mexico A bus that went out of control in southern Mexico ended up in a ravine -- killing at least 12 people.
Police say two children were among the victims.It wasn't immediately clear if the driver fled or was among the nearly 20 people injured in yesterday's crash near San Pablo Guelatao, about 30 miles from Oaxaca City.Witnesses say the driver was speeding and lost control on a narrow stretch of road. Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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