(AP) MEXICO CITY Excessive drinking, mad bulls and street fights left at least 40 people hurt during the annual running of the bulls in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Mexican news media reports hundreds of would-be bullfighters crowded the streets of the city of Huamantla Sunday to participate.
Authorities estimated the spectacle drew more than 100,000 spectators from Mexico and foreign countries.
A local newspaper reports that angry bulls ran the streets through the streets for more than two hours, goring numerous participants.
The newspaper also reported people were hurt in several street fights that erupted among observers and participants – many of whom had been drinking.
At least nine people were injured seriously.
Critics say a lack of public security contributed to the number of injuries.
Last year, on the event’s 50th running, four people died and 30 were injured.
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Estoril Preview: Mexico
British F3 National Class champion Salvador Duran will fly to Lisbon, this morning (from England), to participate in Round Three of A1 Grand Prix Nations Cup to be held at the 4.36 Km. Estoril racetrack, located in Portugal, scenario where the FIA Formula One used to race until mid 90s.
"I've been at the gym training for this race. I'm glad for the opportunity of being able to return to compete for my country with the A1 GP Team Mexico," Duran said, who could not participate in last race in Germany because it coincided with Formula Three British National
Cicero lawmaker's hat in Mexico race
If state Sen. Martin Sandoval succeeds in his next election Saturday, he will serve in Mexico City as well as Springfield.
Sandoval is running for a seat on an advisory council created by Mexico President Vicente Fox in 2002 to incorporate Mexicans living in the United States into his government's policymaking.
Sandoval would be the first elected official in the U.S. to serve on the advisory council. That raises the peculiar prospect of the Cicero Democrat offering policy advice in an official capacity to Mexican Cabinet members while creating laws in Illinois.
The possibility has some observers praising
Mexico security minister killed in helicopter crash
Mexico's public security minister, a key figure in the war against drug cartels, was killed along with eight others on Wednesday when his helicopter crashed in fog in mountains near the capital.
Rescue workers found the charred wreckage of Ramon Martin Huerta's helicopter six hours after contact was lost early into a flight from the capital to a high-security prison.
In a televised address, President Vicente Fox vowed to push on with his fight against violent gangs running drugs into the United States.
"Today, more than ever, I repeat the commitment of my government and of
Mexico election race turns as conservative surges
Mexicos ruling party presidential candidate appears to be pulling away from his leftist rival after aggressive TV ads propelled his dramatic surge in an election race being fought on economic policies.
A closely watched poll in the Reforma newspaper on Wednesday showed Felipe Calderon, a conservative, with 40-percent support among probable voters and his left-wing challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador trailing at 33 percent.
Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who promises to put the poor first, had been Mexicos most popular politician for three years and was the clear election front-runner until
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
US-Mexico border wall would be 'disgraceful' - Fox
Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" yesterday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.
Concerned about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and worried it could be an entry point for terrorists, a US lawmaker has proposed building two parallel steel and wire fences running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said a wall running the length of a border would cost too much.
Mexico has expressed indignation
Museo Nacional de la Revolución
The Museum of the Revolution offers an excellent opportunity to us to approach to us up to one of the more important historical times of this country. By means of objects and biographies of its main protagonists, one of the most violent and bloody times recreates to which the country must some of the most important profits of its last time. A visit to the museum can be an excellent departure point to enter to us in the study of this important political event. The videos that project in several spaces of the museum constitute very
The Michael Moore of Mexico
Luis Mandoki is meant to be discussing his new movie, Innocent Voices, the first film he has made in his native Mexico since going to Hollywood 15 years ago. But it soon becomes clear that he has something else on his mind. Namely electoral corruption.
Mandoki, it turns out, has become something of a Mexican Michael Moore in his countrys presidential election, sticking his lens where it is not wanted - at least by one candidate. Felipe Calderon, of the rightwing Pan party, was declared the winner over arch rival Lopez Obrador after the poll
Mexico: Plainclothes police gunned down
Four plainclothes police officers were shot and killed in the notoriously violent border town Nuevo Laredo by unknown gunmen, El Universal reported Friday.
The officers -- members of the intelligence branch of the Mexican Federal Preventative Police -- had their vehicle sprayed with gunfire, said witnesses.
Nuevo Laredo, along the U.S. border, is a known crossroads for drug smuggling from Mexico into the United States and has been the scene of several police killings in recent months.
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Mexico's prophet picks home team
Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" predicts host Germany will win soccer's World Cup this summer, avenging its loss four years ago to Brazil in the final.
This isn't necessarily good news for the Germans, The Associated Press notes.
Antonio Vazquez has been making annual predictions since 1980 based on tarot card readings and his scrutiny of the stars, forecasting events ranging from Mexican elections to turns in the love lives of local pop divas.
His readings get wide coverage in the local media, but his results have been spotty and he has become famous in recent years for
