‘Priceless’ artifacts are returned to Mexico
Three caches of pre-Columbian artifacts seized at the U.S.-Mexico border were returned to Mexico last week, including objects believed washed away by rain from the El Tajin ruins near Veracruz.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials returned the 140 stone figurines and other objects to Deputy Mexican Consul Ernesto Herrera at a news conference Thursday at the Hidalgo International Bridge.
The items were seized in 2004 during two inspections at the Rio Grande City port of entry and one inspection at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge.
During one inspection, CBP agents found 104 artifacts in a suitcase. The driver is believed to have collected items following rains near the El Tajin historical zone, where the driver lived.
Rick Pauza, CBP spokesman, said the artifacts were seized for violating a federal law prohibiting the importation of pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or murals.
No fines were issued.
Pauza said agents occasionally find artifacts during inspections.
He said he did not know how much the items were worth or whether the smugglers were aware of the law.
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Iran's artifacts selected to Mexico Museum
The selected articles by the experts of Iranian and Mexican museums have been sent to the restoration workshop of Iran?s National Museum to be examined whether or not they can be sent to Mexico to be displayed, said CHN.
The exhibition of the ?10,000 Years of Iranian Art? will be held in Mexico City on April 2006, displaying several artifacts from the pre-historic era to the end of Qajar dynasty.
Last month, a Mexican Museum expert came to Tehran and selected some items in the National Museum of Iran with the cooperation of some Iranian experts
Fuerte Loreto, which has views of the city (and of its pollution), is a small museum.
Museo de la No Intervention, depicting the battle of 1862
Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, displaying old engines and wagons at 11 Norte, between 10 y 14 Pte, in the old Puebla railway station known as El Mexicano.
Museo BeUo, Av 3 Pte 302, is the house of the collector and connoisseur Bello who died in 1938. It has good displays of Chinese porcelain and Talavera pottery and is beautifully furnished.
Museo de Santa Monica, 18 Pte 103, is housed in a former convent where
US resumes repatriation flights for illegal immigrants from Mexico
The US Department of Homeland Security [official website] resumed its repatriation program [JURIST report; DHS backgrounder] for illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday with a flight carrying 67 people to Mexico City. This is the third straight summer that the federal government has used the program, which twice daily flies Mexicans caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border to Mexico City and then buses them to their home communities. It specifically targets women, children, and those deemed at physical risk if they tried to cross the border again.
The US government hopes that the
South of the Border, the Christmas Bonus Is Sacred
As a gardener, Carlos Bonilla Torres endures a series of indignities much of the year.
Clients order him to scoop dog droppings, tote furniture and wash their cars for no extra pay. Some never speak to him except to complain that the grass needs mowing. He bears it all for $134 a week.
But December is payback time. That's when even Bonilla's most imperious customers hand over envelopes stuffed with cash. The extra $512 he received this year will allow him to buy new clothes for the family and treat them to
Founded on 24 June 1596 by Spaniards on the banks of Grijalva River under the name of Villa Hermosa; in 1826 the village was raised to the rank of city under the name of San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist). In 1915, the governor of Tabasco, Francisco J. Múgica ordered to change the name of the city to its current name Villahermosa.
Villahermosa ("Beautiful City" in Spanish language) is the capital city of Tabasco, Mexico, and the municipal seat of Centro municipality. Tabasco's political powers resides here. It is the main city of Tabasco state and gathers its largest population.
Canadians say tour operators in Mexico let them down
Weary Canadian tourists returning home from Mexico say the weather was bad thanks to hurricane Emily, but the lack of help from their tour operators was even worse.
"It was horrible. It was scary," Gracia Agostinho told CBC News in Montreal on Tuesday as she and her family returned home.
"It was the longest night of my life," she said, describing how her family huddled in a hotel bathroom while
Hurricane Emily roared by.
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FRAGILE FOUNDATION
After six years illegally working construction in the United States, Martin Sanchez has come home to this mountainside village transformed.
Sanchez, 23, left here an unskilled laborer with few expectations and a sixth-grade education. Hes returned as a master drywall installer with money in the bank and plans for a prosperous future.
But the changes to Atexcac, a community of 5,000 people clinging to the sunrise side of Mexicos highest volcanoes in central Puebla state, may have been greater still. Rutted dirt roads have been paved, rattletrap buses replaced by cars and pickup trucks, adobe shacks transformed into brick multistory mini-palaces.
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Missing woman apparently found in Mexico
A young woman from Saudi Arabia who disappeared in St. Paul last week has apparently been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Family members said they had no details of her condition, or how she got to Mexico.
St. Paul police were notified by Mexican officials that they believed Noora Salim, 21, had been found there. They requested that her passport be sent to Mexico.
Salim had come to St. Paul with her parents to settle a younger sister at Macalester College. They were to return to Saudi Arabia Sept. 6, but Salim left a note saying she was
Crucial evidence may be lost in Mexican resort murder: coroner
The bodies of a Canadian coupled murdered in Mexico were returned to Canada on Monday. But the delay in returning the bodies may lead to the loss of crucial evidence, Toronto's regional coroner says.
Doctor David Evans said an autopsy may have already been conducted and the bodies embalmed, leading to the loss or contamination of potential evidence.
"Obviously, if you're looking for trace evidence, whether it's hair, fibres, DNA under the fingernails – all sorts of things – we'd have no idea what their protocol is for doing homicide autopsies,"
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño
The Museum Dolores Olmedo Patiño opened to its doors to the public the 17 of September of 1994. The colonial building, that dates from century XVI, lodged the Property of the Chain dump and at the present time it keeps the collections from art of Mrs. Dolores Olmedo Patiño. This museum is located in the Federal District (City of Mexico); in the Xochimilco delegation, name in Nahuatl, that means? The cultivated land of flowers? or? In the field of flowers. The more important economic activity of Xochimilco throughout its history was agriculture, by means of the construction
