Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:20 PM EDT
Spaceman Jose Hernandez said Monday the United States needs to legalize its undocumented immigrants — a rare, public stand for a U.S. astronaut on a political, hot-button issue.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 3:39 PM EDT
Police say a body with both arms cut off was found dumped on a street in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
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Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:40 PM EDT
The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country, with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tons of the drug.
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Thu May 21, 2009 3:35 PM EDT
The top security chief of a central Mexican state has resigned after 53 inmates escaped from a prison with the alleged complicity of guards.
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Sat May 2, 2009 3:03 PM EDT
It seemed an odd precaution, given his risky way of life: A man targeted by drug traffickers was wearing a germ-blocking surgical mask when his bullet-riddled body was found.
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
Nine-year-old Cecilia Ines Lopez has been watching nine hours of television a day. Her teenage relative has spent so much time on Instant Messenger she complains she has nothing more to say.
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:11 PM EDT
A bill that would let Mexico declare temporary states of emergency and expand the army's power in a bloody fight against powerful drug gangs drew immediate fire Thursday from human rights activists who say soldiers should not be doing the job of police.
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:08 PM EDT
As President Barack Obama makes his first visit to Mexico this week, the United States and Mexico seem to have realized they need each other like never before.
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Sun Mar 8, 2009 12:49 PM EDT
Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man's head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street.
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:22 PM EST
For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.
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Sun Feb 1, 2009 5:35 PM EST
Mexico City shut down a main water pipeline under a new conservation program, cutting service to more than 2 million residents Sunday after some reservoirs dropped to their lowest levels in 16 years.
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:13 AM EST
A Mexican billionaire is expanding his empire in the United States in a deal that could make him one of the largest shareholders of The New York Times Co.
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:01 AM EST
A Latin American billionaire looks to expand his empire in the United States in a deal that could make him the largest shareholder of The New York Times Co.
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:22 PM EST
Mexico's central bank cut interest rates for the first time since 2006 on Friday to boost the country's slowing economy as it inches toward recession.
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Thu Jan 8, 2009 12:29 PM EST
Mexican consumer prices rose at their fastest pace since 2001 last year, the central bank reported Thursday, complicating the global economic crisis' effect on the country.
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Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:31 PM EST
Fourth-grader Ricardo Ivan Ortega knows he is a target in this violent city. His school closed temporarily last month after an anonymous note demanded teachers hand over their year-end bonuses — or students would be kidnapped.
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Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:33 PM EST
Nearly 1 million Mexican migrants living in the U.S. are expected to head home for the holidays, but relatively few are returning loaded down with gifts and cash this year.
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Sat Nov 8, 2008 1:38 PM EST
On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today's world hungers for anew.
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Sat Sep 6, 2008 9:41 AM EDT
Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:39 PM EDT
The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."
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Sat Aug 9, 2008 1:55 PM EDT
Jorge Saavedra's moment of truth came in the middle of an impassioned speech to 5,000 people about the paltry amount of money being spent to stop the spread of AIDS among gay men.
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Tue Aug 5, 2008 3:23 PM EDT
AIDS experts praised the United States on Tuesday for ending its two-decade ban on HIV-positive people entering the country, and said travel restrictions by dozens of other countries are hurting efforts to control the epidemic.
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Mon Aug 4, 2008 2:46 PM EDT
Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:42 PM EDT
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
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