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MSNBC
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Roofs rot underwater, stretched out by the thousands over miles and miles. But it is the roofs jutting just above the brown, stinking floodwaters that truly make the heart ache.
Those roofs are makeshift homes now, refuges for weary men, women and chil..
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CNN
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Hurricane Dean churned toward a second dangerous encounter with Mexico on Wednesday, as government officials warned residents of Veracruz and other coastal towns to prepare for its arrival. The storm is expected to hit central Mexico after crossing Campec..
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BBC News
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The prison system in Mexico City has begun permitting gay prisoners to have conjugal visits from their partners.
The city authorities accepted a recommendation by a human rights commission which said the visits would help to end discrimination.
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CNN
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Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America.
The proposal, approved 46-19, with one abstention, will take e..
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CNN
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The Acapulco correspondent for Mexico's top television news network was shot to death late Friday, the latest in a wave of journalist killings that has made Mexico one of the most dangerous countries for reporters in the Western Hemisphere.
Televisa's..
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BBC News
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Tens of thousands of people have marched through Mexico City in a protest against the rising price of tortillas...
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SF Gate
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A U.S. surfer was killed in a shark attack off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, officials said Tuesday.
The San Francisco man bled to death on Monday after a gray shark bit his right thigh, leaving a 15-inch (38-centimeter) wound, the Guerrero state Pu..
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Yahoo News
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A two-time Mexico City "policeman of the year" has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from illegal "car-watchers" who demand tips for curbside parking.
Police said Alejandro Garnino, who was awarded Mexico City's highest police honor in 2005..
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USA Today
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George W. Bush is a "windshield cowboy" who doesn't like horses. Fidel Castro has a strange habit of pulling on his ear after every bite of food. In Nigeria, the president will grab your buttocks in greeting.
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, who e..
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SF Gate
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Hurricane Lorenzo weakened into a tropical storm early Friday as it bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast with strong winds and rain and forced low-lying coastal communities to evacuate.
Earlier, Lorenzo made landfall along the east-central coast of Mexico,..
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CNN
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A tropical storm watch is likely for the Mexican coast Wednesday as a tropical depression gains strength in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center reported. As of 5 a.m. ET, Tropical Depression 13 was centered about 205 miles (330 kilometers) e..
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USA Today
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Hurricane Ivo slowed its forward motion Thursday morning off Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The storm, which was upgraded late Wednesday to a Category 1 hurricane, had sustained winds of about 75 mph, with gusts of 90..
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CNN
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Hurricane Henriette edged toward mainland Mexico Wednesday after punishing resort areas on Baja California. The eye of the storm struck the Baja peninsula Tuesday and hurled toward the mainland just eight hours after Hurricane Felix hit in Central America..
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Houston Chronicle
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President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying "Mexico does not end at its borders."
The criticism earned Calderon a standing ovation during his f..
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CNN
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Tropical Storm Henriette formed off Mexico's Pacific coast Friday and was forecast to move parallel to the mainland, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said.
A tropical storm warning was issued for Mexico's southern coast from Lagunas de..
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BBC News
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A Mexican woman whose fight to stay in the US with her US-born son attracted national attention has been sent back to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.
Elvira Arellano was arrested in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon and deported several hours later.
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Washington Post
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The Bush administration is close to sealing a major, multiyear aid deal to combat drug cartels in Mexico that would be the biggest U.S. anti-narcotics effort abroad since a seven-year, $5 billion program in Colombia, according to U.S. lawmakers, congressi..
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BBC News
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At least 40 people are feared dead after a bus was buried by a landslide in Puebla in central Mexico.
The bus was travelling on a remote road early on Wednesday, when a mountainside is believed to have collapsed on top of it after heavy rainfall.
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SF Gate
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Mexico replaced the federal police chiefs from each of the country's 31 states and the Federal District on Monday, pending polygraph and drug tests to determine whether they are on the right side of the law in the nation's foundering drug war.
The surp..
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FOX News
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Two fishermen whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico survived nearly two days and nights drifting at sea before one of them climbed the leg of an offshore oil platform.
The men were rescued early Friday after drifting more than 20 miles over the cou..
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