Seven charged in Mexico’s day-care center fire – Six more sought

Jun 222009
 
 22/06/2009  Posted by PMC at 18:23 on 22/06/2009 Comments Off
Seven charged in Mexico's day-care center fire - Six more sought

MEXICO CITY — Seven state officials have been arrested for negligent homicide in a day care fire that killed 47 children in northern Mexico, an official said Monday. The seven are officials with the northern Sonora state Finance Department, which operated a warehouse where the June 5 fire started, then spread to the adjacent day care center, said Sonora State Attorney General Abel Murrieta. He said arrests warrants have been issued for six other Finance Department officials. “They are employees and officials with the Finance Department who have a direct responsibility for the warehouse where the fire started,” Murrieta said ….Read More

Mexico will decriminalize some drug use

Jun 222009
 
 22/06/2009  Posted by PMC at 09:07 on 22/06/2009 Comments Off
Mexico will decriminalize some drug use

MEXICO CITY — Could Mexican cities become Latin Amsterdams, flooded by drug users seeking penalty-free tokes and toots? That is the fear, if somewhat overstated, of some Mexican officials, especially in northern border states that serve as a mecca for underage American drinkers. The Mexican legislature has voted quietly to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of pot, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs, an effort that in the past has proved highly controversial. There has been less protest this time around, in part because there hasn’t been much publicity. Some critics have suggested that easing the punishment on drug possession ….Read More

Trucker faces 25 counts in Mexico crash – Bond set at $4.4 million pesos

Mar 192009
 
 19/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 07:28 on 19/03/2009 Comments Off
Trucker faces 25 counts in Mexico crash - Bond set at $4.4 million pesos

Jose Angel Herrera, coordinator of Coahuila’s public prosecution office, said Rodriguez Garcia remained in the hospital in stable condition but had bond set at $312,056, or about 4.4 million pesos. That’s 400,000 pesos for each death.

18 wheeler crashes head on into Grupo Sendor tour bus outside Saltillo Coahuilla

Mar 172009
 
 17/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:48 on 17/03/2009 1 Response »
18 wheeler crashes head on into Grupo Sendor tour bus outside Saltillo Coahuilla

The U.S. embassy in Monterrey confirms eight Americans died in a deadly bus crash in north central Mexico. Five Canadians were also killed. Another 12 U.S. citizens are in the hospital. The Coahuila state police have just released a list of those injured and the hospitals they are in. Grupo Senda coach number 8003 was enroute to Zacatecas from McAllen Texas when a day cab tractor driven by Julio César Rodríguez López, age 23, of Saltillo, collided with the coach, killing the driver, César García Huerta, 42 and 13 others, American and Canadian tourists. 12 suffered injuries of various degrees, ….Read More

Mexico state of Tamaulipas first to declare itself bilingual

Feb 052009
 
 05/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:27 on 05/02/2009 Comments Off
Mexico state of Tamaulipas first to declare itself bilingual

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – It isn’t perfect English, but pretty darn close. Spoken in unison, the words flow effortlessly from a group of smiling students. So does their message. “English is important to me,” said 11-year-old Silvia Alejandra Briseño, “because it means more opportunities and better communication when I grow up. Hopefully a better job, too, here or there in Texas.” Her bilingual teacher, 36-year-old Mary Lou Tamez, said: “English is critical, especially when you realize who our neighbors are, Texans.” Without fanfare but with great hopes, the state of Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, has declared itself the first bilingual ….Read More

Mexico launches effort to teach its students English

Feb 022009
 
 02/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 06:54 on 02/02/2009 2 Responses »
Mexico launches effort to teach its students English

With its economy increasingly hitched to the United States, Mexico’s government has launched an ambitious plan to teach English to every schoolchild, even those in kindergarten. Currently, educators in 21 states and the Federal District are offering the language in a smattering of elementary schools and experimenting with teaching methods. Beginning next fall, 5,000 schools will begin a pilot project with federal textbooks and funds. And within just six years, federal officials hope to have all 12 million public elementary school students learning English. “The ability to speak English in the 21st century is a must if we want to ….Read More

Collision with tractor trailer kills 6 returning from Christmas vacation

Jan 112009
 
 11/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 21:08 on 11/01/2009 Comments Off
Collision with tractor trailer kills 6 returning from Christmas vacation

A family returning to the United States after spending Christmas with family in Guanajuato and San Luis Patosi, were killed when their vehicle collided with a tractor trailer on Mexico 85 south of Nuevo Laredo. Federal Police said the 2005 Chevy Trailblazer driven by Everardo Aguilar Rodríguez, 43 was being driven in excess of 160 lmh (100mph) when the driver colided with the rear of a tractor trailer pulling a flatbed.  The driver apprently fell asleep at the wheel. Also killed were his wife,María Teresa Rodríguez Chávez,  40; sons David, Gabriel and Daniel Aguilar,  13, 10 and 7  years of age ….Read More

Mexico’s Social Security (IMSS) wins useless bureaucracy award

Jan 092009
 
 09/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:05 on 09/01/2009 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — Here was a contest no Mexican bureaucrat wanted to win. A months-long quest to identify the most nightmarish examples of Mexico’s famously nightmarish red tape ended Thursday with a verdict: The nation’s Social Security agency reigns supreme among government bureaucracies that drive Mexicans nuts. President Felipe Calderon bestowed the dubious honor on the federal agency as part of a contest to find the country’s “most useless tramite,” or bureaucratic process. The contest drew more than 20,000 nominations from Mexicans who endure long lines and lug reams of required paperwork to accomplish seemingly straightforward chores, such as acquiring ….Read More

Armed gang holds up train in Mexico, robs freight

Dec 272008
 
 27/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:58 on 27/12/2008 2 Responses »
Armed gang holds up train in Mexico, robs freight

MORELIA, Mexico — A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The gang parked a pickup truck across the tracks on Friday, forcing the train to stop. The assailants then threatened the train’s crew and opened some of the freight containers it was carrying. A statement by the prosecutor’s office did not specify what the gang stole from the train, operated by Kansas City Southern, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based railway company. But the thieves ….Read More

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