US Jet Airline cargo plane crashes in Mexico – Pilot dead, co-pilot critical (Updated 2)

Jul 062008
 
 06/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:43 on 06/07/2008 Comments Off
US Jet Airline cargo plane crashes in Mexico - Pilot dead, co-pilot critical (Updated 2)

RAMOS ARIZPE,Coahuila, Mexico (MTN) — A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot, Lon Macintosh of Middletown Ohio, and severely injuring the co-pilot, Christopher Martin. The plane crashed before dawn Sunday half a mile (one kilometer) from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the U.S.-Mexico border, said Segismundo Doguin, the deputy civil defense chief for Coahuila state. The co-pilot received second- and third-degree burns and was in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby city of Saltillo, Doguin said. The ….Read More

Lucano Bus crashes, 2 dead, 10 injured south of Nuevo Laredo

Jul 052008
 
 05/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:08 on 05/07/2008 14 Responses »
Lucano Bus crashes, 2 dead, 10 injured south of Nuevo Laredo

A bus owned by Autobuses Lucano of Dallas Texas, traveling from San Luis Patosi, SLP to Houston Texas crashed 35 miles south of Nuevo Laredo Thursday morning, killing 2, including a pregnant 19 year old woman whose body was found under the bus and injuring 10. The injured were taken to hospitals in Sabinas Hidalgo NL and Cruz Roja in Nuevo Laredo. Juan Carlos Flores Sanchez, Commandander of Federal Police Highways, reported initial investigation and interviews with passengers suggested the driver fell asleep at the wheel shortly before the bus left the highway and overturned. The driver left the scene ….Read More

UPDATED: 12 people trampled to death in Mexico nightclub raid

Jun 222008
 
 22/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:44 on 22/06/2008 Comments Off
UPDATED: 12 people trampled to death in Mexico nightclub raid

MEXICO CITY (MTN) — A police raid on a crammed Mexico City nightclub turned into a deadly stampede that killed 12 people, including nine youths and three police, officials said. Police entered the New Divine nightclub, where around 1,000 people had gathered to fete the end of the school year, on Friday to break up the illegal sale of alcohol to minors and a stampede ensued, said Joel Ortega, a local security official. “Unfortunately, the person in charge of the nightclub took the microphone and announced a police operation was underway,” Ortega said, adding that his words “sparked a panic.” ….Read More

Go south for cheap gas?

Jun 192008
 
 19/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 19:05 on 19/06/2008 2 Responses »
Go south for cheap gas?

There has been much talk lately in the news and on the radio and TV shows about Americans heading to Mexico to partake of the cheaper fuels available there. This quote from The Sanctuary gave me a chuckle and went on to explain why the fuels are so much cheaper in Mexico. As nativists continue to falsely claim that “illegal aliens are stealing from U.S. taxpayers”, it looks as if U.S. citizens have found a way to steal from Mexican taxpayers. Here in Mexico, gasoline is about a dollar cheaper per gallon than in the US because the Mexican government ….Read More

Man loses head pretending to be what he’s not!

May 192008
 
 19/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:04 on 19/05/2008 Comments Off
Man loses head pretending to be what he's not!

Our friend Sean Mattson, Mexico correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, left this interesting tidbit on his blog this morning, concerning the severed head found on a car in Monterrey this past week. Honor amongst thieves perhaps? Who knows, but I got a chuckle out of the thing. Head left on car with warning for wannabe Zetas; reassurance for businessmen Kidnapping a guy, chopping his head off and leaving it on top of a car is sure one heck of a way to send a message. Just in case the point wasn’t clear, the suspected killers of a person ….Read More

Mexican Congress approves end to criminal penalties for undocumented migrants

Apr 302008
 
 30/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:02 on 30/04/2008 Comments Off

Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico’s Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country.The measure passed unanimously in the lower house on Tuesday, a day after Senate approval. President Felipe Calderon’s office declined to say whether he would sign the popular measure into law. Mexican lawmakers saw the harsh penalties as an anachronism, and some noted Mexico also owes migrants better treatment. Immigrants here, mostly Central Americans trying to reach the U.S., are often robbed, mistreated and subject to extortion by bandits and even police. “It is very positive that they have removed ….Read More

Mexican Truck Maker Heads to New Destinations

Apr 272008
 
 27/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 19:18 on 27/04/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Truck Maker Heads to New Destinations

Four years ago, the Government got rid of a state-controlled company that lost $25 million a year turning out smoky buses and trucks that could barely climb Mexico’s mountains. That same company, Consorcio Grupo Dina, is now operated by a team of businessmen and has an annual profit of $90 million on a new line of trucks and buses. It is one of five Mexican companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Three weeks ago it announced a preliminary agreement in the United States market with the acquisition of Motor Coach Industries International of Phoenix, the largest bus manufacturer ….Read More

All the pretty Mexican Trucks

Apr 102008
 
 10/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:37 on 10/04/2008 3 Responses »
All the pretty Mexican Trucks

On my days off this week, I needed to get away and relax and not having but a couple of days, headed to Monterrey Nuevo Leon. It’s a good destination, a world class city that can hold it’s own against any similar city in North America. It’s good to have friends there, especially those in the travel industry. I don’t recognize the name of the American company I represented, but because of them, I was able to obtain a suite in a 5 star hotel in Monterrey’s Galeria section that normally is $2400 pesos per night and paid only $921.00 ….Read More

Chertoff gives “the finger” to South Texas

Apr 072008
 
 07/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:20 on 07/04/2008 Comments Off

Confronted with environmental concerns about proposed border fencing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used his power Tuesday to waive dozens of federal laws to clear the way for building it. Chertoff’s announcement followed a March 3 letter from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official pointing out that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had abruptly spiked a compromise the agencies were working on to protect an extensive riverfront wildlife refuge affected by a Hidalgo County fence-levee project. He signed two waivers Tuesday, one of them negating 37 environmental, historic preservation and land management laws to speed 470 miles of ….Read More

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