| MAP | 7.0 | 2012/04/11 22:55:17 | 18.390 | -102.652 | 65.6 | MICHOACAN, MEXICO |
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
6.5 Magnitude Quake - REVILLA GIGEDO ISLANDS REGION - 206 miles SSE of Cabo San Lucas, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico
| MAP | 6.5 | 2011/11/01 12:32:01 | 19.889 | -109.174 | 5.0 | REVILLA GIGEDO ISLANDS REGION |
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb0006hfg.php
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/11/01/ltzete/01/messageltzete-01.htm
To: U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and British Columbia coastal regions
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 11/1/2011 at 5:42AM PDT
A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. NO tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect for these areas.
Based on the earthquake magnitude, location and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts.
At 5:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time on November 1, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 6.5 occurred near the Revilla Gigedo Islands, Mexico region . (Refer to the United States Geological Survey for official earthquake parameters.)
Pacific coastal regions outside California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska should refer to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center messages for information on the event.
This will be the only statement issued for this event by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center unless conditions warrant. See the WCATWC web site for basic tsunami information, safety rules, and a tsunami travel time map and table. (NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate forecasted times only, not that a wave was generated.)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
AP 8-30-11 | Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano blasts out ash - possibility that ash could fall onto Mexico City overnight
Aug 30, 10:25 PM EDT
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano blasts out ash
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The Popocatepetl (po-po-ka-TEH-peh-tel) volcano south of Mexico City is shooting blasts of ash from its crater.
Mexico's national disaster prevention agency says the volcano has spewed ash more than a half mile (a kilometer) into the sky four times Tuesday. It says there is a possibility ash could fall onto Mexico City overnight.
The agency is urging people to stay at least 7 miles (12 kilometers) from the crater.
The 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of the capital.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_VOLCANO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano blasts out ash
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The Popocatepetl (po-po-ka-TEH-peh-tel) volcano south of Mexico City is shooting blasts of ash from its crater.
Mexico's national disaster prevention agency says the volcano has spewed ash more than a half mile (a kilometer) into the sky four times Tuesday. It says there is a possibility ash could fall onto Mexico City overnight.
The agency is urging people to stay at least 7 miles (12 kilometers) from the crater.
The 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of the capital.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_VOLCANO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocatepetl
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Earthquake swarm hits Baja California, Mexico today - December 30, 2009
5.8 magnitude Baja California, Mexico Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 32.467°N, 115.195°W |
| Depth | 6 km (3.7 miles) (poorly constrained) |
| Region | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| Distances |
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| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAP | 2.6 | 2009/12/30 19:38:42 | 32.431 | -115.150 | 27.7 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.9 | 2009/12/30 19:35:29 | 32.472 | -115.195 | 12.5 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.8 | 2009/12/30 19:30:09 | 32.501 | -115.184 | 25.5 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.8 | 2009/12/30 19:26:46 | 32.459 | -115.189 | 27.1 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 3.2 | 2009/12/30 19:23:58 | 32.448 | -115.179 | 28.6 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 3.2 | 2009/12/30 19:21:18 | 32.307 | -115.143 | 3.5 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.7 | 2009/12/30 19:17:34 | 32.502 | -115.171 | 2.0 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 3.0 | 2009/12/30 19:12:21 | 32.388 | -115.138 | 0.8 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 4.0 | 2009/12/30 19:07:40 | 32.466 | -115.195 | 3.4 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 3.4 | 2009/12/30 19:04:51 | 32.385 | -115.115 | 35.0 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 4.8 | 2009/12/30 18:53:23 | 32.508 | -115.210 | 6.0 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 5.8 | 2009/12/30 18:48:57 | 32.467 | -115.195 | 6.0 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.6 | 2009/12/30 17:57:45 | 32.456 | -115.174 | 27.3 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
| MAP | 3.5 | 2009/12/30 17:54:13 | 32.448 | -115.179 | 15.0 | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Plan Mexico proposed $1.4 billion in mostly foreign military financing - Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico
Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico; An Interview with Laura Carlsen - Global Research.ca
"Militarization is not the way to deal with Mexico's political crisis." Laura Carlsen
Mike Whitney--- Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Laura Carlsen: Plan Mexico, also called the Merida Initiative, is a three-year regional security cooperation plan devised by the former Bush administration and presented in October of 2007. The plan grew out of the extension of NAFTA into security areas, known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Originally Plan Mexico was to be announced in the context of the SPP trinational summit but was delayed. It is presented as a petition of the Mexican president Felipe Calderon for US help in the war on drugs but in reality it was designed in Washington as a way to "push out the borders" of the US security perimeter, that is, that Mexico would take on US security priorities including policing its southern border and allowing US companies and agents into Mexico's intelligence and security operations.
Plan Mexico proposed $1.4 billion in mostly foreign military financing. It is referred to as a "Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism and Border Security" proposal.
MW---Shortly after he was elected president, Felipe Calderon began using the military in the so-called War on Drugs. Since then, there has been a steady rise in troop deployments and an escalation in the violence. What is the Washington's role in this ongoing counterinsurgency operation?
Laura Carlsen: The Obama administration has supported the plan and even requested, and received from Congress, additional funds beyond what the Bush administration requested. In the three years since Calderon launched the war on drugs in Mexico with the support of the US government drug related violence has shot up to over 15,000 executions and formal reports of violations of human rights have increased sixfold. More than 45,000 solders have been deployed in streets and communities throughout Mexico. Washington recognizes serious problems with the drug war model and yet continues to claim, absurdly, that the rise in violence in Mexico is a good sign--it means that the cartels are feeling the heat, the argument runs. the plan itself does not contain any real benchmarks of what citizens should expect as signs of progress so it can continue to be funded despite its failure.
The State Department was required to submit a human rights report to release 15% of some portions of the appropriations and finally did so last summer. But the report stated that even given a lack of progress in human rights (including reported use of torture with impunity, lack of civilian justice for military forces, killings of civilians and corruption) the mere fact of reporting constituted compliance and released the funds.
So far the effort is not described as a counterinsurgency effort, because Mexico does not have a formal widespread insurgency movement. However, the targeting of grassroots opposition leaders in recent years has raised fears that dissidents are and will be a target of the increasingly militarized society.
MW--- In your article you say that the Merida Initiative is the direct outgrowth of the national security framework imposed on bilateral relations. Does that mean that the Bush Administration was using the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism to conceal its real political goals? If so, what are those goals?
Laura Carlsen: The Bush administration used the counterterrorism paradigm to extend US presence in strategic areas. In Mexico, the idea was to open up lucrative defense and intelligence contracts while aiding the rightwing government, which still faced serious questions of legitimacy due to unresolved accusations of fraud in the 2006 elections.
MW---Are there US intelligence agents, special forces or mercenaries conducting counterinsurgency operations in Mexico? Is Mexico required to allow the US military to operate in Mexico due to security and/or trade agreements?
Laura Carlsen: Mexico does not allow US soldiers on its territory. However there is a growing presence of DEA and other types of US agents in the country, as well as a private security companies. We do not have a good system for tracking the presence and activities of the private firms contracted for security and training purposes. This is a major problem.
MW---What effect has militarization had on political expression? How has it affected grass roots organizations, unions, and indigenous groups? Has there been an uptick in military-related violence, such as rape, beatings, torture and homicide?
Laura Carlsen: There has been an increase in human rights violations by the armed forces. In some regions, dissident leaders have been targeted by the military.
Women, indigenous people, migrants, dissidents and youth are particularly vulnerable.
Note: "The militarization of Mexico has led to a steep increase in homicides related to the drug war. It has led to rape and abuse of women by soldiers in communities throughout the country. Human rights complaints against the armed forces have increased six-fold.... The Mexican Armed Forces are not subject to civilian justice systems, but to their own military tribunals. These very rarely terminate in convictions." "The Perils of Plan Mexico", Laura Carlsen, counterpunch
MW---More than 50 Mexican human rights organizations have petitioned Congress to withdraw support for the Merida Initiative. Their letter reads: READ MORE
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16654
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by Mike Whitney - 2009-12-24
by Mike Whitney - 2009-12-24
Mike Whitney--- Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Laura Carlsen: Plan Mexico, also called the Merida Initiative, is a three-year regional security cooperation plan devised by the former Bush administration and presented in October of 2007. The plan grew out of the extension of NAFTA into security areas, known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Originally Plan Mexico was to be announced in the context of the SPP trinational summit but was delayed. It is presented as a petition of the Mexican president Felipe Calderon for US help in the war on drugs but in reality it was designed in Washington as a way to "push out the borders" of the US security perimeter, that is, that Mexico would take on US security priorities including policing its southern border and allowing US companies and agents into Mexico's intelligence and security operations.
Plan Mexico proposed $1.4 billion in mostly foreign military financing. It is referred to as a "Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism and Border Security" proposal.
MW---Shortly after he was elected president, Felipe Calderon began using the military in the so-called War on Drugs. Since then, there has been a steady rise in troop deployments and an escalation in the violence. What is the Washington's role in this ongoing counterinsurgency operation?
Laura Carlsen: The Obama administration has supported the plan and even requested, and received from Congress, additional funds beyond what the Bush administration requested. In the three years since Calderon launched the war on drugs in Mexico with the support of the US government drug related violence has shot up to over 15,000 executions and formal reports of violations of human rights have increased sixfold. More than 45,000 solders have been deployed in streets and communities throughout Mexico. Washington recognizes serious problems with the drug war model and yet continues to claim, absurdly, that the rise in violence in Mexico is a good sign--it means that the cartels are feeling the heat, the argument runs. the plan itself does not contain any real benchmarks of what citizens should expect as signs of progress so it can continue to be funded despite its failure.
The State Department was required to submit a human rights report to release 15% of some portions of the appropriations and finally did so last summer. But the report stated that even given a lack of progress in human rights (including reported use of torture with impunity, lack of civilian justice for military forces, killings of civilians and corruption) the mere fact of reporting constituted compliance and released the funds.
So far the effort is not described as a counterinsurgency effort, because Mexico does not have a formal widespread insurgency movement. However, the targeting of grassroots opposition leaders in recent years has raised fears that dissidents are and will be a target of the increasingly militarized society.
MW--- In your article you say that the Merida Initiative is the direct outgrowth of the national security framework imposed on bilateral relations. Does that mean that the Bush Administration was using the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism to conceal its real political goals? If so, what are those goals?
Laura Carlsen: The Bush administration used the counterterrorism paradigm to extend US presence in strategic areas. In Mexico, the idea was to open up lucrative defense and intelligence contracts while aiding the rightwing government, which still faced serious questions of legitimacy due to unresolved accusations of fraud in the 2006 elections.
MW---Are there US intelligence agents, special forces or mercenaries conducting counterinsurgency operations in Mexico? Is Mexico required to allow the US military to operate in Mexico due to security and/or trade agreements?
Laura Carlsen: Mexico does not allow US soldiers on its territory. However there is a growing presence of DEA and other types of US agents in the country, as well as a private security companies. We do not have a good system for tracking the presence and activities of the private firms contracted for security and training purposes. This is a major problem.
MW---What effect has militarization had on political expression? How has it affected grass roots organizations, unions, and indigenous groups? Has there been an uptick in military-related violence, such as rape, beatings, torture and homicide?
Laura Carlsen: There has been an increase in human rights violations by the armed forces. In some regions, dissident leaders have been targeted by the military.
Women, indigenous people, migrants, dissidents and youth are particularly vulnerable.
Note: "The militarization of Mexico has led to a steep increase in homicides related to the drug war. It has led to rape and abuse of women by soldiers in communities throughout the country. Human rights complaints against the armed forces have increased six-fold.... The Mexican Armed Forces are not subject to civilian justice systems, but to their own military tribunals. These very rarely terminate in convictions." "The Perils of Plan Mexico", Laura Carlsen, counterpunch
MW---More than 50 Mexican human rights organizations have petitioned Congress to withdraw support for the Merida Initiative. Their letter reads: READ MORE
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16654
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Mexico Under Siege: A LA Times Special Report- The drug war at our doorstep
December 22, 2009
RELATED:
Family of marine murdered in possible revenge attack
Staged photos of slain drug lord stir controversy
Tijuana's security chief needs all of it he can get
http://projects.latimes.com/siege/#/its-a-war
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Mexico's drug cartels siphon liquid gold - Bold theft of $1 billion in oil, resold in U.S., has dealt a major blow to the treasury
Sunday, December 13, 2009
MALTRATA, MEXICO -- Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years, in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and the state-run oil company.
Using sophisticated smuggling networks, the traffickers have transported a portion of the pilfered petroleum across the border to sell to U.S. companies, some of which knew that it was stolen, according to court documents and interviews with American officials involved in an expanding investigation of oil services firms in Texas.
The widespread theft of Mexico's most vital national resource by criminal organizations represents a costly new front in President Felipe Calderón's war against the drug cartels, and it shows how the traffickers are rapidly evolving from traditional narcotics smuggling to activities as diverse as oil theft, transport and sales.
READ MORE:
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Stratfor.com | Mexico: The War with the Cartels in 2009
December 9, 2009
Editor’s Note: This week’s Global Security & Intelligence Report is an abridged version of STRATFOR’s annual report on Mexico’s drug cartels. The full report, which includes extensive diagrams depicting the leadership of each cartel, will be available to our members next week.
There are two cartel wars currently raging in Mexico that have combined to produce record levels of violence in 2009. The first war is the struggle between the government of Mexico and the drug cartels. The second, a parallel war, is the fight among the various cartels as they compete for control of lucrative supply routes. Shortly after his inauguration in December 2006, President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out effort to target the cartels, which he viewed as a major threat to Mexico’s security and stability. Over the past three years, the government’s effort has weakened and fragmented some of the major cartels (namely the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels), but this government progress has upset the balance of power among the cartels, which has resulted in increased violence. Former cartel allies have been pitted against each other in bloody battles of attrition as rival cartels have tried to take advantage of their weakened competitors and seize control of smuggling routes ...
READ MORE:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20091209_mexico_war_cartels_2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Latin American Herald Tribune | More than 200,000 Affected by Flooding in Southeastern Mexico
Inhabitants of the Cardenas community, in Tabasco state, Mexico, leave their house on 6 November 2009, due to the floods caused by the last days of heavy rain, which according to official reports, have stranded close to 21,000 people. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
Children stay inside a house in the Cardenas community, in Tabasco state, Mexico, on 06 November 2009, due to the floolds caused by the last days of heavy rain, which according to official reports, have stranded close to 21,000 people. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
A man looks at one of the rooms of his house located at the community of Cardenas, southern state of Tabasco, Mexico, 05 November 2009, flooded after the heavy rains that have hit the region since last weekend. Two men and a woman died due to the rains that have left 44.000 people affected and 90 rural communities flooded in the state of Tabasco. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
Inhabitants walk amid flooded waters in the community of Cardenas, Mexican State of Tabasco, Mexico, 05 November 2009. Heavy rains had provoked overflows of rivers since last week end with a death toll of two men and one woman. EPA/MARCO POLO GUZMAN
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – November 7, 2009 - The number of victims of flooded homes in the rain-soaked Mexican Gulf coast states of Tabasco and Veracruz has risen to 206,000, officials said.
In Tabasco, the most affected area, the number of people whose homes have been flooded due to heavy rains has climbed from 79,000 to 200,000, Gov. Andres Granier said on Friday.
“There are more than 200,000 Tabasco residents who are in a desperate situation at the moment and, of course, I’m worried about this,” Granier said during a public event.
Official reports indicate that some 24,225 hectares (60,000 acres) of crops have been destroyed by the flooding in two municipalities of that southeastern state, where heavy rains two years ago left 80 percent of the state underwater and killed more than two-dozen people.
After rivers in the Tabasco towns of Cardenas and Huimanguillo burst their banks, the state government said the agricultural zone known as “El Plan Chontalpa” is practically “broken” and that rice, sugarcane, pineapple and lemon crops have been lost.
“The situation is serious. Crops have been lost and federal government funds are needed to cope with the crisis,” Granier said.
“Soon we’ll know the extent of the losses, and that won’t be until the water retreats,” the leader in Tabasco of the National Peasants’ Confederation, or CNC, Juan Jose Cadenas, said.
The Tabasco Agriculture Secretariat, meanwhile, said that at least 10,000 hectares (24,690 acres) of pastureland have been flooded and that ranchers have been forced to move more than 40,000 head of cattle to higher ground.
“If the cattle keeps getting thinner, we’ll lose a lot of (those animals),” said a source of that department.
In Cardenas and Huimanguillo, where more than 150 rural communities have been inundated and 12 damaged roads remain closed, ranchers reported the death of at least 50 head of cattle and an equal number of sheep.
In addition, some 145 schools in those two municipalities have been flooded and many others are being used as temporary shelters.
Meanwhile, in the neighboring state of Veracruz, authorities said Thursday that the homes of some 6,000 people in eight different towns have been flooded as a result of the torrential downpours.
Those municipalities have suffered flooding in both urban and rural areas due to both heavy rains and the swelling of rivers that flow into the state from Tabasco and Chiapas.
For its part, the National Defense Secretariat, or Sedena, said in a statement Friday that it has implemented an emergency plan to assist flood victims in Tabasco and Veracruz states, where the army thus far has evacuated 2,065 victims and set up nine shelters housing another 2,468 people.
Sedena has deployed 455 soldiers to the area, including a general, and said the military contingent in the Mexico City metropolitan area is on alert “to attend to other emergency situations that may arise due to the rains.”
The Mexican government said that, in addition to the current cold front, southeastern Mexico could be affected in the coming days by Tropical Storm Ida, which drenched Nicaragua on Friday but has begun re-strengthening as it moves north over the warm waters of the Caribbean.
In Tabasco, the most affected area, the number of people whose homes have been flooded due to heavy rains has climbed from 79,000 to 200,000, Gov. Andres Granier said on Friday.
“There are more than 200,000 Tabasco residents who are in a desperate situation at the moment and, of course, I’m worried about this,” Granier said during a public event.
Official reports indicate that some 24,225 hectares (60,000 acres) of crops have been destroyed by the flooding in two municipalities of that southeastern state, where heavy rains two years ago left 80 percent of the state underwater and killed more than two-dozen people.
After rivers in the Tabasco towns of Cardenas and Huimanguillo burst their banks, the state government said the agricultural zone known as “El Plan Chontalpa” is practically “broken” and that rice, sugarcane, pineapple and lemon crops have been lost.
“The situation is serious. Crops have been lost and federal government funds are needed to cope with the crisis,” Granier said.
“Soon we’ll know the extent of the losses, and that won’t be until the water retreats,” the leader in Tabasco of the National Peasants’ Confederation, or CNC, Juan Jose Cadenas, said.
The Tabasco Agriculture Secretariat, meanwhile, said that at least 10,000 hectares (24,690 acres) of pastureland have been flooded and that ranchers have been forced to move more than 40,000 head of cattle to higher ground.
“If the cattle keeps getting thinner, we’ll lose a lot of (those animals),” said a source of that department.
In Cardenas and Huimanguillo, where more than 150 rural communities have been inundated and 12 damaged roads remain closed, ranchers reported the death of at least 50 head of cattle and an equal number of sheep.
In addition, some 145 schools in those two municipalities have been flooded and many others are being used as temporary shelters.
Meanwhile, in the neighboring state of Veracruz, authorities said Thursday that the homes of some 6,000 people in eight different towns have been flooded as a result of the torrential downpours.
Those municipalities have suffered flooding in both urban and rural areas due to both heavy rains and the swelling of rivers that flow into the state from Tabasco and Chiapas.
For its part, the National Defense Secretariat, or Sedena, said in a statement Friday that it has implemented an emergency plan to assist flood victims in Tabasco and Veracruz states, where the army thus far has evacuated 2,065 victims and set up nine shelters housing another 2,468 people.
Sedena has deployed 455 soldiers to the area, including a general, and said the military contingent in the Mexico City metropolitan area is on alert “to attend to other emergency situations that may arise due to the rains.”
The Mexican government said that, in addition to the current cold front, southeastern Mexico could be affected in the coming days by Tropical Storm Ida, which drenched Nicaragua on Friday but has begun re-strengthening as it moves north over the warm waters of the Caribbean.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Sydney Morning Herald | Doctors sold baby after telling mother it was dead
November 6, 2009 MEXICO CITY: Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling their mothers they had died. Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learnt her baby was alive and had been sold to a woman for 15,000 pesos ($1240), said Mexico City's deputy attorney general, Luis Genaro........
Monday, October 12, 2009
Chron.com | Mexican government seizes electrical utility
MEXICO CITY — October 12, 2009 - President Felipe Calderon on Sunday disbanded the public utility that supplies electricity to Mexico City and the surrounding area, citing a gaping budget hole that threatened service to 25 million consumers.
About 500 federal police seized the Mexico City offices of the electricity company Luz y Fuerza del Centro, hours before the government published a decree documenting severe financial and operational inefficiencies at the electricity provider.
Luz y Fuerza is a state-run company that services Mexico City and parts of four central states, but business decisions were largely dictated by a powerful labor union that was locked in a dispute with Calderon's government. The 66,000-member union promised protests to resist the move in the coming days. FULL STORY
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
LATimes.com | Mexico water shortage becomes crisis amid drought
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital's water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Straits Times | Hurricane Jimena could hit Mexican coast
LA PAZ (Mexico) - POTENTIALLY deadly Hurricane Jimena, churning in the Pacific off Mexico, now has a 'high possibility' of crashing into the coast, the National Weather Service warned on Sunday.
After earlier moving on a track that looked as if it would curve away from the coast, the service said there is a 'high possibility of a direct (land) hit by Hurricane Jimena in the next 72 hours,' in Baja California Sur state on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico's northwest.
Jimena late on Sunday was packing winds of 220 kph and was moving west-northwest at 13 kph, the weather service said.
The storm, which could barrel onshore on Wednesday, may be felt with powerful winds, heavy rain and rough seas as soon as Tuesday, it forecast.
With gusty winds and some drizzle here already, residents of La Paz, the state capital, were rushing to board up windows and buy groceries before shops close their doors.
State civil defence officials were meeting to decide if and when evacuations will be necessary and where shelters will be set up.
The area of the state where the storm may make its hit is not especially densely populated, and has many small fishing villages.
Jimena has already caused 'intense heavy rain with flooding in the lowlands and landslides in mountains' in the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco on the Pacific coast, a Mexican weather official said on Saturday.
The Category Four storm was just one notch below the most dangerous possible category on the one-to-five Saffir-Simpon scale.
The Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre said in a bulletin that 'a hurricane watch may be required for portions of the southern Baja California peninsula (of Mexico) later on (Sunday into Monday).' 'Some fluctuations in strength are likely over the next day or two,' the US NHC said. -- AFP
Hurricane Jimena threatens Mexican coast Melbourne Herald Sun
Dangerous hurricane headed for Baja California Reuters India
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Reuters | Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on the US border - daylight murders & beheaded bodies the norm - most dangerous city in the world
August 28th, 2009
By Julian Cardona
With 130 murders for every 100,000 residents per year on average last year, the city of 1.6 million people is more violent than the Venezuelan capital Caracas, the U.S. city of New Orleans and Colombia’s Medellin. That is according to a study by the Mexican non-profit Citizen Council for Public Security and Justice, which presented its report to Mexico’s security minister at a conference this week.
The fight between rival drug cartels over Ciudad Juarez’s local drug market and smuggling routes into the United States broke out at the start of last year and continues to intensify.
Reliable global crime statistics are hard to pin down and a study last year by Foreign Policy Magazine placed Caracas as the world’s top murder capital, also with 130 murders per 100,000 residents. (The Mexican study disputes that and puts the Caracas figure at 96).
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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