Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Feb 11 (EFE).- More than 50 people died Thursday in a prison fire and riot in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey, local media reported. Authorities in Nuevo Leon state have not yet provided accurate information about the number of people who died - possibly including both inmates and prison officials - or were injured in the incident. Meanwhi...

Washington, Feb 9 (EFE).- Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Tuesday finally put a price to one of his most controversial proposals, building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border paid for by the latter, claiming that it would cost $8 billion. "The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico," said Trump in an interview on MSNBC. The...

File photo San Jose, Feb 5 (EFE).- The Costa Rican government announced Friday that next week direct flights to Mexico will begin for Cuban migrants who have been stranded in the Central American country since last November on their way to the United States. "We are pleased to announce that the governments of Costa Rica and Mexico have agreed to carry out direct flights to make travel easie...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Feb 3 (EFE).- A young gray whale (Eschrictius robustus) that beached itself in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur was rescued by Profepa federal environmental protection agency personnel, officials said. The whale was found at El Mariscal, a fishing camp on the Laguna Ojo de Liebre in Guerrero Negro, a community outside the city of Mulege, t...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Feb 2 (EFE).- Three Colombians were arrested when they tried to fly out of the Mexico City airport with more than $1.5 million in cash hidden in their luggage, the Attorney General's Office said. "The three passengers tried to leave the country without declaring the foreign exchange they were carrying in their double-bottomed suitcases, registered to Copa Airl...

Alfredo Guzman Twitter LIMA, Peru — Mexican authorities will be looking into how the daughter of captured druglord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was able to trademark his nickname. Local media reported this week that one of the Sinaloa cartel leader’s daughters, Alejandra Gisselle Guzman, had successfully registered the term “El Chapo” with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property. It… (m...

Flickr Commons Mexico City, Jan 28 (EFE).- Mexican authorities sent the U.S. teenager who used an "affluenza" court defense after killing four people while driving drunk in Texas back to the United States to face court proceedings. "Ethan Couch, who entered at the Las Agujas immigration station ... after being found to be in an irregular administrative situation, was transferred this mornin...

Mexican Soldiers at Checkpoint in 2009. Source: Wikimedia Chilpancingo, Mexico, Jan 27 (EFE).- Nine young people were kidnapped in different parts of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, where a wave of violent crime has persisted despite the deployment of army soldiers and Federal Police, police sources said. Six people were abducted Tuesday by an armed group that burst into a motorcycl...

Source: Flickr Commons Ensenada, Mexico, Jan 25 (EFE).- Four people, including two children, were killed and 15 others wounded in a shooting at a cockfight in Ensenada, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, over the weekend, prosecutors said. Several masked gunmen entered the Palenque Poker building looking for a man they were ordered to kill, the Baja California Atto...

Source: Kate del Castillo Twitter Mexico City, Jan 18 (EFE).- Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who met with Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman late last year while he was a still a fugitive, will be summoned by Mexican authorities to testify about her links to the powerful drug lord, a federal government source told EFE Monday. "Yes, they're going to call her to testify," the source said ...

Flickr Commons Mexico City, Jan 16 (EFE).- The arrest in Spain of a former chairman of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has roiled the political scene in Mexico, where the main opposition parties demanded that President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration take legal action against the politician. The center-right National Action Party, or PAN, insisted that the "full we...

FreeStockPhotos.biz The looming economy crisis in Latin America is becoming more apparent with new reports from Mexico and Venezuela. The national currency of Mexico showed signs of retail weakness as global markets plummeted due to concerns about reduced growth of the Chinese economy, and the price of crude oil produced in Venezuela, an OPEC member nation, fell well below $30. The followin...

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Source: Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Jan 9 (EFE).- Mexico's attorney general said marines were able to recapture Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman due partly to their discovery that the fugitive Sinaloa cartel kingpin had contacted people in the film industry about making a movie about his life. "An important aspect in determining his location was having discovere...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Jan 7 (EFE).- Three fugtives wanted on criminal conspiracy, drug, sexual abuse and homicide charges by U.S. federal courts were extradited to the United States, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said. "The Foreign Relations Secretariat cited the corresponding agreements under which the government of our country granted the extradition requested by U.S. aut...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Jan 5 (EFE).- Police officers in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas rescued 45 migrants from Guatemala and Honduras in Reynosa, located across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas, the Tamaulipas Coordination Group said. State police officers responding to a tip from the public went to a house in the border city's Puertas del Sol district, where people...

Source: Flickr Commons Mexico City, Jan 2 (EFE).- The newly installed mayor of the central Mexican city of Temixco was killed Saturday, a day after she took office, officials said. "They've informed me of the attack on the mayor of Temixco, Gisela Mota, a young and dear colleague. This a challenge by organized crime. We won't give in," Graco Ramirez - the governor of the central state of Mo...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Dec 26 (EFE).- Two suspected criminals were killed in a clash with marines in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said Saturday. The marines came under attack Friday by suspected members of an organized crime gang while on patrol in the municipality of Badiraguato, the Navy Secretariat said in a bulletin, adding that a navy helicopter that w...

Source: Flickr Commons Acapulco, Mexico, Dec 17 (EFE).- After previously denying media reports about the discovery of nearly a score of bodies, the governor of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero said Thursday that a federal prosecutor had informed him that a large number of human remains had been found. "Indeed, the (federal) Attorney General's Office is investigating the discovery of t...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Dec 7 (EFE).- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, experts who examined the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School students in southern Mexico said Monday that a study done by a weather and satellite imagery center bolsters the theory that the missing students' bodies were not burned at the dump in Cocula. "The satellite images ...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Dec 2 (EFE).- Mexico's Profepa federal environmental protection agency returned or seized 11,250 pine trees from the United States from Nov. 3 to Nov. 25 due to the presence of blight not previously detected in the country, officials said. Profepa inspectors banned sales of the trees under the Christmas Tree Importation Verification and Inspection Program for ...

Source: Facebook Culiacan, Mexico, Dec 1 (EFE).- The burned van found with two bodies inside in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa last month belonged to the two Australian surfers reported missing in the area, state officials said. The van was found on Nov. 21 in the city of Navolato and investigators suspect that the bodies found in the vehicle are those of Dean Lucas and Adam Russ...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Nov 26 (EFE).- Mexico's Profepa federal environmental protection agency has intensified its search for a Bengal tiger that escaped from a hunting ground a month ago in the southern state of Guerrero. The big cat is in an area known as El Potrerito, part of the Coyuca de Benitez municipality, the institution said Wednesday in a statement. Working in coordina...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Nov 23 (EFE).- Dozens of residences at a luxury development in Mexico City's Santa Fe neighborhood, including former Miss Universe Alicia Machado's home, are on the edge of an abyss after landslides that have led to criticism of unregulated development in the capital. Santa Fe, a neighborhood in the borough of Cuajimalpa, is a newly developed area in the south...

Source: Pixabay Commons Mexico City, Nov 23 (EFE).- The Federal District Attorney's Office, working with federal law enforcement personnel, arrested three men and a woman, and 17 victims of sexual exploitation were rescued in Mexico City, officials said. The victims, all adult women, were forced to provide sexual services at the Desexxx3 bar in the Mexico City borough of Centro, the DA's of...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 19 (EFE).- More Mexicans are returning to their homeland than are emigrating to the United States, with a net outflow from this country of 140,000 between 2009 and 2014, according to a report released on Thursday. The report, prepared by the Pew Research Center, says that more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here ...

Prime Minister Trudeau and President Peña Nieto By Helen Cook Manila, Nov 18 (EFE).- Philippine social-networking sites have been awash with praise for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who have caused a stir here among a segment of the female population since arriving for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Only minutes after they...

Flickr Commons1 Mexico City, Nov 9 (EFE).- The coach of a girls' basketball team in the southern state of Oaxaca was shot to death by a father who was angry with the decision not to let his daughter play in a game, Mexican authorities reported Monday. The incident occurred at a sports facility in Oaxaca on Sunday after a game in which Guillermo Audelo, 33, had coached his team - the Dragons...

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Source: Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Oct 26 (EFE).- The United States is assisting with the manhunt for Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, but U.S. law enforcement agents are not taking part in operations in Mexico, Government Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said Monday. "Not one single person" from a U.S. security agency is particip...

Wikimedia Commons Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct 24 (EFE). - Patricia, which weakened quickly after making landfall in Mexico as a fearsome Category 5 hurricane, caused no casualties and only minor damage, authorities said Saturday in a preliminary report. "There were some regrettable accidents ... a road accident, a fallen tree, but no major incidents," Communications and Transportation Secretar...

Source: NOAA Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct 23 (EFE). - Thousands of residents and tourists on the Pacific coasts of the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit were evacuated as landfall approached for Hurricane Patricia, described as the most powerful tropical system in history. National emergency management office chief Luis Felipe Puente told media that since Thursday the evacuation of ...

With the skyrocketing costs of healthcare in America, many patients are beginning to look outside of the US for their health and dental care. Because of Latin America’s reputation for healthcare quality and as an enjoyable place to rest and recover post-surgery, many nations in Latin America are becoming popular destinations for medical and dental tourism. Mexico is a common and popular dental car...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Oct 21 (EFE).- Mexican authorities have shut down nine tourist projects in Tulum, a protected natural area in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, citing their impact on wild flora and fauna. Staff with the Profepa federal environmental protection agency verified through five environmental impact assessments and four forestry inspections of those tourist de...

Source: Flickr Commons Mexico City, Oct 19 (EFE).- Police found a dead man hanging off a bridge in eastern Mexico City, the Federal District Attorney's Office said Monday. The body had a bullet wound and was completely covered in bandages, a DA's office spokesman told EFE. The unidentified man was left hanging off the steel structure of a bridge over an intersection in the borough of Izt...

Mexico City, Oct 16 (EFE).  - Some 4.5 million Mexicans living in poverty benefit from government programs that put food on their tables, President Enrique Peña Nieto said while leading a World Food Day ceremony. "We're working on different fronts against poverty and food insecurity. To get results we have to combine our efforts," Peña Nieto said during a visit to San Felipe del Progreso, a sma...

Mexico City, Oct 11 (EFE).- Authorities seized 3.5 tons of shark fins and 529 kilos of sea bass swim bladders in Manzanillo, a coastal city in the western Mexican state of Colima, the Profepa federal environmental protection agency said. The animal parts came from "wildlife in Colima" and had been dehydrated, the agency said in a statement. Inspectors found the shark fins and sea bass swim b...

Source: Wikimedia Commons By Mariel Huerta Mexico City, Oct 10 (EFE).- Romi, a 10-month-old pitbull, died of poisoning after being taken for a walk in Parque Mexico, a case that would have been forgotten if almost 20 other dogs in the area had not already died that way, a growing cause for concern among the residents of the elegant Condesa neighborhood in the Mexican capital. While regre...

Wikimedia Commons Morelia, Mexico, Oct 9 (EFE).- A small plane loaded with packets of cocaine crashed and burst into flames in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, an accident in which two suspected drug traffickers were killed, officials said. The Cessna slammed into a mountain known as El Organito near the Pacific coast, the Michoacan state Attorney General's Office said Thursday. T...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Oct 2 (EFE).- Microsoft Corporation CEO Satya Nadella said here during a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that the technology giant would invest around $1 billion to promote digital education and inclusion in the Latin American country. During Thursday's meeting at the Los Pinos presidential residence, Nadella said the investment would be carr...

Source: Flickr Commons Mexico City, Sep 24 (EFE).- Two journalists were found dead of still-unknown causes at a hotel in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, sour ces with the state Attorney General's Office confirmed to EFE on Thursday. The institution identified the victims Wednesday night on Twitter as Jose Joaquin Perez Morales and Aurelio Hernandez Herrera, whose lifeless bodi...

San Diego, California (PRWEB) September 15, 2015 -- Mexico Soft Landing company Co-Production International (CPI), is releasing a white paper, “Checklist: The Top 7 Criteria for Choosing a Medical Device Manufacturing Location”, at the American Medical Device Summit 2015 that will be held in Chicago on September 21-22, 2015. As Manufacturing Expansion Experts, CPI provides a range of site selec...