Mexico

Mexico: Dengue Fever Increasing

Date: July 1st, 2009 |

Cases of dengue fever are rising in Mexico, having increased by a factor of almost 20 since 2000. This year, incidence of the disease is up 15 percent from last year and it has spread to 21 of Mexico’s 31 states. The central Pacific coast state of Colima has the highest rate in the country, [read more]

Mexico: Swine Flu Abates in Mexico

Date: May 20th, 2009 |

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On May 15 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifted its recommendation to avoid travel to Mexico because of H1N1 flu (swine flu). The CDC downgraded its Travel Health Warning to a Travel Health Precaution because incidence of the disease slowed in Mexico, cases in the U.S. were increasingly seen to have [read more]

Mexico: Drug Violence and Spring Break; More Police at Mexico City Airport

Date: March 4th, 2009 |

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Mexico’s escalating drug violence, especially in border areas, prompted the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to urge college students planning spring break trips to northern Mexico to reconsider their plans. The warning included Tijuana and Rosarito Beach, whose mayor responded by saying that Rosarito has hosted hundreds of thousands of spring [read more]

Mexico: Frenchman Shot in Robbery Near Mexico City Airport

Date: January 29th, 2009 |

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Robbers staking out Mexico City’s international airport shot a French citizen in the head and robbed him of more than $6,000 in cash on a street near the airport Jan. 27. Apparently the gang posts lookouts near currency exchange windows who observe arriving passengers exchanging money and phone ahead to their cohorts identifying the potential [read more]

Mexico: Grenade Attacks

Date: September 25th, 2008 |

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Two grenade attacks on an Independence Day celebration in Morelia suggest that warring drug cartels may begin targeting the general public in their campaigns against each other and the government. Most past attacks targeted rivals, police or soldiers, but this incident, which killed seven people and injured more than 100, points toward an ominous change [read more]

Mexico: Airline Grounded, then Flying Again; Shootout in Acapulco

Date: June 10th, 2009 |

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The government grounded Aviacsa airlines, Mexico’s third-oldest air carrier, June 3 citing safety concerns, which the airline denied. But a court order reversed the shutdown and the airline resumed flights June 6. The government planned to appeal the decision, and if it wins an appeal the carrier could be grounded again. Aviacsa flies to 17 [read more]

Mexico: Swine Flu Outbreak Continues

Date: April 30th, 2009 |

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Nonessential travel to Mexico should be deferred until the swine flu outbreak has been contained or run its course. On April 28 Mexico City’s mayor ordered the closing until May 6 of all establishments where large numbers of people can gather, including restaurants, bars, discos, night clubs, cinemas, movie theaters, theaters, gyms, and conventio [read more]

Mexico: Federal Police Deployed to Mexico City’s Airport

Date: February 12th, 2009 |

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Authorities assigned 100 more federal police to Mexico City’s international airport following the 18th reported incident of robberies of arriving passengers who exchanged money in the airport. Five of the 18 victims have been foreigners, with a Colombian citizen the latest on Feb. 6. The usual method is for one member of a gang of [read more]

Mexico: Los Cabos Taxi-Bus Feud May Be Ending

Date: December 24th, 2008 |

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The end may be in sight for the long-running taxi-tour bus dispute in Los Cabos that sometimes catches tourists unaware and disrupts their transport between the airport and their hotels. Federal, state and municipal authorities signed an agreement to resolve the conflict between taxi drivers and tour bus operators and regulate transport from the airport [read more]

Mexico: Oregon Tourist Killed in Police Custody; Drug Violence in Yucatan

Date: September 3rd, 2008 |

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Given the worst circumstances it could probably happen anywhere, but the fate of an Oregon crab fisherman who was beaten to death by Mexican police when detained in San Jose del Cabo should be a lesson to all not to tangle with police, especially in countries where you do not speak the local language. The [read more]