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'Danger Tourism' Hits Violence-Plagued Mexico

Europeans pay for thrill of slum safaris

(Newser) - If spending your vacation lounging on a beach sounds boringly safe, Mexico's newest travel trend might be right up your alley. As the escalating violence of the Mexican drug war drives some tourists away, it's drawing others to danger tourism—for example, "safari" tours of a notorious Mexico City...

72 Bodies Found on Mexico Ranch

Military makes grisly find after battle with drug traffickers

(Newser) - The Mexican military says it has found the biggest dumping ground for cartel victims since the country's drug war began. Marines found 72 bodies in an outbuilding at a ranch in northern Mexico after a gun battle in which one marine and three suspected cartel members were killed, CNN reports....

19 Bodies Found in Mexico Mine Shaft

Cartel members' tips lead to grisly discovery

(Newser) - Another 19 bodies have been found in Mexico, this time dumped in an abandoned mine shaft near Mexico City. Investigators were led to the mine after interrogating busted members of the Zetas cartel, the BBC reports. The suspects also named nine police officers they said worked for the cartel. Bodies...

Headless Bodies Hung From Mexican Bridge

It's a warning to US drug criminal 'Barbie'

(Newser) - Just when you think Mexican drug violence can't get much grislier comes the gruesome police discovery of four headless bodies hanging from a bridge south of Mexico City. A note attached to the mutilated corpses warned that a similar fate awaits anyone who supports Edgar Vladez—a US citizen known...

Colbert: We Need Border Fence ... for Gays

Without one, they may leave en masse for Mexico

(Newser) - Stephen Colbert is all for a border fence ... "to stop the flood of gays out of America." Yes, with gay marriage now legal in Canada and Mexico , America is "the straight meat in a big gay sandwich," Colbert said last night . "This is a huge...

Tea Partiers Mass on Arizona-Mexico Border

'We'll keep screaming,' says candidate packing heat

(Newser) - Hundreds of Tea Party activists massed along a remote section of the Arizona-Mexico border yesterday to rally in support of the state's controversial immigration law. They demanded the federal government commit more resources to keep illegal immigrants out of the country, and listened to speeches from conservative candidates, AP reports....

Mexican Supreme Court Recognizes Gay Marriage

All the country's states must recognize Mexico City unions

(Newser) - Mexico's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that all 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages performed in the capital, though its decision does not force those states to begin marrying gay couples in their territory. In a 9-2 decision, the tribunal cited an article of the constitution requiring states to recognize legal...

Mexico Ex Prez: Legalize Drugs

Legalization will reduce cartels' power: Fox

(Newser) - Mexico's war on drugs has been a failure and the country should consider legalizing them, according to former President Vicente Fox. Fox—in a blog post sharply critical of his successor Felipe Calderon's hardline policies—stresses that he doesn't believe drugs are good, but that he believes legalizing them will...

Baby Who Revived in Coffin Dies

Premature Mexican girl woke during her own wake

(Newser) - Authorities in central Mexico say a newborn baby girl who was declared dead but later revived inside her coffin has died. Hidalgo state attorney general Jose Rodriguez says the baby died of asphyxia, three days after being declared dead the first time by a doctor in the town of Tulancingo....

Dead Baby Comes Back to Life Inside Her Coffin

She begins crying at her wake

(Newser) - A newborn declared dead at a Mexico hospital disagreed with the diagnosis during her wake. An odd noise began to come from her tiny coffin during the service, prompting her parents to open it, only to find the infant crying, and very much alive, reports AP . She's now in stable...

Eight Severed Heads Dumped in Mexican City

4 journalists reported missing in Durango

(Newser) - Police acting on tips have found eight severed heads dumped in pairs along roads in Durango, Mexico. The victims all appear to be males between the ages of 25 and 30, but cops haven’t identified them or found their bodies, the BBC reports.

Global Warming Could Push 6.7M Mexicans to Migrate to US

Crop failures, cuts in food production projected to boost relocation

(Newser) - Rising temperatures due to climate change could result in mass migration from Mexico to the US, according to a study. Based on the assumption that climate projections are correct, experts estimate that up to 6.7 million Mexicans could migrate by 2080 as a result of crop failures and reduced...

Illegal Immigrants Aren't Really Criminals
Illegal Immigrants Aren't
Really Criminals
Francis Fukuyama
Jul 26, 2010 9:49 AM CDT

Illegal Immigrants Aren't Really Criminals

They're hard-working poor people who didn't enjoy legal protection at home, either

(Newser) - Illegal Immigration hawks like to paint immigrants as hardened criminals, conflating them with the drug traffickers hopping over the border to sell their wares to a hungry American populace. But in truth the vast majority of illegal immigrants are hardworking people who “come from societies in which legal rules...

Mexican Prison Guards 'Freed Inmates to Kill'

Inmates given guns to carry out party massacre

(Newser) - Mexican prison guards let inmates out of their cells, gave them guns, and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out killings on behalf of drug cartels, according to Mexican authorities. Four prison officials have been placed under house arrest as the killings—including the massacre of 17 people...

US Troops Headed to Mexican Border

National Guard presence to be especially strong in Arizona

(Newser) - National Guard troops are headed to the Mexican border next month to beef up security along the border fence. As part of President Obama's new border plan, the 1,200 troops will spend a year in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, where they'll help border patrol agents monitor and...

Family Abandons Son With Dead Sister

They flee to Mexico, leaving toddler's body

(Newser) - A family has fled back home to Mexico with their three biological children, abandoning their adopted 4-year-old son in their house with his dead toddler sister, according to law enforcement authorities. The girl's body showed signs of extreme trauma when it was found in a southern California home, said police....

17 Machine-Gunned at Mexican Party

Drug hitmen blamed in gruesome attack

(Newser) - Gunmen stormed a birthday party in the northern Mexico city of Torreon yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring 10. The attackers, reported to be drug hitmen, sprayed more than 200 bullets at partygoers inside a walled garden, reports the BBC. "They came in, opened fire and shot against everything...

Americans Allege Torture by Mexican Soldiers

Jailed Texans say army planted drugs

(Newser) - It sounds like the script of a B movie, but it's very real for two Americans behind bars in Mexico: They tell the Wall Street Journal that Mexican soldiers stopped their pickup near the border, planted two suitcases of drugs, then beat and tortured them with electric shocks. The Texas...

Cartel Shootout Kills 21 Just 12 Miles From Arizona Border

Gangs clashed over control of smuggling corridor

(Newser) - A massive shootout between rival drug and people-smuggling gangs left 21 people dead just 12 miles south of the border with Arizona, Mexican authorities say. The clash erupted in a remote area along a prime smuggling corridor in Sonora state, AP reports. All the dead are believed to be gang...

Mexico Busts Cop Boss Turned Cartel Hitman Chief

'El Tyson' masterminded assassination plots

(Newser) - Mexico has arrested a former police commander who changed sides to rise through the ranks of the La Familia drug cartel. Miguel Ortiz Miranda—alias "El Tyson"—is accused of organizing teams of hitmen for the cartel. He has been linked to the attempted assassination of a security...

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