Spain again warns its citizens about dangers of Mexico

"Both tourists and residents are potential victims of Mexico's insecurity" - Spanish Foreign Ministry

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For the second time in seven months, Spain has issued a formal alert warning its nationals about the risks of travel to Mexico.

It did so the first time in early March, a month after six young Spanish tourists were robbed and repeatedly raped in an Acapulco beach house. Huge cancellations in Acapulco, as spring breakers go elsewhere and Spain issues new warning.

Wal-Mart sales in free fall a good barometer of a Mexican economy on the skids

2013: Declining sales in 7 months out of 9; IMF again lowers Mexico's GDP growth estimate to 1.2%

*Jan. 30, 2014 - Mexico gets its very poor 2013 economic report card*
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Mexico has been receiving bad business and economic news since the third week of June, and it just won't stop.

Jalisco governor takes a stand on same sex civil union bill, but it may not win him any points with gays

After his comment about domestic unions, political enemies may accuse the guv of Yearning for Zion

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Mexico is on an irreversible course towards recognition of gay marriage, which will probably occur sooner rather than later. When it does happen, it will be by judicial decree, not by uniform legislative enactment at the federal level. To some extent, that process mirrors legal developments on the issue in the United States. Same sex marriage arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court - and at the Mexican Supreme Court.

The difference is that Mexico's highest tribunal, the Supreme Judicial Court, has chosen to look at gay unions from a human rights perspective, as a core legal guarantee implicit in Mexico's federal constitution. The judicial ministers made that clear in a ruling on Dec. 5, 2012, and in several appeals from state courts they have directed local marriage registrars to issue licenses to same sex couples. Mexico's highest court moves towards nationwide recognition of gay marriage.

López Obrador calls for campaign of public protest and civil disobedience over pending PEMEX reforms

Guadalajara graffiti: "Get the facts, organize and fight - PEMEX belongs to everybody"

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MORENA leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador yesterday called on members of his ultra left party to carry out acts of protest and civil disobedience against pending energy and tax reforms, upon which the Institutional Revolutionary Party government of president Enrique Peña Nieto has bet considerable political capital in the administration's first year in office.

López Obrador's words will be cause for yet more concern in the nation's Federal District, which has been hard hit in recent weeks by disruptive protests, marches, sit-ins and encampments by striking teachers, ultra leftists and self-described anarchists. A trade group alleged last week that the capital has suffered a staggering $100 million in economic losses since June 25. Mexico City rioters caused almost $4 million in damages.

Mexican immigration service deports U.S. national facing pedophilia sentence in California

He requested asylum in Mexico

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Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM), the federal immigration authority, has announced the deportation of a 55 year old California man who is wanted on a child sex abuse conviction in a state court there.

Mexico City rioters caused almost $4 million in damages; PRI, PAN and PRD call for tough laws on street violence

For once, all the mainstream parties are on the same page

*Updated Oct. 5 - DF businesses have lost $100 million USD since June 25 due to public protests*
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Leaders of Mexico's three major political parties are demanding a crackdown on violence during public protests in the nation's capital, which has been subjected to six consecutive weeks of unlawful sit-ins and at times highly destructive demonstrations by striking school teachers and ultra leftist groups.

Anarchists in Mexico City, October 2, 2013

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Fellow travelers of the far Left stage a different kind of march in the nation's capital

Mexico City police attacked by anarchists; Guadalajara students march under the Red Banner

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"Power to the Workers! Defeat the burgeois repression of PRI, PAN and PRD"

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Wednesday was a day of marches in Mexico, and not all of them were peaceful.

Radical teachers' syndicate returns to Mexico City streets

School strike in Oaxaca, Chiapas enters sixth week, as far left union continues disrupting the capital

*Updated Oct. 2*
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Mexico's powerful Coordinadora Nacional de los Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), an educators' union which includes within its ranks a curious mix of legitimate school teachers and rabble rousing street thugs who have shown no fear of engaging in acts of violent civil disobedience, returned to the streets of the capital again this morning in an effort to close the nation's busiest international airport.

News sources reported at least a dozen Federal Police officers were injured in street skirmishes with CNTE activists. One remained hospitalized in a coma at day's end, after being severely beaten by union members who stole his service revolver and other equipment. Morning TV broadcasts showed CNTE marchers hurling rocks and other objects at police lines, which formed a perimeter around the approaches to the Mexico City International Airport (AICM). Demonstrators never reached it.

Mexican health officials issue cholera alert for Hidalgo

"Given the natural disasters we've undergone recently, a cholera outbreak is a considerable risk"

*Updated Oct. 20*
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Mexico's Secretary of Health has issued a cholera warning for the east central state of Hidalgo. The alert was published Thursday, Sept. 26.

Mexican Supreme Court establishes U.S. style property division rules in divorce cases

Diaper changing and floor mopping are just as valuable as a desk job

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Mexico's Supreme Judicial Court ruled this week that in divorce litigation, a woman who never worked outside the home is nonetheless entitled to as much as 50% of the marital estate.

The judicial ministers recognized that household duties and the care of minor children have the same economic value as any other form of employment. The decision upheld a Federal District statute, passed Oct. 3, 2008, against a legal challenge filed by a man who contended that the law applied only to marital property acquired after that date. The court rejected the man's claim that by applying the statute to property acquired before its enactment, the constitutional rule against retroactive legislation would be violated.

Credit Suisse: storms will further reduce Mexican growth

Ingrid and Manuel left huge destruction in their wake - and the government a tab for $3 billion dollars

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Zurich based financial services company Credit Suisse Group AG has reduced its projection for Mexico's 2013 economic growth from 1.3% to 1.1% as a result of two powerful storms which struck the country earlier this month, killing almost 150 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. Infrastructure repairs will likely take several years, and will place an added fiscal burden on state and federal governments which already find themselves in the economic ropes.

Soldiers kidnapped near Guadalajara

Covert mission wasn't covert enough

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Four soldiers assigned to undercover duties were kidnapped late last night in the municipality of Magdalena, northwest of Guadalajara, a national news source reported early today.

The kidnappers seized the soldiers and spirited them away in a taxi, according to witnesses in the area. A municipality is the equivalent of a U.S. county. Magdalena's county seat is a town of the same name, and is home to over 20,000 people.

Officials of Mexico's department of defense have requested assistance from federal, state and local authorities.

"Peña Nieto completely under the control of Obama," says MORENA official during Guadalajara recruitment

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The far left National Regeneration Movement looks for new members in Jalisco, but finds few

Jalisco prosecutor announces arrest of gang members involved in bar attacks which killed American citizen

Dirty cops linked to gang violence

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On March 31, U.S. national Jeff Lydell Comer, 45, was killed during coordinated assaults on two Guadalajara bars located a few miles apart. The Easter Sunday evening attacks left eight persons dead and many others injured. The bars had common ownership. Toll in Guadalajara bar attacks rises to eight.

Two weeks later, facilities belonging to Mural, a metropolitan daily, were the subject of an early morning explosive device attack. No one was injured. Guadalajara newspaper hit by grenade attack.