| October 7, 2:00 PM
, 2020 | - BP successfully capped its hemorrhaging Deepwater Horizon wellhead with an 18-foot, 150,000-pound stopper, 86 days after the rig exploded. The Obama Administration pushed for temporarily reopening the cap and piping oil to the surface to ease pressure on the unstable well, but BP dissented. “No one,” said a spokesman, “wants to see any more oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico.” Fishermen learned that the money they've earned helping to clean up the spill will be deducted from the amount they will receive from the $20 billion compensation fund set up by BP, and a new poll showed that 73 percent of Americans disagree with President Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf, believing the disastrous oil spill to be a “freak accident.”
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CNN
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AP via Yahoo News
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Bloomberg
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| November 29, 2015 | - Following a “very jolly” winter-solstice ceremony, Rollo Maughfling, Archdruid of Stonehenge, augured that 2012 would be a good year, while authorities in Mexico began the year-long countdown to December 21, 2012, which some people believe is predicted by an ancient Mayan stone tablet to be the date of apocalypse. “Regardless whether the threat of December 21 2012 is real or not,” survivalist Yang Muffins wrote recently on survivalguide2012.org, “there is no harm in being prepared.”
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Telegraph
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AP
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Survival Guide 2012
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| December 14, 2011 | - Thousands of Eared Grebes crashed into a Utah Wal-Mart parking lot they’d mistaken for a pond during their migration to Mexico.
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CBS News
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| November 25, 2011 | - The bodies of 50 men were found in western Mexico, some naked and some marked with the names of drug gangs.
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Raw Story
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| November 10, 2011 | - In Mexico, a ten-year-old girl gave birth.
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New York Daily News
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| November 3, 2011 | - Hacker collective Anonymous threatened the Mexican Zeta drug cartel, Kenya tweeted warnings to nine Somali towns harboring members of the terrorist group al-Shabab before launching attacks, and Detroit Lions fans campaigned online for the cancellation of Canadian rock band Nickelback’s halftime performance at the team’s Thanksgiving game.
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BBC
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BBC
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Globe and Mail
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| October 12, 2011 | - Mansour Arbabsiar, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen and used-car salesman, was arrested for planning to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate a Saudi diplomat on behalf of the Iranian government. Attorney General Eric Holder said the plot was “directed and approved by elements of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of the Quds Force.” “[Arbabsiar’s] socks would not match,” said Tom Hosseini, his former college roommate. “He was always losing his keys and his cell phone. He was not capable of carrying out this plan.”
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| September 8, 2011 | - A maintenance worker in Yuma, Arizona, may have caused a power failure that affected nearly 6 million people in California, Arizona, and Mexico; Google was found to be using more electricity than Salt Lake City; and the Federal Trade Commission halted the sale of AcneApp and AcnePwner, two smartphone apps that claimed to treat acne, one of them using red and blue lights. “Smartphones make our lives easier in countless ways,” said FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz, “but unfortunately, when it comes to curing acne, there’s no app for that.”
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NY Times
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Gizmodo
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Politico
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| August 26, 2011 | - Drug-cartel enforcers burned down a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, killing 53 people.
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Associated Press
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| July 26, 2011 | - An elderly California man attempted to remove a hernia from his stomach with a butter knife, an ex-convict sought to hijack a New York City subway train with a screwdriver, and investigators revealed that at least 122 weapons recovered from crime scenes in Mexico were originally brought to the country as part of Operation Fast and Furious, a U.S. drug-trafficking sting.
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KTLA
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NYDN
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NYT
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| July 15, 2011 | - The Mexican army found a 300-acre marijuana farm.
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BBC
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| July 6, 2011 | -
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann signed a pledge to defend traditional marriage values, fight pornography, and find a cure for homosexuality, and in Mexico, a woman on a conjugal visit was caught attempting to smuggle her husband out of prison in a wheeled suitcase.
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Daily Beast
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BBC
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| June 14, 2011 | - Customs agents along the U.S.-Mexico border seized 159 pounds of iguana meat, while their Russian counterparts in the town of Blagoveshchensk apprehended a China-bound cache of 1,041 bear paws, five woolly mammoth tusks, and 143 pounds of elk lips.
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Reuters
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NYT
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| May 5, 2011 | - Earthquakes struck Mexico, Alaska, and Japan on the same day, and the United Nations estimated that by the year 2100 the world's population would reach 10.1 billion.
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CNN
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| April 4, 2011 | - A Mesquite, Texas, police officer caused outrage after repeatedly administering pepper spray to a baby squirrel that had been following students around a middle school, and a teenager was arrested after trying to smuggle five pounds of marijuana from Mexico into the United States hidden in the seat of a wheelchair.
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Fox
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KTLA
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| March 9, 2011 | - The 20-year-old police chief of a border town in Juarez Valley, Mexico, who took the job last fall when no one else would, escaped to Texas after receiving death threats from drug cartels.
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BBC
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| February 18, 2011 | - The Colombian navy seized a 100-foot submarine built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico, and two Alabama construction workers stole 48 pounds of marijuana while renovating the evidence vault of a local police station.
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BBC
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Times Daily
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| February 16, 2011 | - A rare freeze in Mexico doubled the cost of U.S. tomatoes, and gorillas were found to lose weight after switching to a salad diet.
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WSJ
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Science Daily
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| January 27, 2011 | - Law-enforcement officials across the country were alarmed by an increase in the number of people snorting, injecting, and smoking bath salts, which can lead to hallucinations and suicidal urges, and Mexican smugglers were arrested after trying to hurl drugs north over the U.S. border using a giant trebuchet.
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Washington Post
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Reuters
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| November 13, 2010 | - A cruise ship stranded for three days off Mexico, with no hot water, air conditioning, or heated meals for its 3,000 passengers, was towed to shore. “I never saw a hot-dog salad before,” said passenger Tom Fisher. “We had yogurt on bread for dessert.”
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Reuters
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| October 21, 2010 | - Gunmen interrupted a party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and killed thirteen people, all of whom were under 25, and the Juarez Valley town of Práxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, where eight residents were murdered in the past two weeks, swore in its new police chief, 20-year-old college student Marisol Valles Garcia, who was the only candidate willing to accept the job. “We’re all afraid in Mexico now,” she said. “We can’t let fear beat us.”
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LAT
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NYP
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| October 13, 2010 | - Newly released real-estate data showed that more than 100,000 U.S. properties went into foreclosure in September, a new record, and the Obama Administration lifted its moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico six weeks ahead of schedule.
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Reuters
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AP
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| September 15, 2010 | - The federal government declared BP’s Macando oil well officially dead, and the Obama Administration announced that an additional 3,500 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico would have to be plugged.
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New York Times
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MSNBC
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| September 2, 2010 | - BP claimed it may have trouble covering the costs of the Deepwater Horizon spill if it is prevented from further drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BBC
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| September 1, 2010 | - Another oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, blew up.
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WSJ
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WDSU
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| August 4, 2010 | -
Mexico's Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing gay people to marry, the mayor of Reykjavík marched in drag in the city's gay pride parade, and a group of men in Sudan were publicly flogged for dancing in a “womanly fashion.”
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LA Times
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Iceland Review
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BBC
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| July 27, 2010 | - Officials revealed that prisoners in a northern Mexican prison had been allowed out at night to moonlight as hitmen using vehicles and weapons provided by prison guards.
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New York Times
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| July 12, 2010 | - Tar balls from BP's exploded wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico washed onto a beach in Texas, the last of the five Gulf states to be affected by the spill, and oil kept gushing from the well as underwater robots worked to affix a new containment cap that BP claims will capture all the oil. “At this point,” said Louisiana charter-boat captain Keith Kennedy, “there have been so many ups and downs, disappointments, that everybody down here is like, 'We'll believe it when we see it.'”
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Time Magazine
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Talking Points Memo
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| July 7, 2010 | -
Scientists learned that the “mustache” worn by the male Molly fish in Mexico attracts females, who are sexually stimulated when the mustache is rubbed against their genitals, and that the erect penis of the giant squid is almost as long as its entire body.
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BBC
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| July 1, 2010 | - The BP oil spill became the worst in Gulf of Mexico history, surpassing the record set in 1980 when the Ixtoc I oil well leaked 140 million gallons of oil into the sea.
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USA Today
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| June 28, 2010 | - Stray bullets fired in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, crashed through the windows of City Hall in El Paso, Texas, and Sergio “El Shaka” Vega, a singer of “narcocorridos”—odes to Mexican drug traffickers—was gunned down in his red Cadillac hours after he told an entertainment website that rumors of his murder were false.
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El Past Times
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BBC
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| June 11, 2010 | - In a coordinated raid on a Mexican drug cartel, U.S. law-enforcement officials seized $5.8 million in cash, 2,951 pounds of marijuana, 247 pounds of cocaine, and 429 people. “This interagency cross-border operation has been our most extensive, and most successful, law-enforcement effort to date targeting these deadly cartels,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. The day following the raid gunmen associated with the cartels killed 19 people at a drug-treatment center in Chihuahua.
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NYTimes
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CNN
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| June 10, 2010 | - A U.S. government panel announced that since April 20 between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil (1.7 million gallons) have leaked from a BP wellhead into the Gulf of Mexico every day. (The government's original estimate, made a week after the spill began, was 5,000 barrels a day.) The size of the BP spill now exceeds that of the “Exxon Valdez” disaster by a factor of eight, and several experts on the panel acknowledged that the actual rate of leakage could be even higher. After its first effort to install a containment cap failed, BP successfully installed a second cap but still could capture only a fraction of the gushing oil. “This is an ongoing crisis,” said White House adviser David Axelrod, “much like an epidemic.” BP's stock had lost half its value since the spill began, though stocks rallied on news that the company was “not aware of any reason” that shares were down. Obama suggested that BP open an escrow account to pay the billions of dollars in anticipated claims from affected Gulf Coast residents. “There isn't enough money in the world to clean up the Gulf of Mexico,” said one financial commentator. “Once BP realizes the extent of this, my guess is that they'll panic and go into Chapter 11.”
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PBS
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CNN
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CNN
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CNN
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Washington Post
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ABC
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Guardian
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New York Times
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| June 4, 2010 | - Artists painting a mural at an Arizona public elementary school were asked by school officials to lighten the face of a Mexican-American student depicted in the mural. Local councilman Steve Blair said the mural “looks like graffiti in L.A.,” adding, “The focus doesn't need to be on what's different; the focus doesn't need to be on the minority all the time.”
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New York Daily News
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| May 27, 2010 | - Forty days after its rig started gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP announced that the “top kill” effort, in which mud was used to try to plug the leak, had failed. CEO Tony Hayward said, “I'm sorry,” and, “There aren't any plumes,” insisting that the leaked oil is all on the water's surface despite scientists' sightings of several underwater plumes, including one 22 miles long, six miles wide and more than a thousand feet deep. BP planned to contain the leak by placing a cap over the well, but expected that oil would continue to spill until two relief wells are completed in August. The company, which will pay a penalty based on the size of the spill, estimated that 210,000 gallons of oil were flowing into the ocean daily, though government scientists suspected the number is closer to 800,000 gallons. The Obama Administration, which called the spill “the biggest environmental disaster we've ever faced in this country,” struggled with the growing perception that it was not being forceful enough in its dealings with BP, and James Carville suggested that “the president needs to tell BP 'I'm your daddy, I'm in charge, you're going to do what we say.'”
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AP via Huffington Post
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Huffington Post
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CNN
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| May 21, 2010 | - Paul, son of libertarian Congressman Ron Paul and a Tea Party supporter, was lambasted for hosting his victory celebration at a country club. “I think Tiger Woods has helped to broaden that,” said Paul in defense of the private club, “in the sense that he's brought golf to a lot of the cities.” Paul then criticized the Americans With Disabilities Act, federal mining regulations, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and offered his thoughts on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and President Barack Obama's criticism of BP. “This sort of, you know, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business,” Paul said, adding, “Maybe sometimes accidents happen.”
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Talking Points Memo
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Talking Points Memo
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| May 11, 2010 | - Massive, salad-dressing-like plumes of oil were observed in the Gulf of Mexico, one of which was estimated to be ten miles long, three miles wide, and up to three hundred feet thick. Scientists said oil may be escaping from BP's damaged well at a rate five to sixteen times the government's estimate of 5,000 barrels per day. BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward called the spill “relatively tiny” in relation to the “very big ocean” and promised that his company would fix the leak. “The only question,” he said, “is we do not know when.” At congressional hearings, BP's representative blamed Transocean, the company that owns the Deep Horizon rig where the accident occurred; a Transocean executive blamed Halliburton for building the well's defective concrete casing; and Halliburton's representative said his company was only following BP's orders. President Obama blamed all three for “falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else.”
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NYT
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Guardian
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CNN
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CNN
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| May 5, 2010 | - Farmers in Mixquiahuala, Mexico, who use runoff from Mexico City sewers to irrigate their crops, protested plans to build a sewage-treatment plant.
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NYT
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| May 3, 2010 | - An estimated 210,000 gallons of crude oil were gushing daily into the Gulf of Mexico from a leaking BP oil well. A plan to trap the oil in a massive dome failed. Engineers were considering plugging the leak with trash, and wealthy Manhattanites were donating their hair to mop up the spill. “Would it be possible,” asked Kenny Wilder of Navarre, Florida, at an emergency meeting with BP representatives, “to just go out there and bomb the hell out of it?”
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AP via Businessweek
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New York
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CNN
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| March 30, 2010 | - Obama filled out his Census form, checking the box that reads “Black, African Am., or Negro,” and, in a speech delivered in front of an F-18 Green Hornet that will run in part on biofuel, he announced his plan to allow drilling off the north coast of Alaska, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida.
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Politico
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New York Times
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| January 1, 2010 | -
Mexico announced that 7,600 people died last year in the country's “war” on the drug cartels.
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New York Times
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Los Angeles Times
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CNN
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| 0, 2009 | - A man in Iowa punched another man, who was ordering Mexican food, for being a zombie.
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AP via Google
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| November 15, 2009 | - Lou Dobbs left CNN, and families in Mexico were sending “reverse remittances” to support unemployed relatives in the United States.
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CBC
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New York Times
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| July 16, 2009 | - A tiny species of Mexican shrew, previously thought extinct, was rediscovered.
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BBC
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| May 17, 2009 | - An armed gang disguised as federal police freed more than 50 convicts from a prison in northern Mexico.
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BBC News
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| April 26, 2009 | - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared a public-health emergency over an outbreak of swine flu that has infected at least 20 people in California, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Texas. The virus is believed to have originated in Mexico City, where more than 149 people, all aged between 20 and 40, have died, and at least 1,300 people have gotten sick. Mexico's government closed all schools, universities, and zoos, canceled church services, soccer games, and bullfights, and banned visits to beauty salons and juvenile detention centers. Swine flu has been found in Canada, China, France, Israel, New Zealand, and Spain, prompting the World Health Organization to consider raising the pandemic alert level from 3 to 4 out of 6.
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New York Times
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Yahoo News
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| March 25, 2009 | - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed an “insatiable demand for illegal drugs” in the United States for the surge in narcotics-trafficking-related violence in Mexico.
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New York Times
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| January 20, 2009 | -
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim bought seventeen percent of the New York Times,
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Yahoo News via Drudge
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| December 16, 2008 | - After offering tips at a security seminar in Mexico on how to avoid being kidnapped, Felix Batista, an American who has negotiated the release of many kidnapping victims, was kidnapped.
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New York Times
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| October 3, 2008 | -
Mexican police recovered the stolen “condom mobile,” a truck used to promote the government's HIV-AIDS awareness program. Thieves made off with the vehicle's sound system, 5,000 condoms, and a motor used to inflate a 23-foot-long condom balloon.
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New York Times
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| August 6, 2008 | - The International Court of Justice condemned Texas for executing a Mexican national who had not been advised of his right to consular assistance. “Texas,” replied the office of the state's attorney general, “is not bound by the World Court.”
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BBCNews.com
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| April 25, 2008 | - A Mexican diplomat was fired after a video-surveillance tape showed him stealing BlackBerrys belonging to White House officials at a meeting in New Orleans.
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Fox News
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| April 9, 2008 | - Killer bees attacked Mexican policemen after one officer shot up their hive.
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New York Times
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| April 5, 2008 | - Angry Americans boycotted Absolut vodka after the company ran an ad showing much of the western United States as part of Mexico.
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MSNBC.com
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| March 21, 2008 | - Drivers in the Gaza strip, where Israel limits fuel supplies and black market gas costs $27 per gallon, used vegetable oil and turpentine as fuel, producing toxic fumes that result in diarrhea and stomach pain. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cancelled four global-warming research expeditions, citing the cost of fuel. American cowboys could not afford to drive their horses to rodeos, and those who lived near the border were filling their tanks in Mexico, where gas is subsidized.
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AP via Anchorage Daily News
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AP via Detroit Free Press
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Houston Chron
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LAT
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LAT
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WP
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| December 11, 2007 | - The Mexican man arrested for seasoning and eating his girlfriend, and who had been writing a book entitled “The Cannibal Poet,” was found hanging from his belt in his jail cell.
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Houston Chronicle
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| November 2, 2007 | - Friday marked Mexico's Day of the Dead, which was celebrated as hundreds of thousands of people attempted to flee the flooded state of Tabasco by boat, helicopter, jet ski, tractor, or by swimming through murky, snake-infested currents.
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AP via Yahoo!
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| October 12, 2007 | - Investigating the disappearance of a 30-year-old female pharmacist, police in Mexico arrested her boyfriend, Jose Luis Calva, after finding the woman’s torso in his closet, one of her legs in his refrigerator, bones in a cereal box, chunks of an unidentified fried meat in a pan, and the draft manuscript of a novel entitled “Cannibalistic Instincts.”
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BBC
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| September 26, 2007 | - The Department of Homeland Security announced that the completion of a $20 million “virtual fence” pilot project along the Mexican border near Tucson would be delayed because its cameras and radar were unable to distinguish people and vehicles from bushes and cows.
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Washington Post
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| September 22, 2007 | - The Mexican
shoemaker who made the pair of ostrich-skin cowboy boots that former President Vicente Fox gave to President Bush was indicted after the contraband skins of sea turtles, caimans, and other endangered species were found in an associate's warehouse.
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Rocky Mountain News
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| September 10, 2007 | - Leftists in Mexico sabotaged oil pipelines for the third time in three months.
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NYT
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| July 11, 2007 | - In Mexico oil-pipeline sabotage forced more than 100 companies to reduce or suspend production.
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Bloomberg
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| May 28, 2007 | - The crowd at the Miss Universe competition in Mexico City booed Miss America.
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breitbart.tv
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| May 25, 2007 | - Thunder Ranch, a luxury motel in northern Mexico, was fortifying each of its 35 rooms with steel doors to stop the bullets of skirmishing drug cartels.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| March 14, 2007 | -
Mexico City was planning to legalize abortion,
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Reuters via Yahoo
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| January 18, 2007 | -
Corn prices were at a 10-year high, leading to price-gouging by corn merchants. With more corn going to U.S. ethanol plants, the president of Mexico signed an accord with Mexican supermarket chains and bakers to cap tortilla prices.
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BBCnews.com
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BBCnews.com
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| December 1, 2006 | - In Mexico, “donnybrooks and yelling matches” preceded the four-minute swearing-in ceremony of President Felipe Calderon.
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New York Times
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| November 29, 2006 | - The Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism hosted a seminar on the deceased North Korean dictator's seminal academic tome, “The Workers' Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.”
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North Korea News Service
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| November 3, 2006 | - The Homeland Security
website
texasborderwatch.com began broadcasting live footage of the United States - Mexico border.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| October 30, 2006 | - Grieving Maya in Mexico exhumed the bodies of their beloved in order to clean them.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 27, 2006 | -
Mexican president Vicente Fox called a proposed 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border an “embarrassment.”
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Yahoo News
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| October 15, 2006 | -
Donkeys were increasingly popular with Mexican farmers.
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Christian Science Monitor via Arizona Daily Star
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| September 27, 2006 | - A cloud of locusts descended on Cancun.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 6, 2006 | - A group of masked men burst into a bar in Michoacan, Mexico, and tossed five human heads into a crowd of dancers.
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BBC News
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| July 19, 2006 | - Sheriff's deputies in Arizona stumbled upon 100 Mexican
immigrants wandering in the desert west of Phoenix.
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NY Times
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| July 6, 2006 | - Felipe Calderon, the candidate of Mexico's conservative National Action Party, was apparently elected president, though Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist mayor of Mexico City, refused to concede and demanded a complete recount.
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Washington Post
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| June 14, 2006 | - Vandals were emptying the water tanks that volunteers place in the Arizona desert; the volunteers maintain the tanks so that illegal immigrants from Mexico do not die from dehydration when crossing into the United States.
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KVOA Tucson
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Archaeologists said that ancient Mexicans wore decorative dentures made from wolves' teeth.
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AP via MSNBC
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| June 2, 2006 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered 1,000 National Guard soldiers to the Mexican border.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| May 13, 2006 | -
President George W. Bush proposed sending in the National Guard to patrol the Mexican border.
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ChinaView.cn
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| April 29, 2006 | - The Mexican senate passed a bill legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, opium, cocaine, and heroin; President Vicente Fox was expected to approve the bill.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 24, 2006 | - In Loreto, Mexico, a 17-year-old boy was killed at a horse race when he attempted to stop a horse from reaching the finish line by jumping in front of it.
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AZCentral.com
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| April 19, 2006 | - In Toluca, Mexico, a priest admitted to strangling and dismembering his pregnant lover after Easter mass.
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MSNBC
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| March 25, 2006 | - Omar Pimentel, the mayor of the violence-plagued town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, resigned nine months after being elected; his predecessor had been shot dead hours after being sworn in. "Something inside a man," said Pimentel, "tells him when he should come and when he should go."
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The New York Times
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| March 20, 2006 | - Sixty-two percent of Mexicans polled agreed that the United States is wealthy because it exploits others.
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El Universal Online
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| March 8, 2006 | -
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano ordered more soldiers to patrol the Mexican border. "We are not," she said, "at war with Mexico."
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The Washington Post
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| January 26, 2006 | - Authorities in Mexico City arrested a woman named Juana Barraza, a 48-year-old former wrestler who is thought to be the serial killer known as Mataviejitas, or "the Killer of Little Old Ladies," and who may be responsible for strangling up to 30 of them.
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BBC News
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| October 6, 2005 | - Hundreds of people in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador were buried alive in mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan.
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Science Daily
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| June 16, 2005 | - A county commissioner in Marion County, Florida, was promoting his plan to send sex offenders to Mexico.
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Local6.com
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| June 11, 2005 | - The Xochiquetzal home for elderly prostitutes was slated to open in Mexico City.
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News24.com
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| June 7, 2005 | -
Dwarves fought bulls in Mexico.
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Reuters
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| May 13, 2005 | -
Mexican President Vicente Fox called on the United States to reconsider its immigration policies. “There is no doubt,” he said, “that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.”
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Reuters
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| May 11, 2005 | -
Zapatista spokesman Subcomandante Marcos challenged Italy's Inter Milan soccer team to a match against a team of Zapatista soldiers.
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BBC News
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| April 24, 2005 | - One million people marched to support the mayor of Mexico City.
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Knight Ridder
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| March 24, 2005 | -
Mexican hit men were found to have dissolved their enemies in acid.
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Reuters
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| March 8, 2005 | - The mayor of Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, ordered the entire 1,100-member Nezahualcoyotl police force to read one book a month and to control its cholesterol.
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The Guardian
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was swept away in the Rio Grande as his parents tried to cross into Texas from Mexico.
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Houston Chronicle
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| January 29, 2005 | - U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza tried to ease tensions by clarifying that "the wave of border violence is a result of successful efforts by President Fox's administration in the fight against organized crime."
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Reuters
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| January 28, 2005 | - The State Department offended Mexico by issuing a travel warning along the border;
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CNN
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| January 24, 2005 | -
United States
immigration authorities were evaluating a program that uses unmanned drones to patrol the border of Arizona and Mexico.
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USA Today
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| October 8, 2004 | -
Mexico declined to stop the construction of a Wal-Mart next to the ancient ruins of Teotihuacán.
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Reuters
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| July 25, 2004 | - Former Mexican president Luis Echeverría was indicted for his role in the killings of student protesters in 1971; the next day a judge refused to issue an arrest warrant.
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New York Times
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| July 14, 2004 | -
Mexico's attorney general was implanted with computer chips that broadcast his location and his identity; security experts said that publicly revealing the existence of the location chip was unwise, since kidnappers could simply remove the chip.
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Ananova
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| July 1, 2004 | - A Mexican farmer upset about not getting his party's nomination to run for the state legislature put on a crown of thorns and nailed himself to a wooden cross outside the state's electoral office.
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Local6news.com
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| April 22, 2004 | - Police in Mexico arrested a tamale vendor after a dead body was found in his home.
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New York Times
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| April 6, 2004 | -
Mexican woman performed a cesarean section on herself with a kitchen knife.
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Reuters
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| March 13, 2004 | - The Commission for Environmental Cooperation warned Mexico that its genetically precious native corn varieties are threatened by pollution from genetically modified corn.
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New York Times
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| January 15, 2004 | - A Mexican man reportedly hacked open his father's head with a machete, drank his blood, and then ate his brains.
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Agence France-Presse
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| November 19, 2003 | - Mexico fired its ambassador to the United Nations for saying that the United States treats his country as a backyard. "We never, ever, in any way would treat Mexico as some backyard or as a second-class nation," said Colin Powell, the secretary of state. "We have too much of a history that we have gone through together."
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New York Times
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| November 19, 2003 | - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a study concluding that Nafta has failed to create jobs for Mexico and has hurt thousands of rural Mexican farmers. The report also said that the net effect on U.S. jobs had been "minuscule."
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New York Times
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| October 2, 2003 | - Newly released files suggested that the Mexican government used at least 360 snipers in a massacre of protesters on October 2, 1968.
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New York Times
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| September 20, 2003 | - A South Korean
farmer set himself on fire during a memorial for another Korean farmer who committed suicide (by stabbing himself in the heart with a Swiss Army knife) at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
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Reuters
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| September 15, 2003 | - The World Trade Organization met in Cancun, Mexico, and much of the discussion concerned a demand by several poor countries that wealthy countries eliminate agricultural subsidies for their farmers.The talks collapsed after the United States and Europe declined to do so and delegates from several African, Caribbean, and Asian countries walked out.
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New York Times
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| August 19, 2003 | - A drunk construction worker in Mexico paid two 11-year-old boys to castrate him so that he could "live more calmly."
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Associated Press
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Mexican authorities arrested 42 police officers for selling drugs to school children.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Women in the Mexican state of Colima lost the right to divorce their husbands for impotence, and German scientists reported that human sperm are attracted to pleasant odors.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
President Bush warned Mexico that there could be reprisals against Mexican Americans if it fails to support the war on Iraq.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
King Abdullah of Jordan appeared resigned to the war: “Let us hope that whatever happens between Iraq and the international community is as quick and painless as possible.” A movement was afoot in Mexico to remove the “United States” from its official name: the United Mexican States.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani made a quick tour of Mexico City as part of his $4.3 million contract to reduce the city's crime rate.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani went down to clean up all the crime in Mexico City in exchange for $4.3 million.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
Texas executed a Mexican.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
After violent protests by peasants armed with machetes, the Mexican government called off plans to confiscate the peasants' lands and build an airport on them.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
President Vicente Fox declassified many of the files of Mexico's secret police, and scholars and families began trying to discover the fate of hundreds of dissidents who had disappeared over the years.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
Thieves in Mexico stole a truck that was carrying ten tons of sodium cyanide.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
President Bush traveled to Mexico, Peru, and El Salvador; when he was in Mexico he noted that “Mexico es a grand amigo de los Estados Unidos and we're equal partners.” The President promised to add $5 billion to American foreign aid.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
Representatives of 58 rich and poor countries gathered in Monterrey, Mexico, to determine how best to spread the wealth and improve the lot of the 1.2 billion people who live on less than $1 a day.
Although Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill worried that the money of American “plumbers and carpenters” would be squandered on aid to poor nations, President Bush pledged to increase such spending by 50 percent.
One participant, Fidel Castro, opined that “the world economy today is a huge casino” run by self-appointed “masters of the world.”
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Up to 270 million monarch butterflies froze to death in a winter storm in Mexico.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Tyson Foods, America's largest meat processor, was indicted for conspiring to smuggle Mexicans into the country to work in its plants.
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| December 18, 2001 | - There was a report that British prime minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, recently underwent a “rebirthing ritual” in a Mexican steam bath; the ritual was said to include primal screams and the smearing of mud and fruit all over their bodies.
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| October 2, 2001 | - People in Tijuana, Mexico, were upset about their new area code, 666, the Number of the Beast.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A giant sea turtle that was being tracked via satellite by thousands of schoolchildren was barbecued and eaten at a fiesta in a Mexican village.
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| July 3, 2001 | - President Vicente Fox of Mexico accepted the resignation of an old friend who took responsibility for the purchase of $400 towels, $1,500 sheets, and $17,000 electric curtains for the presidential palace.
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| April 17, 2001 | - She got the parasite from a pork taco in Mexico.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Denouncing Mexico's close-minded “caveman politicians,” Zapatista rebel leader Subcommander Marcos went home to the jungle after failing to reach a settlement with congress over Indian rights.
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| March 20, 2001 | - President Vicente Fox of Mexico said that he would “eradicate torture forever,” even though it has been a standard part of Mexican justice for centuries, most recently with equipment purchased from the United States.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Mexican
police beat protesters who tried to disrupt a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Cancún.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Subcommander Marcos and twenty-three other Zapatista fighters were traveling to Mexico City in a bus convoy as federal police cars and cheering crowds lined the Panamerican Highway.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
It was “foreign-policy week” at the White House: President Bush went down to Mexico for a visit, personally authorized what he called a “routine” bombing of five Iraqi anti-aircraft sites, and appointed John D. Negroponte to be his ambassador to the United Nations. Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, where he helped orchestrate Ronald Reagan's covert war against Nicaragua.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Mexico was selling fifty megawatts of power a day to California.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Mexico's new customs chief fired forty-three out of forty-seven customs supervisors in an attempt to reduce corruption.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A Mexican court annulled a state election because of evidence of widespread fraud.
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| 0, 2000 | - Oil leaking from a British Petroleum drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico reached the shores of Louisiana and Mississippi after the Coast Guard failed in its attempts to stanch the flow by lighting the Gulf on fire. “If this oil comes ashore, it's all over for us,” said Jimmy Rowell, a shrimp and oyster fisherman in Pass Christian, Mississippi. “Nobody wants no oily shrimp.”
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CNN
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Miami Herald
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USA Today
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NY Times
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| 0, 2000 | -
Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby pressure to “influenza A (H1N1) virus, human,” and referred to as “killer Mexican flu” by anti-immigration activists, had infected 985 people, or 0.0000145 percent of the world's population. Twenty countries reported infections; one death from the flu was confirmed in the United States; and 25 people had died in Mexico, where a cute five-year-old boy named Edgar Hernandez was presented to the media as “patient zero.”
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SFGate.com
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USA Today
Source 3:
The World Health Organization
Source 4:
The Guardian
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The New York Daily News
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| 0, 2000 | - Wachovia Bank was fined $50 million, and required to remit a further $110 million, for laundering funds for Mexican cocaine cartels; Mexican police were praying to spirits and sacrificing chickens to protect themselves from drug lords.
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The New York Times
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Reuters
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Mexicans living near the Popocatepetl volcano, many of whom worship the mountain, refused to be evacuated during its current eruption; local shamans said the mountain would not hurt them.
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| November 28, 2000 | - A federal judge told Quadrtech Corporation that it could not escape to Mexico to avoid the Communications Workers of America, which the company said it would do one day after the union was certified to represent Quadrtech's workers, who are largely female and Mexican and who assemble cheap jewelry for a minimum wage.
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| November 7, 2000 | - The Mexican government was upset about a Mexican citizen on death row whom Texas failed to notify of his right under the Vienna Convention to contact his government's embassy; the Mexican government did not find out about his arrest until a year after he was condemned.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, the former head of Mexico's National Institute to Combat Drugs, was sentenced to 71 years in prison on drug and weapons charges.
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| September 19, 2000 | - The Mexican forest where Monarch butterflies winter was being cut down.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Mexican president-elect Vicente Fox Quesada called on the United States to open its border with Mexico, saying that America needed Mexican workers if its prosperity was to continue.
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| April 0, 2000 | -
China began to quarantine Mexicans.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| January 0, 2000 | -
Mexico shut down for five days to contain the illness.
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The Telegraph
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| NULL 0, 2000 | - In the Gulf of Mexico, scientists speculated that an underwater “blizzard” of gooey organic matter (commonly known as marine snow or sea snot) was an effect of the BP oil spill. “I suspect,” said sea-snot expert Alice Alldredge, “the bottom-dwelling organisms might not be so happy.”
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National Geographic
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