16Mar2012 | Zetas Cartel Founder Gets 35 Year Sentence Associated Press A judge in Mexico sentenced a founding member of the Zetas drug cartel to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and organized crime activity, prosecutors announced Thursday. |
16Mar2012 | Mexico Presidential Run to Begin in Ensenada San Diego Union-Tribune The presidential candidate for Mexicos ruling National Action Party, also known as the PAN, plans to launch her campaign this month from Baja California - the state that gave her party its first gubernatorial victory more than two decades ago. |
16Mar2012 | Mexico Resort Plans Under Threat from Local Activists OPP Media Development plans for a major new resort to be built on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico are under threat as local activists try to stop construction going ahead in an area where a successful environmental rescue project has led to the coral reefs growing again. |
16Mar2012 | Laguna San Ignacio Gray Whale Nursery Natural Resources Defense Council The Laguna San Ignacio in Baja California, Mexico is best known as winter home to the once-endangered gray whale. Every year the whales migrate over 10,000 miles between their summer feeding grounds above the Arctic Circle and the coastal waters of Baja. |
16Mar2012 | The End of Mexicos VW Bug Cabs Gas2 Whether its pushing a VW Bus off an assembly line or building a classic VW Bug Type 1s up until 2003, Mexico and Mexico City love Volkswagen, especially as cabs. While it remains to be seen if 2012 will be the end of humanity, the year 2012 will be the end of the VW Beetle Taxicab of Mexico. |
16Mar2012 | Metallica to Unveil New Stage at Mexico Shows Loudwire.com Metallica are gearing up for some serious touring this year, including headlining their own Orion Music + More 2012 festival in Atlantic City, N.J. Now, the heavy metal legends have announced two shows taking place in Mexico along with a immense new stage setup. |
16Mar2012 | The Poverty of Nations WSJ.com Why is Mexico poorer than the United States? In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson blame the encomienda, the Spanish imposed system as a means of extracting tribute from the local population after the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. |
16Mar2012 | Are We Running Out of Water? National Geographic Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. With that nefarious event the Rio Grande joined a growing list of once-mighty rivers that are running dry from overuse. |
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