16Mar2012 | Chefs Add Modern Touch to Mayan Food newstimes.com Visitors to Mexicos Yucatan peninsula, may have come for the ancient Mayan ruins or Playa del Carmen resorts, but they are often surprised to find tacos and burritos to be upstaged by the fuller flavors of local dishes. Chef Brent Marsh can easily identify what makes Yucatecan cuisine distinct. |
16Mar2012 | Teachers in Mega Protest March Tie Up Mexico City Los Angeles Times Another day, another demo. In a megalopolis known for its traffic-twisting protest marches and political rallies, Thursdays did not disappoint. Tens of thousands of teachers tromped through city streets, converging on the Mexico City downtown Zocalo, or plaza, from three directions. |
15Mar2012 | Monarch Butterflies Drop 28 Percent in Mexico Associated Press A report says the number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped 28.1 percent this year. The drop is due in part to droughts in areas of the United States and Canada where the butterflies breed and migrate. |
15Mar2012 | Mexico Shrimp Ban Begins in Pacific Waters FIS Mexico The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Sagarpa) has ordered the ban on fishing for all shrimp species existing in the marine waters under federal jurisdiction of the Pacific Ocean starting Wednesday, March 15th. |
15Mar2012 | Floods Spurred by Rising Seas Threaten 5 Million in US Reuters For the nearly 5 million people who live along the coasts from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico and the West Coast, rising seas fueled by global warming have doubled the risk of so-called once-a-century floods, according to a trio of environmental reports released on Wednesday. |
15Mar2012 | Cruise Giant Carnival to Invest Over $150 Million in Mexico EFE Carnival Cruise Lines plans to invest more than $150 million to expand port infrastructure at destinations on the Mexican Pacific and Caribbean coasts, the Tourism Secretariat said. |
15Mar2012 | Mexico Targets 2014 Launch for Satmex 7 Satellite EFE Contracts have been signed with U.S.-based Boeing Satellite Systems International and Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, for the construction, launch and insertion into orbit of the $350 million Satmex 7 satellite, Satelites Mexicanos, or Satmex, said. |
15Mar2012 | Mexican Disappearances Shielded by Impunity, United Nations Says Chron.com Shielded by a chronic pattern of impunity, Mexican soldiers, police and other authorities have carried out or failed to properly investigate thousands of enforced disappearances of Mexican citizens during the past five years of gangland violence, according to a United Nations commission. |
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