Latin America – Mexico’s Drug War Brings More Carnage To Border (NPR)
Mexico’s Drug War Brings More Carnage To Border (NPR)
Almost 2,600 people have been killed in Juarez this year, making it the hemisphere’s murder capital.
Will 2010 Be the Year the World Ends — for Mexico? (Time.com via Yahoo! News)
The populace is anxious about the bicentennial of the founding of the country because really bad things seem to happen every 100 years
Ship fire kills nine off Venezuela: state media (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Nine sailors were killed and five were burned in a Christmas Day blaze aboard a Greek freighter in waters off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday.
Costa Rica assails big risks taken by small miners (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Costa Rica is pushing to legalize hundreds of small-scale miners who scrape out tiny amounts of gold from abandoned mine shafts using dangerous and polluting techniques.
Sailors missing after ship fire off Venezuela (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Six Filipino sailors and three Greek officers were missing on Friday following a fire on board a Greek cargo ship off the Venezuelan coast, the Greek government said.
Nine dead in ship fire off Venezuela: state media (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Nine sailors died and five were injured in a Christmas Day ship fire off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday.
2010 World Cup: Mexico 3-1 Costa Rica – Goals (video) (Moldova.org)
Mexico won over Costa Rica 3-0 on Saturday in a World Cup qualifier. Mexico is in a strong position to reach 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Goals for Mexico: Giovanni Dos Santos, Guillermo Franco and Andres Guardado. It was Mexico’s best match and its first victory away from home after three losses. Honduras and the United States have 13 points each to lead CONCACAF qualifying. Mexico and Costa …
Toyota faces expulsion from Venezuela (CNN Money)
CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has threatened to expel Japanese carmaker Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain model of 4×4 vehicles used for public transport in poor and rural areas.
Spanish-Mexican-Costa Rican Team Submits Low Bid for Second Biggest Panama Canal Contract (Engineering News-Record)
A construction consortium from Spain, Mexico and Costa Rica has outbid three other competitors for the second-largest contract awarded in the Panama Canal’s $5.2-billion Third Lane Expansion effort, eclipsed only by the price tag for design and construction of the waterway’s new locks.
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