Author: Peter Orsi
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Mexico farm town buries 3 of 9 slain Americans
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LA MORA, Mexico • With Mexican soldiers standing guard, a mother and two sons were carried to the grave in hand-hewn pine coffins Thursday at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. Clad in shirt sleeves, suits or modest dresses, about 500 mourners…
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Pressure turns on Mexico as migrant caravan heads to U.S. border
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GUATEMALA CITY • As some 3,000 Hondurans made their way through Guatemala, attention turned to Mexico, after President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to close the U.S.-Mexico border if authorities there fail to stop them — a nearly unthinkable move that would disrupt hundreds of thousands of legal freight, vehicle and pedestrian crossings each day. With…
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Tropical Storm Rosa heads for Baja, Southwest
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MEXICO CITY • Tropical Storm Rosa soaked northwestern Mexico with heavy rains as it neared the Baja California Peninsula on Monday and was projected to extend into a drenching of the U.S. Southwest. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the center of Rosa, which was a hurricane until late Sunday, should hit Baja California and…
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Photos: 7.2 quake damages homes, but Mexico avoids major destruction
MEXICO CITY — Mexico appeared Saturday to have escaped major destruction after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rattled the country, but it rekindled fears in a population that still sees daily reminders of deadly earthquakes that struck five months ago. The Interior Department said in a statement that 50 homes suffered significant structural damage in Santiago…
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Mexico: As quake search continues, thousands homeless
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MEXICO CITY — As the search continued Sunday for survivors and the bodies of people who died in quake-collapsed buildings in Mexico, thousands of people have been left homeless because their houses or apartment buildings are uninhabitable. Specialists have fanned out to inspect buildings and determine which are unsafe after Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, which…
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Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake
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MEXICO CITY — As painstaking attempts to reach survivors in quake-ravaged buildings across Mexico City stretched into a third day Thursday, desperation mounted among loved ones who earlier had high hopes for quick rescues and some complained they were being kept in the dark about search efforts. And what many had clung to as the…
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Mexico quake rescuers race to free girl, other survivors
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MEXICO CITY — The wiggling fingers of a young girl trapped in the rubble of her collapsed school in Mexico City raised hopes among hundreds of rescuers working furiously Wednesday to try to free her — a drama that played out at dozens of buildings toppled by the powerful earthquake that killed at least 223…
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Powerful earthquake jolts Mexico, sways buildings in capital
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MEXICO CITY — A powerful earthquake shook central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings in plumes of dust and killing at least 149 people. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped. Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of…
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Mexican drug lord El Chapo lands in New York to face charges
NEW YORK — Infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in his country, was extradited at the request of the United States to face drug trafficking and other charges and arrived in New York late Thursday. A plane carrying Guzman landed at a suburban airport, where a caravan…
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VIDEO: Deadly Mexico fireworks blast hit market packed for holidays
TULTEPEC, Mexico — The San Pablito fireworks market was especially well stocked for the holidays and bustling with hundreds of shoppers when a powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through its stalls, killing at least 31 people and leaving dozens more badly burned. The third such blast to ravage the market on the northern outskirts of Mexico’s…