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Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spews ash, gas

Agencia EFEMay 17, 2013 19:02
Mexico City, May 17 (EFE).- Columns of gas and ash 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) high were detected after two strong explosions from the Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico's Cenapred disaster-management agency said Friday. The first blast came at 10:14 p.m. Thursday, followed by another a little more than two hours later. The explosions deposited glowing fragments up to 1.5 kilometers from the crater as well as columns of ash and gas that were carried northeastward by the prevailing winds, Cenapred said.

No emergency contraception for most rape victims in Mexico

April 8, 2013 14:19
Mexico City, Apr 8 (EFE).- Women who are rape victims in Mexico lack any sure way to get the emergency contraception they have a right to, the Information Group on Reproductive Choice, or GIRE, said Monday. In a report shown to Efe, the NGO says that 72.5 percent of Mexican women have contraceptive coverage, but the level drops to 58.3 percent among Indian women and to 60.5 percent among those with little formal education.

Mexico unveils plan to fight addiction, violence in schools

April 6, 2013 12:48
The Mexican government announced a strategy on Monday to prevent addiction and violence in elementary and middle schools in 57 districts with high incidences of both. Mexico's education and health ministries are to jointly implement the plan, which is expected to reduce rates of addiction and violence within a year, said Roberto Campa, vice interior minister for social security at a joint press conference. At the press conference, Mexican Health Minister Antonio Kuri Morales said the multi-pronged strategy includes promoting sports among youth, with the help of the National Spo

Gunmen kill 5 police officers, 14 civilians in western Mexico

March 24, 2013 12:24
Morelia, Mexico, Mar 24 (EFE).- Five Federal Police officers and 14 other people died in attacks staged by suspected drug traffickers in the western Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan, a Federal Police spokesman told Efe. A group of Federal Police officers and soldiers were attacked while unarmed and off duty Friday night at the Las Vegas bar in Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, the police spokesman said. Five officers and three other patrons died in the attack, and three officers were wounded.

Mexico making progress against heroin and synthetic drugs, U.N. agency says

March 5, 2013 18:18
Vienna, Mar 5 (EFE).- Mexico, the country most affected by drug-related violence, is making significant progress in battling heroin and synthetic drugs, the International Narcotics Control Board, or INCB, said in its annual report. "Large-scale law enforcement operations targeting the cultivation of opium poppy and the manufacturing of heroin in Mexico have yielded unprecedented results," the INCB, a U.N. agency, said.

Guatemalan refugees agree with gov't on repatriation from Mexico

February 26, 2013 20:45
Mexico City, Feb 26 (EFE).- The villagers from the Guatemalan community of Nueva Esperanza who took refuge in southern Mexico in 2011 reached an agreement with their country's government to be repatriated on Feb. 28, non-governmental organizations reported Tuesday. The community of Nueva Esperanza was evacuated by force by Guatemalan authorities in August 2011 and its residents crossed the border and took refuge on Mexican soil, where they have lived "in critical conditions," according to the Civil Observation Mission comprised of 10 Mexican human rights organizations.

Mexico's telecom industry grows 13.6 pct

February 26, 2013 15:46
Mexico City, Feb 26 (EFE).- Mexico's telecommunications industry grew 13.6 percent last year, compared to 2011, "the highest (level) in the past four years," due mainly to growth in wireless telephony and satellite television, the Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, said. The industry's growth rate was well above that of the economy, which grew 3.9 percent in 2012, the Cofetel said in a statement.

Eurocopter to invest up to $550 mn in Mexico

February 26, 2013 11:21
Mexico City, Feb 14 (EFE).- Eurocopter plans to invest up to $550 million in Mexico over the next few years, the European aviation company's president and CEO, Lutz Bertling, said. "Our company is ready to continue investing. We see maximum potential investment of approximately $550 million," Bertling said during the inauguration of a plant in the central Mexican state of Queretaro. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto attended the ceremony Wednesday at the industrial facility in Colon, a city in Queretaro.

Mexico releases 100,000 endangered sea turtles

January 31, 2013 16:15
A Mexican conservation group released more than 100,000 sea turtles into the ocean last year, in an effort to save a species threatened by egg poachers and fishing nets. The olive ridley sea turtles, known as "golfina" in Spanish, were released off the beaches of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on the Pacific coast, the Association to Protect Sea Turtles said Thursday. Some 1,300 egg nests were also protected last year, 320 more than in 2011. Almost 70,000 golfinas were released off Baja California in 2011.
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