The cultivation of poppy is probably legal in Mexico. Future President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says this remarkable step to consider. Poppy cultivation and the production of heroin are rapidly increasing with the southern neighbors of the United States. But the new head of government is tired of the bloodshed of the struggle for cultivation, smuggling and distribution.
Hurricane Michael has landed in the American state of Florida. The eye of the hurricane passed the coast near Mexico Beach, some thirty kilometers southeast of Panama City, in the so-called Pannensteel of Florida. The hurricane remains strong above the country and leaves a trail of destruction behind.
The tropical storm Michael, who travels across the Gulf of Mexico towards the United States, has developed into a hurricane. 'With a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour, Michael is now a hurricane of the first category', reports the American hurricane center NHC. Michael is on his way to the US state of Florida.
With the impending end of the Mexican presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, his fairy-tale wedding with soap actress Angélica Rivera seems to be on the rocks as well. The television star, famous throughout Latin America, famous as La Gaviota (the Seagull), would no longer live in Los Pinos Palace.
The police in Mexico arrested a man and a woman suspected of involvement in the murder of at least ten women. The couple is also accused of selling a baby.
A Mexican governor who had two billion euros disappeared from the treasury of the province of Veracruz receives punishment. A fine of, converted, 2,645 euros and nine years in prison.
US President Donald Trump has suggested stopping migrants by building a wall in the Sahara. This was told by the Spanish minister Josep Borrell (Foreign Affairs), who immediately made it clear that he was not enthusiastic about the proposal. The desert has a length of thousands of kilometers.
A riot around a mobile mortuary has cost the head of two senior officials in Mexico. The authorities have announced that the highest prosecutor in the state of Jalisco has been dismissed. Earlier, the head of the forensic institute also had to clear the field.
A performance of a mariachi band in Mexico City has turned into a bloodbath. Five traditionally decked musicians turned out to be murderers. During the performance they put down their instruments and grabbed firearms, with which they shot around. At least five people were killed, eight others were injured. Among the wounded would be a foreigner.
The Mexican police have discovered 32 mass graves in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The public prosecutor announced at a press conference on Thursday that a total of 166 bodies were found.
The tropical storm Gordon may grow into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico before it lands in the southeast of the American state of Louisiana. That happens late or early Wednesday morning early, is the expectation.
About five hundred children who were separated from their parents on the border between Mexico and the US have not yet been reunited with their families. Authorities are meanwhile searching for many parents.
A heavy traffic accident has cost the lives of at least seven people in the United States. A truck crashed in the vicinity of Thoreau (New Mexico) frontally on a bus with about fifty passengers.
The United States and Mexico are, according to President Donald Trump, close to a major trade agreement. 'Our relationship with Mexico is tightening with the hour \u0026 # x27 ;, #,' says Trump on Twitter. 'A big trade agreement with Mexico could now be quick. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27;
Nearly two hundred human bones have been found in northern Mexico. The authorities suspect that these are mass graves. The human remains were found in a number of places along a river in the state of Chihuahua, reports the attorney general in the area.
Mexican authorities are going to investigate the death of 113 rare sea turtles. The animals washed up in a piece of protected nature in Puerto Arista.
The conditional release of a group of Muslims who are suspected of having prepared children to carry out attacks has led to great commotion in the American state of New Mexico. The judge who allowed the suspects to leave on bail was given a flood of death threats and criticism.
The remains of a three-year-old boy from Atlanta that has been missing for months has been found in the underground housing complex in New Mexico. He was killed during a ritual to drive 'demonic spirits', so other children told.
The upcoming Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (64) abolishes the armed team that monitors the safety of the head of state. Instead, he surrounds himself in public activities by twenty unarmed men and women, some of whom are doctors, lawyers or engineers.
In the desert of New Mexico, children were trained to perform shootings at schools. That is in the indictment of the main suspect in the case, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. The man is also suspected of child abuse and neglect. In addition to the main suspect, another man and three women have also been arrested. These are probably the mothers of the children.
The eleven children who were found severely neglected in an underground residential complex in the American state of New Mexico were trained to use a rifle to create a bloodbath at a school, a so-called 'school shooting'. According to news agency AP, this is apparent from court documents.
The American authorities rescued eleven children from an underground residential complex in a sparsely populated, mountainous area in New Mexico. According to the local sheriff, they lived there under 'the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen', reports American media.
The American government has failed to reunite all children who were separated from their parents on the border with Mexico. A judge had ordered the government that Thursday all about 2,500 migrant children who have been detained separately must be reunited with their parents. So far, this has succeeded in about 1,400 children.
In the Netherlands the sparrows are dead from the roof, but in Mexico it is the pelicans that (almost) succumb to the great heat. In Mexico City the mercury rose to over forty degrees Celsius and that turned out to be a bit too much for some of the birds.
Worldwide more than two hundred environmental activists were killed last year. According to the British human rights organization Global Witness, the death toll was 207 in 2017. With six victims more than the year before, this means a new low; as far as known, so many conservationists have not been killed before.
The Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto wants the US to reunite families who have been separated at the border as soon as possible. He said that Friday during a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The death toll due to explosions in a fireworks store in the Mexican town of Tultepec has risen to 24. There are also rescue workers among the victims.
In the Mexican town of Tultepec, people were killed again Thursday by explosions in a fireworks store. Local media report that two explosions occurred one behind the other.
Football crazy Mexicans eat the last bits of frustration away about the loss four years ago against the Dutch national team at the World Championship in Brazil.
The left populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won the presidential elections in Mexico. According to exitpolls, he got between 43 and 59 percent of the votes on Sunday. Obrador's main rivals, Ricardo Anaya Cortés of the center-right conservative PAN and José Antonio Meade of the ruling center-left PRI, congratulated him on his victory.
