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September 30, 2005
American Football In Mexico City
Great. As if it were not macho enough already, Mexico is about to host the NFL's first regular season game held outside the United States.
Read more in English at the International Herald Tribune.
Posted by crispy at 05:23 AM | Comments (0)
September 22, 2005
Mexicans Prepare to Help Texans
In anticipation of Hurricane Rita, one of the most powerful storms on record that is expected to make landfall in Galveston, Texas on Friday, officials in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon are preparing to establish shelters near the countries' border in the event that they are needed. In addition, Nuevo Leon Governor Natividad Gonzalez sent a letter today to Texas Governor Rick Perry offering the assistance of Mexican medical and rescue crews.
In Nuevo Laredo, border officials noted that the volume of Mexicans returning from Texas began to pick up on Wednesday night and by Thursday morning, over 1000 people had crossed into Mexico.
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September 21, 2005
Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Killed in Helicopter Crash
Ramon Martin Huerta, the Mexican Secretary of Public Safety and former governor of the state of Guanajuato was killed on Wednesday when the helicopter in which he and eight others crashed into a mountainside due to thick fog. Tomas Valencia, the head of the Federal Preventive Police, and Jose Antonio Bernal, an inspector from the National Human Rights Commission, were also killed in the crash.
Cardenas was the head of the Mexican government's "war on drugs" and the rash of drug-related violence that has swept the border region this past year. Although Cardenas had received at least three death threats in the past week from Osiel Cardenas, the head of the Gulf Cartel drug organization who is currently in prison, officials deny any connection between those threats and the crash.
In a televised address, President Vicente Fox said that the victims were heroes who lost their lives in the line of duty and vowed to continue the fight against drugs in Mexico.
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September 20, 2005
The Cowboy's Lament
Sent to me from my father, who remembered this song from his childhood.
Old Texas (The Cowboy's Lament)
I'm going to leave old Texas now
They've got no use for the long-horn cow
They've plowed and fenced my cattle range
And the people there are all so strange
I'll take my horse and I'll take my rope
And hit the trail upon a lope
I'll say goodby to the Alamo
And turn my head toward Mexico
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