Carrie Kahn

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For Americans Held In Honduras, Daily Fines And Decrepit Conditions

Friday, June 06, 2014

Six Americans have been detained in Honduras for the last month, jailed on suspicion of smuggling arms. The Americans claim the guns they carried were for personal protection against pirates.

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World Cup Fans Preoccupied With Soccer's Version Of Baseball Cards

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

World Cup stickers called Paninis have been traded for five decades around the globe. Every four years, the Italy-based publisher Panini releases World Cup souvenir sticker albums.

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Mexico City's Campaign To Encourage Breast-Feeding Backfires

Monday, May 26, 2014

Breast-feeding rates in Mexico are among the lowest in Latin America. But a campaign to encourage the practice featured topless actresses, drawing sharp criticism from some women's groups.

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With Cartels On The Run, Mexican Lime Farmers Keep More Of The Green

Monday, May 19, 2014

Thanks to a big spring crop in Veracruz and police crackdowns on drug cartels, high prices for Mexican limes are falling earthward, just in time for summer cocktails. Mexican farmers are celebrating.

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Thousands March In Mexico City On May Day

Friday, May 02, 2014

Many Mexicans say they don’t believe a series of political and economic reforms being pushed through Congress will benefit them. Tens of thousands took to the streets yesterday in annual May Day demonstrations to protest the new laws, which take aim at everything from Mexico’s flagging education system ...

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A Mystery For Millennia, This Ancient Pyramid May Crumble Soon

Monday, April 07, 2014

The Sun Pyramid, built by ancient pre-Aztecs around 100 B.C., is in trouble. A bad reconstruction job a century ago may be causing one side of the pyramid to dry out, and some say it could crumble.

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Tijuana's New Breed Of Entrepreneurs Create Technical Businesses

Friday, March 28, 2014

In the Mexican border city of Tijuana, entrepreneurs are going after a share of the Internet economy that usually goes to Asia. At a business incubator, they want to work with U.S. tech companies.

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In Mexico And U.S., Lime Lovers Feel Squeezed By High Prices

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

It's enough to leave you crying in your margarita: Lime prices are so high these days that in Mexico, organized gangs have even started stealing the fruit. Prices are no better stateside.

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Drug Cartel Boss Dies A Second Time

Monday, March 10, 2014

Nazario Moreno, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, is dead — again. He was wrongly confirmed dead in 2010, but now, Mexican authorities claim they know "100 percent" that they killed him.

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Mexican Judges Rule 'El Chapo' Will Stand Trial In Mexico First

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The arrest of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman is a coup for Mexican authorities. Now comes the tussle over where he will be tried. He's wanted in at least seven U.S. federal districts.

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Ruthless Mexican Drug Trafficker Was A Robin Hood In Home State

Monday, February 24, 2014

Powerful cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was charged Monday with violating drug trafficking laws. He was a vicious killer. But many see him as a hero who helped the poor and maintained order.

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Authorities Finally Nab Mexico's No. 1 Drug Kingpin

Monday, February 24, 2014

Joaquin Guzman known as "El Chapo," was arrested in an early Saturday morning raid in the Pacific beach resort of Mazatlan. Multiple U.S. agencies provided intelligence that helped take down Guzman.

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El Chapo's Arrest Punctures Drug Lord's Near-Mythical Status

Sunday, February 23, 2014

One of the world's most powerful drug lords has been captured. Mexico's head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was arrested in an operation that Mexican officials say involved the cooperation of U.S. authorities.

Guzman has been on the run for years and his capture puts an ...

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Prisoner: I Was Forced To Dig From Tijuana To San Diego

Thursday, February 06, 2014

More than 75 drug-smuggling tunnels have been discovered under the U.S. Mexico border in just the past six years, and one of the more intriguing cases involves 17 Mexican men who claim they were kidnapped and forced to carry out the work for months before Mexican authorities found them.

There's ...

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Under Government Pressure, Mexican Vigilantes Vow To Fight On

Saturday, January 18, 2014

After a week of fighting between civilian militias, drug traffickers and federal forces, there is a tense calm in the western Mexico state of Michoacan.

It's been the site of clashes between civilian militias defending themselves from ruthless drug traffickers, and federal forces trying to regain control.

For now, businesses ...

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Following Bloomberg's Lead, Mexico Aims To Fight Fat

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Nearly a third of all Mexicans are obese, putting Mexico at the top of the list of overweight nations — ahead of the United States.

In the battle against the bulge, lawmakers are taking aim at consumer's pocketbooks. They're proposing a series of new taxes on high calorie food and ...

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