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Mon Jun 5 09:31:01 2006 Pacific Time New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: A Place of Kings and Palaces? BOULDER, Colo., June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kings living in palaces may have ruled New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a thousand years ago, causing Pueblo people to reject the brawny, top-down politics in the centuries that followed, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder archaeologist. University of Colorado Museum anthropology Curator Steve Lekson, who has studied Chaco Canyon for several decades, said one argument for royalty comes from the rich, crypt-style burials of two men discovered deep in a Chaco Canyon "great house"...

WEST OF NACO, Sonora, Mexico — Grupo Beta agent Waldo Montiel had just finished a brief off-road spin through a gully known to be a waiting area for migrants when the red Chevy Suburban roared past, headed west along the dusty border road. “Do you recognize that truck?” asked fellow agent Bertha Alicia De la Rosa from her seat beside Montiel. “No,” he said. “It’s not from one of the ranches around here?” “I don’t think so,” he answered as he pulled the bright orange Dodge Ram truck back on to the road and took up pursuit of the Suburban....

Mexico's sinking city By Claire Marshall BBC, Mexico City Mention a sinking city and it is a fair bet that Venice is the place which comes to mind, yet parts of the centre of Mexico City are sinking at an even faster rate than that of the fabled Italian lagoon city. The Popocatepetl volcano erupted for the first time 23,000 years ago Not so long ago, you used to be able to stand on the green wooded slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano and look down on Mexico City. Now, the view is blocked by a dense brown cloud of pollution....

Wilma May Be Mexico's Costliest Disaster Friday October 28, 2005 4:31 AM By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Writer ISLA MUJERES, Mexico (AP) - Mexico's Caribbean coastline took a beating from Hurricane Wilma, but the resort area's islands - famous for their diving and snorkeling - bore the brunt of the storm, with extensive damage to reefs and white-sand beaches. Mexican insurance companies said Thursday that Wilma was likely to be the country's most costly disaster ever, with payments topping the $1.2 billion the industry dished out for 1988's Hurricane Gilbert. A U.S. cruise ship was sent Thursday to the island...

New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids of Fire" John Roach for National Geographic News October 21, 2005On TV: Watch National Geographic Explorer: Pyramids of Fire, Sunday, October 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Using picks, shovels, and high-tech forensic sleuthing, scientists are beginning to cobble together the grisly ancient history and fiery demise of Teotihuacán, the first major metropolis of the Americas. The size of Shakespeare's London, Teotihuacán was built by an unknown people almost 2,000 years ago. The site sits about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of present-day Mexico City. Temples, palaces, and some of the...

Lost Children of Mexico's 'Dirty War'Woman Believes She Has Found Her Brother in D.C. For years Aleida Gallangos had been searching for her brother, who disappeared when their family was torn apart 30 years ago during Mexico's war against leftist guerrillas. Last month, the trail led the Mexican factory worker in an unlikely direction -- to Washington. Gallangos, 31, arrived here with a tantalizing clue: Her brother had been adopted as a young boy by a Mexican family, and some members of that family had immigrated to Columbia Heights. She scoured the Northwest Washington neighborhood and the D.C. phone directory,...

Thursday, 15 August, 2002, 03:05 GMT 04:05 UKMexico's Fox cancels Texas trip The case drew widespread appeals for clemency Mexican President Vicente Fox has cancelled a forthcoming trip to Texas and a meeting with US President George W Bush in protest at the state's execution of a Mexican national. "This decision is an unequivocal sign of our rejection of the execution," a spokesman for Mr Fox said.>p> Suarez was 19 when he killed the undercover police officer Javier Suarez Medina, 33, died by lethal injection on Wednesday, after spending 13 years on death row for the murder of a Dallas...