MLB scraps plans to play in Puerto Rico and Mexico City next season
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball scrapped plans to play regular-season games next year in Mexico City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The season opens on March 18 and…
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Coast Guard seizes 35 ‘bales’ of cocaine and charges 2 crew members aboard Mexican go-fast boat
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two crew members of a go-fast boat were arrested after a Royal Canadian Naval ship recovered 35 bales of cocaine while patrolling with a U.S. Coast Guard…
Tropical Storm Sara expected to disappear within the next 24 hours
MERIDA — Tropical Storm Sara is beginning to weaken the western Caribbean and is now expected to dissipate over the Yucatan in the next 24 hours. Today's advisory from the…
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More than 1,000 mariachis belt out classics like ‘Cielito Lindo’ in a Mexico City plaza
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 mariachis gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza Sunday, strumming guitars and singing classics like “Cielito Lindo” to end a mariachi congress celebrating the…
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About 17% of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production shut due to Hurricane Rafael
HAVANA — About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane Rafael, the U.S. Bureau…
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Mexican fuel flows to Cuba as the island faces blackouts and the loss of Russian and Venezuelan oil
HAVANA (AP) — As Cuba grapples with blackouts and a deepening economic crisis, Mexico has sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in just a span of days,…
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Mexican officials shake off investor concern in bilateral business summit
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials urged safety and stability in private investment in the country this week, following a bilateral summit with business leaders in which fears about constitutional reforms…
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Grenada minister tells UN: hurricane-devastated Islands need anything for `a human being to survive’
NEW YORK (AP) — The minister for the two islands in Grenada that Hurricane Beryl first slammed into with catastrophic winds had a simple message for U.N. and other humanitarian…
Tropical wave pushes northwest towards Cancun; Tropical Storm Debby over Georgia
MIAMI — Showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located over the east-central Caribbean Sea have changed little this morning. Any development of this system should be slow to…
Hurricane Beryl heads for Cayman Islands, Mexico after striking Jamaica
KINGSTON — Hurricane Beryl rumbled towards the Cayman Islands and Mexico today, after pummeling Jamaica with winds and rain that caused floods and widespread power outages and leaving a deadly…