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MEXICO CITY — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet today with President Vicente Fox and foreign ministry officials to discuss immigration, terrorists and drug cartels. Discussions also could include the United States' role in Latin America, Cuba's human rights record and the foreign minister of Mexico's bid to lead the Organization of American States. Rice's first official visit to Mexico sets the stage for Fox, President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's summit March 23 in Texas. Rice isn't expected to break new ground during her one-day visit, but reinforce cooperation in the wake of recent friction,...

From San Diego to the Rio Grande Valley, US soldiers are on duty. First it was the "War on Drugs," now they have an additional mission, blocking Mexico's emigrants. In California's Imperial Valley, soldiers from an antidrug task force hunker over night vision equipment to watch for illegal border crossings. At the San Diego port of entry, National Guards inspect vehicles. In the Arizona desert, heavily-armed Marines, DEA agents, and the Border Patrol conduct joint patrols as training exercises. Inside a nondescript building on an army base near El Paso, military translators, linguists, and analysts decipher intercepted messages and feed...

The Mexican Attorney General's office thinks the "Zetas" gang (ex-army commandos and the muscle of the Gulf Drug Cartel) may have come into possession of the SA-7 Grail missile.

The president, seeking to boost trade, says past governments neglected ties with the region. AP/EL UNIVERSAL February 13, 2005 ALGIERS, Algeria President Vicente Fox arrived in Algeria on Saturday with plans to sign a series of accords during the first visit by a Mexican leader to this North African nation in three decades. Four accords were being signed during his visit, Fox told Algerian government-controlled daily El Moudjahid, ranging from exchanges in education, art and culture to a decision to do away with visas in diplomatic and official passports. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika greeted Fox at the airport. Fox, on a...

By early next year (2005) Congress will convene and decide whether or not to push through the incognito FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). If this free-trade pact goes through successfully, a revolution inconceivable since America’s founding will sweep across the American front, unleashing widespread economic instability by uniting North America’s market with Mexico’s, and eventually South America’s. Together, this process will consolidate North and South America’s monetary system, trade, market, political hemisphere, and regional infrastructure. On top of this, the Bush Administration’s recently proposed “Amnesty” plan will compound the situation by flooding America with an influx of mass-immigration...

Hard explosion next to the Palace of Congresses of Madrid A strong explosion has registered this morning next to the Palace of Congresses of Madrid. According to eyewitnesses, a car is destroyed in the Avenue of the $andes. The police and cash of the SAMUR are moving to the place of the facts and the buildings of the zone are being evacuated. The place of the outbreak is to few meters of IFEMA, where this late ARC with the attendance of the Kings and the president of Mexico is inaugurated, Vicente Fox.

Vicente Fox, Labor Pimp by Mac Johnson Posted Feb 8, 2005 The trouble with Mexico is that it's full of Mexicans. Now, before any of you self-righteous white liberals or self-appointed Hispanic "leaders" fire off angry emails to me, keep in mind that this statement simply reflects the official policy of Mexico's Government, not what I personally believe. The current administration of Mexico has apparently decided to support the wholesale export of its people to America as a desirable economic policy. The stream of economic refugees that has flowed northward from Mexico for sixty years was once a source of...

A DRUG MOLE IN FOX'S CABINET?  By Michelle Malkin   ·   February 06, 2005 05:15 PM  Mexican media are reporting on the arrest of Nahum Acosta, an aide to President Vicente Fox and key member of the National Action Party (PAN) in the border state of Sonora, a notorious drug hotspot favored by the Tijuana cartel: Federal authorities have detained the head of President Vicente Fox's travel staff on suspicions he was feeding information to drug lords, Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said Saturday. Nahúm Acosta, director of the office coordinating presidential tours, was arrested by federal agents...

The Mexican government has never succeeded in anything except promoting Cantinflas and starving its citizens, so what makes people think this new year will be any different? Consider its latest solution to relieve Mexico’s Third World conditions: getting Mexicans the hell out of Mexico. In late December, it began printing copies of Guía del Migrante Mexicano (Guide for the Mexican Immigrant), a 34-page color booklet that advises Mexicans thinking of getting the hell out of their country on the best ways to do it.

Mexican President Vicente Fox is figuratively thumbing his nose at Washington, D.C., our sovereignty, our laws and the Bush administration. No doubt emboldened by the increasing number of illegal immigrants allowed to live in the United States, in December the Mexican government published a 32-page book titled “The Guide for the Mexican Migrant.” This book, complete with pictures, is essentially a “how-to” on illegally entering the U.S. and establishing a residence. Among many practical tips are instructions on how to cross a river without drowning and how to salt drinking water for survival. It also lists some illegal aliens’ rights...

For decades now, our bad neighbor to the south has aided and abetted its impoverished citizens to enter the United States illegally – a process that pays handsome dividends to Mexico, but results in massive trauma and social upheaval for the gringos. The latest attack on our sovereignty is a 32-page color comic book published by Mexico’s foreign ministry and designed as a self-help manual for illegal aliens. The publication (which should be titled “Juan and Miguel Join Mexico’s National Synchronized Swimming Team”) contains helpful advice on crossing the Rio Grande (wear light clothing), traversing the desert (carry salt tablets...

"Eventually our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes [such as] the future prosperity of North America, and the movement of capital, goods, services, and persons." —Mexican President Vicente Fox in a candid address before the "Club XXI" at the Hotel Eurobuilding in Madrid, Spain, May 16, 2002 But Fox sees a large impediment to his vision: "what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the...

Mexico's Foreign Ministry has produced and distributed a Guide for the Mexican Migrant, which is essentially a "how to" manual for illegal entry into the United States.Unfortunately, it goes even further by providing recommendations for illegal aliens in evading detection of federal authorities once in the United States. ("Avoid attracting attention," etc.) Not once does the guide mention how a Mexican migrant can come to the U.S. legally!While many Americans were shocked to find out that the Mexican government is a witting accomplice in breaking our laws, the assault on our sovereignty by Mexico has been going on for years.Indeed,...

LOS ANGELES -- County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is again urging the president of Mexico to extradite a Mexican national wanted for the murder of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy.During a traffic stop on April 29, 2002, in Irwindale, Deputy David March of the Santa Clarita Valley was allegedly shot to death by Armando Garcia, who fled to Mexico.March stopped a black Nissan Maxima and entered the car's license plate into his Mobile Data Terminal. Shortly after, he was shot several times at close range.In a letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox, Antonovich referred to the recent extradition of Victor...

Many Mexicans who voted for Vicente Fox are bewildered. Four years into his term as president, the man who promised to kick the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, out of power forever now seems to have been kidding. The PRI is coming back, winning state election after state election, and Mexico's first president elected in a free and fair race doesn't appear to be doing anything about it. But other Mexicans should, because if the former ruling party returns to office in the next presidential election, in 2006, the country's democracy will have been short-lived. If the PRI returns, it...

As an American, I have always been inspired by the fact that my country welcomes those who seek refuge. And as long as our government officials maintain our borders and ensure that those coming from other countries are screened in order to protect those who legally live here, the concept of welcoming immigrants is a noble one. However, something has gone awry. Indeed, illegal immigration into the U.S. has become an immense problem and a clear and present danger. Documented illegal immigration has more than doubled in the last decade. It has grown, by conservative counts, from 3.5 million in...

The president will renew efforts to reach an accord on migrant workers in a meeting with Bush on Sunday. President Vicente Fox arrived in Santiago for the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation reunion on Saturday, and he is scheduled to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush and other world leaders today. Fox hopes to re-energize discussions with the U.S. leader on a possible migration accord that would move towards regularizing the status of an estimated 10 million Mexicans residing in the United States illegally. In an interview with the Costa Rican paper La Nación, Fox said that differences over the...

SACRAMENTO — Since his inauguration nearly a year ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has rallied U.S. troops in Germany, attended a state funeral in Austria, dined with the king of Jordan at his palace, toured ancient sites in Israel and joked with the Japanese prime minister in Tokyo. But there is one conspicuous omission from his foreign sojourns: Mexico. --snip-- Although his films have been popular in Mexico, Schwarzenegger's political views have been derided there. For a year, Mexican media have hammered the governor for opposing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in California, and the issue has reverberated throughout the country....

AUSTIN - Flanked by Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez, U.S. Sen Kay Bailey Hutchinson on Thursday said reviving an immigration agreement with Mexico will be among the top priorities for President Bush during his second term.Derbez, responding to a question, said those "discussions have already begun," indicating the topic of an immigration accord was broached during a brief early-morning phone conversation Wednesday between Mexican President Vicente Fox and Bush hours before the U.S. president acknowledged his victory against Sen. John Kerry.Saying Fox had called Bush at 7 a.m. to congratulate him on his re-election, Derbez said in Spanish that...

President Vicente Fox said Monday he would fight to defend the consular identity cards used by migrants in the United States, amid proposals in the U.S. congress to limit the use of the cards in applying for government services. Fox appeared to play on his name -- which in Spanish would be "Zorro," the legendary masked sword fighter -- saying he would defend the so-called matricula cards "with a cape and a sword." "The Matricula Consular cards are again being questioned, but we will defend them with a cape and a sword, because our countrymen who live up there are...