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An indigenous language in southern Mexico is in danger of disappearing because its last two speakers have stopped talking to one another. ... The Zoque tribe is thought to descend from the Olmecas and its members are spread around the south of Mexico.
2007-11-16
language incredible Mexico OlmecasDrug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years, in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and the state-run oil company.
2009-12-13
pipeline oil Mexico mafia theftUN talks in Cancun have reached a deal to curb climate change, including a fund to help developing countries.
2010-12-11
United Nations Cancun Mexico climate change developing countriesA Mexican woman who was campaigning for justice for her murdered teenage daughter has herself been killed.
2010-12-17
Mexico murder incredibleMore than 140 Mexican prisoners have escaped from a jail near the US border, local media reports say. The prisoners broke out of the jail in Nuevo Laredo late on Thursday or early on Friday morning. Security guards are being questioned on suspicion of helping the inmates flee, and prison director has gone missing.
2010-12-18
Mexico prison jail break