Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-Chivas USA Employees File Discrimination Suit in California
May 31 2013 // Two former Chivas USA youth coaches have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Major League Soccer team, claiming they were fired because they aren’t Mexican or Latino. The suit was filed Tuesday by Daniel...
Hurricane Barbara Wind, Rain, Flood Damages in Mexico: AIR Analysis
May 31 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released a preliminary analysis of the damages caused by Hurricane Barbara, when it came ashore in the state of Chiapas on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Wednesday, May 29, at...
Hurricane Barbara Hits Southern Mexico; at Least Two Killed
May 30 2013 // Hurricane Barbara hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Wednesday, flooding roads, toppling trees and killing two men before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved inland. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said...
NHC: TS Barbara Nears Mexico’s Southwest Coast; Hurricane Watch Issued
May 29 2013 // A bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, issued at 2:00 AM PDT, locates the center of Tropical Storm Barbara, which is approaching the southwest coast of Mexico, as “moving toward the northeast near 5...
New Mexico To Keep Administering High-Risk Insurance
May 28 2013 // A panel of New Mexico regulators has voted to continue coverage for more than 1,500 people who are part of a federal high-risk health insurance pool despite a likely shortfall in payments from the federal government. The...
New Mexico Setting New Records With Drought
May 23 2013 // New Mexico is slipping further into drought, having marked the driest two-year period in nearly 120 years of record-keeping. National weather forecasters and water managers shared the latest statistics on New...
Panel Solicits Applicants For New Mexico Insurance Regulator
May 20 2013 // Former State Insurance Superintendent Chris Krahling has been named to a panel that will select New Mexico’s top insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will select the next superintendent of insurance, who...
Report: New Mexico Facing Medical Access Difficulties
May 16 2013 // New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said...
New Mexico Nursing Students Sue School Over Accreditation Issue
May 14 2013 // Dona Ana Community College is being sued by eight current and former nursing students over the school’s failure last year to maintain national accreditation. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that the lawsuit was...
Marsh & McLennan Offers Organized Crime Insurance in Mexico
May 14 2013 // The Mexican unit of insurer Marsh & McClennan Companies Inc said on Monday it is launching a policy that will cover terrorism, organized crime and sabotage, the first such policy available in a country wracked by...
Lawsuit: New Mexico Intel Worker Subjected to ‘Kick Me’ Prank
May 9 2013 // Intel workers secretly taped a “Kick Me” sign to the back of a co-worker as a prank, then kicked the confused man a number of times as employees at the Rio Rancho, N.M. Intel plant laughed hysterically at the...
ACE Acquires Mexico Personal Lines Insurer ABA Seguros
May 3 2013 // ACE Limited announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mexican personal lines insurer ABA Seguros from Ally Financial Inc. for approximately $690 million in cash, after a $175 million pre-closing dividend taken by...
New Mexico Applebee’s Sued Over Drunk Pedestrian’s Death
May 2 2013 // A Taos, N.M. restaurant is facing a lawsuit over allegations that it overserved a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a pickup. The Albuquerque Journal reported Julian Varela had a blood alcohol level four times the...
World’s Hot Spots for Cargo Theft
Apr 30 2013 // Cargo theft rates in Europe increased 24 percent on average last year from 2011, and were on the rise in Asia as well, while rates in North, Central and South Americas remained consistent with prior years. The greatest...
Florida Becomes 4th State to Sue BP Over Oil Spill
Apr 22 2013 // The state of Florida filed a lawsuit last Saturday against British oil company BP and cement contractor Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, becoming the fourth U.S. state to seek damages for the 2010...
Panelists Named To Select New Mexico Insurance Regulator
Apr 21 2013 // Health care and insurance industry officials and a state legislator were named by Gov. Susana Martinez to a panel that will select New Mexico’s newly independent insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will name...
Drought Poses Challenges New Mexico Chile Growers
Apr 16 2013 // The worst-ever Rio Grande drought is posing plenty of challenges this season for chile growers in New Mexico. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that one challenge is groundwater that’s applied to crops in the absence...
New Mexico Judge To Decide $14 Million ‘Lizard Man’ Suit
Apr 15 2013 // A federal judge says he will render a verdict as soon as possible in the $14 million wrongful death suit filed by the family of a samurai sword-wielding man shot and killed by a Las Cruces Police officer. The Las Cruces...
New Mexico Man Gets $70K Settlement In Mistaken ID Arrest
Apr 4 2013 // A New Mexico county is paying a $70,000 settlement to a man who was arrested and then jailed for several days after being mistaken for another man with the same name. Attorney John Day, who represents Anthony Ortiz of Rio...
New Mexico Governor Signs Space Travel Liability Bill
Apr 3 2013 // New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday signed into law liability-waiving legislation aimed at saving the state’s nearly quarter-billion-dollar investment in a futuristic spaceport and retaining its anchor tenant,...
