Sunday, November 25, 2007

Japón y México dialogan sobre el cambio climático

Japón y México dialogan sobre el cambio climático
2007-11-25 21:23

Los ministros de exteriores de Japón y México el domingo en un encuentro, iniciando los dialogo a alto nivel entre los dos piases, acordaron estudiar las vías de colaboración conjunta sobre los cambios climáticos y el calentamiento del globo.

Según el informe de la agencia informativa Kiodo, los ministros de exteriores de Japón y México en este encuentro celebrado en Tokio, acordaron también elevar el nivel de colaboraciones estratégicas entre los dos países a través de diálogos políticos.

IRNA informo según Kiodo que los ministros de exteriores de Japón y México acordaron también el dialogo entre las autoridades de ambos piases para firmar el acuerdo del libre comercio.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

El presidente de México critica a los candidatos presidenciales de EE.UU.

El presidente de México critica a los candidatos presidenciales de EE.UU.
2007-11-15 06:23

El presidente de México pidió a los candidatos de las elecciones presidenciales de EE.UU. que no se aprovecharan del asunto de la inmigración para conseguir privilegios políticos.

Según France Press desde Ciudad de México, el mandatario mexicano Felipe Calderón, ayer en un discurso en dicha capital mostró su preocupación por el hostigamiento creciente y la persecución librada contra los mexicanos en EE.UU.

Calderón, ante un grupo de representantes de los inmigrantes, advirtió que los candidatos para las próximas elecciones presidenciales de EE.UU. deben dejar de tomar como rehenes temáticos de sus discursos y estrategias a los mexicanos en ese país.

Cabe mencionar que el asunto de los inmigrantes indocumentados ha sido una de las herramientas principales de los aspirantes a las presidenciales de 2008 en EE.UU.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

La ONU envía un grupo a México para estudiar la situación de los damnificados por las inundaciones

La ONU envía un grupo a México para estudiar la situación de los damnificados por las inundaciones
Miércoles, 7. Noviembre 2007

El despacho para coordinación de asuntos humanitarios de las naciones unidas anunció que enviará un grupo a México con el fin de evaluar los daños de las inundaciones en el estado de Tabasco y estudiar una posible catástrofe humana.

Según Xinhua, desde Nueva York, las naciones unidas ayer en un comunicado anunciaron que las inundaciones que se iniciaron el 28 de octubre han afectado un 80 por ciento de las regiones del estado de Tabasco de México.

El vicesecretario general de las naciones unidas para asuntos humanitarios y coordinación de ayuda de emergencia, anunció que la ONU está dispuesta a enviar la ayuda necesaria a esta zona.

Según las autoridades del estado de Tabasco, las inundaciones han perjudicado a la mitad de la población de dos millones de personas y unas 350 mil se encuentran asediadas en sus viviendas.

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Monday, November 5, 2007

Workers rescue Mexico flood victims

Workers rescue Mexico flood victims
2007/11/04 09:55:37 Þ.Ù


Rescue workers and police were out in force helping flood victims in southern Mexico.

Around 80 percent of the Belgium-sized state of Tabasco was flooded after seven rain-loaded rivers burst their banks in the flat, flood-prone region, in its worst natural disaster in decades.

In neighboring Chiapas state, bordering the Pacific Ocean, authorities put 30 townships with more than a million people under a state of alert Saturday after 16 rivers overflowed their banks, and reported one person killed by the floods.

In Tabasco, the floods affected more than half the state's 2.1 million population, and one death has been confirmed so far.

Patrols were still searching for victims Saturday. Many thousands of people were trapped at home.

With water as deep as two meters (6.5 feet), many have desperately tried to flee, waiting as long as three days for a rescue-boat pickup from their rooftops or as they clung to tree branches.

Thousands poured into neighboring states Chiapas and Veracruz seeking refuge.

But many others holed up despite the flooding, refusing to leave at their own risk, fearing looters would take all their possessions.

SM

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

Floods trap Mexicans on rooftops

Floods trap Mexicans on rooftops
2007/11/03 11:31:16 Þ.Ù


Rescuers Friday battled to reach people stranded on rooftops as more than one million struggled in the worst floods on record in Mexico's southern Tabasco state and President Felipe Calderon canceled a foreign visit to help.

Television pictures showed people struggling to get to higher ground as rising water levels reached up to their necks.

Others awaited rescue on rooftops, surrounded by floodwater.

Mexican navy crews used small boats to rescue victims.

"The event has overwhelmed everybody," Interior Minister Francisco Ramirez Acuna told journalists.

Military troops evacuated the center of Tabasco's capital Villahermosa after a levy collapsed, and hospital patients in the city of 750,000 were flown to neighboring states as floodwaters continued to rise.

The floods affected more than one million residents, or about half Tabasco's population, and officials said several hundred thousand people were trapped in their homes.

"New Orleans was small compared to this," said state governor Andres Granier, in reference to the disaster wrought by hurricane Katrina in 2005, which killed about 1,000 people in the southern American city alone.

President Felipe Caldron called off a November 6-8 visit to Panama, Colombia and Peru to deal with this "extreme emergency," his office said in a statement.

Only one fatality was recorded so far in Tabasco, but the floods have caused widespread devastation.

The oil-rich state the size of Belgium is 80 percent underwater, and 850 towns have been flooded, officials said.

And with more rain forecast over the coming days, there is no respite in sight.

Stocks of basic supplies are running low amid what officials said was panic buying.

Tabasco "is devastated," Granier said of the 29,000 square kilometer (11,000 square mile) state on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

"One hundred percent of crops are lost."

About 400 doctors and health workers were deployed across the region to detect any outbreak of infections, according to Tabasco's civil protection agency.

M/D

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Friday, November 2, 2007

Mexico floods leave 300,000 stranded

Mexico floods leave 300,000 stranded
2007/11/02 10:57:02 Þ.Ù


Most of Mexico's southern state of Tabasco was underwater Thursday, as hundreds of thousands of people waited for rescuers to pull them out of their homes in the worst floods ever in the region.

The floods that began last week now cover 80 percent of Tabasco, a state about the size of Belgium, affecting about one million people and killing at least one person, officials said.

"Of the 2.1 million Tabasquenos, more than half are suffering from this serious problem that has not been experienced in the history of Tabasco," Governor Andres Granier told reporters.

About 30,000 people were placed in 256 state shelters while 300,000 remain trapped in flooded homes, waiting for military helicopters and boats to rescue them, the state government said in a statement.

More than 850 towns have been flooded in the Gulf of Mexico state.

"The amount of water is shocking," said the governor of the 29,000 square kilometer (11,000 square mile) state.

"100 percent of crops are lost."

About 400 doctors and health workers have been deployed to more than 300 towns to detect any outbreak of infections, according to the state's civil protection agency.

State officials warned that rivers continued to rise one week after the first flooding started.

The floods began last week when a cold front brought heavy rain that caused rivers to break their banks.

Soldiers and state authorities had placed more than 700,000 sand bags along the rivers to prevent flooding, but the water rose above the barriers.

The floods worsened over the past three days as authorities drained water from two dams in the neighboring state of Chiapas to prevent them from exceeding their capacity.

The drainage caused three Tabasco rivers to burst their banks.

The water rose again Thursday in the state capital of Villahermosa, which was flooded Wednesday after the Grijalva river burst its banks.

But hundreds of Villahermosa residents refused to leave their flooded homes amid reports of looting in the city of 750,000 people.

The federal electricity commission also said it was unclear when it would be able to close the spigots in the Penitas dam in Chiapas.

The federal government and Red Cross set up donation centers to collect drinking water, canned food and blankets for Tabasco residents.

SM

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Mexico seizes record cocaine haul

Mexico seizes record cocaine haul
2007/11/02 10:57:02 Þ.Ù


In the biggest cocaine seizure in Mexico's history, authorities found 23 tonnes of it hidden inside containers that had been shipped from Colombia, the government said Thursday.

The cocaine, which was found in a boat docked at the Pacific port of Manzanillo, had been concealed inside two containers, one carrying soap and the other plastic floor tiles.

"This quantity is the biggest seizure of this substance in the history of this country," the Mexican government said in a statement.

Authorities were searching more containers from the same boat, which arrived from the Colombian port of Buenaventura.

It was Mexico's fourth major cocaine seizure in the last two months, bringing the total seized to 39 tonnes.

SM

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