U.S. Consul Worker & Husband
Shot Dead in Broad Daylight

Times of London, March 15, 2010 - The drug wars in Mexico took an ominous turn over the weekend when a US consulate employee and her husband were killed as they left a children's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city. Only minutes earlier gunmen also killed the Mexican husband of another member of the consular staff and wounded his two children.

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WatchingMexico.com is reappearing after a hiatus of over two months caused by a knee replacement surgery for the publisher of this site. We are reappearing with some of the more important stories over the last two months.

Later this week, however, the site will appear in a new format to give a better overview of what is happening in Mexico today. Instead of concentrating mainly on the drug wars, violence and kidnapping that has ripped at Mexican society, we will focus on three main themes

1. M exican business news, including international ramifications;

2. Mexican politics, a much more dangerous game than in U.S.

3.Mexican drug war, violence and kidnapping.

We feel that our background allows us to choose the stories that best reflect what is happening in Mexico. Our long stays in Mexico, native Mexicans, native non-Mexicans, combine to give the most realistic portrait in one website on current Mexico.

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WATCHING MEXICO has been created to focus on the latest up-to-date news on Mexico's drug cartel, crime and corruption events, espeically kidnapping and narcotic-realated violence against Mexicans and foreigners. The site also carries frequent analysese of these events and their relationship to Mexico at large, i.e. politics and the economy, and towards its closest neightbors and global ramificaons.

Inside are pages that concentrate on.the special problems of taxi crime and kidnapping, car driving, street crime, con games aimed at foreigners and specific, current situatons to major cities and resorts, as well as rural doings.

Our audience includes Mexicos from all classes, when even farmers have laptops to download latest news that could affect crops, as well as foreigners in Mexico for busienss or pleasure, and those who married Mexicans or just fell love with the country, not a hard thing to do at all.

We recognize that Mexican culture is far more subtle and sophisticated than 99% of Americans have even a clue. Also, those of us who do have that clue still have little hope of penetrating the strong and supple veneer most Mexicans present to the outside world. Our Mexican associates can assist with that.

Mexicans themselves are the most vulnerable victims of the confluence of forces that has brought the drug and corruption wars to their homeland, and only they can win the struggle.

We want to make www.watchingmexico.com partially a kind of Mexican-focused Drudge Report, bringing links to the latest news articles from Spanish and English language media on Mexico, and the Mexican drug war, border problems, narcotics mafia, the kidnapping gangs often led by active duty police officers, but also the business successes and opportunities of living and working in Mexico. The second part will consist of analyses of major news, as well as in-depth looks at parts of Mexico and how it relates to current events, and advice from insiders on how to succeed in Mexico, not only in business and just living there, but avoiding kidnapping gangs, even the petty ones who use taxis to find victims to empty their ATM accounts over a period of days.

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