Category: Mexico

A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on last week Tueday at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon.

The area has suffered heavily from attacks by drug cartels in recent weeks, including the murder of the mayor of El Cercado, leading to the tentative conclusion that the crime was committed by people serving narcotics traffickers.

Mexico has a long history of faith healers and home remedies, but the problem has come to a head in the last few years with a constant stream of ads on television for more “scientific” sounding creams that supposedly lift or enlarge breast and buttocks, magnets that help users lose weight, or pills and powders that cure gastric problems or diabetes.

About 200 clowns paraded through the streets of Mexico City on Wednesday in a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an annual rite to offer thanks for the Virgin’s help and protection throughout the year.

ZINACANTAN, Mexico — After Pedro Gonzalez Perez, 38, lost sight in his left eye during a drunken stupor, he said he desperately searched for help, but found none in the town’s grand Catholic church. “It’s very difficult to find the Catholic priest to talk to when we have a problem. He only comes to the village every 15 days or so,” said Gonzalez, a mason, who then turned to a small but growing Christian evangelical church on the edge of town. There, the pastor, who holds services several times a week, talked to him every day to help him stop

MEXICO CITY — An American woman and her Mexican husband were acquitted on Friday of charges of killing a Mexican girl, after a government commission told the judge that prosecutors or experts witnesses had committed irregularities in the case. The acquittal drew praise from human rights activists, who accuse police and prosecutors of mishandling investigations or framing suspects in more than 100 women’s killing since 1993. Bloomington, Minn., native Cynthia Kiecker and her husband, Ulysis Perzabal, said they had been tortured by police and forced to confess to the May 2003 slaying of 16-year-old Viviana Rayas. The couple spent more

In the industrial Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez, across the border from Texas, women look at every man as a potential rapist or serial killer. In the past decade, more than 300 women have been raped, battered and strangled to death here, their bodies dumped on stretches of wasteland alongside abandoned cars and scraps of rubbish. Most were under 25 and all were poor, which may explain why many of the cases remain unsolved. In virtually any other city, a massive manhunt for the killer or killers would have been launched years ago. But in macho Ciudad Juarez, where the

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico – Cynthia Kiecker says she and her Mexican husband stood out as “kind of the hippies of Chihuahua,” a conservative northern Mexico city where cowboy hats and boots are the norm. A native of Bloomington, Minn., Kiecker ran a boutique with her husband. Signs inside the now-vandalized store advertise tarot-card readings, dreadlock weaving and faith healing with stones. Her husband, Ulysis Perzabal, a musician, had waist-long hair – until it was shorn by police. The couple says being different landed them in jail for the murder of 16-year-old Viviana Rayas. They have been accused of Satanism, and say