Marijuana Bust!

Esta incautación de droga era enorme! The drug bust happened yesterday when authorities were called to a shoot out that happened in a neighborhood. The marijuana weighed in at 134.2 tons and had a street value around 340 million. This is under investigation but is said this might have been one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico City and is being called a "historic seizure." Hopefully these kind of drug bust will continue and all the drug cartel problems will be finished. Drug Bust

World's Biggest Enchilada

¿cómo ir sobre la fabricación de grandes enchiladas del mundo? With a lot of ingredients! The town of Iztapalapa in Mexico is now famous for making the world's largest enchilada coming in at 230 ft long and weighing almost 1 1/2 tons! Guinness Book of World Records recorded it and is adding to their book. This town has a high level of tourism so things such as this just bring in more people. Big Enchilada

Happy Ending for the Chilean Miners!

Es hora de celebrar! All 33 miners that were trapped underground made it safely out! It took just a little under 24 hours to successfully pull each miner out one by one. One day these men were hard at work when the mine caved in and now they have reached celebrity status. There has even been talk about movie and book deals. It was nothing short of a miracle that every man made it out alive with little health problems. I'm pretty sure there was a higher power involved!  Miners Celebrate!

Chile miners get rescued

After spending 2 months underground, the miners from Chile will be rescued. They have built a drill that will be used to extract the miners. There is a cage built on for the miners to get into and be pulled up. I can't even imagine how that would be!! Spending 2 months underground sounds insane! A paramedic and phycologist will go down into the mine and check the miners to see who needs to go up first and so on. The plan is to have helicopters take the miners to a nearby city so they can seek the needed medical treatment. Chile debe ser feliz! Miners

Flooding rains in Mexico

Las fuertes lluvias han inundado muchas casas. Because of the continuous rain in this area of Mexico 15,000 people were supposed to be evacuated while only 7,000 were willing to leave. Many of the homeowners didn't want to leave for risk of losing their home or getting their things stolen. I can't even imagine having that much rain at one time let alone enough to actually flood anything. That is a really good reason to live no where close a big body of water, or any body of water for that matter, that could possibly flood. I don't think I would do very well in a natural disaster...but who would? Flooding in Mexico

Acapulco Kidnapping

There was a group of men traveling together in Acapulco when they got kidnapped by a gang of men who loaded them up into three cars a drove them away. The kidnapping was reported by one of the men who left the group to run an errand and when he returned his group was no where to be found. Though the motive is unknown as to why this particular group of men was kidnapped, Acapulco was once a high traffic area in the drug wars. Hopefully these men will returned safely. Es difícil decir lo que sucederá después. Acapulco Kidnapping

Mudslide Update

The death toll from the mudslides has risen to 36 fatalities. The area has been devastated with continuous rain and possibilities of more mudslides to come. Just this year the number of weather related deaths in the area has risen to 131 fatalities. This part of Mexico has also had 810,000 people lose their homes due to bad weather. The rains have flooded valleys, homes, historic landmarks, and numerous other things in the region. algunos dicen que los deslizamientos de tierra se deben a la deforestación. Here is the link to the update if you want to read more. Mudslide Update