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...international travel, and emphasizes that a pandemic is not inevitable. Despite that plea, Argentina and Cuba have suspended all flights from Mexico, and tour operators and airlines across the globe - including some based in Canada, Germany and the U.K. - have canceled flights and holiday packages to sunshine destinations like Cancún and Cozumel. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Blanchon examined fossil coral reefs about 40 miles south of Cancún on the east coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. (The fossils had been exposed during the construction of a new seaside resort.) Working with his co-authors at Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, Blanchon calculated the age of the samples by measuring isotopes of thorium in the fossils, a process similar to carbon-dating. The patterns of the fossils indicated points where the coral died when the seas rose too fast for the organisms to adapt; each time the seas stabilized, the corals grew back...
...Crespo contends that this deployment has actually weakened the army's position. While criminals once viewed the troops as untouchable, they now target them on a daily basis. Since October, gunmen have killed 21 soldiers and officers, including a recently retired general who was assassinated in the resort of Cancún earlier this month. "The army used to be seen as the government's great deterrent," Crespo says. "But now what is the big stick that can be used against the cartels? Foreign intervention...
...world of trade negotiations, Cancún is already legendary. In September, as Caribbean waves lapped the beach outside their hotel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim handed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a new set of demands from a coalition of 22 developing countries, led by Brazil, China and India. If the U.S., the E.U. and other developed nations failed to slash their hundreds of billions in agriculture tariffs and subsidies, the poorer nations would refuse to discuss issues dear to the rich, like investment rules and intellectual-property rights. Zoellick stood up, Amorim recalls, and said that while...
...treat a free-trade agreement like a Chinese menu," says a Latin diplomat involved in the negotiations. The U.S. is especially opposed to such "flexibility," seeing it as an excuse for Brazil and China to perpetuate rampant piracy. Hence all the pre-Miami drama. After the Cancún shock, the U.S. rushed to peel off some of the 14 G-22 members in Latin America. The region does almost half its foreign trade with the U.S. - and Brazilian officials say they suspect the U.S. of threatening smaller Latin nations, which need U.S. aid and access to its $10.5 trillion...