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...Mexican kingpins were arrested peacefully by police officers. However, amid the militarization of the conflict under Calderón, the armed forces conduct most major detentions. In the operation to nab Beltrán Leyva, hundreds of marines swept on an apartment building in the spa city of Cuernavaca, an hour's drive from the capital. A two-hour battle ensued, involving grenades and mounted machine guns, before the drug lord, five of his soldiers and one marine lay dead. See 25 people who mattered...
Without traffic, the drive to Mexico City from Cuernavaca usually can take just 50 minutes. Weekends are the exception, when the horrendous jams of vehicles returning from a quick trip outside the capital can snarl the highways for up to three hours. The close of this past weekend, however, was ghostly. The late afternoon drive on Sunday took only 45 minutes. Barely anyone was on the road...
...actress, who often played sultry seductresses but was best known in the U.S. for roles in 1952's High Noon (as Gary Cooper's ex-mistress) and 1954's Broken Lance (the placating wife of Spencer Tracy), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
Fineberg, who steps down as the University’s second-highest official on July 1, will split his year-long sabbatical between the National Institute for Public Health (INSP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif...
...Cuernavaca, Fineberg said glowingly, is an “ideal” climate, adding that the research opportunities the institute provided were intriguing...