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Heavy problems from the flooding remain, though. Water damaged the homes of almost a million people and devastated crops of corn, bananas and beans. Villahermosa resident Jesus Hilario returned home to find his crops completely washed away. "I could be forced to go and work in El Norte," Hilario said, referring to the U.S., where 11 million of his countrymen labor. Getting Hilario to stay and rebuild will prove to be Calderón's greatest test...
...bananas and beans that provide the livelihood for thousands. After water levels finally started receding this week, Jesus Hilario left his shelter in a schoolhouse on the outskirts of Villahermosa to find his patches of corn and bananas completely washed away. "I could be forced go and work in El Norte," Hilario said, referring to the United States, where 11 million of his countrymen labor. "Now I have nothing to live on here." With reporting by Dolly Mascareñas/Mexico City
...first time a Spanish monarch had visited since 1927. Last Friday, Morocco's King Mohammed VI protested the royal visit by withdrawing his country's ambassador to Spain and on Monday, as thousands of flag-waving Ceutís turned out to cheer their monarchs, Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas el Fassi indignantly characterized the trip as a "provocation...
...Superman gets married it's not at the synagogue!" Pasamonik has not missed the heavy dose of Jewish culture Siegel and Shuster instilled in their character: baby Superman's passage through space in a cradle-like vessel and subsequent adoption "is the story of Moses," he says, adding that El of Superman's given name Kal-El is a Hebrew word for God. But with a Methodist upbringing and extra-terrestrial origins, Superman, says Pasamonik, is best described simply as a "non-Aryan" hero...
Fernando Reinares, director of the Program on Global Terrorism at Spain's Elcano Royal Institute, says he didn't expect the outcome. "The police and judicial investigations had gathered abundant evidence to condemn some of those, like Osman and [Hassan] el Haski, who were not convicted or who received light sentences," he says...