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...certainly the challenge of a generation rather than of an election cycle. But Mexico's security forces, whose firepower pales in comparison to the high-powered arsenals of the drug cartels, are in dire need of just the kind of short-term aid envisioned in the plan, dubbed the "Merida Initiative" for the Yucatan city where it was announced last year by Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon...
...twin-engine plane owned by Venezuelan airline Santa Barbara failed to contact control towers as expected after it took off from Merida en route to Simon Bolivar International Airport outside of Caracas, said Gen. Antonio Rivero, Venezuela's emergency management director...
...Rivero said authorities in Merida state were checking "information regarding the possible discovery of the plane" in a mountainous region of Merida, which borders neighboring Colombia. But he said in an interview on state television that officials have no information on what condition the plane could be in. He did not elaborate...
...French-made ATR 42-300 carrying 43 passengers and three crew members took off from Merida's airport about 5 p.m. and was declared missing 30 minutes later, officials said. The duration of the flight was to have been an hour and 45 minutes...
...Noel Marquez, director of Venezuela's emergency management agency in Merida, said rescue teams were on their way to the mountains, some more than 16,000 feet above sea level...