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Alegría was thrown from the car upon impact and fell under the tires, a spokesman for Police Headquarters in Puerto Rico told El Nuevo...
José F. Alegría '07, a 21-year-old recent Harvard College graduate and former Eliot House resident, died early last Friday morning in an automobile accident in Puerto Rico, the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Día reported the day of the crash...
...some places, like the bloodied border city of Nuevo Laredo, frightened media simply avoid covering the violence. But Cambio Sonora is the first paper to close. "It's huge," says Carlos Lauria, Americas coordinator for the New York--based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "It points up the inability of the Mexican authorities to provide security in the face of this threat...
...people don't have to be in Steinard's--or Miller's--straits before they cross borders for care. Retirees, especially the snowbirds who winter in South Texas and Arizona, have turned Mexican towns like Nuevo Progreso (pop. 9,125; dentists, 70), in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Los Algodones (pop. 15,000; doctors and dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers...
...close ties between Mexico and Texas, but those ties seem lately to be fraying as the 1,250-mile border becomes increasingly dangerous. To the east of Laredo, renegade Mexican Army commandos are part of the Zetas, a brutal drug smuggling gang, and Laredo's sister city, Nuevo Laredo, once a favorite spot among Texans for weekend shopping trips, has been wracked with kidnappings, political assassinations and even a shootout between police and drug gangs near an international bridge...