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...evaluation of the city's shutdown has been overshadowed by mounting criticism on the federal government for letting the virus get out of control in the first place. After alleging the first fatality from swine flu was a 39-year-old woman from the poor southern Mexican state of Oaxaca who died on April 13, Health Secretary Jose Córdova conceded that Edgar Hernandez, a four-year-old boy, who survived a bout of flu in February and March, had actually had the virus, as tests have now shown. Local authorities had raised alarm bells about a potent outbreak...
...sense that something serious had befallen the entire country - not just Mexico City, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi which originally reported outbreaks - has finally taken hold. When the weekend started, no one was certain what was happening or how they had to react. Indeed, the tourist mecca of Acapulco was partying on. I live in Mexico City and when I flew in for a wedding on Saturday, there were no health personnel at the airport, no pamphlets, no nurses, no questions except "where to?" (Read the five things you need to know about the swine flu outbreak...
...many wonders for them—free SUVs and beautiful supermodel girlfriends, among them—but it also brings a host of dangers: corruption, luxury, vices, and unsavory loan sharks. And from the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City to the rural banana-farming communities of the state of Oaxaca, the movie depicts Mexico in a variety of contrasting locales. One great challenge was to film the final soccer match, which is played out in Estadio Nemesio DÃez, an old stadium in Toluca, Mexico. “We obviously have a plan, and we had a schedule...
...tourist returning from Mexico. A Canadian travel advisory Thursday held back from telling people not to go to Mexico but advised Canadians to get flu shots and warned which Mexican states the virus had been detected in, which include Mexico City, Mexico State, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí and Oaxaca...
Down in the state capital of Oaxaca, state human rights commissioner Heriberto Garcia also chastised the custom. "Buying and selling a woman is a clear violation of her rights," he says in his office decorated with leather-bound law books. "And a young teenage girl does not have the experience to make these decisions." Oaxaca state law permits marriage of women at 14 and men at 16. However, Garcia said he plans to send a bill to the state legislature changing the age to 18 for both sexes...