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March Events in Mexico

16 Wednesday Feb 2011

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Events in Mexico: March

Spring in Mexico

Rallying has come to Mexico! Hosted by the beautiful State of Guanjuato, this is now of Mexico’s biggest calendar dates of the year — details below. Easter is ALWAYS busy in Mexico, so if you plan to travel during this time Book Early! March brings the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and during the 20-22 of March, you can observe unique and interesting light patterns on the structures at archaelogy parks like Chichen Itza and Uxmal — details below…

Details of some of the events listed are supplied by Mexico’s States via the Mexico Tourism Board.

Dates of some of the events are subject to change. Please check website links (where available) for details and/or check locally for any schedule alterations.

 

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MAR 4: Night of the Witches (Noche de Brujas) — Catemaco, Veracruz

Is modern medicine getting you down? Need a cure or are you just a bit curious? The small lakeside town of Catemaco, referred to as the mecca of witch doctors, attracts thousands of people seeking non-conventional healing methods, and many swear by the results. Taking place the first Friday night of March every year, the annual gathering is a spectacle of witches, healers, magicians and wizards.

MAR 6: LALA International Marathon Torreon 2005 — Torreon, Coahuila

Torreon will host thousands of national and international runners in one of the most important and traditional marathons in Mexico. This year, the 17th LALA International Marathon winners will be selected for the World Cup Marathon in Helsinki 2005, the fist places in each category will also receive $250,000 pesos.

  • www.maratonlala.ecgnet.com.mx

MAR 11-13: Corona Rally Mexico — Guanajuato State

The cities of Guanajuato, Silao and Leonin Guanajuato State will host the 2005 Corona Rally, a two-day race covering 600 miles of central Mexico’s majestic plateaus and mountains in 15 legs of intense off road driving. Not to be missed is the wide array of festivities that always accompany the rallies. Traditional dance, music and food promise to put the Mexican spirit into this event.

  • www.rallymexico.com

 

MAR 17-20: 4th International Motorcycle Festival — Saltillo, Coahuila

Saltillo welcomes hundreds of riders to this unique event, just a three hours’ ride from Texas.

  • www.amoden.com

 

MAR 19-26 (tentative): Tajin Summit (Cumbre Tajin) — Tajin, Veracruz.

This festival evokes the spring season (a time of renovation) and celebrates the archeological sites and natural beauty of Veracruz. The central theme of Tajin 2004 is the Ritual.

  • www.cumbretajin.com

 

MAR 20-27: Holy Week (Semana Santa) — Nationwide

From Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent) through to the week after Easter Sunday is the busiest time at all of Mexico’s key attractions. Everywhere you go there will be processions, festivals, parties, fireworks and more! Many Mexicans take their holiday during this period, so in smaller towns and cities, you can expect more businesses (shops, nightclubs, etc) to be closed. Hotels, restaurants and other core tourist services will operate as normal. If you want to travel to Mexico during the Easter Period – BOOK EARLY.

 

MAR 21: Spring Equinox (Equinoccio de la Primavera) — Chichen-Itza, Yucatan

The first day of spring; many archaeological structures (especially those closely lined with astronomical events) are popular on the 20th – 22nd of March, as the sun’s light matches up with features on the structures left behind by the ancient civilizations. The most famous is Chichen-Itza, where a shadow of the plumed serpent moves up the main temple. You can discover this and many other Archaeological Parks in Mexico with Mexperience.

 

MAR: 21 — Benito Juarez’ Birthday, Oaxaca

Birth date of one of Mexico’s most famous and revered heroes – Benito Juarez. The day is marked with a Public Holiday. Parties, dancing, music, Mexican food and good times are practiced nationwide, but especially in Oaxaca – where Juarez was born.

MAR 29: XIII International Guitar Festival of Morelia (XIII Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Morelia) — Morelia, Michoacan

Michoacan, with its rich musical traditions and home to one of the oldest conservatories in Latin America, is the perfect host for this popular guitar festival. The program features recitals, contests, conferences, seminars and expositions, with local as well as international artists participating from Venezuela, Chile, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Cuba and the Czech Republic.

 

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Mexico Has Fired 10% of Police Force on Charges of Corruption (story in Spanish and English)

30 Monday Aug 2010

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By ALEXANDRA OLSON, Associated Press Writer Alexandra Olson, Associated Press Writer – 2 mins ago

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s federal police agency has fired nearly 10 percent of its force this year for failing checks designed to detect possible corruption, a major obstacle in the country’s battle against increasingly brutal drug gangs.

Mexico’s approximately 35,000 federal police are required to undergo periodic lie detector, psychological and drug examinations, and the government routinely investigates their finances and personal life.

Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said 3,200 officers have been dismissed this year for failing to meet the agency’s standards. He did not give more details.

The fired agents are barred from taking jobs in any other security force — a recurring problem that Mexican governments have vowed to solve for many years. Another 1,020 federal police are facing unspecified disciplinary measures.

Police corruption at all levels is widespread in Mexico. Police are often found to have been involved in cartel attacks, including the assassination two weeks ago of a mayor who had disciplined municipal officers in his northern town. Investigators say local officers aligned with the Zetas drug gang killed the mayor in retaliation.

Scandals have also ensnared the federal police. Two years ago, a corruption probe known as “Operation Clean House” toppled the former anti-drug czar, Noe Ramirez, and other high-ranking police accused of protecting the Beltran Leyva gang.

President Felipe Calderon, who has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and federal police to fight drug traffickers in their strongholds, has pointed to the regular police tests and crackdowns such as “Clean House” as evidence that his government is aggressively fighting corruption.

Drug violence has surged since Calderon intensified the crackdown on traffickers upon taking office in late 2006, claiming more than 28,000 lives.

In the latest violence, a 12-hour battle between troops and gunmen left killed seven people in the eastern town of Panuca.

The gunmen opened fire and launched grenades at a government electricity station as they tried to escape the soldiers, causing a power outage in a large part of town, said Salvador Mikel Rivera, attorney general in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where Panuca is located.

The battle started Sunday night when gunmen in six cars ignored orders to stop from soldiers at a checkpoint, Rivera said. Soldiers, along with state and local police, started a chase that ended at two houses where the gunmen tried to hide, he said. The shootout at the houses lasted until Monday morning.

One soldier and six gunmen were killed.

Panuca is just south of the northern border state of Tamaulipas, where marines discovered the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants believed to have been gunned down by the Zetas drug gang after refusing to smuggle drugs, in what may be the deadliest cartel massacre to date.

The lone survivor, an 18-year-old Ecuadorean, returned to his home country over the weekend after declining a humanitarian visa that would have let him stay in Mexico, the Foreign Relations Department announced Monday.

The dead migrants were discovered at a ranch about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the U.S. border in Tamaulipas.

Violence has surged in northeastern Mexico this year since the Zetas broke ranks with their former employer, the Gulf cartel.

On Sunday, gunmen killed the mayor of Hidalgo, a town near where the migrants were slain. Two weeks earlier, the mayor of another northeastern town, Santiago, was assassinated, allegedly by police tied to the Zetas.

In June, cartel gunmen assassinated the leading candidate for governor of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, less than a week before state and local elections.

The government offered a 15 million peso ($1.15 million) reward Monday for information leading to the capture of his killers.

Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, the border city of Ciudad Juarez is cancelling its traditional Sept. 15 celebration of Mexico’s Independence from Spain, Mayor Jose Reyes announced Monday.

Reyes said authorities had not received any specific threat surrounding the event but decided it would be too dangerous for large crowds to gather in the city, which has become one of the world’s most dangerous amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.

As in other Mexico cities, residents in Ciudad Juarez gather each year at the main plaza to hear the mayor give the “grito,” or shout of independence, at 11 p.m. Reyes said the city would instead launch fireworks at different points in the city so people could celebrate from their own backyards.

The cancellation was especially a blow this year because Mexico is celebrating its bicentennial independence anniversary.

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Associated Press writers Miguel Angel Hernandez in Veracruz and Olivia Torres in Ciudad Juarez contributed to this story.

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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – La agencia de policía federal de México ha despedido a casi el 10 por ciento de su fuerza este año por falta de controles para detectar posibles casos de corrupción, un obstáculo importante en la batalla del país contra las bandas de narcotraficantes cada vez más brutal.

aproximadamente 35.000 policías federales de México están obligados a someterse a detector de mentiras periódicos, psicológicas y exámenes de drogas, y el gobierno rutinariamente investiga sus finanzas y su vida personal.

Comisionado de la Policía Federal Facundo Rosas, dijo 3.200 funcionarios han sido despedidos este año por no cumplir con las normas de la agencia. No dio más detalles.

Los agentes dispararon se les impide aceptar empleos en cualquier otra fuerza de seguridad – un problema recurrente que los gobiernos mexicanos se han comprometido a resolver por muchos años. Otra 1.020 policías federales se enfrentan a medidas disciplinarias no especificadas.

La corrupción policial en todos los niveles está muy extendida en México. La policía se encuentran a menudo de haber participado en los ataques del cártel, incluyendo el asesinato hace dos semanas de un alcalde que había disciplinado funcionarios municipales en su pueblo del norte. Los investigadores dijeron que los agentes locales en consonancia con la pandilla de drogas Zetas mataron al alcalde en represalia.

Los escándalos también han atrapado la policía federal. Hace dos años, una investigación de corrupción conocida como “Operación Limpieza” Casa derrocó al ex zar antidrogas, Noé Ramírez, y otros policías de alto rango acusados de proteger a la banda de Beltrán Leyva.

El presidente Felipe Calderón, quien ha desplegado decenas de miles de soldados y policías federales para combatir el narcotráfico en sus fortalezas, ha señalado a las pruebas regulares de la policía y la represión como “limpiar la casa” como prueba de que su gobierno es agresiva lucha contra la corrupción.

la violencia del narcotráfico ha aumentado desde que Calderón intensificó la represión de los traficantes al asumir el cargo a finales de 2006, reclamando más de 28.000 vidas.

En el último episodio de violencia, una batalla de 12 horas entre las tropas y hombres armados mataron a siete personas a la izquierda en la ciudad oriental de Panuca.

Los hombres armados abrieron fuego y lanzaron granadas contra un gobierno central eléctrica cuando trataban de escapar de los soldados, causando un apagón en gran parte de la ciudad, dijo Salvador Mikel Rivera, procurador general del estado de Veracruz, donde se encuentra Panuca .

La batalla comenzó la noche del domingo, cuando hombres armados en seis coches ignoró órdenes de detenerse de los soldados en un retén, dijo Rivera. Los soldados, junto con policías estatales y locales, se inició una persecución que terminó a las dos casas donde los hombres armados trataron de esconderse, dijo. El tiroteo en las casas se prolongó hasta la mañana del lunes.

Uno de los soldados y hombres armados murieron seis.

Panuca está justo al sur del estado norteño de Tamaulipas, donde los marines descubrieron los cuerpos de 72 migrantes Central y América del Sur cree que fue asesinado a tiros por la banda de narcotraficantes los Zetas, tras negarse a pasar de contrabando las drogas, en lo que podría ser la masacre más mortal del cartel para fecha.

El único sobreviviente, un joven de 18 años de edad, ecuatoriano, regresó a su país de origen el fin de semana después de haber disminuido un visado humanitario que le habría permitido permanecer en México, la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores anunció el lunes.

Los inmigrantes fueron descubiertos muertos en un rancho cerca de 100 millas (160 kilómetros) de la frontera de los EE.UU. en Tamaulipas.

La violencia ha aumentado en el noreste de México este año, desde los Zetas rompió filas con su antiguo empleador, el cártel del Golfo.

El domingo, hombres armados mataron al alcalde de Hidalgo, un pueblo cercano, donde los inmigrantes fueron asesinados. Dos semanas antes, el alcalde de otro pueblo del noreste de Santiago, fue asesinado, presuntamente por la policía vinculados a los Zetas.

En junio, hombres armados asesinaron al cártel de los principales candidatos a gobernador de Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantú, menos de una semana antes de las elecciones estatales y locales.

El gobierno ofreció un peso 15 millones (1.150.000 dólares) Lunes recompensa por información que conduzca a la captura de sus asesinos.

Mientras tanto, por primera vez en su historia, la ciudad fronteriza de Ciudad Juárez es la cancelación de su tradicional 15 de septiembre la celebración de la Independencia de México de España, el alcalde José Reyes anunció el lunes.

Reyes dijo que las autoridades no había recibido ninguna amenaza específica relacionada con el evento, pero decidió que sería demasiado peligroso para grandes multitudes que se reúnen en la ciudad, que se ha convertido en uno de los más peligrosos del mundo en medio de una guerra territorial entre los cárteles de Sinaloa y Juárez.

Al igual que en otras ciudades de México, residentes en Ciudad Juárez se reúnen cada año en la plaza principal para escuchar al alcalde dar el “grito”, o grito de independencia, a las 11 horas, Reyes dijo que la ciudad en lugar de otro lanzamiento de fuegos artificiales en diferentes puntos de la ciudad para la gente podía celebrar de sus propios patios traseros.

La cancelación fue un golpe especialmente este año porque México está celebrando su aniversario de la independencia del bicentenario.

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Los reporteros de AP Miguel Angel Hernández en Veracruz y Olivia Torres en Ciudad Juárez contribuyó a esta historia.

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