A bus driver trying to beat a Kansas City Southern freight collided with the train yesterday resulting in 21 deaths including two children and 26 others injured. The bus owned by Transportes Frontera #4146,, part of Grupo Estrella Blanca was driven by Jesús Carlos Fernández Rico, 39 who was transported by ambulance to a hospital in
Sunday morning, Mother’s Day in the US, 49 bodies, most decapitated, some missing limbs and others in an advanced state of decomposition, were found on a highway east of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to various news sources. The grisly find was made at Kilometer 47 on Mexico Federal Highway 40,which leads to Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Police
Los Pino - Mexican President Felipe Calderón just announced the arrest and detention of Sigifrido Nájera Talamantes, alias “El Canicón”, who is identified as responsible for attacks against U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, the grenade attack against the facilities at Televisa and for being responsible for the torture and death of nine soldiers in the State
Unknown gunmen shot at the US Consulate in Monterrey and threw a grenade at the building, which did not explode. No one was injured according to a Consulate spokesman. Two unidentified men approached the US Consulate General. One of them fired several times hitting the gates and a window. The second man threw a hand
Our friend Sean Mattson, Mexico correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, left this interesting tidbit on his blog this morning, concerning the severed head found on a car in Monterrey this past week. Honor amongst thieves perhaps? Who knows, but I got a chuckle out of the thing. Head left on car with warning
On my days off this week, I needed to get away and relax and not having but a couple of days, headed to Monterrey Nuevo Leon. It’s a good destination, a world class city that can hold it’s own against any similar city in North America. It’s good to have friends there, especially those in
OOIDA’ executive vice president Todd Spencer, continues to try and convince the public, the Courts and Congress that the companies participating in the Cross Border Demonstration Project re using the same trucks as the border shuttle fleet or drayage operators. He insinuates this fleet is ill maintained, worn out junk rigs that have no place
MONTERREY, Mexico — Immigration officials arrested two Iraqis at the international airport here Wednesday who were trying to enter the country with Bulgarian passports containing falsified information, officials said. Immigration officers identified the couple as Soleen Poles Pate, 20, and Ramy Gorgeen Markos, 25, from the Iraqi city of Mosul. Authorities said they were probably
Editor’s Note: I’ve always maintained we report the good and the bad about the trucking industry in Mexico, and this time is no exception. Excessive speed, diminished visibility led to this accident which closed the major connection between Monterrey and Saltillo yesterday. One person dead. The truck driver is in prison awaiting trial which can
The United States is giving Mexico access to an electronic database to help trace weapons smuggled from the U.S. into the hands of well-armed Mexican drug gangs, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday.The database, known as e-Trace, has already been installed at U.S. consulates in the northern cities of Monterrey and Hermosillo and in
An interesting story being reported out of Monterrey today concerning three bodies discovered with ties to a truck high jack ring. Others reporting on this would have you believe it is a commonplace occurrence in Mexico, which it is not, while ignoring the fact that similar events have been happening in Canada, without the killings.
