Escaped Circus Elephant Dies In Bus Crash Sep 24, 2008
Bus driver Tomas Lopez, 49, was killed and at least four passengers were hospitalized after the pre-dawn collision in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City. State police spokesman Juan Sanchez said the elephant escaped from its cage at the Circo Union, but he declined to give any other details. (CBS News)
Troops sent to halt Mafia violence Sep 24, 2008
Both the driver and pachyderm were killed, and four passengers were hospitalized after the pre-dawn collision yesterday in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City. The Notimex news agency said the elephant named Indra escaped as its keeper arrived to feed it. (Boston Globe)
In one Mexican city, at least for one night, Central American migrants find respite Jun 30, 2008
Ecatepec, State of Mexico Pedro Soto lost nearly everything on his two-week trek from Honduras to Mexico ... But here in Ecatepec, he has been able to come out of hiding ... The cement hut is guarded by local police and endorsed by the city mayor who in December declared Ecatepec a migrant sanctuary. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Weak immigrant sent home after free treatment in Ariz. Mar 17, 2008
ECATEPEC, Mexico - When the motorcycle that illegal immigrant Laura Velzquez was riding slammed into a concrete wall, it cost a Phoenix hospital $478,000 to save her life ... Government officials in Ecatepec, her hometown on the outskirts of Mexico City, say she should have been allowed to recover in Phoenix, and they have accused the United States of indifference ... Velzquez, meanwhile, lies in a dim, windowless room in a relative's home in Ecatepec and thinks about how things used to be. (AZCentral -- News)
Will Mexico's left back Obrador's radical tactics? Mar 15, 2008
Ecatepec, Mexico - In a makeshift office in this industrial town outside Mexico City, residents stream in to sign up as representatives in the "legitimate government" of Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador. The fiery leftist leader, who is still contesting his loss in Mexico's 2006 presidential election to the conservative Felipe Caldern, has signed up well over a million residents. (Christian Science Monitor)
In Mexico, an energized economy raises hopes Feb 11, 2008
Shopping malls have multiplied: A wasteland once used for evaporating chemicals from groundwater is now the site of the Las Americas mall in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec ... At places such as Las Americas shopping mall, which opened two years ago on the site of an old chemical factory in the suburb of Ecatepec, many of the shoppers are a generation or two removed from peasants who lived the same way for centuries. (USA Today -- News)
For many in Mexico, life starts to look up Feb 11, 2008
At places such as the Las Americas shopping mall, which opened two years ago on the site of an old chemical factory in the suburb of Ecatepec, many of the shoppers are just a generation or two removed from peasants who lived the same way for centuries. The theater buzzes with people lining up to see the latest Will Smith movie, and the food court is full of shoppers eating McDonald's and Chinese fast food. (AZCentral -- News)
Mexican City Provides Illegals Sanctuary Feb 5, 2008
Jose Luis Gutierrez, mayor of Ecatepec a suburb of Mexico City with as many as 3 million people has not only ordered his police officers and city officials not to arrest or harass the migrants, hes also told them not to cooperate with Mexican immigration agents ... For Ecatepec, migration is not a criminal act ... Each year thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and other countries south of the border arrive in Ecatepec to catch a train that will take them across Mexico... (Newsmax)
Mexico Mayor Helps Illegals Reach the U.S. Feb 1, 2008
In Ecatepec, a sprawling suburb of Mexico City, Mayor Jose Luis Gutierrez has done something almost unheard of: He has declared his city a "sanctuary" for the illegal immigrants traveling from Central America to the United States. Every day scores of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans and others begin the long, final stage of their journey from Ecatepec to the U.S. border aboard a freight train known as "the beast." ... "For Ecatepec, migration is not a criminal act. It's a universal right: the... (Newsmax)
Mexico City takes to the skating rink Dec 12, 2007
az, a 16-year-old high school student from Ecatepec, Mexico, said as he strapped on skates for the first time. "Ice skating isn't very popular, but at the moment it's in style. It's something really cool for us because, well, we don't even have any snow.". (International Herald Tribune)
Dean leaves Mexico relatively unscathed Aug 24, 2007
Men line sand bags along a major Mexico City sewage canal in Ecatepec, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 ... A man cleans out sewage water from the living room of a home in Ecatepec, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, after a nearby drainage canal overflowed ... Sand bags sit below a levy in Ecatepec, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, after a drainage canal overflowed. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Priest kills secret son to save career Aug 10, 2007
Valle kidnapped his son in the city of Ecatepec, also in Mexico state, on September 14, 2005, and took him to the north-central state of Guanajuato, where he eventually killed him, the attorney general's office said. Authorities did not release the exact day of the murder or describe the circumstances. (The Age, Australia)
More shootings in Mexico gang war Jan 1, 2007
Also on Sunday, residents in the impoverished town of Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City, led police to an abandoned car containing the bodies of three men, about 30 years of age, local media reported. Turf war Once limited mainly to northern border cities, violence surged and spread south after the former president, Vicente Fox, launched a crackdown on drug gangs in early 2005, intensifying the turf war between the Gulf Cartel from northeastern Mexico and smugglers from Sinaloa and Tijuana in... (Aljazeera.Net)
