WORLD
August 27, 2011 | By Ken Ellingwood and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
The dead were mainly mothers and grandmothers, middle-aged women who routinely stopped by the Casino Royale for an afternoon game of bingo or a shot at the slot machines. At least 52 people were killed Thursday when armed men set fire to the gaming hall in a busy commercial center of Mexico's wealthiest city. The attack, carried out in broad daylight, was the deadliest to target Mexican civilians in nearly five years of bloody drug warfare. "Mexico has witnessed one of the most terrible acts of barbarism in memory," President Felipe Calderon said Friday as he declared three days of national mourning.
NEWS
February 12, 1989 | From Associated Press
Mexico's consul general in El Paso, Tex. has accused U.S. officials of violating the human rights of at least 2,000 undocumented Mexican citizens last year, according to a published report Saturday. The diplomat, Enrique Buj Flores, was quoted in the Excelsior newspaper as saying that last year there were 2,077 cases reported to the consulate about abuse of rights. He said these included alleged beatings and molestation of Mexicans by U.S. authorities.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 1, 1987 | DEBORAH CAULFIELD and RICK SHERWOOD, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Mexican film star Maria Felix, one of Latin America's most popular stars of the last 40 years, told Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper that plans for her return to the screen after 20 years might be off. Last year, it was announced that Felix would star in "Eternal Splendor," which was to have started filming in Paris in August. In an interview published over the weekend, she acknowledged that "it is probable that the project might be reconsidered."
NEWS
January 28, 1987 | United Press International
An average 60,000 firearms enter Mexico illegally from the United States every month, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Citing figures from border agents in Nogales, bordering the Arizona town of the same name, the Excelsior newspaper said, "Most of the weapons are handguns and automatic rifles, which are more efficient than the Mexican army's arsenal." U.S. Border Patrol agents have been cooperating with Mexican officials in a three-month-old operation to try to stop the illegal arms traffic.
NEWS
October 31, 1986 | Associated Press
Mexicana Airlines blamed slow maintenance work for dozens of cancellations of domestic flights Wednesday and Thursday. At least 20 flights from Mexico City to other Mexican airports were canceled Wednesday for lack of aircraft, the government newspaper El Nacional reported. Seven more were canceled within a two-hour period early Thursday, according to the Excelsior newspaper's national news wire. The Mexico City airport was packed with stranded travelers, the newspaper said.
NEWS
July 7, 1990 | Associated Press
Chihuahua state Atty. Gen. Jose Miller said authorities have located six more escaped convicts, and their arrest is expected soon, the Excelsior newspaper reported Friday. A total of 34 convicts escaped, four people were killed and eight others were injured during a jailbreak and riot Tuesday in Chihuahua, 225 miles south of El Paso, Tex. Twenty-six of the escapees were rounded up Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Gabriel Nahas, director of Chihuahua state's 14 prisons.