TRAVEL
April 30, 2000 | BARBARA HANSEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER, Barbara Hansen is a staff writer in The Times' Food section
Perhaps I should have flown into Catemaco on a broomstick rather than arriving by bus. This town in the southeastern part of Veracruz state is renowned for its annual gathering of brujos (witches) on the first Friday of March. They were gone when I arrived a week and a half later, but Catemaco capitalizes on witchery all year. Stalls sell T-shirts printed with Halloween-style witches, pointed hats and all.
WORLD
December 22, 2011 | By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
Gunmen opened fire Thursday on three passenger buses in the violence-racked state of Veracruz, killing at least seven people, Mexican authorities said. All five attackers were killed in a shootout with federal security forces after the attack, which took place on a rural highway near Panuco in the northern part of the coastal state. State spokeswoman Gina Dominguez said the gunmen were suspected in a separate attack earlier Thursday in El Higo, another town not far from the border with Tamaulipas state.
TRAVEL
February 11, 1990 | JUDITH BARISH and JENNIFER MNOOKIN, Barish and Mnookin are Palo Alto free-lance writers researching a book in Mexico
"The only madhouse with a sea view." That's how one Jarocho , as locals here are known, characterizes this city. Indeed, the boisterous street life of this bustling port on the Gulf of Mexico frequently verges on the insane. Veracruz's zocalo has a reputation, in fact, as Mexico's liveliest central square. And at this time of the year things get even livelier.
TRAVEL
October 13, 1996 | REED GLENN, Glenn is a freelancer based in Colorado
In a corner of an old hacienda, a crackling fire took the chill off the January night. Further warmed by our host's tequila and spicy enchiladas, we sat around the table, hands touching, staring at a flickering candle. Prompted by tales that the hacienda is haunted, Ron, one of my fellow travelers was leading a seance. "Let the table rise, let the candle flicker, let the fire speak," he intoned dramatically.
NEWS
March 6, 1994
In today's Times, Traveling in Style magazine celebrates "Colors of the World" with festivals and fun from New Orleans, Nice, Istanbul and Veracruz, Mexico.
BUSINESS
March 3, 1992 | Dean Takahashi / Times staff writer
Mexican Venture: Metalclad Corp. in Anaheim said it has entered into a joint venture with Mexican investors to build a hazardous waste processing plant in Veracruz, Mexico. The plant will process up to 120,000 tons of hazardous waste per year and will be located in Mexico's largest oil-producing region. Last month, the joint venture also announced plans to build a waste processing plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.