Mexico opens canal blocked by landslide
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Mexican authorities on Tuesday cautiously opened a canal through an enormous landslide that blocked a major river in southern Mexico in November and swept away and entire community.
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Hundreds of rescuers dug frantically Thursday to reach victims of an avalanche that swept down a Mexican mountainside and buried a bus carrying up to 60 passengers. Thirty-two bodies were recovered as hope waned of finding survivors.
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PARAISO, Panama  - Work started on Monday on a $5.2 billion expansion of Panama's famous canal, the largest-ever overhaul of the short cut between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico  - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 26 people on Thursday and searched for dozens more crushed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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The groundbreaking on a new expansion of the Panama Canal is seen by many Panamians as a coming of age moment
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Egyptian authorities reopened the Suez Canal today after the one of the world&#39;s major waterways was forced to shut for the first time in 30 years because of a stricken oil tanker.
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U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents executing simultaneous raids discovered a recently completed smuggling tunnel linking the two countries, officials said Friday.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  As New Mexicans bump up against their water limits, all eyes are on the San Juan River.
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By MARK STEVENSON  MEXICO CITY - There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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In Mexico City, Powell opens door to immigration changes as border nations try to mend strains of past few years.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - Mexicans began cleaning up on   Sunday the wreckage left by Hurricane Lane, which killed two   people and knocked down flimsy homes before it slowed into a   tropical depression.
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A canal ruptured early Saturday after heavy rainfall, pouring 3 feet of near-freezing water into about 800 homes and stranding about 3,500 people, authorities said.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- A life capsized has stranded Jose de Jesus Torres atop these craggy cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Waves crash and dolphins dance as this modern-day cliff dweller waits for another opportunity to cross the US border.
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a new fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border more dangerous.
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Bush administration lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a section of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.
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A moderate earthquake rattled a long stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast late Wednesday, sending panicked residents into the streets. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
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Mexico's interior secretary on Tuesday said the supporters of a leftist presidential candidate who are occupying a central part of the capital have set up an "illegal blockade" and it was up to the mayor to guarantee order.