<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Self-Styled Class Warrior Has Major Battle at Hand in Mexico]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TUCTA, Mexico  --  Until 1977, this village in sweltering Tabasco state was a patch of misery surrounded by a swamp. Families lived in thatched huts, with no roads, electricity or relief from swarms of mosquitoes carrying malaria.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8004-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8004-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Militant Suspects Fight Officers Near Mecca <br>   JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia  --   Suspected Islamic militants disguised as women and dressed in the garb of Muslim pilgrims fought a deadly gun battle with Saudi security forces Thursday night on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Mexico City Mayor Bailed Out by Rivals <br>   MEXICO CITY  --    A legal case shaking Mexico's political stability took a bizarre turn Wednesday when the country's most popular politician was threatened with jail and then rescued by rivals with a mere $180 bail payment.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy Tempered by a Wish for a Third World Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they felt a tinge of disappointment that the new pontiff did not come from the Third World.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utah Driver's License Curtailed as ID]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59517-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59517-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The restrictions that undocumented immigrants face in Utah could be felt nationwide if Congress passes the Real ID Act.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid and Darryl Fears</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Questions New Passport Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said Thursday that he was surprised by his administration's plans to require U.S. citizens to show a passport when reentering the country from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Mexico, Mixed Signals On Mayor's Future]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54746-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54746-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Confusion deepened Thursday over whether Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's future home is more likely to be a prison cell than the Mexican president's residence.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fox Weighs Possibility of Pardon for Rival]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY, April 13  --  President Vicente Fox is considering pardoning Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador if the mayor is convicted of a relatively minor criminal charge he is expected to face, a move that could allow him to run in next year's presidential race, a Fox spokesman said Wednesday evening.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spate of Attacks Targets Journalists in Mexico]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45392-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45392-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY, April 11  --  The publisher of an influential newspaper in the city of Veracruz was shot to death as he drove home Friday night, only days after a radio reporter working along the U.S. border was hospitalized after being shot nine times and a third Mexican journalist was reported missing.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[OAS Deadlocks In Election of Chief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45391-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45391-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Organization of American States, stymied by a six-month leadership vacuum, failed to choose a new chief yesterday as its members repeatedly deadlocked in a hard-fought election.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42713-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid 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her spine, but Maria Luisa Torres, 70, still walks the streets of the Merced selling her body, as do many elderly women in the downtown neighborhood, where just about everything is available for a price.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cardinals Begin Period Of Media Silence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40510-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40510-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The cardinals agreed to stop talking to the media, following a week in which they publicly debated whether to name a pontiff who is as much like Pope John Paul II as possible, or someone quite different.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico City Mayor Stripped of Immunity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34020-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34020-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  MEXICO CITY, April 7  --  Congress voted Thursday to strip Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of his immunity from prosecution, an extraordinary move that could lead to his arrest for disobeying a court order and prevent him from running in next year's presidential election.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decision Over Mayor Polarizes Mexico City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32424-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid 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millions of Americans would be required to show passports when returning from Canada, Mexico.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Minutemen' Crusade to Stop Illegal Crossings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26339-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26339-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Citizen volunteers have joined together as part of a "civilian patrol" to monitor and deter the flow of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States.]]></description><author> Amy Argetsinger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Mexico, Church's Influence Wanes as Evangelism Grows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26323-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid 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the center of this little town and reached for a long rope hanging from one of the twin bell towers.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Gabriela Martinez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['He Consoles Those Who Have Nothing']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22128-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22128-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/mexico/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:21 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY<br>Wearing a black lace veil and clutching a picture of Pope John Paul II, an elderly woman here explained why she saw the pope as a personal hero, not some faraway leader from Rome.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item></channel></rss>