MEXICO: 28 June UPDATE: Gunmen Kidnap At Least 80 Migrants From Freight Train.

LINK CHANGE/ LA TIMES / More Details

Gunmen kidnapped at least 80 undocumented migrants, including children, from a freight train, as they headed for the USA's border.

Perhaps 250 migrants were on the train...when the gunmen blocked the track in rural Veracruz state and climbed aboard.

Many migrants managed to flee.

MEXICO: Outgunned, 6 Police Massacred In Veracruz State; 06 April UPDATE: 2 Americans Assassinated At Tijuana Border.

AP / M.HERALD                                     (file foto)

   A routine municipal police patrol near El Higo in Veracruz state ran into at least 20 gunmen and a battle ensued...that left 6 officers, including one woman, dead.
   The police were equipped with only two assault rifles, two pistols and a shotgun.
   The attackers also took the dead officers' weapons.
  The federal government subsequently announced that the army will establish a new base near El Higo.

 AND: LINK CHANGE/ MORE DETAILS:
      Two U.S. citizens were murdered while waiting to enter the U.S. at a Tijuana-area border crossing.
      Officials report that Kevin Romero and Sergio Salcido were on their way to work around 3 a.m., waiting in line when they were murdered.
       9-mm shell casings were found at the scene, ammunition favored by narco gunmen.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/05/2152377/authorities-confirm-2-americans.html

MEXICO: Heavy Flooding Hits Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca.

AP/       An estimated 500,000 people are homeless in southern Mexico after escaping floods from weeks of torrential rains. The states of Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca are suffering the heaviest rains. Tens of thousands are sleeping on the roofs of their homes, refusing to abandon their possessions. More rain is predicted. The region has already received TWICE the amount of rainfall that normally falls during the season that doesn't end until November.

COLOMBIA: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Latin American Coastal Cities.

LATIMES/
A World Bank study states that the effects of global warming already seen in Latin American coastal cities could worsen in coming decades because sea levels will rise highest near the equator. Latin and Caribbean cities especially at risk include Veracruz, Mexico; Georgetown, Guyana; and Guayaquil, Ecuador.
"The projections are based on assumptions generally accepted by the scientific community and do not include the cataclysmic effects of possible advanced ice melting in the Antarctic or Greenland."

High Ranking Veracruz Cop And Family Slain.

From the LAHT.

It is reported that attackers killed 6 family members...and after the shooting hurled grenades at the home...as they fled the scene.