Travel warning for Playa de Carmen
The U.S. has issued a travel warning for the Mexican city of Playa del Carmen, a popular travel destination for students traveling for spring break.
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Mexico travel warning
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a new travel alert for Playa del Carmen after an explosion on a tourist ferry left several people hurt. Now, CBS News has learned the reason is a "real crime threat" connected to Mexico's drug cartels. CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.
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Travel warning for Playa del Carmen, Mexico
The State Department is warning U.S. government employees to avoid the area of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, due to an unspecified security threat. This follows a ferry explosion last month which injured more than 20 people and the discovery of more explosives aboard a boat last week in nearby Cozumel.
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Security video shows Mexico ferry explosion
Investigators in Mexico are trying to determine the cause of an explosion onboard a ferry in Playa del Carmen on the Caribbean coast. As many as 25 people on a dock were hurt including seven Americans. Vladimir Duthiers reports.
Teen sentenced for smuggling tiger
A California teen has been sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling a tiger cub from Mexico. His attorney claimed he wanted to keep the animal as a pet, but prosecutors argued he was running an animal smuggling business.
Strong earthquake rocks Mexico
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Panel analyzes immigration reform
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Border wall effect on Native American reservation
The Tohono O'odham Nation straddles 75 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The region is used by drug cartels and people trying to cross into the United States. CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal discusses the newest "CBSN Originals" documentary, "The Wall - A Nation Divided."
Native nations on Trump wall proposal
If President Trump gets the $25 million he wants to build a southern border wall, the project will face many obstacles -- including opposition from native nations. The wall would run right through the Arizona desert that belongs to one of America's largest tribes -- and it would divide thousands from their nation on the Mexican side of the border. Mireya Villarreal reports.
CBSN Original preview: The Wall - A Nation Divided
CBSN Originals visits the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation — which sits across the Nevada/Mexico border. Where it exists at all in this region, the border is often a ramshackle barbed-wire-and-sticks fence. A new, secure border wall might mean the end of a way of life for a people who have walked to and fro across the international boundary since before the United States existed.
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Dad deported to Mexico
The family of Jorge Garcia, a Michigan man deported to Mexico, says they will fight to get him back to the U.S. Garcia has lived in the U.S. for around 30 years and has an American wife and two children. Anna Werner spoke to the family.
Deadly Mexico gunfights
Two separate clashes between gunmen and police killed 18 people over the weekend in Mexico.
Mexico tour bus crash
Eight Americans are among the 12 people killed in a tourist bus crash in Mexico. Three Americans who died were from the same family. Manuel Bojorquez reports from Chetumal, Mexico.
Americans dead in bus crash
Mexican prosecutors say skid marks on a narrow highway may indicate a tour bus was speeding, causing a crash so violent it flipped the bus on its side. Eight Americans were among the 12 people killed, and seven other Americans were hurt. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
Mexico bus crash
At least eight Americans were killed in a bus crash in Mexico. Over dozen were injured in the deadly accident in a popular tourist area. CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez joined CBSN from Mexico with the latest.
Mexico tour bus crash
A tourist bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in Mexico killed 12 people and hurt 18 others when it flipped Tuesday. Seven Americans are among the injured and at least one American died in the crash. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
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Mexico bus crash
Officials say 12 people died and others were hurt when a bus carrying tourists flipped over in eastern Mexico Tuesday morning. Seven Americans and two Swedish citizens are among those injured.
Airport close call
An Airbus A320 belonging to Volaris, a Mexican airliner, lined up to land on a runway where a Delta flight had just been cleared for takeoff. The Delta pilots warned air traffic control that something seemed wrong. Kris Van Cleave reports.
Woman dies after lipo
Irma Saenz, 51, of Los Angeles, traveled to Mexico for liposuction. She went into a coma and then died, according to her family. CBS Los Angeles' Crystal Cruz reports.
Former ambassador to Mexico talks migration
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Friday with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the two countries seek solutions to the wave of immigrants coming from Central and South America. Antonio Garza, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico during President George W. Bush's administration, spoke with CBSN's Tanya Rivero about what he sees as the solutions to migration and economic issues.
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