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Topic: Mexico

March 8, 2013
4:58 am

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd after speaking in Tehran (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Poll: 9 out of 10 Americans have unfavorable view of Iran

Gallup World Affairs survey shows Iran trailing North Korea, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and Cuba; Israel enjoys 66% favorability

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 31, 2012
7:56 pm

Hezbollah supporters wave flags and hold up Arabic banners that read, "At your service God's prophet; America equals terrorism; and America does not equal freedom," during an anti-US rally in Beirut, Lebanon, in September (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah’s cocaine jihad

From the web Ynet News: South American drug cartels are in cahoots with Islamic terror organizations, which are eager to execute attacks against American, Israeli, Jewish and Western targets

December 21, 2012
5:03 am

Mayan dancers perform at the Xcaret Eco Theme Park on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (photo credit: Israel Leal/AP)

In Mexico, New Agers hope Dec. 21 brings new era

‘This is not the end of the world. This is the beginning of the new world’

By Mark Stevenson

September 21, 2012
6:46 pm

Guests at the Chabad Rosh Hashanah meal in Playa, Mexico, with Rabbi Mendel and wife Chaya at back (photo credit: Chabad, Playa del Carmen)

A sweet new year in a Mexican party town, with Hezbollah a few hours away

Two Chabad houses host 500 Rosh Hashanah guests, with ex-IDF soldiers on guard… just to be on the safe side

By Aaron Kalman

September 10, 2012
8:10 am

The Hezbollah flag flying in Lebanon. (photo credit: CC BY upyernoz, Flickr)

Mexican authorities arrest suspected Hezbollah operatives

Two remain in custody, one extradited to the US

By Aaron Kalman

July 5, 2012
1:28 am

Enrique Peña Nieto (left), then governor of the state of Mexico, receives a briefing about Qassam rockets from Sderot Mayor David Buskila on February 3, 2010. (photo credit: Eddie Israel/Flash 90)

Netanyahu congratulates Mexico’s new president-elect

Enrique Pena Nieto met the prime minister two years ago, during a visit to Israel

By Times of Israel staff and AP

April 10, 2012
6:28 pm

The 2006 film 'Borat' depicted an absurd 'Running of the Jew' ceremony. In Mexico, a newspaper is reporting on a genuine 'Burning of the Jews' event. (Illustrative photo credit: Ruben Fleischer/20th Century Fox)

Mexican town celebrates Easter with ‘burning of the Jews’

A small Chiapas town ends its Holy Week observance by parading Jewish effigies through the streets, then setting them on fire

By Nathan Burstein