a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
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a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
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The Agriculture Department of Mexico said Tuesday that heavy rains brought on by Chantal helped put out fires in the Yucatan Peninsula that have ravaged up to 370,000 acres of jungle during the past two months.
Rehearsals and taping began two weeks earlier in this Yucatan resort.
It skirted the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Sunday, plowed straight through Jamaica on Monday, brushed past the Cayman Islands Tuesday and slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday morning.
Former Gov. Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, 40, of Quintana Roo state in the Yucatan, was named tourism secretary on Friday.
Partners of the Americas, a group of 60 countries including the United States and nations in Latin America and the Caribbean announced it had set up a special relief fund to help the people of Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Castro and his men ended up on the Yucatan Peninsula, 122 miles from Cuba, where they bought a battered 38-foot yacht, the Granma, from an American named Robert B. Erickson.
The Scandinavian Star was about 35 miles off Isla Mujeres, a Mexican island north of the tourist resort Cancun in the Yucatan peninsula, the Coast Guard said.
The State Department released on Monday the names of six Americans who were killed last Friday in the crash of an Aerocozumel aircraft in Mexico's Yucatan Pensinsula.
The 465-foot ship, built in France in 1971 as a ferry and converted to a cruise liner in 1984, was disabled by an engine fire early Wednesday about 35 miles off Isla Mujeres in the Yucatan peninsula.
Four people died when a wall collapsed on them in the town of Dzidzantun north of Merida, Yucatan Gov. Victor Manzanillo Shaffer told reporters in Merida.
Airline passengers who survived a crash-landing in the Yucatan Peninsula kept calm as they waited overnight for rescuers to cut their way through dense jungle, a U.S. official said Sunday.
It may walk out of negotiations over party financing reform in protest. The local PRI has defended the move, arguing that it was not in Yucatan's interests to hold its gubernatorial election so soon before the presidential election.
Lorrabaquio said the Yucatan ring brought cocaine in from Colombia by air, then shipped it by boat to the United States, usually to Florida, while the cocaine seized along the border was probably being taken across by land.
The Yucatan forest, on a limestone cap covered by as little as three inches of soil, is not the classic towering rain forest of broadleafed trees, tangles of vines and dangling lianas like the famous Lacondon jungle 400 miles to the southwest.
Gilbert also built to the same strength before weakening as it passed over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
One year ago: Hurricane Gilbert, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula after forcing thousands of residents to flee.
Hurricane Gilbert plowed across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula toward the Gulf of Mexico coast of Texas at about 15 mph, with maximum sustained winds of about 160 mph.
William E. Thiele, the insurer's senior executive vice president, told analysts that the losses are the result of damage claims from insurers in the Caribbean and Yucatan who purchased reinsurance from a Continental unit.
Supplies for 70,000 evacuees collected along U.S.-Mexican border, and thousands of others evacuated in the Yucatan Peninsula. The Yucatan state governor estimated damage to the peninsula in the millions of dollars.
Supplies for 70,000 evacuees collected along U.S.-Mexican border, and thousands of others evacuated in the Yucatan Peninsula. The Yucatan state governor estimated damage to the peninsula in the millions of dollars.
Authorities said Friday that 10 people were missing in the Yucatan state.
The storm hit the Yucatan at midafternoon Sunday about 70 miles northeast of Chetumal and well south of the popular resort of Cancun, causing only minor flooding.
The fire March 16 on the St. Petersburg-based ship stranded 447 passengers on the return leg of a Mexican cruise about 35 miles off the Yucatan peninsula.
About 6,000 tourists were evacuated in the hours just before the storm last Wednesday and no tourists were among the 31 people confirmed killed on the Yucatan Peninsula.
Partners of the Americas, a group of 60 countries including the United States and nations in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced it had set up a special relief fund to help the people of Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
The ship, flying under a Panamanian flag, was seized in the gulf several miles off the Yucatan coast of Mexico.
Local Mexican officials may have given protection to two Colombian drug-runners linked to the Medellin cocaine cartel and arrested in the southern Yucatan, federal police say.
The hurricane, spawned last week in the Caribbean, caused at least 36 deaths in three island nations and Mexico's Yucatan and left nearly one in four Jamaicans homeless.
The 335-mile chase began at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, when the Chincoteague spotted the Hermann about 120 miles north of Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, said Coast Guard Lt.
In Yucatan, polls by the private surveying agencies Opina and Con-Ciencia indicated a strong PRI lead throughout the state. Con-Ciencia noted, however, that 47 percent of the registered voters surveyed refused to give an opinion.