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Bug-Eating Ladies Speak Out for Insect Cuisine

By David MoyeFeb 22nd 2011 – 8:20PM
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You never forget the first bug you eat. In fact, it seems just like yesterday to Daniella Martin. "It was 10 years ago when I was getting my anthropology degree and studying pre-Columbian food in the Yucatan region of Mexico," Martin reminisced to AOL News. Back before Christopher Columbus' arrival, the amount of big...

14 Decapitated Bodies Found in Mexico Resort City

Jan 8th 2011 – 1:11PM

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday. Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling card of...

Hurricane Paula Expected to Hit Western Cuba

Oct 13th 2010 – 7:31AM

CANCUN, Mexico (Oct. 13) -- Hurricane Paula roared off Mexico's top vacation resort of Cancun on Wednesday without immediate reports of major damage, and it was projected to veer into western Cuba's cigar-producing country. The Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, swiped at the island of Cozumel...

NASA Photo of Tropical Storm Karl Shows Imminent Landfall Over Yucatan

By Dana ChivvisSep 15th 2010 – 10:12AM

(Sept. 15) -- The trio of tropical storms in the Atlantic just shrank by one as Tropical Storm Karl made landfall over Mexico this morning. Meanwhile, the other two storms -- Hurricanes Igor and Julia -- continued to spin in the ocean away from land. NASA snapped this photo of Tropical Storm Karl with its GOES-13...

Background on yucatan

Yucatán (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán (), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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