This Woman Had a Live Fragmentation Grenade Stuck Inside Her Face
Karla Flores was peacefully selling seafood on the street when she heard an explosion. An object hit her face, knocking her down. When she woke up she was in a hospital with a live fragmentation...
View ArticleAnonymous On a Warpath With Zetas Drug Cartel After Kidnapping Of Group Member
After successfully taking out a child porn ring, Anonymous is threatening war on November 5th with Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, after the kidnapping of an Anonymous member from Veracruz.
View ArticleAnonymous Split Over War With Zetas
Looks like Operation Cartel has split the Anonymous collective with some backing down over real fears of reprisals from the Zeta drug cartel, who recently hung two bloggers and decapitated a...
View ArticleAnonymous Anti-Zeta OpCartel Cancelled After Caught Member Freed
According to Anonymous Iberoamerica, OpCartel has been canned following the release of the supposed kidnapped Anonymous member by the Zeta drug cartel. A statement on the 'Official Blog' called an end...
View ArticleMexican Army Shuts Down Zeta Drug Cartel’s Encrypted Mobile Phone Network
After Anonymous had its little on-again, off-again dealings with the Zeta drug cartel, the Mexican army has stepped in to cut the drug lords off-the-air. The Zetas were apparently running their own...
View ArticlePictures of Men Lying Down In Trucks Makes Hitching a Ride Look Uncomfortable
This photo series by Alejandro Cartagena shows the life of some workers in Monterrey, Mexico who share a ride to work by cramming themselves into a truck bed. It's sort of hilarious until you realise...
View ArticleStretching and Flexibility: Olympian Advice For Lazy Giz Readers
Oh, to be as stretchy as a gymnast; a carefree life full of surfing the internet with my legs behind my head, and opening doors with my feet when my hands are full. Elsa Garcia, Mexico’s poster girl...
View ArticleApple Tries to Sue iFone in Mexico… And Loses
What’s this? Has Apple really been beaten by a smaller company? Apparently so. It seems Apple bit off a little more than it could chew this time, as it’s suffered a defeat in court, after seeking an...
View ArticleThis Giant Mesh Wall Acts Like an Air Filter for Mexico City
The best way to deal with smog is to make less of it, but it’s too late to just do that. And when it comes to cleaning up your already polluted air, mesh structures like this one in Mexico City are a...
View ArticleArchaeologists Are Unlocking a 1900-Year-Old Burial Chamber’s Secrets — With...
Teotihuacan, an ancient, abandoned city about an hour north of Mexico City, was once one of the largest cities in the world. It collapsed in the centuries ago (thanks either to an internal uprising or...
View ArticleMexico’s National Pyrotechnics Festival Looks Absolutely Insane(ly Fun)
Who doesn’t love a good fireworks show? People the world over — from Beijing to London — set off pyrotechnics to celebrate everything from New Year to Royal Weddings. Mexico has a similar celebratory...
View ArticleThis Is Why You Shouldn’t Mess With Liquid Nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen is an invaluable tool for scientists, and can make for some pretty awesome experiments, but introducing it into a pool party? What the hell where they thinking? As you can see from the...
View ArticleThe NSA Has Been Hacking Mexican And Brazilian Government Email For Years
Beginning in May 2010, the NSA gained access to the Mexican Presidencia domain on the Mexican Presidential network and began monitoring then-president Felipe Calderon’s email account, according to a...
View ArticleAn Army of the Deaf Watch Surveillance Cameras in Mexico
Security camera footage makes some pretty boring TV. There’s no sound, so you don’t know what people are saying, and it’s tough to read body language out of context. But that’s exactly what makes deaf...
View ArticleThieves in Mexico Just Stole Ingredients for a Radioactive Dirty Bomb
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency has some bad news. It just announced that thieves in Mexico have stolen a truck carrying dangerous radioactive materials. In fact, they got their hands on...
View ArticleHow Tequila Geniuses Made the Best-Tasting Spirit I’ve Ever Had
Tequila is a much-maligned spirit. Most of us think of it as something so nasty you need to do it in a shot with salt and lime so that you’ll taste it as little as possible, or take it mixed into an...
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