As the price of limes increase in Mexico, the "green gold" has become a precious commodity that has citrus growers and truckers who deliver the crop on edge because of a recent rise in theft of the product.
"Zombie" flesh-eating drug desomorphine, the street name Krokodil (pronounced crocodile), which gives users an intense "zombie-like" high state -and the side effects are ulcerated skin and limbs- has struck again, and this time in Mexico. In a bizarre sequence of events, what initially was thought to be lacerations caused by a sexually transmitted infection, turned out to be harm caused when a teenage girl injected the drug into her genitals.
41-year-old Mexican TV star Karla Alvarez was found dead at her apartment on Friday in Mexico City. The cause of death was related to respiratory failure stemming from bulimia and anorexia, according to several reports.
Irma Lopez and her baby could not wait any longer. The soon-to-be mother was forced to squat on the ground and give birth to her son on the lawn of the hospital that refused to help her.
