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The crowd cheers as Monsignor Georg Gaenswein puts a sombrero on Pope Benedict's XVI head as they arrive at Bicentennial Park to celebrate a Sunday Mass in Silao, Mexico. The pope rides in a vehicle, dubbed the “popemobile,” used especially for his public appearances. (Associated Press)
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Pope Benedict XVI, wearing a Mexican sombrero, waves from the popemobile as he arrives to celebrate Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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A man hands a baby to Pope Benedict XVI for his blessing as the pontiff makes his way by popemobile to the Plaza de la Paz in Guanajuato, Mexico, on Saturday, March 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Benedict XVI waves March 23, 2012, as he boards a plane at Rome's Fiumicino Airport to begin a six-day visit to Mexico and Cuba. (Associated Press)
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Illegal immigrants easily step over a fallen barbed-wire fence between Mexico and the United States near the town of Sasabe, Mexico, in 2004. The number of apprehensions of illegal border-crossers is down while the number of deaths in the desert is high. (Associated Press)
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The Mayan Beach Garden Inn is on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the border with Belize. With just seven rooms, it's ideal for travelers who want a beautiful beach without crowds. (Associated Press)
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This December 2011 photo shows the beach near Majahual in Costa Maya, Mexico. This region of Mexico is located on the coast of the western Caribbean, south of Cancun and the Riviera Maya. (AP Photo/Kim Curtis)
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A pyramid at the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico. Early-morning visitors to the ancient archaeological sites on Mexico's Riviera Maya can avoid the crowds that often gather later in the day. (AP Photo/Kim Curtis)
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Mexican army soldiers take away Jose Guadalupe Serna Padilla (center), aka “El Zopilote,” or "the Vulture," and his alleged accomplice Oscar Pozos Jimenez (left) during a presentation to the press in Zapopan, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bruno Gonzalez)
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Human skulls and other bones that were found in a cave sit on a table at the Chiapas state attorney general's office in Tuxla Gutierrez, Mexico, on Saturday March 10, 2012. Forensic experts believe the remains are at least 50 years old. (AP Photo/Chiapas state attorney general's office)
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People camp in protest next to ruins on the outskirts of Amecameca, Mexico. The protesters have filed complaints with state and federal officials to demand that a highway under construction be rerouted after pre-Hispanic ruins were detected. (Associated Press)
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A Mexican state police officer wearing a mask stands behind the fence as relatives of inmates wait for news after a riot at a prison on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday. Members of one drug cartel killed 44 members of a rival gang, with the melee enabling 30 of their comrades to escape. (Associated Press)
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A state police officer wearing a face mask stands behind the fence as relatives of inmates wait for news after a mass killing and prisoner escape at Apodaca correctional state facility on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Hand Maximo Musielik)
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A child cries out for her father as she pushes on a prison gate with police standing on the other side Sunday at a prison on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, that was the scene of deadly rioting. (Associated Press)
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Reality television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of his wife at a Cancun, Mexico, resort in 2010. (Associated Press)
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State and municipal police officers and forensic experts examine the body of a man who was among eight victims of a shootout in Monterrey, Mexico, on Jan. 26. (Associated Press)
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Karla Zepeda (left), 15, and Elisa Chavez, 22, sit Jan. 21, 2012, inside the home of Elisa's mother, in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. Both claim that they agreed to lend their babies in a two-week photo shoot for $755 ($10,000 Mexican pesos) for an anti-abortion ad campaign but instead fell in an illegal adoption ring involving destitute young women trying to earn more for their children and childless Irish couples desperate to become parents. (Associated Press)
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A color-coded chart at a detention center in Imperial Beach, Calif., details procedures for agents to follow in the U.S. Border Patrol's new Consequence Delivery System, part of the agency's strategy for dealing with migrants caught illegally crossing the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Because oil production from Mexico and Venezuela has fallen drastically in the past decade, Gulf Coast refineries like this one in Deer Park, Texas, now have the capacity to process an additional 500,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude that would come through the Keystone pipeline. (Associated Press)
