| Mexico's Los Cabos braces for approaching storm Lorena Posted: 20 Sep 2019 08:22 AM PDT  Owners pulled boats from the water and hauled them away on trailers, while shopkeepers put plywood over windows and doors as Hurricane Lorena bore down Friday on Mexico's resort-studded Los Cabos area. Lorena was forecast to pass over or near the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula later in the day with heavy winds and soaking rains, and locals who have been through past hurricanes were taking no chances. "If we don't get the yacht out, the waves can damage it," said Juan Hernández, who rents his craft to foreign visitors.
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| Drowning of U.S.-bound Honduran mother and son underscores plight of migrants Posted: 19 Sep 2019 08:27 PM PDT ![Drowning of U.S.-bound Honduran mother and son underscores plight of migrants]( "Drowning of U.S.-bound Honduran mother and son underscores plight of migrants") TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras/MATAMOROS, Mexico Sept 19 (Reuters) - W hen Delia Hernandez, 44, bade farewell on Aug. 1 to Idalia Herrera, 27, and nearly two-year-old Iker Cordova, she dreamed her daughter and grandson were fleeing the arid fields of southern Honduras for a bright new life in the United States, she said. Instead, Herrera and Cordova drowned last week in the Rio Grande just shy of Brownsville, Texas, weeks into an anguished wait in the Mexican border city of Matamoros for an asylum hearing with U.S. authorities, migrants there and Herrera's grandmother said.
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