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<description><![CDATA[A final report on the helicopter crash last year that killed Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and seven others says it was caused by pilot error.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15060215-pilot-error-seen-in-crash-that-killed-mexico-no-2</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15060215-pilot-error-seen-in-crash-that-killed-mexico-no-2</guid><category>mexico</category><category>crash</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>blake-mora</category><category>francisco-blake-mora</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:44:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Crash killing Mexico's No. 2 could be pilot error</title>
<description><![CDATA[The helicopter crash that killed Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and seven others could have been caused by pilot error or instrument failure, the lead investigator said Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Corcoran]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Katherine Corcoran]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8763644-crash-killing-mexicos-no-2-could-be-pilot-error</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8763644-crash-killing-mexicos-no-2-could-be-pilot-error</guid><category>mexico</category><category>world-news</category><category>felipe-calderon</category><category>lt</category><category>blake-mora</category><category>francisco-blake-mora</category><category>francisco-blake-moor</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:55:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Wednesday July 14, 2010, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends his his swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="332" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" width="120" height="185" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends a news conference in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday July 14, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, left, shakes hands with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon at Mora's swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/beae736d-9061-48ce-a09a-9e38954ed66f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/beae736d-9061-48ce-a09a-9e38954ed66f.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers and investigators examine the wreckage of a helicopter that was carrying Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, at a mountainous area in Santa Catarina Ayatzingo, southeast of Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Mexican government said Friday, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, died in the helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/208a6280-396c-4dd9-b689-3f462d12aa09.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/208a6280-396c-4dd9-b689-3f462d12aa09.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Helicopters land in the area  where Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora was killed in a helicopter accident, near Santa Catarina Ayatzingo southeast of Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Mexican government said Friday, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, died in the helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fa16d220-b048-4899-aad1-24babc4e21f1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="370" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fa16d220-b048-4899-aad1-24babc4e21f1.jpg" width="120" height="166" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers and investigators examine the wreckage of a helicopter that was carrying Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, at a mountainous area in Santa Catarina Ayatzingo, southeast of Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Mexican government said Friday, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, died in the helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7eca3fde-f78f-4319-a770-e5975d06022f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7eca3fde-f78f-4319-a770-e5975d06022f.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, second left, and his wife Margarita Zavala, left, stand next to the coffin of Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, during his funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.  Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot.  (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/dff05552-06b9-475c-a3aa-1a767dee7cd4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="399" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/dff05552-06b9-475c-a3aa-1a767dee7cd4.jpg" width="120" height="154" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Jose Francisco Blake, son of Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, mourns behind a portrait of his father during his funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash with seven others at a mountainous area southeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1b6ad037-e813-4fdc-9b0a-cee791169b19.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="246" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1b6ad037-e813-4fdc-9b0a-cee791169b19.jpg" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Men carry the coffin containing the remains of Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora during his funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash with seven others in a mountainous area southeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9783493d-2f27-4354-aa94-12cbc243ad65.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="234" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9783493d-2f27-4354-aa94-12cbc243ad65.jpg" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Honor guards stand next to the coffins of the eight victims of a helicopter crash during their funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and seven others died Friday in the accident in a mountainous area southeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/94cea807-baad-48cd-81cf-2ccc2f68f918.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/94cea807-baad-48cd-81cf-2ccc2f68f918.jpg" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, right, and his wife Margarita Zavala, left, walk by the coffin of Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora during his funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. The photograph at center portrays Blake Mora.  (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/625fa7ac-2a9f-4b7f-885f-fb1b11a8770f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="378" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/625fa7ac-2a9f-4b7f-885f-fb1b11a8770f.jpg" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Gloria Cossio, widow of Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, gestures next to her children Jose Francisco, center, and Gloria, who holds a photograph of her father, during his funeral service at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash with seven others at a mountainous area southeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8f7db2e8-13b1-4b54-9c1f-5d6dbe3e503a.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="367" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8f7db2e8-13b1-4b54-9c1f-5d6dbe3e503a.jpg" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, gestures after paying his respects to the relatives of the eight victims of a helicopter crash at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2011. Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and seven others died Friday in the accident in a mountainous area southeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Blake Mora: Key strategist in Mexico's drug war</title>
<description><![CDATA[Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora was the point man in Mexico's deadly war on organized crime, seen by many as the embodiment of the government's determination to battle the narcotics trade despite a soaring death toll.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Stevenson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mark Stevenson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8757040-blake-mora-key-strategist-in-mexicos-drug-war</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8757040-blake-mora-key-strategist-in-mexicos-drug-war</guid><category>mexico</category><category>obit</category><category>world-news</category><category>felipe-calderon</category><category>lt</category><category>blake-mora</category><category>interior-francisco-blake-mora</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Wednesday July 14, 2010, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends his his swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="332" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" width="120" height="185" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends a news conference in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday July 14, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, left, shakes hands with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon at Mora's swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Mexico's top Cabinet secretary dies in crash</title>
<description><![CDATA[The country's top Cabinet secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, a key figure in Mexico's battle with drug cartels, died Friday in a helicopter crash that President Felipe Calderon said was probably an accident.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Eduardo Castillo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[E. Eduardo Castillo]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8756695-mexicos-top-cabinet-secretary-dies-in-crash</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/11/8756695-mexicos-top-cabinet-secretary-dies-in-crash</guid><category>mexico</category><category>world-news</category><category>felipe-calderon</category><category>lt</category><category>blake-mora</category><category>interior-francisco-blake-mora</category><category>francisco-blake-mora</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c25f042f-f015-4b77-a5e7-01b56a7e8e59.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Wednesday July 14, 2010, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends his his swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="332" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/42ea1dd0-b55c-4753-8934-e1c414373126.jpg" width="120" height="185" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends a news conference in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2f494ac0-2344-45b4-a490-a69a4ed13c9b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2f494ac0-2344-45b4-a490-a69a4ed13c9b.jpg" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this video frame grab image taken from Televisa's Forotv via APTN, the wreckage of a helicopter carrying Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora is seen in a mountainous area of Mexico state southeast of Mexico City, Friday Nov. 11, 2011. The Mexican government said Friday, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, died in the helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Forotv-Televisa via APTN)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/04d5b9ce-3538-4dbd-9c4c-7521cc151328.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/04d5b9ce-3538-4dbd-9c4c-7521cc151328.jpg" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this video frame grab image taken from Televisa's Forotv via APTN, investigators examine the wreckage of a helicopter that was carrying Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, in a mountainous area of Mexico state southeast of Mexico City, Friday Nov. 11, 2011. The Mexican government said Friday, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, died in the helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Forotv-Televisa via APTN)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8b3a6338-841f-40ad-99a4-919257528e53.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday July 14, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, left, shakes hands with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon at Mora's swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>