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Veracruz

Port (trading in coffee, tobacco, and vanilla) in eastern Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico; population (2005) 702,400. Products include chemicals, sisal, and textiles. It was founded by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés as Villa Nueva de la Vera Cruz (‘new town of the true cross’) on a nearby site in 1519 and transferred to its present site in 1599.

Veracruz

State of eastern Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico; area 72,815 sq km/28,114 sq mi; population (2000 est) 6,901,100. Its capital is Jalapa Enríquez. The western area of Veracruz is a highland which is part of Mexico's Central Plateau, rising to 5,700 m/18,700 ft at Citlaltépetl, the highest mountain in the country. To the east along the Gulf of Mexico is a low-lying sandy area with lagoons. The main occupations are farming, producing cotton, rice, sugar-cane, coffee, maize, coconuts, bananas, and tobacco. Other industries include sugar refining, distilling, and textile manufacture. The state contains over a quarter of the country's oil resources and there are oilfields on the coastal strip.
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Police did not immediately know what caused the crash, but were investigating whether the driver was speeding or if the brakes failed on the bus as it descended one of the area's many winding roads, said Ranulfo Marquez Hernandez, deputy secretary of civil protection for Veracruz state, where the crash occurred.
60 killed in 650ft bus plunge by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Knowing that it's often better to be seen than heard, rural Mexican farmers stripped down to their underwear in April to demand more access to farmland and the dismissal of an official in Veracruz state accused of human rights abuses.
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The federal environmental watchdog Procuraduria Federal de Proteccion al Medio Ambiente (PROFEPA) has filed a criminal complaint against the state-run oil company PEMEX for an oil spill near Nanchital in Veracruz state in late December.
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