A game in the park turned deadly Thursday when teenager Denisse Guadalupe Salinas Davila was swept away by a strong current in a open drainage canal.

Passengers on a route 24 city bus rose to defend their driver against what they considered an unfair traffic fine.

And the losers are ... the helpless bus passengers who travel regularly on route 380, affectionately known as the “puerco-ochenta.”

To make the point that ”streets are not only for cars,” a group of activists set up shop for about four hours on an 8x8 meter space on the sidewalk and inner lane of Avenida Chapuletepc (at the corner of Lopez Cotilla) last weekend, where they played loteria (lottery), pelota, read books, relaxed in a hammock, ate and sunbathed.

A surgeon accused of charging patients at a public hospital for liver transplants has been released after four days of house arrest.