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Hurricane Dean emerged in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, where it could regain some of the punch it lost as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula after slamming onto Mexico's Caribbean coast as a monstrous category five storm. Hurricane Dean slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades. It lashed remote Mayan villages as it raced across the Yucatan Peninsula to the heart of Mexico's oil industry. Most of Mexico's offshore oil and gas production shut down Tuesday as a weakened Hurricane Dean swirled into the Gulf of Mexico. Skeleton crews kept oil flowing near the central coast, where Dean was expected to make landfall as a stronger storm Wednesday. WASHINGTON -- As of this writing, the three-way summit between the leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico is only beginning, so one can only imagine what new "triumphs" will emerge from these negotiations, especially with our eternally troubled border-crossing neighbor to the south.
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