He told the newspaper Noroeste that he understands the authorities are looking to clean up Mazatlan’s image because the victim was a Canadian tourist, but argues they can do that without charging him with attempted murder.

Paul Giles said doctors in Mexico revived his sister, Sheila Nabb, three days after she suffered a brutal beating at a luxury hotel on the country’s northwest coast.

“She has a long road of recovery ahead of her, but we all know that Sheila will pull through this with the support of everyone she has ever met, and many that have never met her,” Mr. Giles wrote in an email.

The 37-year-old woman had her cheek and other facial bones broken in the attack, and was found in a pool of blood early Saturday at the Hotel Riu Emerald in Mazatlan.

Her brother says in an e-mail that when she awoke on Monday she wasn’t able to speak as doctors had wired her mouth shut.

But Mr. Giles says she recognized her husband, Andrew Nabb, and his father, and was responsive.

“Andrew’s father told me last night that he was amazed at his son’s disposition through this traumatic event and described Andrew as a ‘pillar,’” Mr. Giles said. “It just goes to show exactly how much he truly loves her.”

The family has established a trust fund to help pay for medical expenses not covered by health insurance.

Mr. Giles said his sister is scheduled to undergo facial reconstructive surgery Wednesday or Thursday.

Canada’s official travel warning for Mexico includes the Mazatlan area, where there’s been a surge in violence related to organized crime.

The incident is the latest report of violence involving Canadians visiting Mexico in recent weeks.

The body of Ximena Osequeda, a Vancouver resident and University of British Columbia student, was found last month partly buried on a beach in Huatulco, south of Acapulco.

Robin Wood, 67, of Salt Spring Island, B.C., was killed in January when he confronted two suspects who tried to rob a friend’s home in Melaque, south of Puerto Vallarta.

The six suspects and children, aged between two months and two years, were held in the past week in western Mexico, said a spokesman for the attorney general’s office in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. “Three people were provisionally detained on Friday and three others were taken in on Monday,” Lino Gonzalez told AFP.

The poll, conducted by Consulta Mitofsky, showed the former governor from the populous State of Mexico garnering 42 percent support when compared to the other two top candidates, a dip from the last survey in November when he received 44.6 percent.

Bruce Beresford-Redman’s attorney said the onetime “Survivor” producer has decided not to appeal a Los Angeles federal court ruling upholding his extradition to Mexico.

“He feels he is not going to prevail on appeal and he’d like to get moving on proving his innocence,” said attorney Richard Hirsch.

He said the producer could be sent to Mexico within 60 days following review of the extradition request by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Beresford-Redman, 40, is being held in a Los Angeles federal prison.

Monica Beresford-Redman, 42, disappeared from a Cancun resort where the couple was vacationing with their two children last year. Her body was found stuffed in a sewer cistern.

“He is innocent and it is his hope that the court in Mexico will assure that he receives a fair trial in which, he is confident, he will be exonerated,” Hirsch said.

The effort reflects “a new strategic approach” that includes “a number of new multi-purpose aerial assets equipped with the latest surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities,” according to a statement from the departments of Homeland Security and Defense.

Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga, considered one of the “37 most dangerous criminals” in Mexico, was arrested Monday in the city of Cordoba, the secretariat said.

Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, had his first major stumble of the campaign season when he couldn’t name three books that he had read.

Violence has dropped along the U.S. border, with Ciudad Juarez, once considered the most violent city in the world, seeing a 35 percent decline in homicides this year.

That good news is balanced by bad news in Guadalajara, Culiacan and Veracruz, where the Sinaloa cartel, whose bulwark has always been Mexico’s Pacific coast, and the Zetas, a violent gang that originally was created to protect the Gulf cartel along the Gulf of Mexico coast, are locked in a spiraling struggle that’s seen each gang invade the other’s territory.

The national statistics agency on Tuesday said gross
domestic product rose 1.3 percent in the third
quarter from the second on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Manufacturing grew 0.54 percent, less than half the pace
seen in the second quarter, while the services sector expanded at a 1.63 percent clip, the fastest since the third quarter in 2009.

Analysts saw the slower manufacturing growth as a
reflection of weaker global growth. Economists think Mexico’s central bank could soon cut interest rates if Europe’s debt crisis deepens a global economic slowdown.

“In the services sector we see that once manufacturing
improves, employment eventually picks up and helps domestic growth,” said Gabriel Casillas, an economist at JPMorgan in Mexico City.

“The problem is going to be next year. With the global
deceleration, Mexico will grow only a little.” The government expects growth to slow to 3.5 percent in
2012 from 4.0 percent this year, which President Felipe
Calderon said the economy was still on track to reach.

“Until now the Mexican economy, even with everything that’s been happening globally, is growing at an annual rate of 4 percent and we expect to end (this year) at at least that rate,” Calderon said.The pace of quarterly growth in the third quarter beat
analysts’ expectations, according to the median forecast in a Reuters poll.Inflation in Mexico is muted, hovering near the central bank’s 3-percent target rate, while the economic picture is uncertain — two conditions that often prompt central banks to
cut borrowing rates.

But the Mexican peso has slipped against the U.S. dollar as the European debt crisis worsened. Mexico’s peso slumped the most since the 2008 financial crisis during the third quarter, and it now trades near a low of more than two years.