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TweetMay 17 (Bloomberg) — Foreign investors are boosting their holdings of Mexican peso bonds at the fastest pace since October 2009 as a rally in the currency helps keep inflation in check. Overseas holdings of fixed-rated bonds jumped 8.2 percent in the past month to a record 556 billion pesos ($47 billion), according to data [...]

TweetMEXICO CITY (AP) –  Mexico goalkeeper Jose de Jesus Corona has been dropped from the national squad to defend next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup after television cameras caught him headbutting the trainer of a rival team during the league playoff semifinals. Corona, who plays for Mexico City’s Cruz Azul, was involved in a fight between [...]

TweetColom said he would go to the jungle-covered region to personally direct operations aimed at rooting out what is believed to be a Mexican drug cartel that has taken up residence in Peten. “Guatemala must face up to this aggression aimed not just at our country but at the whole region,” Colom said in an [...]

TweetIn 1964 President Adolfo López Mateos of Mexico and President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States met on the border separating their two nations to celebrate the official end of the 100-year-long dispute regarding the precise location of the international boundary. This dispute, known as the Chamizal border conflict, began around 1852 when the [...]

Tweet TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Officials say a central Florida teen apparently drowned while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. Treasure Island police say 17-year-old Miguel Vasquez was last seen alive in chest-deep water Saturday afternoon. Bad weather brought high winds and sea swelling, making it difficult for the Lake Wales boy [...]

Tweet By The Associated Press – 28 minutes ago MEXICO CITY — Mexico goalkeeper Jose de Jesus Corona has been dropped from the national squad to defend next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup after television cameras caught him headbutting the trainer of a rival team during the league playoff semifinals. Corona, who plays for Mexico City’s [...]

Tweet By Laurence Iliff Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–Mexican stocks closed slightly higher Monday as key blue chips rallied to offset weak U.S. data and euro-zone debt worries. The IPC index of leading shares gained 0.2% to 35131 points on volume of 172 million shares valued at 5.27 billion pesos ($448 million). [...]

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Tweet Strength in Mexico leads to office and growing investments in market; Mexico to serve as key hub for future expansion in Latin America Download image LEHI, Utah, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Founders of global wellness leader XANGO, LLC joined with hundreds of Mexican distributor leaders to celebrate the opening of a new [...]

TweetBY JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA MEXICO CITY—Guatemalan officials said Monday that Mexico’s most brutal drug cartel was responsible for the killing and decapitation of at least 27 people, the country’s worst massacre since the end of its civil war. Carlos Menocal, Guatemala’s interior minister, blamed the Zetas, who Mexican authorities say are also responsible for much [...]

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Tweet This month marks the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. However, with controversy continuing to swirl over the safety practices of oil companies, President Obama on Saturday announced new measures that will lead to expanded offshore drilling. The president has long said that domestic oil production is not a [...]

TweetThe day after President Obama declared that the U.S. border with Mexico is secure, three lawmen from Texas showed up at a congressional hearing and destroyed his claim. Obama was merely repeating falsehoods earlier uttered by his Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, whose repeated insistence that the border is secure was, again, proven false by [...]

Tweet Mon May 16, 2011 9:44am EDT * Says employees, contractors start returning to the project * Talks are on to increase number of diamond drills employed at the site * Shares up as much as 4 percent (Adds analyst comments in paragraphs 8 and 9, share movement) BANGALORE, May 16 (Reuters) – Canada’s Torex [...]

TweetBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press – Sun May 15, 11:57 pm ET MATEHUALA, Mexico – The customer known only as “Cesar of Huizache” had an odd request for shoemaker Dario Calderon: He showed him a cell-phone photo of a sequined cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He [...]

Tweet (AP) – 1 hour ago SAN BENITO, Guatemala (AP) — One of Guatemala’s worst massacres since the end of the country’s decades-long civil war was the work of the brutal Mexican drug cartel the Zetas, Guatemalan officials said Monday. The gang’s violent signature could be seen in the manner and style in which the [...]

TweetBrian Snyder/ReutersThe United States will open Gold Cup play against Canada on June 7 at Ford Field in Detroit. Two summers ago, Mexico humiliated the United States in the Concacaf Gold Cup final at Giants Stadium. Even though the game was played on American soil, exuberant Mexican fans outnumbered U.S. supporters by a margin of [...]

Tweet (RTTNews) - Police in Guatemala said late on Sunday that they have found 27 headless bodies in the country’s northern region bordering Mexico. According to police, the bodies found abandoned in a ranch in the northern Peten province were that of 25 men and two women. They were later identified as workers on the ranch. [...]

Tweet The Trucker News Services 5/16/2011 ARLINGTON, Va. — In comments filed Friday, American Trucking Associations said it supported the efforts of the Obama administration to implement the cross-border trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but called on regulators to address several concerns with the proposal. “ATA has long viewed free trade [...]

TweetMCALLEN, Texas — Dozens of Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when gunshots erupted around them and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. The battle between drug traffickers and the army near the city [...]

Tweet Mon May 16, 2011 7:19am EDT * Says employees, contractors start returning to the project * Talks are on to increase number of diamond drills employed at the site (Adds CEO comment, details on the project, share movement) May 16 (Reuters) – Canada’s Torex Gold Resources Inc said it has resumed exploration activities at [...]

Tweet (AP) – 5 hours ago LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Wearing a grey-felt cowboy hat, long-sleeve ivory-colored shirt and freshly laundered jeans, Dr. Arnoldo Gutierrez begins his daily rounds by walking into a dusty pen baking in the South Texas heat. “Hey, hey! Let’s go!” he hollers. “C’mon, Whitey. Come here, Red.” Gutierrez’s “patients,” addressed [...]

Tweet Some justice: Omar Estrada Luna of Los Zetas drug cartel at the Mexican Navy headquarters. Luna has been arrested in connection with some of Mexico’s recently discovered mass graves. Source: AFP MEXICAN security forces have discovered another 17 bodies in mass graves uncovered last month. The discovery brings the number of bodies recently unearthed [...]

TweetOn the other side, however, Mexico is waging a war. When President Felipe Calderon began his military efforts against the drug cartels in 2007, he did so because his own nation was essentially a captured state. Now, as cartels target civilians to undermine support for the government, Calderon is facing internal pressure to let the [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s immigration agency says it will subject officials to psychological, drug and lie detector tests in an effort to combat corruption. National Immigration Institute Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio said 40 agents are now under investigation for human rights and other abuses. He added in a Sunday news conference that the [...]

TweetThe White House changed course over the weekend on offshore oil and gas exploration, dropping some of the efforts to delay drilling permits in the wake of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama used his Saturday radio address to announce the changes, which came after Republicans in the House had [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY — MEXICO CITY-In Guatemala’s worst drug-related violence in modern times, assailants stormed a remote jungle ranch and killed 27 people, beheading 25 of them, an army spokesman said Sunday. As spotter planes flew overhead, Guatemalan soldiers raced along jungle tracks to cut off a nearby border crossing into Mexico to prevent the [...]

TweetPumas UNAM and Morelia took care of business at home Sunday, posting emphatic victories to advance to the Primera Division’s Clausura final. Pumas overcame a slow start, with goalkeeper Alejandro Palacios making three huge saves in the first 23 minutes, to topple Guadalajara, 2-0, making for a 3-1 aggregate triumph in the two-games, total-goals semifinal [...]

Tweet May 15, 2011, 11:51 GMT Washington – Citing high oil prices, US President Barack Obama Saturday ordered more exploration for oil in some areas that have traditionally been off limits, or at least contentious due to environmental concerns. ‘We should increase safe and responsible oil production here at home,’ said Obama in his pre-recorded [...]

Tweet- WWE’s SmackDown will return to the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday, August 2nd. Tickets go on sale May 21st. – Former WWE star Kurrgan appears in the new movie The Big Bang with Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg. He also will be starring in The Immortals with Mickey Rourke this coming November. [...]

TweetCrews from the 302nd Airlift Wing are home at Peterson Air Force Base after a busy month of firefighting. The reservists flew 81 missions to drop retardant ahead of flames that blackened tens of thousands of acres in Texas and Mexico. The wing’s lumbering four-engined C-130 transport planes blasted the fires from altitudes of 250 [...]

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Tweet (AP) – 10 hours ago MATEHUALA, Mexico (AP) — The customer known only as “Cesar of Huizache” had an odd request for shoemaker Dario Calderon: He showed him a cell-phone photo of a sequined cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He wanted a pair, but with longer [...]

Tweet By Deborah Young Sun May 15, 2011 8:09pm EDT CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) – Fast and dangerous, “Miss Bala” is a hair-raising actioner that thrusts a young Mexican girl into the thick of a drug war between local gangsters and U.S. narcotics agents. The setting is Baja California in Mexico, depicted as a lawless country [...]

Tweet Dozens of Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when gunshots erupted around them and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. The battle between drug traffickers and the army near the city of Monterrey [...]

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Tweet GUATEMALA CITY | Sun May 15, 2011 6:22pm EDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – At least 27 people were killed this weekend in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico in one of the worst mass killings in a generation, local police said. The bloody incident started when 200 raiders attacked the small town [...]

TweetSINCE Mexico ramped up its fight against organised crime at the end of 2006, it has made impressive progress in arresting or killing the leaders of the country’s murderous drug-trafficking “cartels”. By the end of last year, ten of the 24 most-wanted were dead or detained. On Friday, another senior villain bit the dust. But [...]

TweetClub Tijuana’s quest for the Primiera Division must wait another week. The Xolos were beaten Saturday at Irapuato in the Clausura final’s second leg, a 1-0 decision giving La Trinca — or the Strawberry Lashers — a 2-1 aggregate triumph to claim the second-tier Liga de Ascenso’s spring-season championship. That sets up two more games [...]

TweetNed Dishman/Getty ImagesRafael Marquez holding off D.C. United’s Charlie Davies. Marquez’s move to center back has solidified the Red Bulls’ defense, which allowed only three goals through league games of May 7. Rafael Marquez, the captain of Mexico’s national team, is in his second season with the Red Bulls of M.L.S. The veteran, who has [...]

TweetClick photo to enlarge Veteran television producer Raymond Telles has assembled a film version of the story that first fascinated him as a boy. Telles spent almost 12 years crafting “The Storm That Swept Mexico,” a two-hour PBS television special retelling the epic story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first major political and [...]

TweetThe best way to illustrate the importance of next month’s biennial CONCACAF Gold Cup is to review what transpired for the U.S. men’s national soccer team as result of its 2007 title: By winning the tournament, the Americans earned a spot in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, where they upset No. 1 [...]

Tweet With gasoline prices still hovering near $4 per gallon, the U.S. House of Representatives decided last week that it was time to open up new oil drilling offshore. At first, President Barack Obama opposed the House measures, but he did a partial about-face Saturday, announcing that he was taking steps to increase oil production [...]

TweetSAN FERNANDO, Mexico — This community, whose pits full of corpses have become emblematic of the barbarity of the drug war, wants its soul back. “It’s human nature to categorize us by the tragedy, the bloodshed, the violence that has been suffered here,” said Tomás Gloria Requena, mayor of this pastoral town of 57,000. “I [...]

TweetIn an attempt to combat rising gas prices and a dependency on foreign oil, Rep. Robert Hurt, R-5th District, voted in favor of three energy bills recently known as the American Energy Initiative. A supporter of offshore drilling, Hurt believes that these bills can lead to a reduction in gas prices and create new jobs [...]

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Tweet AUSTIN, Texas — A federal marshal says a fugitive Hindu guru convicted of molesting two girls on his Central Texas ashram is now believed to be hiding in Central or South America. An arrest warrant was issued for Prakashanand Saraswati (prah-KAHSH’-ah-nahnd sah-rah-SWAH’-tee) after he failed to appear for his March 8 sentencing in San [...]

Tweet OAXACA, Mexico — Violence motivated by an electoral dispute between indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has left at least eight people dead. State authorities say the violence occurred near the town of Santiago Choapan, about six hours from the state capital. A mayoral election is planned for five municipalities in the [...]

Tweet On Friday night, the WWE held a live event in Mexico City, Mexico, on the third stop of their “Tour of Mexico”. The event marked the return of Sin Cara to his hometown. Formerly known as “Mistico”, Sin Cara was a huge star in Mexico and signed with the WWE in February. He received the [...]

TweetMcALLEN — Spillover violence from Mexico and the politically charged rhetoric that accompanies it took center stage again last week, with President Barack Obama making his first visit to the border since taking office and local law enforcement leaders testifying on Capitol Hill. Prior to Obama’s speech Tuesday in El Paso, Democrat Silvestre Reyes, the [...]

Tweet Related Citing continued unemployment and the rising cost of goods across the U.S., including continued high gasoline prices, President Obama on Saturday declared plans to increase oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska.  “Without a doubt, one of the biggest burdens over the last few months has been the price of [...]

Tweet May 14, 2011MAKING THE TEAMMarquez on Mexico Gold Cup squad Red Bulls central defender Rafa Marquez was the lone MLS player named to the Mexican team for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.Linda Cuttone/Sports Vue Images As a expected, Red Bulls central defender Rafa Marquez on Friday was called into the Mexican National Team for the [...]

TweetSource: PWInsider.com Chris Masters beat Jack Swagger. Percy Watson beat Zack Ryder.  R-Truth attacked Percy after the match and R-Truth cut a heel promo.- R-Truth beat Evan Bourne. Mason Ryan beat Primo. US Champion Kofi Kingston and Tag Team Champion Big Show beat Alberto Del Rio and CM Punk.  Del Rio got a big pop [...]

TweetObama said today that the measures “make good sense” and will help reduce U.S. consumption of imported oil in the long term. But he acknowledged anew that they won’t help to immediately bring down gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon in many parts of the country. The oil industry praised Obama’s move as a first [...]

Tweet Walter Shintani/LatinContent/Getty Images The Soumaya Museum in Mexico City was designed by Carlos Slim’s son-in-law and houses Slim’s collection of more than 65,000 pieces. It is dominated by works from European and Mexican artists. In Mexico City, the world’s richest man has just opened a new museum to showcase his extensive European and Mexican [...]

TweetPresident Barack Obama Saturday announced plans to expand domestic oil production, including holding a lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico this year and two in 2012, and extending leases in the Gulf that were affected by the drilling moratorium in the wake of the BP oil spill to allow operators more time to meet [...]

Tweet AP2011 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks April 19 at the Governor’s Volunteer Awards luncheon in Phoenix. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wasn’t laughing when President Obama stood at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and joked that Republican lawmakers who won’t support a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system until the border is secured won’t be happy [...]

Tweet WASHINGTON LG Electronics Inc. said Friday that it will contest a finding that U.S. rivals such as Whirlpool Corp. are being hurt by imports of bottom-mount refrigerators from South Korea and Mexico. The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday that there is a “reasonable indication” that the U.S. appliance market is being materially [...]

Tweet * Calls for annual lease sales at Alaskan reserve * Still opposed to drilling in wildlife refuge (Updates with new information throughout) By Jeff Mason and Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama, under pressure from Republicans and the public to bring down gasoline prices, announced new measures on Saturday [...]

Tweet WASHINGTON — Facing continued public unhappiness over gas prices, President Barack Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. Obama said Saturday that the measures [...]

TweetThe Mexican government sent 500 soldiers to Tamaulipas Thursday to help confront ongoing violence caused by the Zetas criminal organization and the Gulf cartel. The two groups have been locked in a fierce rivalry to control drug routes, and cases of murder, extortion and kidnapping are on the rise. The global intelligence firm Stratfor is [...]

Tweet By Eric Dexheimer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type Prakashanand Saraswati, the Hindu guru who disappeared in early March after being convicted of molesting two teenage girls on the ashram he founded, is no longer thought to be hiding just across the U.S.-Mexico border but may have moved south [...]

TweetSteve Lopez/LatinContent/GettyImagesMexico Forward Javier Hernandez Jose Manuel “Chepo” de la Torre has whittled his roster to 23 players for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, and England-based forward Carlos Vela and Pachuca defender/midfielder Paul Aguilar are not among them. They’re the biggest omissions for El Tri heading into the June 5-25 regional nations championship, which will wrap [...]

TweetHouse votes Democratic Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree Vote 1: Environmental reviews for gulf drilling permits: The House has rejected an amendment sponsored by Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., to the Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act (HR 1229). The amendment would have required the interior secretary to consider environmental and safety [...]

Tweet(Source: Boston Herald)By Mackubin Thomas Owens On several recent occasions, President Barack Obama has claimed that in 2010, U.S. oil production reached its highest level in seven years and that oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high. “So any notion that my administration has shut down oil production [...]

Tweet Fri May 13, 2011 5:04pm EDT * Global growth outlook, euro zone jitters weigh * Brazil’s Bovespa down 1.2 pct, Mexico’s IPC off 0.33 (Recasts, adds comments and closing prices) SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) – Latin American stocks fell to their lowest since September on Friday as concerns about the global economy [...]

Tweet Fri May 13, 2011 1:41pm EDT * ITC issues preliminary vote in favor of Whirlpool * ITC finds imports from Korea, Mexico hurt Whirlpool * LG says will “aggressively contest” in final phase * Whirlpool says pleased with ITC’s preliminary findings * Whirlpool shares up 1.7 percent (Adds LG, Whirlpool reaction, background, shares) By [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–Mexican stocks closed lower Friday, tracking their U.S. counterparts, as euro-zone debt worries dominated market sentiment going into the weekend. The IPC index of leading issues lost 0.3% to 35045 points on volume of 153.3 million shares worth 4.73 billion pesos ($403 million). The IPC ended the week around 0.5% lower, [...]

Tweet Sediment-laden water pours into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. Credit: Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Team.  As you can see from the image above, a lot more than water comes down a river. The Mississippi and its distributary, the Atchafalaya River, carry an average of 230 million tons of soil [...]

Tweet Mexican soldiers have arrested the man who authorities say replaced slain drug lord Ignacio Coronel as a ranking leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, the military said Friday. Soldiers captured Martin Beltran Coronel in Zapopan, an upscale suburb of the western city of Guadalajara. Authorities described him as a nephew of Coronel, one of [...]

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Tweet By Cyntia Barrera Diaz MEXICO CITY | Fri May 13, 2011 5:25pm EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The world’s richest man, Carlos Slim, appears to face another probe from Mexico’s competition watchdog although a separate court ruling is fanning the tycoon’s hopes of finally breaking into the television market. The Federal Competition Commission said [...]

TweetThe disturbances started Wednesday with some 200 inmates rioting and throwing rocks to complain about service in the cafeteria, and only ended hours later when soldiers and marines were called in, El Universal reports. (See video report below). Authorities said that the riot was merely a pretext to kill an inmate who went by the [...]

Tweet By Jeff Bennett Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DETROIT (Dow Jones)–Chrysler Group LLC confirmed Friday it will idle plants and cut overtime in its ongoing effort to conserve parts following the production disruption caused by the Japanese … Artículos relacionados Sufría esquizofrenia mujer que se suicidó en Metro Jet Star rollercoaster meets wrecking crew [...]

Tweet A United States Border Patrol agent checks an area under a bridge crossing between the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas November 14, 2010. El Paso lies across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a violent city on the frontlines of Mexico’s war against drug cartels. Picture taken November 14, 2010. The [...]

TweetU2′s Bono Meets With Mexican President Felipe Calderon to Discuss Drug Violence, Poverty, Global Warming and the Upcoming G-20 Published May 13, 2011 | Fox News Latino Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet AP Bono and Adam Clayton from the band U2 during a concert from the “360º” tour in Azteca Stadium in Mexico City [...]

TweetFrom 2008 to mid-2010, prosecutors seized only $65.1 million in money laundering proceeds, mainly in dollars, but with smaller amounts in pesos, euros and gold, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press under a freedom-of-information request. In the same time, they won only 37 convictions in money-laundering cases, out of 150 suspects arrested or [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY | Fri May 13, 2011 12:20pm EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers have captured a top member of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid in western Mexico as the government tries to chase down the gang’s leader and most-wanted trafficker Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman. Suspected drug boss Martin Beltran Coronel, a cousin [...]

Tweet By Elinor Comlay MEXICO CITY | Fri May 13, 2011 9:25am EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican lawmakers are sharpening their knives to take on the country’s oligopolistic business elite — with the world’s richest man Carlos Slim at the top of the hit list. The battle looks set to play out alongside 2012 [...]

TweetTelefonos de Mexico SAB said a court ruling imposed a 24-hour deadline for a government decision on whether the nation’s largest phone carrier can offer video services, shorter than the 15 days the government had expected. The 24-hour time limit starts once the government receives notification of the ruling, according to documents released yesterday on [...]

Tweet At Large Drug Running in Place By George H. Wittman on 5.13.11 @ 6:07AM There’s been an interesting development in the actions Mexico has undertaken to control its very lucrative illicit drug industry. The Mexican authorities have announced they will compensate informants to the level of 25% of funds or property value that are [...]

Tweet By Anthony Boadle WASHINGTON | Fri May 13, 2011 5:49am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mexico has launched an ad campaign to counter its image as a dangerous country and the negative impact on its vital tourist industry of U.S. travel alerts warning Americans of violence south of the border. “Those travel alerts that were [...]

Tweet(05-13) 04:00 PDT Mexico City — Mexican authorities fired seven regional directors of the country’s immigration agency Thursday following allegations that its officers in northern Mexico had delivered Central American migrants to kidnapping gangs. Salvador Beltran del Rio, who heads the National Migration Institute, described the firings as part of a wider effort to weed [...]

TweetThe man King County prosecutors say killed and buried three co-workers in Kent is thought to also be suspected in a slaying-dismemberment in Mexico. Filing charges Thursday, prosecutors contend Alberto Avila-Cardenas bound, killed and buried Jesus Avila-Bejar, 25, Yazmani Quezada-Ortiz, 26, and Cristian Rangel, 19, at a Kent nursery in December, then avoided detection for [...]

Tweet It’s not uncommon to find wide disparities between the conventional wisdom among Washington elites and the reality experienced daily beyond the west bank of the Potomac River. There is, however, a Grand Canyon’s worth of difference between Washington and the rest of the country on the matter of border security with Mexico. President Obama [...]

Tweet WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday underlined the close trade ties between the U.S. and Mexico at a gala dinner in which he was awarded, together with Mexico’s central bank chief, a prize for civil servants who have helped … Artículos relacionados Sufría esquizofrenia mujer que se suicidó en Metro Jet [...]

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Tweet By Anthony Boadle WASHINGTON | Thu May 12, 2011 9:22pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mexico has launched an ad campaign to counter its image as a dangerous country and the negative impact on its vital tourist industry of U.S. travel alerts warning Americans of violence south of the border. “Those travel alerts that were [...]

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Tweet Mexico City (CNN) — A popular Mexican poet who led a massive peace march in the nation’s capital last weekend says he’s chosen a new battleground for his fight for justice: Ciudad Juarez. Javier Sicilia said Thursday that he is planning a June 10 protest in the violence-plagued city, which shares a border with [...]

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Tweet MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexican businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego says prospects for his mobile phone concern Grupo Iusacell are looking up as the company aims to step up competition with telecommunications heavyweight Carlos Slim, as it has capital to invest and a new partner on board. Salinas Pliego, a billionaire who controls Iusacell, television [...]

TweetHouse Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded recent congressional and judicial efforts to increase offshore energy production. On May 11, the House passed H.R. 1229, Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act. The bill forces the Secretary of Interior, within 30 days, to issue drilling permits on the dozens of [...]

Tweet A federal jury has found a California company and two of its senior executives guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying bribes, including a $300,000 red Ferrari, to two officials from a state-owned electric utility company in Mexico. Lindsey Manufacturing Co. Chief Executive Officer Keith Lindsey and Chief Financial Officer Steve [...]

TweetPhotos you won’t see on the evening news: Border residents protest Obama, open borders chaos Here is a photo, taken in El Paso, TX on Tuesday as President Obama was mocking Texans on immigration there. El Paso is at one end of the Texas-Mexico border, while McAllen is down south on the other end. Both [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon has risen to the defense of his top law enforcement officer, portraying him as indispensable to Mexico’s war on drug trafficking despite a surge of accusations against him, ranging from claims that he has staged raids for the news media to questions about how he could afford a [...]

Tweet Thu May 12, 2011 5:54pm EDT * Commodities rebound helps contain recent losses * America Movil closes at lowest since March 2010 * Peru stocks gain as Fujimori takes lead in poll * Brazil Bovespa up 0.36, Mexico IPC off 0.62 pct By Michael O’Boyle and Silvio Cascione MEXICO CITY/SAO PAULO, May 12 (Reuters) [...]

Tweet By Amy Guthrie Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–Mexico’s peso reversed course Thursday afternoon to close stronger against the greenback as equities turned positive in the U.S. and crude futures shaved some of their losses. Infosel quoted the peso closing … Artículos relacionados Sufría esquizofrenia mujer que se suicidó en Metro Jet [...]

Tweet MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)–Mexican stocks closed lower on Thursday, as most blue chips were unable to stand up to worse-than-expected industrial production data locally and to retail sales numbers in the U.S. that also fell slightly short. The IPC index of leading issues lost 0.6% to 35161 points on volume of 228 million shares [...]