VANGUARDIA, EXCELSIOR, MILENIO, INFORMADOR (Mexico) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – Authorities in Mexico were busy Tuesday trying to determine if one of the country’s most feared drugpins had been killed over the weekend in a firefight with military forces. The showdown took place Sunday at a crossroads in the northeastern Mexican city of Coahuila, when the […]
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SANTIAGO – The U.S. Federal Reserve’s recently announced stimulus package, designed to strengthen the American economy, offered a clear reminder of the huge gap that exists today between Mexico and the rest of Latin America. While Mexico enthusiastically applauded the Fed’s decision to begin pumping $40 billion per month into the U.S. economy through the […]
EL NACIONAL, LA JORNADA (Mexico) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – What if that kidney you needed for a transplant showed up, but the surgeon didn’t? That scenario is too often a reality in Mexico, says Arturo Dib Kuri, the director of the country’s National Transplant Center (CENATRA). Dib Kuri warned that Mexico loses around 20 percent […]
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Fire At Mexican Gas Plant Kills 26
LA JORNADA (Mexico), CNN (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – An explosion followed by a fire at a gas plant in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas has killed at least 26 people, reports La Jornada. Mexico’s state oil company Pemex said the fire broke out at around lunch time Tuesday outside the […]
-Analysis- SANTIAGO – If Mitt Romney’s Mexican father had been deported or had not been able to enter the United States in July 1912, the Republican candidate would not have been born in Detroit in March 1947, Bain Capital would not have existed and, most probably, the citizens of the state of Massachusetts would not […]
BRASILIA – There’s a strange section on Walmart Brazil’s website, strange at least for a retailer. It’s not the usual invitation to apply for a job, “Work with us,” but an invitation to make real estate deals with the huge multinational company. “If you own land or a building where it would be possible to […]
MEXICO CITY – Alfredo, an Argentine in his 30s who lives in Madrid, swears he will never drink tequila again. His Mexican friends tell him that what he had was not the real tequila, their homeland’s national drink. Still, he insists, with the look of someone who has stared the devil straight in the eyes, […]
EL DIARO SINEMBARGO, EL UNIVERSAL (Mexico), AP Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – Though victory congratulations for his rival continue to arrive from world leaders, Mexico’s leftist challenger for President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is conceding nothing as evidence of voter fraud in last weekend’s election has led to a parital recount of the ballots. Protesters in […]
Mexico’s President-Elect Enrique Peña Nieto is a handsome guy. Stand him arm-in-arm with his second wife, actress Angélica Rivera, aka “La Gaviota,” and it all gets quite stunning.
Worldcrunch EL DIARIO, EL INFORMADOR (Mexico) L.A. TIMES (USA) MEXICO CITY – Though his main challenger has yet to concede defeat, Enrique Peña Nieto appears set to become Mexico’s next President, which would mark a return to power after 12 years for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Mexico’s federal elections commission is reporting that […]
As Mexico goes to the polls to elect a new president, a visit to Xalapa, a city that once attracted cultural elites and foreign university students –until the country’s bloody drug war brought it to its knees.
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Is This The Man To Clean Up Mexico?
Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico is “a referendum between honesty and corruption,” says leftist underdog candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
DIARIO DEL SUR (Mexico) ARRIAGA – The impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas couldn’t be less hospitable to the many Central American migrants who cross over from Guatemala in search of better opportunities up north. In the border town of Arriaga, criminals prey on the new arrivals, as do coyotes (people smugglers) and even local authorities, […]
Editorial: Whoever is “lucky” enough to win Mexico’s upcoming presidential election will inherit a gruesome drug war that has already killed some 55,000. Just this week, 49 headless corpses turned up near the northern city of Mo
Drug wars, poverty and organized crime combine to help Latin America dominate the list of most deadly cities on earth. Add in the U.S., and the Americas count for almost all of the top 50.
In northern Mexico’s Comarca Lagunera region, rising arsenic levels in the groundwater are leaving many residents sick and disabled. The culprit? Widespread dairy farming, which is sucking the area’s aquifers dry. Those who can’
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Mexico, one of the world’s most Catholic countries. But other religions are gaining ground, especially in the state of Chiapas, where even Islam has made inroads. Adopting a different religion, however, can be ris
Mexico’s bloody drug wars could mean new opportunities for private military companies like XE Services, better known as Blackwater, which became infamous in Iraq. Latin America provides such firms with both quality recruits and new business opportunities.
It’s no secret that Mexicans are crazy about fútbol, aka, soccer. But there’s also growing interest in the kind of football played north of the border, where local teams have loyal supporters, and fans who make pilgrimages to Dallas and San Diego for NFL
Op-Ed: The governing PAN made history last weekend by becoming the first major Mexican party to select a female presidential candidate. Although PAN trails in the polls, Josefina Vázquez Mota – a conservative deputy – could certainly shake things up ahead
Analysis: Elections are scheduled this year in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela. In Mexico, the centrist PRI is favored to regain control of the government. In Venezuela, Chávez is looking to hang on to power – health permitting.
Massive protests, economic worries and Mother Nature made 2011 a particularly turbulent year. Latin America was hardly exempt. Hugo Chávez came down with cancer. Dilma Rousseff took on government corruption. And in Mexico, a bloody drug war killed thousan
From the Philippines to Mexico, things like extreme poverty, topography and security problems often make traditional banking a serious challenge. Global cell phone penetration, however, has opened up a new option: mobile banking.
Famous for its traffic and pollution, Mexico City is joining the green revolution, urging residents to swap their cars for bicycles and walking shoes. On Sundays, pedestrians have preference downtown. The city also boasts a European-style bike system call
Once bustling with tourists, the port city of Veracruz has become a new battleground for drug cartels. The arrival of the mysterious Mata-Zetas (Zeta Killers) has left hundreds dead, scared off visitors and raised questions about just how much the local g
In Mexico City, the Material Girl is getting into the groove – business wise – with an upscale gym called Hard Candy. Madonna may soon expand her exercise-oriented endeavor to Russia, with branches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
In recent weeks, Mexican authorities have extracted body after body from a series of clandestine graves in the northern state of Tamaulipas. Now comes the challenge of matching the remains to the country’s growing number of drug war disappearances.
Mexico City judge pulls from theaters a controversial documentary about legal system after a witness featured in the film files a complaint. EYES INSIDE – LATIN AMERICA It is a fitting irony that Nicolás Vale, director of the highly acclaimed documentary “Presumed Guilty,” an account about the flaws of Mexico’s legal system, has wound up […]
A suspected Mexican drug trafficker is charged with last year’s barroom shooting of Cabañas, one of Latin American soccer’s top strikers. Mexican police (Scazon) EYES INSIDE – LATIN AMERICA When soccer star was shot in the head at a Mexico City nightclub last year, it seemed the whole of Latin America gasped in collective horror. […]