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A lack of diversity on the coffee farms
I toured several coffee-growing cooperatives in Guatemala today, and one of the surprises I encountered was the prevalence of a certain species of tree used for shade-grown coffee. It used to be in decades past that shade-grown coffee was considered better for the environment. Farmers used numerous kinds of trees to cast shade, providing some diversity. But everywhere I went today, there was ...
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Mexico adopts five-year plan for social economic development
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday presented a five-year plan, aimed at combating violence and improving administration."Mexico has the historic opportunity to launch a national transformation," Pena Nieto said at an event to announce the plan, adding that for the first time, the government has devised a development plan that includes the periodic evaluation of its ...
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New Friday night boxing series in Tijuana
Guillermo ';Memo'; Mayen of Mayen Promotions has decided to leave the comfortable confines of Las Pulgas nightclub on Revolution Ave. in the heart of downtown Tijuana, Mexico, for the Tecate Box Tour tent presently being built at the parking lot of the Caliente Racetrack. Originally set for Wednesday, May 29th, Mayen along with Zanfer Promotions have pushed up the fight card for this ...
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UPDATE 2-US panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of ...
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the United States would be installed at major U.S. airports under a plan approved by a congressional panel on ...
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Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slims TracFone Accuses Activist Group Of Orchestrating A Corporate-Backed Smear Campaign
Two Countries One Voice and its campaign against Slim in the United States of being a corporate smear campaign as opposed to a grassroots movement against the Mexican billionaire's "monopolistic practices", as the group claimed. In a complaint filed Monday with ...
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Obama Chinas Xi plan 2 days of meetings in June in California
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping early next month in California. The White House says the meeting will be Obama's first with Xi since Xi became president. The two days of high-level sessions are scheduled for June 7-8 and come as the U.S. and China confront issues of cybersecurity and North Korea's nuclear ambitions. In a statement, ...
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Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico
US civil rights activist Malcolm X (1925-1965) speaks during a rally in Washington, circa 1963. Malcolm X was later assassinated. Malcolm Shabazz, his grandson, was killed Thursday, May 9, in ...
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RedMas opening offices in Chile and Mexico
RedMas, the digital advertising arm of the Cisneros Group, has opened offices in Chile and Mexico, the company announced Monday.The new offices are part of a $2 million expansion plan that soon will have RedMas offices in Brazil and Colombia. The offices join a network of subsidiaries that include offices in Argentina, Peru and Venezuela, along with the Miami office in the United States. The ...
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Mexican women embrace natural childbirth
Mexico has the highest rate of Caesarean births in the entire Latin America. Women say they are encouraged to choose C-section births despite the risks. Some women, however, are defying the trend, and chosing a more natural form of childbirth. More recently natural birthing boot camps are becoming more popular. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Mexico ...
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Mexico Man Sets Mount Everest Record
The north face of Mount Everest (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) David Liao, a Mexican mountain climber, reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time at 4.30am yesterday. In doing so, the 33-year-old became the first person in history to scale both the northern and southern sides of the world's tallest mountain during one climbing season. Liao reached the peak of Mount Everest ...
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Mexicos peso firms sharply after Fed official comments
MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's peso firmed sharply on Monday, bouncing back from a more than three-week low, after a U.S. central bank official suggested the Federal Reserve has the appropriate level of monetary accommodation in place. ...
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Credit Suisse turns more optimistic on Brazil IPOs this year
By Guillermo Parra-Bernal, Alusio Alves and Natalia Gmez SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian companies could raise between $12 billion and $15 billion from initial public offerings this year, a sign that foreign investors are gradually returning ...
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San Diego-Tijuana To Have Binational Youth Orchestra
San Diego Young Artists Symphony (soon to be the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra) are coming together to form a binational orchestra. Organizers say it's the first such effort between the U.S. and Mexico. The music directors of the Tijuana and San Diego youth orchestras will begin meeting next month to map out their vision for the project. Rehearsals and performances will be held in San ...
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More Americans murdered in Mexico than any other country in the world
More Americans have been murdered in Mexico than in any other part of the world in the past decade. According to an Agence France Press analysis of U.S. State Department figures, at least 648 American citizens were murdered in Mexico between October 2002 and December 2012. This represents more than 40 percent of the almost 1,600 American victims worldwide over the same period. Three of the top ...
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Canadian and American believed kidnapped in Mexico report
Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8.The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the men's disappearance until five ...
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Mexican stocks sink 2 pct trading at 6-month low
MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 1:54pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Monday to a six month low, hit by concerns that local stocks were too expensive after weaker than expected growth data on Friday dampened the economic outlook for 2013. The IPC stock index sank more than 2 percent to 40,934 points, a low not seen since November ...
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Mexican national team to bring A squad to Reliant Stadium
Manchester United's Javier "El Chicharito" Hernandez, Mallorca's Giovani Dos Santos and Valencia's Andres Guardado highlight the Mexican national team roster that has been called in for El Tri's match against African champion Nigeria on May 31 at Reliant Stadium. As promised, Mexican coach Jose Manuel "Chepo" De La Torre will bring El Tri's A-Squad ...
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Mexican opposition dispute goes public threatening reforms
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena ...
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Canadian missing for nearly two weeks in Mexico
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8. The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the ...
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Mexicos Urbi defaults on interest payment
MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's third-largest homebuilder, Urbi Desarrollos, on Monday said it will not meet a $6.4 million interest payment due since last ...
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Panel Solicits Applicants For New Mexico Insurance Regulator
Former State Insurance Superintendent Chris Krahling has been named to a panel that will select New Mexico’s top insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will select the next superintendent of insurance, who starting in July will be in charge of an independent office regulating insurance rates and policies. The committee meets Tuesday in Albuquerque, and is accepting applications for ...
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COLUMN-Kochs unsightly coke mountain Kemp
By John Kemp LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Petroleum coke piled up along the banks of the Detroit River has sparked a storm of protest from local residents and environmental campaigners, who claim they are just one more problem associated with ...
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CORRECTED-REUTERS SUMMIT-Mexico will see bank reform impact in 2-3 years Banortes Ortiz
Mon May 20, 2013 11:40am EDT (Corrects attribution of quote in 8th paragraph to President Enrique Pena Nieto Mexican, not Guillermo Ortiz) By Tomas Sarmiento and Krista Hughes MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's banking reform will take two or three years to have an impact on credit and access to financial services, said the chairman of Mexico's largest locally-owned bank, Grupo ...
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RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-No change of heart on Brazil stocks despite big ...
(Repeats with no changes to text) By Krista Hughes and Walter Brandimarte MEXICO CITY/RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (Reuters) - Foreign investors flocked back to Brazil in early 2013, prompting the strongest stock market inflows in more than two ...
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Factbox Reviews for films in main competition at Cannes 2013
Film stars come to Cannes to promote themselves and their projects - so where better to launch a wry documentary bemoaning the seeming dominance of celebrity pulling-power over ...
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Mexico City launches eco-friendly and cash friendly project
Mexico City has joined a global movement that has taken many major city municipalities by storm in recent years, the eco-friendly movement of bicycle-sharing. The city joins the ranks of Montreal, Paris, Barcelona and many other major cities across Europe and the world, such as Beijing in China and Melbourne in Australia. The scheme, once rolled out in its entirety, is expected to play a part in relieving some of the burden on Mexico City’s streets.
Mexico City, the largest and richest city in Mexico, is also one of the worst for traffic jams. A recent study by IMB, the IMB Commuter Pain Study, found Mexico City and Beijing to be the two worst cities in the entire world for traffic jams, ours are among the longest and most frequent with the city getting a score of 99 out of 100 on the commuter pain index, this compared to Stockholm, which scored 15. Read more
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