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Mexicos housing boom is bust
MEXICO CITY – Arturo Sandoval, 25, a homeowner in one of Mexicos low-income developments outside the capital, commutes two hours each way to his job at a Mexico City soap factory.In the Parque San Mateo community where Sandoval bought his home from builder Desarrolladora Homex for about $29,000, neighbors play soccer in the street between rows of abandoned properties.His commute starts ...
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Mexicos most active volcano continues to emit smoke rocks
Mexico's most active volcano Popocatepetl Sunday registered 24 low-intensity eruptions and glowing rocks were seen on the rim of the crater, official sources said. The National Disaster Prevention Center (Cenapred) said on its website that the volcano, located to the south of Mexico City, caused a series of strong tremors starting from 2:37 am local time (0837 GMT) until almost 7 am (1300 ...
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Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash
The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early on Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ago.Mexican authorities raised the alert ...
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Jones Day Davis Polk Cooley Sheppard Business of Law
Jones Day said it added two new partners, Alejandro Chico and Antonio Gonzalez, to its Mexico City office, marking the fifth new hire for the office this year and bringing the total number of lawyers there to 37. Chico will join the firm's Banking & Finance practice, moving from Bufete Robles Miaja, where he was a partner in that firm's capital markets practice, according to ...
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Mexico names 23-man roster for World Cup qualifiers Confederations Cup
Mexico national team head coach Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre named a 23-man roster for his team's upcoming World Cup qualifiers, the Confederations Cup and an earlier friendly against Nigeria.Once ...
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Mexico Seeks to Ramp Up Tourism By Rebranding Drug War
The Mexican government under recently empowered President Enrique Pea Nieto has gone to great lengths to promote the nation as a rising economic contender while downplaying the disastrous war on drugs -- which, to date, has led to more than 125,000 homicides in Mexico since the bloodshed began to escalated in late 2006. From the vantage point of the Mexican citizens, this public relations ...
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Letters At the U.S.-Mexico Border Prosperity and Pollution
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Human brains are wired to make music-color connections
When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...
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Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in Malcolm Shabazz killing
In this undated composite image released by Mexico City's prosecutor's office (PGJDF) on Monday, May 13, 2013, Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, stand for their mug shot after being arrested in Mexico City. Both men were arrested in connection with last week's death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X. An official ...
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Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared
There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...
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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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