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Mexico’s 400000 Abandoned Homes Draw Venture Capital
Mexico's attempt to solve the country's housing shortage by constructing millions of new homes far from city centers has crippled the ...
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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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Mexico calls on stars for exhibition against Nigeria
Manchester United forward Javier "El Chicharito" Hernandez, Mallorca midfielder Giovani Dos Santos and Valencia midfielder Andres Guardado highlight the Mexican national team roster that has been called in for the match against Nigeria on May 31 at Reliant Stadium. As promised, coach Jose Manuel "Chepo" De La Torre will use Mexico's A squad in preparation for three ...
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Mexico buys 9 more LNG cargos from BP Trafigura
MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's state electricity company CFE announced on Monday the purchase of nine shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for delivery through 2014 from British oil firm BP ...
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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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Vatican Mexicos folk Death Saint is blasphemous
A man carries two statues of the folk saint Santa Muerte, or Death Saint, in Mexico City in 2009. Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills, Associated ...
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EverSpark CEO to be Keynote Speaker at 5th International INVEST Domaining Internet Marketing Conference in Mexico City
Jason Hennessey will be a featured keynote speaker at the 5th International INVEST Domaining & Internet Marketing Conference in Mexico City. EverSpark is an Atlanta-based search engine optimization ...
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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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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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South American Football - Mexico prepare to try and avoid World Cup humiliation
Having backed coach Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre, struggling Mexico need to show improvement in next month's make-or-break World Cup qualifiers or they risk missing out on the 2014 finals in ...
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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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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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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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