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Cruz Azul America to meet in Clausura final
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico City rivals Cruz Azul and America will meet in the final of Mexico's first division Clausura tournament after victories in weekend semifinals.Javier Orozco scored twice in the opening 25 minutes as Cruz Azul defeated Santos 2-1 on Sunday for a 5-1 aggregate victory, while America's 2-1 win over Monterrey on Saturday gave them a 4-3 aggregate win.America would ...
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From Mexico City to a bus-turned-classroom in Hodgkins
Bieniek shared the story of Amelia, a woman from Mexico who moved to California expecting a house on the ocean and palm trees. In reality, the Desert Palms apartment complex where her brother lives isn’t as nice as it sounded.Amelia sleeps on a couch in the dumpy, windowless apartment and finds a job as a maid, which she doesn’t like at first. But she works hard and gets promoted to ...
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Nestle invests USD130 mn in Mexico plant
Mexico City, May 20 : Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto inaugurated a 1.6-billion-peso (USD130-million) expansion of a Nestle instant coffee factory in the central city of ...
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As trade with Mexico expands companies flock to Santa Teresa
Santa Teresa's industrial park is booming because of trade with Mexico, particularly serving the maquila industry. Construction of the $400 million Union Pacific railroad intermodal facility is seen under way earlier this month. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque ...
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GDP growth in 1Q13 tops expectations in Mexico
GDP growth in Mexico in the first quarter came out above our expectations, but still registered a 2.2% YoY growth rate, the lowest since 2009. Meanwhile, in Colombia, March manufacturing and retail numbers produced a mixed picture, although we expect a decisive recovery in April. Today all eyes will be on 1Q13 growth in Chile, expected to show a slowdown in domestic ...
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The Giant Pandas of Mexico Citys Rewarding Chapultepec Park
), where its habitat has been greatly reduced. Don’t let this bear’s cute and cuddly appearance fool you, as pandas have been known to attack people, out of sheer ...
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Mexico Guatemala collaborate to strengthen border security
Mexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July 27, 2011. (Xinhua/David de la ...
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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
To the Editor: ...
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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 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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