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November 20, 2009

Mexican authorities predict fewer Mexican immigrants will be back home for Christmas

Mapping Out Mexico – Navigating your way through Mexico can be tricky business sometimes – MexicoMaps.com

Mexican migrants are spending more money on taxes in the United States than on the remittances they send home to relatives, according to a new study by Mexico’s largest bank, BBVA Bancomer.

Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.

November 19, 2009

Welcome Ceremony for José Hernández Moreno, NASA Astronaut in México

Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism

Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal level

November 18, 2009

Impremedia to Outsource Editorial and Ad Page Production to Mexico

A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day

Mexico’s Juarez on path to anarchy

Experts warned on Tuesday that the rise in health problems due to obesity among Mexican children, which is considered to be an epidemic, threatens “for the first time” to reduce life expectancy rates in the country.

After two days of deliberations, on Oct. 14 the Mexican Supreme Court made public its decision that Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (governor of the state of Oaxaca) is culpable for the human rights violations that occurred in Oaxaca as a result of teacher protests and political and social unrest in May 2006-January 2007 and July of 2008.

Organizations alarmed by the increased violence against women and others in Mexico are traveling by caravan to demand justice for the victims. – The national caravan, which began in Mexico City, is part of the international Mujeres de Negro (Women in Black) campaign to protest violence against women, children and other vulnerable groups.

Remembering mail art in Mexico

Northern Mexico’s Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America’s last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

Murder rates: Cuidad Juárez deadlier than Miami in ’80s

November 16, 2009

Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – reverse remittances from Mexico

Mexican film “Cinco dias sin Nora,” directed by Mariana Chenillo, was awarded the top honor at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and also receiving awards were Spanish director Cesc Gay and his Palestinian colleague Elia Suleiman.

A total of 2.92 million Mexicans were out of work in the third quarter of this year, a figure equal to 6.2% of the nation’s workforce

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says Washington is the No. 4 source of illegal guns in Mexico.

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Mexico angered by drug lord’s spot on Forbes list – El Chapo -(same thing happened last year)

Foraging- Mercado de Dulces in Morelia, Mexico

November 13, 2009

Tacos Al Pastor: Lebanon’s Gift to Mexico

Crean memoria musical de artistas oaxaqueños – Con el título de ‘Armonía en el Zócalo’, esta noche se presentará el material discográfico que reúne a 22 talentos que dan cuenta de los nuevos actores de la música oaxaqueña

México: casi 500 muertes por AH1N1

November 12, 2009

Audi expects to see growth in Mexico, Brazil and other key markets this year despite the global crisis.

Monterrey (Mexico’s 3r-largest city) has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude. And half of Monterrey’s traffic cops were ordered to undergo more training after performing poorly on the tests. Only a bit more than a quarter were found to be completely fit for the job.

Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman – a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico – to its list of the 67 “World’s Most Powerful People”

Woman Bursts into Mexican Assembly to Press Lawmaker for Child Support

Protesting Electrical Workers Paralyze Mexican Capital

November 11, 2009

Health Net of California Expands Pioneering Cross-Border Health Plan into San Diego County – Health Net de California ofrecera un programa de salud fronterizo en el Condado de San Diego

PMDG Launches Regional Mexico Marketing Initiative

Mexico and the Crisis of a Dependent Economy – The well-known 19th century Mexican saying—”poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States”—has become more poignant today than ever in the context of the global economic crisis.

November 10, 2009

Women play a bigger role in Mexico’s drug war – Addiction, the economy and the lure of living well have sucked many into the narcotics underworld. The trend threatens the foundations of Mexican society.

Mexico, U.S. Blame Each Other After Border Crackdown Fails

An exchange program between the University of Guadalajara and the University of Alberta is at risk because Edmonton students are hesitant to study in Mexico given the ongoing drug wars in parts of the country, Mexican students say.

Juan Misael Gonzalez-Montañez, 8, of Sacramento used crayon and watercolors to create his winning entry in an artwork competition sponsored by the government of Mexico. He was one of 15 top winners out of 6,266 entries worldwide for the official 2010 Mexican calendar.

Mexico declares flood emergency in 2 south cities – A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico’s Gulf coast

Electrical Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon Government

Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows

Traveling in Mexico despite drug violence, H1N1 flu

Roaming the Riviera Maya – It’s easy to enjoy winning accommodations, scenic nature reserves, wondrous ruins and delectable cuisine without yardlong drinks.

In Queretaro, a rich and colorful past and present – A colorful past rich in Mexican history (Intrigue! Revolt!) is just part of the charm of this now-mellow colonial city.

Mexico City’s literary circle – The Centro Histórico area is the nation’s repository of rare and antique bookstores.

Mexico’s family-friendly hot spots – Consider heading to locales in Nayarit and Oaxaca, where surf, sun and inexpensive attractions have been a hit for one family of four.

November 9, 2009

Facing Economic Crisis, Citizen Organizations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico Fight Back Against Structural Adjustment

Bernardo Garza Sada, founder and former chairman of Mexico’s Grupo Alfa, died in Monterrey,

Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police

November 5, 2009

In Mexico, fears of a ‘lost generation’ – Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors

The Prevention Research Center (PRC) in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in the United States and Latin America. – will conduct a four-year, $2.8 million effort to apply and adapt evidence-based strategies for preventing heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity in the United States, Mexico and Brazil

3 doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City

November 4, 2009

Pain Of Global Downturn Persists In Mexico

U.S. Woes Cut Cash Flow From Mexican Migrants

Quepasa and Mexico’s Tourism Board Announce Social Media Marketing Initiative

Flooding after days of heavy rain along Mexico’s Gulf Coast has forced more than 44,000 people from their homes

November 2, 2009

Reeling Mexico hopes travel deals bring back the tourists

Grasshoppers? Eew! But chocolate? Yum! – The youngsters get a taste of multicultural Mexico in Oaxaca.

A little more than 1 million people work in the illegal drug trade including “around 200,000” women, according to the COCyP association of peasant organizations, based on police estimates.

The leader of a Mexican farmworkers’ organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora

Mexico’s death museum lives up to morbid name in Aguascalientes, Mexico

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

Mexico reaches record 100 extraditions to US

Ten Thousand Dives Under the Sea – Spotlight on Scuba-Mex Dive Shop in Paamul, Q.R. Mexico

October 30, 2009

Mexican Political Prisoner Gloria Arenas Released

Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa will tie the knot on Dec. 4 with airline executive Andres Conesa in a family ceremony in her native Guadalajara

October 29, 2009

As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.

Levelup.com Selected as Content Partner for Yahoo! Mexico

October 28, 2009

Paulina Rubio Named La Mujer del Año by GQ Mexico

New Perils In Mexico For U.S.-Bound Migrants

Mexico’s America Movil 3Q profits up 50.6%

Mexico’s pink taxis cater to fed-up females – In colonial city of Pueblo, these cabs don’t stop for men

We Sometimes Experience Irrational Fear Traveling to Countries Where Violence Occurs Far Away from Touristed Areas – Arthur Frommer on Mexico

Mazatlán’s Old Town Is Spry Again

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