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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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Search under way for missing Canadian man 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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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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Latin America should weigh options to tame currencies UN
By Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Currency strength due to stimulus measures in the developed world is currently Latin America's Achilles' heel, though the region's macroeconomic management is a bright spot, the head of the United ...
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Slims America Movil says to buy Start Wireless Group in U.S
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tracfone Wireless, the U.S. unit of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's phone company America Movil, has made a deal to acquire the assets of U.S. mobile virtual network operator Start Wireless Group, the company said on Monday.America Movil said in a statement that Start Wireless had around 1.4 million subscribers and offered pre-paid plans for voice, messaging and ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Brazil stocks sink following weak earnings
* Brazilian companies posted avg 12.3 pct drop in Q1 income * Expiration of share options leaves Bovespa volatile * Brazil Bovespa falls 0.76 pct, Mexico IPC down 0.38 pct By Danielle Assalve SAO PAULO, May 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian stocks dropped on Monday as investors reevaluated their positions in local shares following a disappointing first-quarter earnings season. Mexico's IPC index ...
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Missing B.C. man feared kidnapped in Mexico
METRO VANCOUVER -- The family of a Coquitlam man who went missing in Mexico is desperately seeking information about what they now believe is a ...
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Mexican gets 3 years for smuggling heroin to Texas
George Bush Intercontinental Airport . She arrived on a United Airlines flight from Quito, Ecuador, and was then heading to Newark, N.J. Cabanillas-Torres said she was paid $4,000 to transport two suitcases with the drugs to Newark to an unidentified contact. The heroin was smuggled inside the walls of the bags. Cabanillas-Torres, who was sentenced Friday, faces possible deportation ...
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Want to retire on the beach Mexico talks of liberalizing land sales
Supporters say the change could help Mexico compete with Central America for US retirees seeking spots in the sun. But could it hurt Mexican access to prime real ...
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UPDATE 3-Campbell Soup beats Street estimate raises outlook
Mon May 20, 2013 9:50am EDT By Martinne Geller May 20 (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings and raised its full-year forecast on Monday as strong soup sales more than offset falling drink sales. The robust results were a sign that a turnaround plan led by Chief Executive Denise Morrison was working. The plan includes revamping Campbell's offerings with ...
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Kimco Realty Completes the Sale of a Nine-Property Mexican Shopping Center Portfolio
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kimco Realty Corp. ( ) today announced it has closed on the sale of a nine-property Mexican shopping center portfolio to a local real estate operator for a gross sales price of 3.35 billion Mexican pesos (US$274 million), including 573 million Mexican pesos (US$47 million) of mortgage debt. Kimco held a 47.6 percent interest in this portfolio ...
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Week two of Cannes film festival gets off to explosive start
Mon May 20, 2013 9:14am EDT * Cop-assassin action movie marks festival's halfway point * Twenty films competing for top Cannes prize on Sunday * Polanski, Soderbergh films set to premiere this week By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 20 (Reuters) - Japanese director Takashi Miike got the final week of the Cannes film festival off to an explosive start on Monday, with big budget cop thriller ...
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RPT-Fitch U.S. CREL CDO Delinquencies Remain in Holding Pattern
Mon May 20, 2013 9:03am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) U.S. CREL CDO late-pays remained flat in the month of April at 13.2%, according to the latest index results from Fitch Ratings. Only one new delinquency was reported in the month. This newly matured balloon B-note is secured by a full service hotel located in Los Cabos, Mexico. Further, ...
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Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location
Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...
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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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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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STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Go with the flow dont fight the market - CIMB
Singapore's quarterly corporate results season shows that earnings downgrades are coming from most of the externally exposed sectors, CIMB said, and cut its ratings on commodities and transport sectors back to 'underweight', while raising ...
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Tijuana Where the world’s migrants wait
The Rev. Saul Montiel, a U.S. - Mexico border missionary, distributes health kits at the Plaza el Bordo in Tijuana on May 7. UMNS photos by Kathleen ...
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Concacaf Football - Cruz Azul to meet America in Mexican final
Cruz Azul beat nine-man Santos Laguna 2-1 with two goals from striker Javier Orozco, setting up a Mexican Clausura championship final against ...
San Diego Digest
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San Diego home to important wildlife refuge and treatment group
San Diego is home to an important wildlife group helping to balance the disorder created through the city’s rapid growth over the last few years in a part of the country that previously belonged to the wild, but it needs the constant help of the public.
San Diego is a major city, the eighth biggest in the US and second largest in California and the County Seat of San Diego County. Its economy is supported by several major industries such as defense, manufacturing, real estate and tourism and yet the 1.3 million people who live here share their city with a number of species of wildlife that have been displaced, endangered and disrupted in various ways by the ongoing growth and development in the city. Read more
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