Friday 18th May, 2012

• Journalist kidnapped and killed in northern Mexico

  Associated Press

  MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter was found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at ...

• Mexican consulate steps up security

  General Sources

  May 18, 2012 ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Mexican consulate in St. Paul is stepping upsecurity after the Federal Bureau of Investigation foiled what it described as a 42-year old Minnesota ...

• Bishops of Mexico call for defense of the family

  EWTN

  The Bishops' Conference of Mexico issued a statement April 18 calling for the defense of the traditional family, which provides "well being to people in our democratic society."In the ...

• Mexico's Slim eyeing Telekom Austria stake: report

  Reuters

  VIENNA (Reuters) - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is eyeing a stake in Telekom Austria and is believed to have held initial talks with its two biggest investor groups, Austrian magazine Format ...

• TEXT-S&P affirms America Movil SAB de CV

  Reuters

  Overview -- Mexican wireless telecommunications company America Movil will grow through higher mobile data usage and broadband and cable TV adoption, which could partly offset declines in the ...

• 200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico

  The Kansas City Star

  An oil company exploration crew's chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists who say ...

• Journalist kidnapped in Mexico

  Fox 23

  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say masked gunmen have kidnapped a police-beat reporter in the northern state of Sonora.State prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga says reporter ...

• Mexican Banks Expect Credit Growth Despite Difficult Global Scenario

  General Sources

  ACAPULCO, Mexico -(Dow Jones)- Mexican banks expect to continue to expand lending this year despite a complicated international financial outlook due to troubles in the euro zone.Jaime Ruiz, ...

• Third Mexican general detained

  General Sources

  A third Mexican general has been detained for alleged links with a drug trafficking cartel. Gen Ricardo Escorcia Vargas was detained as part of an investigation into organised crime. On Tuesday ...

• Journalist kidnapped in Mexico

  WHP CBS 21

  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say masked gunmen have kidnapped a police-beat reporter in the northern state of Sonora.State prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga says reporter ...

• Madame Butterfly in Tijuana

  General Sources

  TIJUANA -; The Tijuana Opera this weekend presents two performances of Giacomo Puccini's tragic opera Madame Butterfly at the Tijuana Cultural Center in the city's Rio Zone. Directed by ...

• Mexico Detains Third General Tied to Drug Cartel

  International Herald Tribune

  MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government detained three high-ranking Army generals this week, including a former second in command at the Defense Ministry, suggesting the ...

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