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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
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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 judge orders prison for suspects in Malcolm Shabazz killing
In this undated composite image released by Mexico City's prosecutor's office (PGJDF) on Monday, May 13, 2013, Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, stand for their mug shot after being arrested in Mexico City. Both men were arrested in connection with last week's death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X. An official ...
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Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared
There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...
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Slim broadcasters take fight to soccer field
Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: ...
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Mexico has faith in Asian-Pacific future
Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ...
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The U.S. Imports More Oil Than Drugs From Mexico
Click Here Now For years we've been hearing about how much oil we import from foreign sources, particularly the Middle East. While it's true that we import a lot of our oil, there's a bit more to the story, especially when you look at the trade between the U.S. and ...
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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