• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Mexico stocks fall to 6-month low growth worries weigh

  MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 11:44am EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks fell to a six month low on Monday, hurt by concerns about slower than expected growth in Latin America's second biggest economy. The IPC stock index slumped 1.24 percent to trade at 41,286 points, its lowest since ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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, ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Mexican revolution left mark on El Paso diocese

  The years from 1910 to 1940 were a period of revolution and war in Mexico, which left an indelible mark on the Catholic Church in El Paso. As many as 1 million Mexicans migrated to the United States during this time to escape the violence, economic dislocation, and religious persecution of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Constitution of 1917 outlawed parochial schools, closed all ...

• Mexican drug cartel member jailed in US

  A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel chief has been jailed for 35 years for plotting to smuggle vast quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States.Aurelio Cano Flores, described by the Justice Department as a senior member of the Gulf Cartel, was convicted of conspiring to import 'multi-tonne' shipments of drugs into the US following a trial in February.The 40-year-old was ...

• 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 ...

• STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Index up SingTel Keppel strong

  Singapore shares edged slightly up, with Singapore Telecommunications rising to its highest since January 2008 and Keppel Corporation hitting a one-month high. The Straits Times Index edged up 0.1 percent to an intra-day high of 3,458.04, its ...

• Letters At the U.S.-Mexico Border Prosperity and Pollution

  To the Editor: ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Two imprisoned in Mexico over killing Malcolm Xs grandson

  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 ...

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