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  • Mexico City hosts chili pepper festival

    Chili peppers and sauces will take centre stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honoured, organizers said. The first Chilis, Sauces and Mortars Festival, which will be held Friday to Sunday, is being organized by the Enchilada Fair, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Mexico ...

  • Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism

    Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...

  • Mexican investigators seize boxes filled with cash at office of ex-aide to former governor

    MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities on Wednesday seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state, in what could become the latest test for President Enrique Pena Nieto to act against corruption. Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela said bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found in an office of ...

  • Protesters at Las Vegas tech show take aim at Mexican billionaires corrupt practices

    Jessica Padron, left, and members of Two Countries One Voice protest against Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman listed as the second richest man in the world by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, in front of the Venetian Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The group accuses Slim’s telecommunication companies of engaging in predatory and monopolistic practices. The protest coincides with CTIA, a ...

  • Mexican Museum site caught in shadow fight

    A proposed 47-story condominium tower -- which also would be the long-awaited permanent home of the Mexican Museum -- faces the prospect of a lawsuit from residents of the Four Seasons on Market Street who want to stop it from casting a pall on sunny Union Square. The 510-foot tower would be built at 706 Mission St. by developer Millennium Partners. At that height, it would drop shadows on the ...

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Breach

Breach

Writer/director Billy Ray has followed his first film, 2003's Shattered Glass about disgraced New Republic journalist Stephen Glass, with Breach, another based-on-a-true-story depiction of professional and moral duplicity, except this time with much, much higher stakes. The ce ... ...

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  • Mexican trainer predicts knockout win for Perea

    Veteran Jimrex 'Executioner' Jaca (37-6-3, 21KOs) will face an old enemy he met eight years ago this Saturday night in one of the co-main events of Pinoy Pride XX: Laban Kung Laban at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. This, after his opponent Mexican Jose Emilio Perea brought in his trainer Ernesto Salgado Garcia who was beside WBO Welterweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez ...

  • Boxes of cash seized in Mexico corruption probe

    MEXICO CITY -; Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco ...

  • Mexican farmers standing up to drug cartels refuse to disarm

    Mexican soldiers patrol the streets during an operation searching for criminals in the area called 'Tierra Caliente' (Hot Land) in the Coalcoman community,Michoacan State, Mexico on May 21, 2013. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images) COALCOMAN, Mexico - Farmers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles ride in pick-up trucks emblazoned with the word "self-defense" to ...

  • Mexico says US economy a worry for growth

    By Michael O'Boyle and Krista Hughes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mixed signals from the U.S. economy are clouding the growth outlook for Mexico and it needs to be ready for the shocks that could accompany a possible withdrawal of U.S. monetary ...

  • Mexicos Pemex to add 30000 bpd capacity to Salinas Cruz

    By Adriana Barrera and David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex PEMX.UL will boost capacity at its biggest refinery, Salinas Cruz, by around 9 percent or 30,000 barrels per day (bdp) once a $4 billion expansion ...

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