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  • Mexican twice summits Everest in one climbing season

    Mexican David Liao Gonzalez Sunday became the first climber to double summit on Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, in the same season, the climb's organizers said. Liao Gonzalez reached the top of the world via both the north and south sides of Everest, Asian Trekking said. The 33-year-old Liao Gonzalez reached the summit of Everest Sunday via the Tibetan north side after climbing to ...

  • Mexico aims to boost trade with Brazil

    Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade visited his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, with whom he agreed to promote a series of business meetings to boost bilateral trade. Meade told a press conference that, on the topic of trade, "right now that is Mexico's goal", but that at present there is no intention to negotiate free-trade agreements with Brazil. "There's a mutual ...

  • Nestle invests $130 mn in Mexico plant

    Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto inaugurated a 1.6-billion-peso ($130-million) expansion of a Nestle instant coffee factory in the central city of Toluca. The project has boosted the plant's productive capacity by 30 percent, making it the world's biggest facility of its kind, Nestle Mexico CEO Marcelo Melchior said during Friday's ceremony. The factory, which covers a 14-hectare area, will ...

  • 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 ...

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Nineteen-sixty-nine was a strange year for the Western genre in Hollywood. It was both a year of great success and the end of an era. ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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