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  • Taste of Mexico restaurants tout authentic flavors

    Accustomed to Mexican food laden with sour cream, melted cheddar cheese and mild salsa that has long been served up in the Los Angeles area, patrons balked at eating La Casita Mexicana's enchiladas covered in pumpkin seed mole, cotija cheese and red onions. Many of the doubters, to the restaurateurs' surprise, were Mexican American. Regional Mexican cooking isn't a tough sell ...

  • Pope Sends Condolences to Victims of Gas Tanker Explosion in Mexico

    22 Victims Dead in Ecatepec in Tragic High AccidentBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, May 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis sent his condolences to the victims of the tragic gas tanker explosion that occurred yesterday in Ecatepec, Mexico yesterday. The message was sent by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, on behalf of the Holy Father.The accident occurred yesterday ...

  • Condolence Telegram to Victims of Tragic Explosion in Ecatepec Mexico

    VATICAN CITY, May 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is the translation of a telegram sent by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent on behalf of the Holy Father to the victims of the gas tanker explosion that occurred in Ecatepec, Mexico.* * *His Excellency Most Reverend Oscar Roberto Dominguez Couttolenc, MGBishop of EcatepecThe Holy Father was saddened to receive news of the ...

  • Mexico first quarter expands only 0.8

    ) Q1 GDP expands 0.8% from Q1 compare to first quarter last year. "Southern Texas" is growing much slower than its neighbor to the ...

  • Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives

    MEXICO CITY--When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and US soldiers killed in action, Mexico has seen more homicides of Americans than any other part of the world in the past decade, according to an AFP analysis of US ...

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F for Fake [DVD]

F for Fake [DVD]

F for Fake was the last of Orson Welles completed features. On the one hand, it was a sad conclusion for one of the cinemas great geniuses, as his second-to-last completed feature was Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff; 1965), which was made more than a decade years earlier, ... ...

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  • Mexican Foreign Minister to Pay Official Visit to China

    Beijing, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade, will start Sunday a two-day official visit to China, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Meade meets an invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Those nations last year celebrated four decades of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which rose to strategic partnership in 2003. ...

  • Mexico to create special police unit to search for the missing

    MEXICO CITY - 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 days. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam made the announcement Friday after meeting with a group of parents who have been on a hunger strike and living in tents outside his office. ...

  • Mexican gangland film contends Cannes Palme d’Or

    MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The Mexican contender for top honors at this year's Cannes Film festival is a brutal depiction of the country's poverty and the gangland carnage it's helped spawn. The initial signs have been good: Director Amat Escalante's latest film "Heli" received a 15-minute ovation when it was shown in ...

  • OAS calls for softer approach toward illegal drug users

    Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (L) receives a document from Jose Miguel Insulza, General Secretary of the Organization for the American States (OAS), during a meeting at presidential palace in Bogota May 17, ...

  • 19 killed in gas truck explosion in Mexico

    By Dave Graham and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters MEXICO CITY -- A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City early on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 36 others as a fireball tore through cars and homes.Pablo Bedolla, mayor of the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, said 19 people died in the blast that engulfed early morning ...

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