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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 ...

  • Ancient cave paintings found in northeastern Mexico

    A detail from a copy of the more than 17,000 year old Swimming Stags Frieze from the famed cave paintings of Lascaux is seen during a media preview on March 19, 2013 in Chicago. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty ...

  • Mexico drug war rebooted

    It's the general's hour again in Mexico as the new president deploys troops in Michoacan, where gangsters are facing off against vigilante ...

  • BlackRocks Landers wary of Mexican REITs eyes Petrobras

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexico's burgeoning real estate investment trust boom may be getting close to overheating as too many players rush into a limited market for lucrative properties, said BlackRock's Latin American fund manager Will Landers ...

  • Mexico upgrade could only come after reforms approved reviewed ...

    (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's could decide to boost Mexico's debt rating only if the government approves a raft of ambitious reforms and the measures are effective, credit analyst Joydeep Mukherji said on Thursday. Mexico's major parties signed ...

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About Schmidt

About Schmidt

Some people have been describing About Schmidt as a black comedy, and while it does have its share of darkly comedic moments, overall it is an earnest existential drama about a 67-year-old man trying to come to grips with the meaninglessness of his life. I suspect that people want to view it as a black comedy because it was directed by Alexander Payne and cowritten by Payne and Jim Taylor, ... ...

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  • Archaeologists Discover Several Thousand Ancient Cave Paintings In Mexico

    Image Caption: Specialists of the NIAH located the cave paintings in the Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. Credit: Mexican National Institute of Anthropology ...

  • Market Update – Mexico giving ground after 42 move from the lows in June ’12

    ) - "Southern Texas" Weak.  Why?  Mexico has been in a deep swoon and has now broken the 200 day moving average support for the first time in over a ...

  • 5000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico

    ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found nearly 5000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute ...

  • Kimco Divests Nine Mexican Assets

    Kimco Realty Corp. (:KIM) sold 9 assets of its Mexican shopping center portfolio to a local real estate operator for 3.35 billion Mexican pesos ($274 million), which include 573 million Mexican pesos ($47 million) of mortgage debt. The move comes as a part of Kimco's effort to dispose its non-core assets. This retail real estate investment trust (:REIT) had a 47.6% interest in the sold ...

  • Archaeologists in Mexico discover thousands of ancient cave paintings

    Archaeologists are reporting the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings at 11 different sites in Mexico, likely created by early hunter-gatherers. The red, white, black and yellow images discovered near Burgos in eastern central Mexico depict humans engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering, and animals such as deer, lizards and centipedes. The paintings are as yet undated but archaeologists ...

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