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  • Atletico Mineiro hold Tijuana to 2-2 draw

    Second-half substitute Luan struck an injury-time equaliser to earn Atletico Mineiro a 2-2 draw against Tijuana in their Copa Libertadores quarterfinal first leg. Colombian striker Duvier Riascos opened the scoring for the Mexican club at the Estadio Caliente after a slick one-two with compatriot Dayro Moreno in the 13th minute Thursday, reports Xinhua. The home side then made it 2-0 early in ...

  • Mexican woman gets first transplant of ovaries in Latin America

    A Mexican woman received Latin America's first transplant of ovaries in a hospital in the western city of Guadalajara, the director of the Mexican Infertility Institute, Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba, announced. Ruvalcaba told EFE by telephone that the patient is a 32-year-old women who had developed cervical and uterine cancer that was detected and treated in France. "The ethics committee of the ...

  • Fewer people have disappeared in drug war than feared says Mexican official

    Mexico's top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases.Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal and state governments are working to weed out people who have been located. He noted that many of those included on the original list of 26,121 released ...

  • Positive press picks up for San Diego with Mexico business ties

    San Diego Mayor Bob Filner visited the economically-minded organization DEITAC's bi-monthly gathering in his first official visit to Tijuana as mayor in January. He was greeted by Tijuana's mayor Bustamante, and they both took questions on plans to better incorporate the shared border ...

  • UPDATE 1-Petrobras says it has rejected offers for Argentine assets

    Fri May 24, 2013 8:11pm EDT * Company selling assets to pay for giant expansion plan * Prices offered Petrobras have not met initial expectations * Petrobras cut outlook for asset sales by 40 pct in March RIO DE JANEIRO, May 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Friday its executive directors have rejected offers to buy its Argentina operations, ...

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Apocalypto

Apocalypto

When word first got out that Mel Gibson was taking the millions of profits and industry clout he earned from the runaway success of The Passion of the Christ (2004) and heading deep into the heart of Mexico to film an epic about the Mayan civilization starring unknown actors and fil ... ...

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  • Retired Vancouver police officer dead in Mexico recalled as friend animal lover

    A retired Canadian police officer slain in Mexico is being remembered as a generous and loving woman who dedicated a lot of her time to helping animals.News reports in Mexico say Lynn Earle, 60, was found stabbed to death in her home in Playa del Carmen earlier this week.She retired from the West Vancouver Police Department in ...

  • Mexican Mafia’s ‘tax man’ gets 22 years in prison

    SAN DIEGO — A member of the Mexican Mafia who collected tens of thousands of dollars in ';taxes'; from drug dealers responsible for distributing methamphetamine and other drugs on the streets of San Diego was sentenced Friday to almost 22 years in federal prison. Salvador Nicola Colabella, 54, pleaded guilty last August to a racketeering conspiracy charge. ';Today’s ...

  • UPDATE 2-Investors boost direct investment in Mexico cut stocks

    Fri May 24, 2013 6:44pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - A healthy boost in foreign direct investment in the first quarter underscored confidence in Latin America's No. 2 economy even as investment flows into the country's stocks and bonds moderated, central bank data showed on Friday. Foreign direct investment reached $4.99 billion in the first quarter after touching negative ...

  • Last Brother From Mexicos Arellano Felix Cartel Pleads Guilty in U.S.

    SAN DIEGO -- Former Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix, the last of four brothers captured or killed in connection with a once-powerful Tijuana-based cartel depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Traffic," pleaded guilty to U.S. drug charges on ...

  • Mexico eyeing retaliatory measures in U.S. meat labeling dispute

    MEXICO CITY | Fri May 24, 2013 6:18pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - Mexico is considering imposing retaliatory trade measures on the United States in a dispute over meat labeling, the country's economy ministry said on Friday. Mexico said new U.S. rules for meat labeling were even more onerous than a set of regulations that the World Trade Organization (WTO) declared were ...

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