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  • Mexicos tourism sector goes up

    Economic activity associated with tourism grew 4 percent in 2012 compared with the year before, Mexico's INEGI statistics service said. Spending by foreign and domestic tourists increased by 4.7 percent last year. In the fourth quarter of 2012, tourism activity topped the same period in 2011 by 4 percent, INEGI said Monday. By segments, spending by domestic tourists rose 4.8 percent, while ...

  • Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America

    Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...

  • Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico

    A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...

  • Mexico prohibits multiple soccer teams ownership

    MEXICO CITY — The owners of the 18 Mexican first-division soccer clubs voted Monday to bar one person or one company from owning more than one team. The vote was an apparent move to stop tycoon Carlos Slim from expanding his growing influence in Mexican soccer. Mexico's largest broadcasters, Televisa and TV Azteca, have in the past owned multiple first-division teams but the issue ...

  • Cheers greet Mexican soldiers relieving western town cut off from supplies by drug cartel

    Mexican army soldiers enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. Hundreds of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born of frustration at extortion, ...

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Big Trouble

Following the big-budget debacle of 1999's Wild Wild West, director Barry Sonnenfeld apparently felt the need to downsize for his next film, opting to helm an adaptation of syndicated humorist Dave Berry's novel Big Trouble, which finds the paths of a gaggle of oddball characters, from a miserable housewife, to a tree-dwelling hippie, to a pair of New Jersey hitmen, chaotically inte ... ...

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  • A lack of diversity on the coffee farms

    I toured several coffee-growing cooperatives in Guatemala today, and one of the surprises I encountered was the prevalence of a certain species of tree used for shade-grown coffee. It used to be in decades past that shade-grown coffee was considered better for the environment. Farmers used numerous kinds of trees to cast shade, providing some diversity. But everywhere I went today, there was ...

  • Mexico adopts five-year plan for social economic development

    Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday presented a five-year plan, aimed at combating violence and improving administration."Mexico has the historic opportunity to launch a national transformation," Pena Nieto said at an event to announce the plan, adding that for the first time, the government has devised a development plan that includes the periodic evaluation of its ...

  • Besieged Mexican town cheers arrival of soldiers

    After being terminated from her job as Medley Assistant Town Clerk two weeks ago, things got better very quickly for Mary Taylor last week when a special meeting was called and she was reinstated to her old ...

  • B.C. relatives of missing man fear Mexican police kidnapped him and a business partner

    The frantic family of a missing B.C. man feared kidnapped in Mexico is praying for his safe return.Diego Hernandez, 22, disappeared in Puerto Vallarta on May 8 along with his American business partner, Craig Silva, 31.Three days before the pair disappeared, Hernandez, a mixed martial arts instructor, had mounted a successful, high-profile MMA event."It was a very exciting time for ...

  • New Friday night boxing series in Tijuana

    Guillermo ';Memo'; Mayen of Mayen Promotions has decided to leave the comfortable confines of Las Pulgas nightclub on Revolution Ave. in the heart of downtown Tijuana, Mexico, for the Tecate Box Tour tent presently being built at the parking lot of the Caliente Racetrack. Originally set for Wednesday, May 29th, Mayen along with Zanfer Promotions have pushed up the fight card for this ...

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