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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks recover after three-day rout

    * Weak Chinese manufacturing hurts commodities stocks * Brazil's Bovespa flat; Mexico's IPC up 0.96 pct By Danielle Assalve and Gabriel Stargardter SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY May 23 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks rebounded on Thursday after a three-day thumping as concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve might scale back stimulus measures had pounded the IPC index. Surprisingly weak economic data from ...

  • 84-year-old woman charged with trafficking cocaine marijuana in New Mexico

    The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing ...

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Mr. Deeds

Woe to poor Adam Sandler. Stuck in what appears to be a cinematic perpetual motion machine, he continues to show up year after year in dim-witted comedies organized around his increasingly unfunny presence. In his latest project, Mr. Deeds, Sandler once again offers ample proof of his limited range in portraying the titular hero by combining the boyish innocence of his character from Th ... ...

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  • Three Defendants Plead Guilty to Participating in Ambush Murder and Attempted Murder of ICE Agents in Mexico

    WASHINGTON-Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as "Piolin," 32, pleaded guilty today to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila in Mexico. The court also unsealed today the guilty pleas of three other defendants on related murder, attempted murder, racketeering, and accessory ...

  • Still no trace of B.C. man who disappeared while travelling through Mexico 16 months ago

    The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing ...

  • Mexico drug cartel commander pleads guilty in murder of U.S. official

    Victor Avila out of the car, said Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division. When the agents refused, identifying themselves as American diplomats from the U.S. embassy, Espinoza ordered the gunmen to fire on the vehicle. Zapata was killed and Avila was seriously wounded but survived, officials said. Espinoza pleaded guilty to the ...

  • UPDATE 1-Mexicos Terrafina to buy Kimco properties for $600 mln

    MEXICO CITY, May 23 (Reuters) - Mexican real estate investment trust Terrafina said on Thursday that it agreed to pay $600 million to acquire a Mexican property portfolio from U.S. Kimco Realty Corp and its partner American Industries. The ...

  • Mexican Carload Traffic Jumps 15 Percent

    Association of American Railroads . This is the highest of this volume seen in 12 weeks.Combined North American carload volume, including all three North American Free Trade Agreement partners, rose 1.7 percent from the same week in 2012, and 1.8 percent week-to-week, to 381,163 carloads. The total North American carload volume for 2013 year-to-date is 0.6 percent less than in the same period in ...

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