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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 ...

  • Mexican soldiers move in to protect towns under siege by Knights Templar drug cartel

    Residents greet Mexican army soldiers as they 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. A growing number of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born ...

  • Mikel opts out of Mexico friendly

    An official of the Nigeria Football Federation told Supersport.com that Mikel had asked to be excused from the tune-up match in order to rest and take care of personal ...

  • RVania Resident Taxed By New Mexico

    English: A Class A motorhome with the slide-out extended (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Full time RVers have not applied for statehood - yet. I have not been able to come up with a good estimate of what the population of RVania would be. I have seen estimates of anywhere from 200,000 to 1,000,000. The latter would put five states behind RVania in population. I saw one estimate, a bit implausible, ...

  • Senate panel passes immigration bill Obama praises move

    Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes ...

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Funny Games

Funny Games

There is certainly nothing unique about a director remaking his or her own film, usually with the intention of somehow improving it. Alfred Hitchcock tried this with The Man Who Knew Too Much, which he originally made in England in black and white with Leslie Banks in 1934 and then ... ...

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  • Mexican Herrera I will win this fight by KO or decision

    Mexican Aaron "La Hoya (Jewel)" Herrera seems confident of his chances against reigning WBO International light welterweight champion Jason "El Nio" Pagara in the 20th edition of Pinoy Pride Series dubbed "Laban Kung Laban" this Saturday at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. During a press conference yesterday at the Formo Restaurant and Lounge at the ...

  • Mexican tycoon Slim seeks funding details of U.S. protest group

    People protest holding masks printed with the face of Mexican telecommunications and retail tycoon Carlos Slim as he attends the Meeting of Latin American Businessmen at a hotel in Lima May 3, ...

  • UPDATE 1-U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling -Mexico

    (Updates with agriculture minister's quotes) By Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly ...

  • Mexico-bound Surfers Eye dismantled

    The Surfers Paradise Eye wheel is being dismantled and will be gone by next week. Pic: Scott Fletcher THE Surfers Paradise Eye has taken its last spin.The controversial attraction, plagued with problems for the past five years, will be pulled to pieces and shipped to Mexico after reportedly costing management $800,000 in the past year.Work began on dismantling the wheel atop the Surfers ...

  • Mexicos Banorte CEO optimistic on economic reforms growth

    By Elinor Comlay and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The chief executive of Mexico's fourth-largest bank by assets, Grupo Financiero Banorte, is optimistic about expanding the bank's business this year despite of worries over a ...

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