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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 ...

  • NY trial may clean Mexico’s oil mess

    Benny Avni A trial in Manhattan federal court may help push Mexico to free its decaying oil industry from the state-owned monopoly known as Pemex, for Petroleos Mexicanos. And that’s good news for both sides of the border, indeed for the whole world.In the $500 million lawsuit, Pemex alleges that two firms, Germany’s Siemens AG and South Korea’s SK, bribed Pemex officials to ...

  • Mexican Official Defends Accuracy of Data on Organized Crime

    Mexico 's top security official argued Friday that real progress was being made in reducing organized crime killings and that the number of people previously reported missing was ...

  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Latam economies face commods slowdown lack stimulus options

    Fri May 24, 2013 10:46pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) By Pablo Garibian MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - Latin American countries have little room to boost growth with fiscal or monetary stimulus as their economies slow and a slump in commodities prices undercuts a pillar of recent strength, top officials told Reuters this week. After years of ...

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1408

1408

1408, which is based on a short story by Stephen King and is the first film adaptation of the horror maestro's work in almost three years, presents us with a classic horror set-up: the secular skeptic who must rearrange his belief system after coming face to face with the supernatural. The skep ... ...

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  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Mexicos telecoms law to rebuild industry brick by ...

    (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) By Dave Graham and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY, May 24 (Reuters) - Mexico's new telecommunications law aims to break the hold of dominant players that have made the ...

  • Brazil needs to hike returns to fix infrastructure Macquarie

    By Alonso Soto and Krista Hughes BRASILIA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazil should further hike the rate of return on its infrastructure projects if it wants to tap into a limited pool of global capital coveted by regional peers, Mark Ramsey, head of ...

  • 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 ...

  • Officials say Mexicos drug violence killings on the decline

    - The drug-related murders that plagued Mexico for six years have decreased in the past six months, while fewer people have disappeared than previously thought, the interior minister said Friday. Mexico's top security official, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, said deaths linked to organized crime have fallen by around 20 percent since the new government took office in December compared to the ...

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