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  • Nestle invests $130 mn in Mexico plant

    Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto inaugurated a 1.6-billion-peso ($130-million) expansion of a Nestle instant coffee factory in the central city of Toluca. The project has boosted the plant's productive capacity by 30 percent, making it the world's biggest facility of its kind, Nestle Mexico CEO Marcelo Melchior said during Friday's ceremony. The factory, which covers a 14-hectare area, will ...

  • Soccer-Cruz Azul to meet America to meet in Mexican final

    MEXICO CITY, May 19 (Reuters) - Cruz Azul beat nine-man Santos Laguna 2-1 on Sunday with two goals from striker Javier Orozco, setting up a Mexican Clausura championship final against America. Brilliant 3-0 winners in the first leg, Cruz Azul won 5-1 on aggregate to reach the final against the Mexico City giants, who are looking to equal Guadalajara's record of 11 league titles. Cruz ...

  • Missing Coquitlam man feared kidnapped in Mexico

    METRO VANCOUVER -- The family of a Coquitlam man who went missing in Mexico is desperately seeking information about what they now believe is a ...

  • Human brains are wired to make music-color connections

    When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...

  • Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared

    There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...

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Haywire

Haywire

Steven Soderberghs Haywire is a slight genre exercise built on a spare, straight-to-video backbone and fleshed out with Soderberghs experimental attitude and an impressive cast of actors, most of whom probably didnt spend more than a few days on set before picking up their paychecks. Give ... ...

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  • Volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash

    MEXICO CITY - The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks. The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ...

  • Mexico has faith in Asian-Pacific future

    Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ...

  • Two imprisoned in Mexico over killing Malcolm Xs grandson

    In this undated composite image released by Mexico City's prosecutor's office (PGJDF) on Monday, May 13, 2013, Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, stand for their mug shot after being arrested in Mexico ...

  • No change of heart on Brazil stocks despite big inflows

    By Krista Hughes and Walter Brandimarte MEXICO CITY/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Foreign investors flocked back to Brazil in early 2013, prompting the strongest stock market inflows in more than two years, but massive bets on share price falls ...

  • Roasted mexican corn recipe

    1. To grill, place corn on a moderately hot grill. Grill corn for 15-20 minutes. To roast the corn, place on a baking sheet and put in a 375? F oven for 30-45 minutes. To test doneness, peel back some of the husk to see if the kernels are ...

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