19 May 2012, 11:18 am
MEXICO — Down 2-0 with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning against visiting Fulton on Friday, the Mexico varsity softball team was staring down the barrel of an 0-18 record and yet another bitterly disappointing close loss to a quality team — this one on Senior Day.... Read More »
19 May 2012, 2:22 am
3 Mexico army generals accused of helping narcotics gangs Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:26 p.m., Friday, May 18, 2012 In what could prove the biggest scandal to hit Mexic... Read More »
19 May 2012, 1:29 am
Mexico army captures 8 Gulf cartel members MEXICO CITY (AP) — The army says it has detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs, guns and hand grenades during investigations into the May 13 discovery of 49 dismembered bodies on a highway in northern Mexico.... Read More »
18 May 2012, 9:25 pm
Mexico's army announced Friday that it had detained a fourth high-ranking officer during a civilian investigation into alleged military links to drug cartels. Three generals were previously deta...... Read More »
18 May 2012, 3:05 pm
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - If Greece leaves the euro zone it could detonate a global financial crisis even worse than the 2008 credit crunch, dry up global trade financing and spur another U.S. recession, former Mexican central bank governor Guillermo Ortiz said on Friday. Heavily-indebted Greece ... Read More »
18 May 2012, 11:03 am
The arrests of a group of generals were without precedent in recent memory, and reports suggested that other key figures in the drug war could be arrested.... Read More »
18 May 2012, 5:26 am
It used to be that when Americans thought of Mexico, they imagined a festive getaway where margaritas flowed, mariachis played, and every day was Cinco de Mayo.... Read More »
17 May 2012, 6:58 am
Mexico’s economic growth accelerated in the first quarter as demand from the U.S. picked up, the latest sign that it’s economic performance is surpassing Brazil after trailing Latin America’s biggest economy for most of the past decade.... Read More »
16 May 2012, 4:28 pm
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans bid farewell to renowned author Carlos Fuentes on Wednesday in an emotional tribute attended by the president and the country's most prominent intellectuals before a planned burial in France. Fuentes, who died suddenly on Tuesday at 83 after an internal hemorrhag... Read More »
16 May 2012, 6:59 am
MEXICO CITY - Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.... Read More »