Jennifer Anstion: New Year’s Eve in Mexico
Jennifer Aniston arrived in Los Cabos over the weekend with the good friends, the Arquettes, while John Mayer flew in to the resort town with his brother.
She’s been all over the place promoting her new flick “Marley and Me” and now it looks like Jennifer Aniston is prepping for some down time in the New Year in Mexico....
Recession in Mexico’s economy
When the American economy was growing, successive Mexican governments counted on foreign investment and exports to generate growth. Exports account for almost a third of Mexico's gross domestic product. But more than 80 percent of them go to the U.S., and when Americans stop buying, there is no market for Mexican-made goods.
Mexico is credited by economists with economic policies that reduced debt and tamed inflation, but that has not saved it from the pain of a global recession.
The effe...
7,000 Dead Mexicans In 2 Years , all So Americans can enjoy a Pastime: Smoking Pot
Mexico's Federal drug tzar, Noe Ramiriz Mandujano, was arrested on charges that he had received huge bribes from one of the biggest cartels. A witness said Mandujano received $450,000 (£300,000) each month from the Beltran Leyva cartel in exchange for information on investigations.
"Enrique Gonzalez, killed while eating breakfast, had been a police officer. Manuel Inzunza, a local crime reporter, had known Gonzalez for 20 years as a friend, adding that he had been the head of the city's homi...
Army major Arturo Gonzalez : Passing information to drug traffickers for 100,000 Cash a month
MEXICO CITY - Mexico arrested a military officer suspected of passing information to drug traffickers as part of a government sweep to rout out corruption, the attorney general's office said in a statement on Friday.
Army major Arturo Gonzalez allegedly received $100,000 a month to pass information about army anti-narcotics plans to the Beltran Leyva drug Cartel, Mexican daily Reforma reported.
Gonzalez was picked up as part of "Operation Clean-up," which has netted several high-ranking po...
Mexicans Coming Home , Mexico prepares for Repatriation
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Posted December 25th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
There are signs that Immigration to the U.S. is no longer as attractive an option for Mexican immigrantsa and so Mexicans are Coming Home , Mexico prepares for Repatriation.
•The Pew Hispanic Center says the Hispanic immigrant labor force in the U.S. decreased by 217,000 between the third quarter of 2007 and the third quarter of 2008.
•The Mexican Foreign Ministry reports a nearly 30 percent increase from 2007 to 2008 in citizens who filed paperwork to move belongings from the U.S. t...
Mexican Shoppers Stimulating The U.S Economy, Head North For Bargains
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Posted December 24th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Mexicans Contributing to The American Economy
Mexican shoppers with fists full of cash and long Christmas lists are pouring across the border into hotels, restaurants and shopping malls here, providing an economic boost in a downward spiraling economy.
A clerk at a J. C. Penney store in Tucson rang up a purchase for Cecilia Rivera, left, on a shopping trip from Hermosillo, Mexico. Tucson’s economy depends on shoppers from south of the border.
“It’s extremely vital to make sure...
Pictures of Mexican Beauty Queen Laura Zuniga Arrested
In this two image composite, Laura Zuniga is crowned as "Miss Sinaloa" state at left in the city of Mazatlan, Mexico July 8, 2008 and is shown to the press with [made members] of the Juarez Cartel and their gunmen after her arrest in the city of "Zapopan", Mexico Tuesday Dec. 23, 2008. Police said Zuniga who was stopped at a checkpoint, was riding in one of two trucks with seven men, where mexico's Special drug enforcement soldiers found a large stash of weapons and some $53,300 in U.S. cu...
Mexican Drug Cartels Move in On Europe, Africa
MEXICO CITY, Dec 23 (Mexico) - Violent Mexican cartels that have killed thousands in a drug war at home this year are increasingly smuggling drugs to Europe by way of Africa.
Under pressure from a government and army crackdown at home, the Mexican Drug Cartels are seeking new lucrative markets.
Recent high-profile arrests of Mexicans around the globe show how the Gulf cartel and its main rival, the "Sinaloa Outfit" run by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, are moving beyond their traditional market ...
Mexico’s Beauty Queen Laura Zuniga Working For The the Juarez Cartel?
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Posted December 23rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
"Mexico's Beauty Queen" Laura Zuniga.
Will her beauty fade in a orange prison jumpsuit?
The question now hangs over Laura Zuniga, 23, who emerged this summer as the reigning beauty queen of Sinaloa, the Mexican Pacific Coast state known for its stunning women and vicious drug Cartel.
She won Miss Hispanic America 2008 in a November pageant in Bolivia, placed third in the Miss Mexico contest and was heading to a global competition in Asia next year.
But "Zuniga" is ending the year i...
Mexicos Eurocopter Panther
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Posted December 17th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Mexico has 2 Eurocopter Panther in current service, there's a good chance SEMAR officials will purchase another 6 panthers within two years. Armed with gatling guns and/or rocket launchers when required for anti-narcotic operations. Option for 8 more Panthers....
