Americans take trips to Mexico for Prescription Drugs
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Posted November 30th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Hundreds of thousands of Americans head south every year from the United States To Mexico for Cheap Prescription Drugs.
Thousands arrive in Mesquite every fall from their summer homes.
A side benefit for these Americans and locals alike are medical, dental, eye care and prescription savings to be had south of the border in Mexico. A s trip to Mexican border towns such as Tijuana, San Luis and Los Algodonos may be a huge savings on medicine or medical procedures for cash strapped seniors wh...
Mexico is home to 1 million Americans
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Posted November 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
But more than 1 million Americans have made Mexico their home of late, a trend that shows no signs of slowing down. They've flocked there for a variety of reasons, including its warmer climate, selling points as a place to raise children and retire, inexpensive health care and, more than ever before, work opportunities.
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This emerging trend should not come as a surprise. We see tens of thousands of legal border crossings every day from the U.S. into Mexico for commercial, touri...
Mexico published on Monday terms for its frequency auctions
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Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
MEXICO CITY, Nov 23 (mexico.vg) - Mexico published on Monday terms for its long-awaited frequency auctions on hopes of boosting competition and providing wireless phone services to more people.
Mexico's telecommunications watchdog Cofetel said it will auction nine blocks of frequencies, ranging from 1850 to 1990 MHz, including frequencies covering the coveted Mexico City area.
Cofetel also foresees auctioning seven blocks of frequencies within the 1710 to 2170 MHz range covering all of the...
Mexico regrets the ANNOUNCEMENT OF New Settlements in illegally occupied Palestinian Territories
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Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 am
Mexico regrets the Israeli ANNOUNCEMENT OF New Settlements in illegally occupied Palestinian Territories
The government of Mexico, through the Foreign Ministry, regrets the Israeli government’s decision to authorize the construction of 900 new housing units in existing neighborhoods in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories, considering this to be an obstacle to peace, contrary to international law and to compromise the viability of a Palestinian State. It joins in the international...
Mexico – drug witness died in apparent suicide
A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.
Jesus Zambada Reyes, identified as the nephew of drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was considered one of the top operators of the Sinaloa drug cartel when he was arrested in October 2008 and is accused of smuggling cocaine and methamphetamines ...
Municipal and federal police officers confronted each other in Monterrey
Municipal and federal police officers confront each other in Monterrey, Mexico, this summer after federal authorities arrested dozens of officers from several towns who were accused of colluding with drug traffickers. (Christian Lara / Grupo Reforma)
At the heart of the overhaul is a "new police model" that stresses technical sophistication and trustworthiness and that treats police work as a professional career, not a fallback job.
In steps that are groundbreaking for Mexico, cadets and...
New tourism center “Costa Lora” Mexico
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Mexico
Posted November 14th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Mexico is planning a big new tourism center near the US border along the Gulf of Mexico.
The Fonatur agency that also created Cancun says its new "Costa Lora" development should eventually have 20,000 rooms for guests and create 115,000 jobs. It's based in the municipality of Soto la Marina, roughly 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Brownsville, Texas.
Some $4 billion in private investment is supposed to go into the 20 square-mile (5,334-hectare) area.
The name honors the Atlanti...
Grupo Mexico SAB wins Asarco for nearly $2.5 billion
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Posted November 14th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
A federal judge has issued a ruling supporting a nearly $2.5 billion bid by Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX)
Grupo Mexico SAB won the right to regain control of its bankrupt U.S. copper miner when a judge in Texas approved its plan to reorganize Asarco LLC and rejected a competing offer from Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd..
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas ruled that Grupo Mexico’s proposal to pay about $2.5 billion to Asarco’s creditors “is both feasible and confirmab...
United Nations Soldiers In Mexico?
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Mexico
Posted November 12th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Mexico's business leaders have appealed to the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers just yards from the American border to help stem the rampant violence
Mexico's deployment of thousands of soldiers to the northern city of Ciudad Juárez hasn't kept assassins from striking at will, killing 18 people at a drug
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Doctors, five others held in Mexican stolen babies case
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Mexico
Posted November 7th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
"It could be an important number of babies," Mexico City's chief prosecutor, Miguel Mancera, told the Televisa TV network. "They didn't just steal babies and give them up in illegal adoptions. They also issued false registrations of births at the clinic for babies born without papers elsewhere."
more by Miguel Mancera - Nov 6, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
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