Mexico
The Mexican brewer is chafing under its partnership with Anheuser-Bush InBev. While some global brewers are aggregations of local beers that are each strong in their home markets, Mexico’s Grupo Modelo is the owner of a true cross-border success story: Corona. The pale lager’s foreign appeal has helped shift more than 40 percent of Modelo’s sales to markets outside Mexico. And Modelo managers believe there’s more growth ahead if they can continue expanding their brews [...]
By Bob Davis During the past 30 years, China’s growth has left Mexico’s in the dust, even though both countries have liberalized their economies, vastly turned to foreign trade and shed many of the constraints imposed by one-party rule. Indeed, Mexico has gone much further than China in the latter area, turning itself into a genuine democracy in the mid-1990s after decades of single-party control.
Pancho Villa’s Heir Fighting Drug Cartels in Mexico. Carlos Villa is the great-nephew of Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa, the most charismatic revolutionary, and to those that know the young Villa, a carbon copy of the beloved Mexican general. With his foul mouth and a faithful pitbull next to him at all times, Carlos Villa combats drug trafficking in Torreón, where he is the police Chief. He is also referred to as a General since [...]
