Our first thought was a post-divorce vacation. Turns out, we’re not the only ones. The Grand Velas Resort in Mexico offered the Ultimate Divorce Vacation.
Velas Resort in Mexico offered the Ultimate Divorce Vacation last year, complete with a lavish spa treatments, ocean-side views, and a consultation with a jeweler on next steps for those engagement and wedding bands.
H1N1 vaccine, a tiny biotechnology firm, is turning the shortage into an opportunity. It says it will soon start clinical trials of its experimental vaccine for the 2009 H1N1 influenza in Mexico.
Mexico’s state oil company hopes to start deep-water oil production in the Gulf of Mexico by 2014.
Petroleos Mexicanos official Gustavo Hernandez says the company has found crude oil and gas in some of the 11 wells drilled in deep Gulf waters. He says the company, known as Pemex, hopes to start gas production in 2013.
The company is stepping up its exploration efforts in the Gulf of Mexico as it scrambles to find new fields to replace the aging giant Cantarell field, where production has been plunging.
Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has discovered oil at the Leek-1 well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is testing it to see if it is commercially viable, a Pemex spokesman said on Thursday.
Leek is the first oil discovery Pemex has made this year in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and follows the Tamil oil discovery in the Gulf in 2008, which Pemex declared commercial earlier this year.
Two new deepwater drilling rigs will start working for Pemex in 2010, boosting exploration efforts.
Pemex is working on developing the Tamil discovery as part of a cluster of oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico by the middle of the next decade. The Gulf’s Lakach natural gas field is also slated for development.
The chief executive of Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Wednesday that the company will continu. Petroleos Mexicanos can’t stop working on its Chicontepec oil development.Mexico’s state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Wednesday it will leave the constants for pricing its crude exports.
The Mayan Calendars Long Count begins in 3,114 BC, marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around December 21, 2012. A Mayan stone tablet found in Mexico in the 1960s says something is supposed to happen involving Bolon Yokte, “The God of War” and creation, in 2012 – but the end of the prophesy is illegible.
“It’s a special anniversary of creation,” said David Stuart
“The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they’re just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.”
It can only get worse for the Mayan Calendar. Next month, Hollywood’s “2012” opens in theaters, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments that they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly once every 25,800 years and that is “the zero effect” in witch some believe the world will stop rotating and change Earth’s orbit. But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayas say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel that mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks, “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days.
The Mexican government faced off with the powerful Electrical Workers Union Monday after announcing the closure of a state-run power company that serves more than one fifth of the country.
The government said Sunday it was closing down Luz y Fuerza — which supplies power to Mexico City and the surrounding region — because it wastes large amounts of electricity, after ordering hundreds of police officers to occupy its installations.
Another, larger state company, the Federal Electricity Commission, was to take over operations, government officials said.
The shutdown came amid a fierce dispute between the government and the state-run Luz y Fuerza company.
“It’s a difficult decision, but (it’s) indispensable for the sustainability of Mexico in the future,”
Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said of the shutdown on national television Monday.
Mexican officials are looking to the San Diego Police to help train a new team of Mexican tourist police working along the Mexican coast.
Cesar Santiesteban, who’s Ensenada’s assistant chief of public security, says the officers will also train with the San Diego Police to learn how to be sensitive to foreign visitors.
“Many tourists complain that police approach with their gun drawn. With the help of the San Diego police, we’ll change that practice.”
Efforts to film Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s latest novel are meeting resistance in Mexico, where an anti-prostitution group is seeking to block production, charging the movie will promote child prostitution.
“Memories of My Melancholy Whores” tells the story of a bachelor who for his 90th birthday decides to give himself the gift of a night of “wild love with an adolescent virgin.”
Mexico has become the latest focus of attention in the consolidation of the global beer business, after Femsa, the beverage and retail conglomerate, held talks over a possible sale of its beer business.
The country is the last established major beer market that has yet to be divided between the global beer superpowers.
Grupo Modelo SAB, Mexico’s largest brewer, may need to consider its “strategic options” including a combination with Anheuser-Busch InBev if Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB sells itself to SABMiller Plc or Heineken NV, Barclays Plc. said.
“The prospect of competing with a Mexican beer business owned by either SABMiller or Heineken is entirely unappealing, given the greater sourcing and marketing firepower such an entity would have,” Barclays analyst David Belaunde wrote in a note to clients.