Bloomberg reports yesterday that state-owned oil producer Pemex found evidence of up to 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Coahuila region in the past year, and the country will reportedly seek private investment of about $10 billion during five years to expand its natural gas pipeline network. Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) plans to invest 66.3 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) in 2011 and 90.4 billion pesos ($670.3 million) in 2012, mainly on building  six new plants that will use fossil fuels and is reconfiguring other facilities to use natural gas, the article said. (more…)

With the opening of more flights and new strategic alliances with travel wholesalers and immigration procedures that are more flexible to tourist , Mexican authorities plan to establish more open skies with Brazil in order to attract more tourists to Cancun next year. After completing the 39th Brazilian Congress of Travel Agencies and Fair of the Americas-Abav-2011, in Rio de Janeiro, the director general of the Convention and Visitors Bureau Cancun-OVC-Jesus Almaguer Salazar, noted that “while Cancun is well positioned in the Brazilian market, future prospects are very encouraging with the creation of the “pool de Copa Vacations” , which integrate all tour operators working with Cup in Brazil. ” (more…)

A Mexican football club has decided to replace the players’ names on the back of their shirts with their Twitter handles instead.

The unique move sees Mexican Primera Division side Jaguares de Chiapas’s star players put their twitter addresses underneath their numbers along with the Twitter handle of the club sponsor. (more…)

MEXICO – The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City announced it will leave its traditional venue in the touristy Paseo de la Reforma and move to “Nuevo Polanco” an area where Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has made several land development projects. Construction is expected to begin in 2015 and will be completed in the summer of 2019. (more…)

Today The United States acknowledged that two thirds (approximately 64,000) of the over 94,000 guns recovered in Mexico over the past five years have origins from the armories of that country and have become the main gun source for the drug cartels. (more…)

Anahí, The Mexican actresses with the most followers on Twitter, shared images of herself in a Gypsy costume during a Halloween party on the social network site. (more…)

Mexican police track down the Iphone belonging to flight attendant that was found murdered in his hotel room. A Mexico city prosecutor says a 20-year-old man with a previous criminal record for robbery is being detained in connection with the murder of a Phoenix-based U.S. Airways flight attendant. (more…)

The Pan American Games dropped the curtain on Sunday with a ceremony that recalled some of the key moments of the Games in Guadalajara, the state that hosted the Continental from the 14 -30 of October. (more…)

Oaxaca .- Tamales, tortillas, atole, pumpkins, quail and rabbit are the traditional dishes that make up the Oaxacan offerings that continue to take in this city to preserve the pre-Hispanic legacy and tradition of living and entertaining the spirits of our ancestors in offerings and altars. (more…)

Men’s Mexican basketball silenced critics with a victory over Americas dream team. True, the Dream Team could not play well against against the Mexican squad with a score of 71-55.

Jovan Harris led Mexico with 15 points, while Lorenzo Mata added 12 and Paul Stoll scored eight. Harris and Stoll were born in the U.S. but carry Mexican nationality.

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U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne, met with the Mexican Secretary of  Navy in Mexico, Mariano Francisco Saynez, to discuss greater participation of both countries in regional maritime exercises in the framework of the Merida Initiative. (more…)

Striker Jerome was commissioned to score the lone, but worthwhile goal which earned the gold medal for Mexico at the Pan American Games after a drilling 75 minutes of game play against Argentina. (more…)

The chairman of the Oversight Committee of the House of Representatives, Darrell Issa reported that 200 Mexicans deaths were because the ATF purposely let weapons enter Mexico.

“We are talking about  people killed on both sides of the border. An estimated 200 Mexicans were killed by weapons that our government , our government, allowed to pass, “Issa said in an interview with CNN. (more…)

Cynthia Ochoa Valdez has given Mexico a gold medal and a silver in the ring and ball fields rhythmic gymnastics at the 2011  Pan American Games in Guadalajara.

Jazmin Cynthia Valdez Perez, is 23 years old and considered the queen of Mexican rhythmic gymnastics, for her perfection of movements and for her beauty and elegance. she had announced her decision to withdraw from the gym but she backed off that idea when she learned that the Pan American Games this year would be held in Guadalajara. (more…)