tulum

How Tulum became Williamsburg of Mexico

Last month, my friend Juliet flew to Mexico to meet me in Tulum. On the airplane to Cancún, she ran into four Tulum-bound New Yorkers she knew, one of whom FULL STORY
Another accident in Tamaulipas

Bus-semi collision leaves nine dead

Second serious accident in 4 days in Tamaulipas

There were nine fatalities this morning in another serious motor vehicle accident in Tamaulipas. A bus carrying workers to a factory in Reynosa collided with a tractor-trailer unit on the Matamoros-Río FULL STORY
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el bronco

Ex-president raises ire of NL candidate

Calderón on campaign trail as independent candidate leads polls

Some people see former president Felipe Calderón’s recent pledges of support for National Action Party (PAN) candidates as an electoral campaign of sorts. Traditionally, Mexico’s ex-presidents retire to a life FULL STORY
new bosch factory in hermosillo

Bosch plans to spend $142mn this year

New factory in Tepozotlán is on list of new investments

The Mexican division of the German manufacturer Bosch will invest US $142 million in new plants and upgrades this year. Robert Bosch México is going to move the manufacture of FULL STORY
Patricio García

Mexico’s governments corrupt, inept: student

Young woman gives highly critical speech as governor looks on

The governor of Chihuahua got an unexpected earful yesterday in a strongly-worded speech by a secondary school student who lashed out at government for corruption and ineptitude. Luz Elena Patricio FULL STORY
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Gary Michael Feroglia

199-year sentence for child pornography

American citizen was arrested in 2010 in Manzanillo

A federal court judge has sentenced an American citizen to 199 years in prison for operating a child pornography network and possession of restricted firearms. Gary Michael Feroglia was arrested FULL STORY
bottles made by vitro

Mexico’s largest glass producer sold

Vitro operates five plants in Mexico and one in Bolivia

Mexico’s largest glass producer has been sold to an American firm for US $2.15 billion. The glass-making business of Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. has been purchased by Owens-Illinois Inc., one of FULL STORY
Viaducto Bicentenario

OHL executive resigns after recorded calls

Pablo Wallentin leaves in wake of phone recordings of company executives

OHL México has accepted the resignation of a central figure in the controversy over a toll increase on a highway it operates in the State of México. Pablo Wallentin resignedFULL STORY
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Trail riders near Tubares

Plane believed shot down by traffickers

Six people died in the crash in Urique, Chihuahua

Drug traffickers are believed to have shot down a plane over Chihuahua earlier this week, killing all six people aboard. The Cessna 206, owned by Servicios Aéreos Luce of Guasave, FULL STORY
casasalud

Health program could be model for U.S.

CASASALUD is a program created by the Carlos Slim Foundation

The United States can learn a lot from recent initiatives in Mexico’s healthcare industry, including one by the Carlos Slim Foundation, which puts information into the individual’s hands. Nearly 12% of FULL STORY
Fromow Rangel

Just 6 states using new justice system

Adversarial, open courts supposed to be fully operational next year

The wheels of justice are known to turn slowly in Mexico, and the same can be said of the process being employed to reform the justice system. Only six states FULL STORY
vaccination

There was external contamination: IMSS

Health boss says the vaccines linked to two deaths were not defective

It was not the vaccines that caused the deaths of two babies and the hospitalization of 29 more in Chiapas last Friday, says the chief of the Social Security Institute, FULL STORY
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