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...the earthquake! @randTheAntelope @therealpcus #Nacho -> nacho for sure has a handle RT @AP: AP VIDEO: Crowds rush into Mexico City streets after a major earthquake shook the city: http://t.co/FfLZobEa -EF omg if that mexico city earthquake happened when i...
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AzFamily.com
http://www.azfamily.com/home/Strong-earthquake-shakes-Mexico-City-143515946.html
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...said there was no runway damage and they resumed operations. A pedestrian bridge collapsed and crushed a microbus in Mexico City, but there were still no reports of deaths. A building in the neighborhood of Condesa appeared to be on the verge of collapsing....
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Inside Bay Area
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_20214728/long-strong-quake-hits-mexico-city?source=rss
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...CITY — A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico today, shaking central and southern parts of the country, collapsing a pedestrian bridge and swaying buildings in Mexico City. Plaster fell from ceilings and windows broke in the center of the capital, but...
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Kennebec Journal
http://www.kjonline.com/r?19=961&43=563887&44=143513696&32=10357&7=622157&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kjonline.com%2Fnews%2F76-magnitude-quake-rocks-Mexico-City-.html
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...buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) — AP MEXICO CITY A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country, collapsing a...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/20/strong-long-74-quake-shakes-mexico-city/
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...Biden, left, and Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate for the National Action Party, PAN, pose for pictures in Mexico City, Monday, March 5, 2012. Biden is on a one-day official visit to Mexico. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) Photo: Alexandre Meneghini...
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Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Biden-meets-with-Mexican-president-and-3383825.php
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico City enacted Latin America's first law recognizing gay marriage Tuesday and said it hopes to attract same-sex couples from around the world to wed.
The law, approved by city legislators on Dec. 21, was published in Mexico City's
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34514521/ns/world_news/
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In legalizing gay marriage, Mexico City is now the vanguard of the coalescing gay rights movement across Latin America.
With a vote of 39-to-20, legislators in the capital approved a bill that will make Mexico City the first city in Latin America to
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Christian Science Monitor
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2009/1222/Mexico-City-move-to-allow-gay-marriage-irks-some-residents
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The A/H1N1 flu outbreak and the world financial crisis battered Mexico's economy in 2009, but there are indications of a recovery in 2010 thanks to a rebound forecast for Mexico's main trading partner, the United
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/21/content_12681989.htm
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Beltran Leyva, who was famed for having his enemies beheaded, died along with
three members of his cartel in an intense firefight at a luxury apartment
complex in the town of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City. Another
henchman committed suicide
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6835470/Top-Mexico-drug-cartel-leader-killed-by-armed-forces.html
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Suspects are held Dec. 3 in Mexico City after an underground tunnel was found.
MEXICO CITY Mexico may have to wait up to another year for the U.S. aircraft it says it needs to prevail in a fight against drug syndicates that shows no sign of
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USA Today
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomWorld-TopStories/~3/U4dPGWjQGaI/2009-12-15-Mexico-planes_N.htm
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When soldiers raided a drug cartel's Christmas party south of Mexico City, they found 16 automatic rifles, $280,000 in cash — and a Latin Grammy winner. The presence of the Texas-based norteno singer Ramon Ayala at the gathering in a wealthy,
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ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9338109
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A victim of one of Mexicos brutal drug gangs
Two crises have deepened Americas anxieties over immigration since Congress tried to reform the law two years ago: the global recession and an outburst of murder and mayhem in northern Mexico. The recession
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City Journal
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_helping-mexico.html
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...City into Latin America's premier knowledge economy. The five-year plan, launched in 2007, aims to create more equity for Mexico City's inhabitants by building a sustainable and inclusive city, promoting equality through better health, education and technology...
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mexico-city-to-build-world-class-hub-for-medical-research-78249072.html
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The governments blitzkrieg attack on the SME has failed to destroy the resistance. Rather, the Mexican regime faces the broadest, deepest, and most unified resistance movement in decades. And, as importantly, it is a national resistance movement that
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Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROM20091126&articleId=16290
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I have been a political analyst and writer in Mexico for the past two decades. I'm also a mother faced with the challenge of raising children there. As a human rights advocate and a mother, today I speak to you, frankly, with a great sense of
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Counterpunch
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http://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen11242009.html
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Mario Mendoza Reyes was at this church in Apatzingan, Mexico, when 200 federal troops searching for a leader of La Familia
swooped in and arrested him and 32 other men. The Mexican Army has been criticized for heavy-handed tactics, and claims of
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Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1123/p12s01-woam.html
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...needs, style and language skill and ask as many people as possible how they manage their health care in Mexico. Whether your Mexico City hotel in the historic center is budget or upscale, you can walk to a generous handful of museums. Think of a pyramids,...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2421398/cancun_best_city_in_mexico.html
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Mexico has always been a fantastic place to visit. No matter what you’re in the mood for, you’re sure to find it somewhere – world class cuisine? Try Mexico City. Looking for great beaches? Puerto Escondido is your destination. Beautiful antiquities?
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Journey Etc.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/journeyetc/~3/Y3DZ6MhBvOI/
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.
"We hope that
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KIVITV.com
http://www.kivitv.com/global/story.asp?s=11538553
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Mexico is committed to freedom, democracy, a market economy, justice, and respect for the environment.
The first challenge for any nation that hopes to be a nation in full development, is to have the rule of law, and that the rule of law must be obeyed.
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Latin Business Chronicle
http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=3802
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Mexico City born Eva López Sánchez directs the tale of three 20-year olds who explore Mexico City, leaving their privileged selves behind for one night.
They start the evening together but choose to take their own path after hours, each driven by a
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2387958/mexico_city_film_turns_on_bay_area.html
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For decades, Mexico City's 18 million people choked in the fumes of thousands of "peseros," the privately owned minibuses that clogged the avenues criss-crossing the capital city.
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government today is honoring the creators of a
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Boston.com
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=e9a6da8dfd9664fb4f4523f030bc737f
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By Nicholas Casey MEXICO CITY -- Like a lot of countries, Mexico has a federal government. It meets in a number of imposing colonial and modern buildings around the country. But Mexico has another body, the so-called "Legitimate Government," which
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125797784763244141.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon
said employment rose in October from the previous month, the
latest sign that the economy is recovering from its biggest
contraction since the Great Depression.
The net number of formal jobs in
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Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a8az7e.h9aqQ&refer=latin_america
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Nothing can replace fútbol — known here as soccer — as the most popular sport in Mexico, but baseball comes in a strong second. From Tijuana to Tampico, in the large cities and the smallest villages, you find ballparks. Some are impressive stadiums
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San Francisco Chronicle
http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=4b44af7af3179f519295040f81b3dde6
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PRESS RELEASE:
The Renault–Nissan Alliance and the Mexico City Government today announced a partnership that paves the way for the introduction of the Nissan LEAF in Mexico's capital city in 2011.
Mexico City will become the first city in Latin
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AutoblogGreen
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/03/nissan-leaf-heading-south-of-the-border-to-mexico-city/
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From the middle 1960s to the early 1980s I traveled to Mexico two to three times a year. Though I traveled all over Mexico, I found it heartwarming to vist the hometowns (Penjamo, Guanajuato and La Piedad, Michoacan) of my grandparents (mother’s
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Dallas Blog
http://www.dallasblog.com/200911021005587/james-reza/i-back-the-blue.html
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico has a “long way to go” in
its effort to strengthen the economy by reining in its budget
deficit and boosting investment in the oil industry, said Tony
Garza, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
The tax increases that
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Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=afap8kWIJ0mg&refer=currency
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"Santa Muerte" – Saint Death or Holy Death– is the focus of a deathly Mexican cult that has gained a so-far undetermined number of adherents on both sides of the illusory barrier that divides the United States from Mexico.
It made news in the US in
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Spero News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/speroforum/nroq/~3/oSVjkrNvB_M/Santa-Muerte-is-no-saint-say-Mexican-bishops
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Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s dollar bonds are posting
their biggest monthly declines since January on speculation
President Felipe Calderon will fail to cut the budget gap enough
to avoid a credit-rating downgrade.
The debt lost 2 percent this
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Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=acOlTXPGvjpM&refer=emerging_markets
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Mexico City will become the first city in Latin America to receive the Nissan LEAF and is part of the Mexico City government Green Plan (Plan Verde) committed to reduce CO2 emissions from vehicles by promoting battery-electric vehicles.
The memorandum
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Automotive Blogs
http://blogs.automotive.com/6600435/miscellaneous/nissan-to-sell-leaf-electric-car-in-mexico/index.html
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The trials and
tribulations of Mexico have made headlines in the United States
recently, says author Wilson Beck. In his new book, Wakeup Call
From Mexico, Beck notes increased violence and problems seen in
Mexico are due to drug wars that are ripping
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HispanicTips
http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/27/new-book-gives-authors-take-on-increasingly-volatile-relationship-between-united-states-and-mexico-in-wakeup-call-from-mexico-first-time-author-wilson-beck-gives-his-analysis-on-how-mexicos-str/
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Cesar Martinez is no stranger to the kitchen. For the past six years, he has worked as a chef in French and Cuban restaurants in the U.S. Now back in his native Mexico, Martinez is finding himself in foreign territory: he has just landed a job as a wok
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Time Magazine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/topstories/~3/YHJrsJHB1Dw/0,8599,1931646,00.html
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(CBS/ AP)
Attorney General Eric Holder calls it the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S. - the arrest of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids across the country.
Holder said at a news conference that the
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/22/national/main5409645.shtml
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People climb up the Pyramid of the Sun in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan. REUTERS/Henry
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/2101/2009/09/22-093322-1.htm
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(CNN) -- Mexico saw the first public protests this weekend over the government's decision to allow cultivation of the first genetically modified corn, which environmentalists and others say could ruin the nation's native crop.
A Greenpeace banner
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/6aAO406eiew/index.html
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Customers shop in Mexico City's Central de Abasto, a wholesale market. A 2008 government report said Mexico's regional centrales were catering to small wholesale or retail customers.
MEXICO CITY It was 1 a.m., potato time in Mexico's mother of all
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USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-10-19-mexico-markets_N.htm?csp=34
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By David Luhnow Mexico City Antonio Zuñiga's life changed when he went for a walk on Dec. 12, 2005. As he crossed a busy Mexico City avenue, two burly cops grabbed him from behind and shoved him into a patrol car. So began a nightmarish journey into
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574475492261338318.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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2009-10-16 16:58:05 -
Finance and Public Credit, signed on behalf of Mexico and Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier Cox signed on behalf of Bermuda.
Mexico’s Minister of Finance, in signing the TIEA and MOU with Bermuda, enables Bermuda
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/bermuda-signs-tax-information-exchange-agreement-r1532685.htm
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Speaker's Corner: Drug cartels. Murders. The news is often bad out of Mexico. Peter Ferry journeys beyond the headlines.
Poor old Mexico. Talk about kicking a guy when he’s down! Just when the price of oil plummets, American jobs dry up, and the fear
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World Hum | Travel Guide
http://www.worldhum.com/features/speakers-corner/finally-some-good-news-on-travel-in-mexico-20091014/
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People gather in Mexico City's downtown Zocalo plaza to protest the government's decision to disband the state-run electricity company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon disbanded the provider that
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/985778.html?RSS=untracked
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* Film's makers hope to spur reform of justice system
* Movie grew from case of vendor framed for murder
By Michael O'Boyle
MORELIA, Mexico, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Street vendor Antonio Zuniga was picked up by police in Mexico City in late 2005 without
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15306311.htm
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WHEN Brazil was not only included but named first among the BRICs, the widely used acronym for the leading emerging economies, Mexican business leaders protested that their country should also have been there. Well, maybe. But adding an "M" to the
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14634193&fsrc=rss
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Government Uses the Explosions Against Leftist Strongholds on University Campuses
Throughout the month of September, over ten bombs were placed in banks, a car dealership, a luxury clothing store, a small police station, and an animal testing
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The Narco News Bulletin
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2009/10/mexico-anarcho-bombings-spark-student-witch-hunt
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An unprecedented wave of anarchist bombings here and in provincial capitals has Mexican security forces on red alert. Beginning September 1st, bombs have gone off once or twice a week regularly as clockwork, taking out windows and ATMs at five banks,
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/ross10062009.html
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TOLUCA, Mexico Speed bumps are so common here that residents sometimes decorate them for the holidays, painting "Happy New Year" or "Happy Independence Day." One rock band, The Sam-Sam, even has dedicated a song to them.
Yet concerns over the
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USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-10-05-speedbumps_N.htm?csp=34
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Paul Feldman, left, and Alan Grabinsky in front of Moishe House, a residence for young Jews in Mexico City. (Ben Harris)
MEXICO CITY (JTA) -- In the final days of September, Alan Grabinsky and Paul Feldman moved into an apartment on a
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JTA
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/05/1008304/in-mexico-city-insular-community-begins-to-reach-out
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As a follow-up to my piece on Brazil a few days ago I started thinking about Mexico.
I'll put my cards on the table. I love Mexico - I love the people, I love the food (especially the tortilla soup and tomatillo salsa), I love Mexico City - it is one
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Left Back in the Changing Room
http://leftbackinthechangingroom.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-not-mexico.html
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Seven mornings a week, Vicente Ramirez's battered aluminum kiosk on Cinco de Mayo Street in this city's old quarter is plastered with the front pages of 22 daily newspapers. All day handfuls of pedestrians pause to gawk at the incendiary headlines
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/ross10022009.html
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The Mexican Preventive Police (PFP) are preparing to occupy the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company in Mexico City in an attempt to break the militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), according to a union press release. The union
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LabourStart
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22719
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