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To give or to keep? Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Mexico’s Carlos Slim follow different paths
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is famed for his philanthropy. Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican tycoon, is not. This week, they stood together at a research center here, drawing attention to their different approaches to giving their wealth away. | 02/14/13 17:28:12 By - By Tim Johnson
Doubts linger that natural gas caused fatal Mexico blast that killed 37
Mexican officials’ assertion that a buildup of natural gas – and not a bomb – caused last week’s devastating explosion at the Mexico City headquarters of the state oil company raised as many questions as answers on Tuesday, with at least one energy analyst voicing open skepticism of the explanation. | 02/05/13 16:54:07 By - By Tim Johnson
Mystery surrounds blast at Mexico oil giant Pemex that killed 33
The mystery intensified Friday over a huge explosion a day earlier at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil giant, a company vital to the nation’s economic health and at the heart of a fierce debate over energy resources. | 02/01/13 17:21:26 By - By Tim Johnson
Blast shakes Mexico state oil firm’s headquarters, kills 14, injures at least 100
An explosion ripped through the high-rise headquarters of Mexico’s state oil company Friday, killing at least 14 people, according to a government minister, and injuring more than 100. | 01/31/13 20:18:21 By - By Tim Johnson
Huge Chinese expo center planned for Cancun riles Mexican businesses, environmentalists
It’s a big dream: A massive complex near the resort of Cancun that would be the largest trading center for Chinese products in the Western Hemisphere. | 01/30/13 15:57:58 By - By Tim Johnson
U.S. casino operator Gordon Burr persists in Mexico’s chaotic gaming industry
In Mexico’s messy casino industry, survival isn’t easy. The nation’s gaming laws are masterpieces of ambiguity, rivals use dubious legal tactics to undercut foes and chicanery is a practiced art. | 01/25/13 12:16:06 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico steps back from made-for-TV arrests, ‘perp walks’
Mexican authorities on Friday pledged major changes in the way criminal suspects are treated, citing an urgent need to improve a judiciary that’s suffering from rock-bottom conviction rates and wounded by public anger at the lack of a rule of law. | 01/25/13 17:31:57 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto tallies early victories, brings optimism
In power for less than two months, Enrique Pena Nieto has moved vigorously on a reformist agenda, deflected attention from security woes and brought a measure of joy and pomp to Mexico’s presidency. | 01/22/13 14:26:33 By - By Tim Johnson
In Mexico, last-minute casino permits raise questions about Calderon’s legacy
Even as outgoing President Felipe Calderon began the process of turning over his office to his successor with a midnight ceremony in Mexico City’s massive National Palace, his administration was working into the wee hours to hand a jackpot to two of Mexico’s most controversial casino operators. | 01/17/13 17:15:19 By - By Tim Johnson
Hugo Chavez mentor says he doubts ailing president will rule Venezuela again
A former mentor to Hugo Chavez who maintains close contacts with officials in Venezuela said Friday that he doesn’t believe the ailing Venezuelan president will ever leave Cuba to govern his homeland again – and may not even leave a Havana hospital. | 01/04/13 18:40:31 By - By Tim Johnson
Hammar, Marine freed from Mexico jail, says inmates threatened to behead him
Only days after U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun into the country, gangsters in the jail warned him of his likely fate – beheading. | 01/03/13 20:11:30 By - By Tim Johnson
New paramilitary force to battle narco gangsters in Mexico
President Enrique Pena Nieto laid out a security strategy Monday that creates a new national force, or gendarmerie, to combat organized crime and restore law to the most distant corners of Mexico. | 12/17/12 18:37:22 By - By Tim Johnson
This is how Mexico confines U.S. Marine veteran in its prison
U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar spends most of his day on a bunk bed in a dingy Mexican prison, and at times his ankle is restrained by a handcuff locked to a bed. | 12/17/12 15:11:55 By - By Tim Johnson
John McAfee heads to Florida after Guatemala deports him
Guatemala on Wednesday put antivirus pioneer John McAfee aboard an airliner bound for Miami, deporting the former software tycoon to his native United States rather than to Belize, which he fled amid an inquiry into the murder of a fellow American. | 12/12/12 18:42:15 By - By Tim Johnson
Lawmakers assail Mexico, Obama administration over jailed U.S. Marine veteran
Florida’s senior U.S. senator Tuesday exhorted Mexico to release an imprisoned Marine Corps veteran of campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan who is being held in a Matamoros prison, declaring that “enough is enough.” | 12/11/12 19:50:14 By - By Tim Johnson
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