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The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, one of my heroes, famously said that government is the only institution that can take two things of value, ink and paper, and turn it into something entirely worthless.
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As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
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Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City,...
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Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
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Have you any idea why we are searching your vehicle? Do you know why your American visa has been canceled? Do you understand why you’re being fined $15,264 U.S....
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The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
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Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from...
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This year Mexico has been breaking records left and right. We’ve had the most mariachi players playing together, the largest number of couples kissing, the...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug...
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MEXICAN soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the US and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army...
made popular Oct 29 2009
You’ve all heard the news: Various cities in Mexico are kicking it up a notch with Pink Cabs created especially for women.
“Estamos introduciendo a México...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Ciudad Juarez has had almost 2000 homicides — almost all brutal executions — through mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period in 2008. There have...
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U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel...
made popular Oct 23 2009
Murder, torture, steal then pray and donate to charity. The ‘family values’ of Mexican drug cartel La Familia.
made popular Oct 23 2009
The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say.
Up to...
made popular Oct 22 2009
President Felipe Calderon and the National Water Commission recently launched a new campaign in dire effort to raise critical awareness in water conservation.
Mexico...
made popular Oct 22 2009
After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke...
made popular Oct 21 2009
It’s official. If there is a chance for entering or breaking a world record, Mexico will be there. That, my friends, you can take to the bank.
Fourty two sites...
made popular Oct 21 2009
Are you tired of the same old Halloween costumes? Ever wonder what it’s like to be an illegal alien? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of the following...
made popular Oct 21 2009
Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button.
The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico’s colonial city of Puebla are driven exclusively by...
made popular Oct 20 2009
A la Madre, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Doesn’t anybody in this world have anything better to do than sit around and create surveys? Hijo de...
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It wasn’t that long ago that Tunisia starting printing, so to speak, a new 5 Dinar coin (exchange rate 1.39 Dinar: 1 Dollar). That coin featured the image of the...
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Zimbabweans will be allowed to conduct business in other currencies, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar, in an effort to stem the country\’s runaway inflation.
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The following events and economic reports may influence trading in Latin American local bonds and currencies today. Bond yields and exchange rates are from the previous...
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Every month, one billion rupees worth of fake Indian currency is smuggled via Kathmandu airport to Birganj and across into India.
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Philippine peso gained 0.6% to 46.96 to the US dollar — its highest since Oct.2 — as investors snap up local stocks following moves by governments in the...
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What rules our life in modern times? What makes us a loser? Recently a columnist has said, “If you don’t have money you are a loser”. Is it so? As the DLF IPL...
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The dollar has long been the currency of choice for Central banks, tourists, smugglers, African dictators and individuals around the world as it’s liquid, easily...
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A worker prepares banknotes at a bank in Suining in southwest China’s Sichuan province, March 21, 2009. China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar, showing a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of...
