http://www.mail.com/organizations/1315842-mexico-government.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/1315842-mexico-government.html http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2124690-china-drawn-to-mexicos-opening-economy.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — China has invested heavily in resource-rich Latin America in recent years, striking major trade deals with governments from Venezuela to Argentina. Now its president is reaching out to one of the few countries in the region where ties have been slow to develop: Mexico. President Xi Jinping's three-day visit starting Tuesday comes as Mex... Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:36:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2124690-china-drawn-to-mexicos-opening-economy.html 2013-06-02T16:36:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2120156-ex-mexico-president-praises-wash-pot-businessmen.html SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state businessmen who say they're trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received some heartfelt support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox. Fox appeared at a news conference in Seattle, where he recounted how the war on drugs has ravaged his country and praised the states of Washington and ... Fri, 31 May 2013 03:05:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2120156-ex-mexico-president-praises-wash-pot-businessmen.html 2013-05-31T03:05:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103732-mexico-cartel-dominates-torches-western.html LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and businesses such as butchers, promp... Wed, 22 May 2013 23:07:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103732-mexico-cartel-dominates-torches-western.html 2013-05-22T23:07:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100942-soldiers-flood-western-mexico-to-protect-towns.html COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong and his national security team met with local officials ... Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100942-soldiers-flood-western-mexico-to-protect-towns.html 2013-05-21T21:23:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099386-besieged-mexican-town-cheers-arrival-soldiers.html LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. People in La Ruana in Michoacan state lined the main road to greet more than a dozen troop transports and heavily armed Humvees with applause and shouts of joy. The town's supplies had been blo... Tue, 21 May 2013 04:38:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099386-besieged-mexican-town-cheers-arrival-soldiers.html 2013-05-21T04:38:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2069174-22-dead-gas-tanker-explosion-mexico-city.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said. Officials at the Citizen Safety Department of Mexico State, which surrounds the capital, did not rule ou... Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2069174-22-dead-gas-tanker-explosion-mexico-city.html 2013-05-08T04:00:33Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059902-migrants-to-obama-deport-mama.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Beneath the slogan "Obama, don't deport my Mama," dozens of migrant families deported from the U.S. despite having children born there rallied outside the U.S. Embassy before President Barack Obama's arrival Thursday, demanding passage of a U.S. immigration law they say is vital to keeping families together. Vladimir Mejia Franco, 12, h... Fri, 03 May 2013 12:19:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059902-migrants-to-obama-deport-mama.html 2013-05-03T12:19:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059396-obama-mexican-president-talk-economy-security.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to tamp down a potential rift with Mexico over a dramatic shift in the cross-border fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, acceding that Mexicans had the right to determine how best to tackle the violence that has plagued their country. Since taking office in December, Mexican Presi... Fri, 03 May 2013 00:19:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059396-obama-mexican-president-talk-economy-security.html 2013-05-03T00:19:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2057872-obama-to-pitch-immigration-overhaul-mexico.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has his top domestic ambition at the head of his agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs a growing economy in Mexico and a Mexican president willing to help him secure the border. Obama was flying to Mexico City Thursday to meet with President Enrique Pena Ni... Thu, 02 May 2013 16:10:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2057872-obama-to-pitch-immigration-overhaul-mexico.html 2013-05-02T16:10:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2057158-security-casts-shadow-obamas-mexico-trip.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, even as fresh questions about security cooperation threaten to cast a shadow over the president's visit to the southern neighbor. Obama also will use his three-day trip, which begins Thursday and includes a stop in Costa Rica, to highlight the im... Wed, 01 May 2013 22:58:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2057158-security-casts-shadow-obamas-mexico-trip.html 2013-05-01T22:58:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053918-obama-wont-judge-mexican-security-moves.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he will wait until he meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto later this week before judging Mexico's moves to curtail broad access to U.S. security agencies in the battle against drug trafficking and organized crime Obama, who will travel to Mexico City Thursday, said Pena Nieto is "serious about refo... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:19:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2053918-obama-wont-judge-mexican-security-moves.html 2013-04-30T17:19:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2052704-mexico-ends-open-access-us-security-agencies.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is ending its unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime. All contact for U.S. law enforcement will now go through "a single window," the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcoc... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:22:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2052704-mexico-ends-open-access-us-security-agencies.html 2013-04-30T02:22:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051886-mexican-officials-daughter-restaurant-closed.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official's daughter has caused a scandal by sending inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the table she wanted. It's the latest of several cases of seeming arrogance by the wealthy and well-connected that have caused anger recently in a country with deep class divisions. Many people say string-pulling and i... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:34:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051886-mexican-officials-daughter-restaurant-closed.html 2013-04-29T21:34:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2041344-once-touted-corruption-cases-collapse-mexico.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some of Mexico's most high-profile corruption cases have unraveled recently on thin or made-up evidence, reinforcing long-held notions that the Attorney General's Office is more focused on political vendettas or favors than justice. Among the cases to collapse or suffer setbacks are those of a former drug czar and a former No. 2 in the ... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:09:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2041344-once-touted-corruption-cases-collapse-mexico.html 2013-04-24T23:09:03Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2018562-mexican-president-faces-teachers-revolt.html ATLIACA, Mexico (AP) — Easter vacation was over, but there wasn't a teacher in sight at the boarding school for indigenous children on the edge of this sunbaked southern Mexico hill town. A 37-year-old cook who hadn't finished high school sat between two little girls on a cement stoop outside the kitchen, peering at their dog-eared notebooks as they strug... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:20:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2018562-mexican-president-faces-teachers-revolt.html 2013-04-14T14:20:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1980696-drug-war-death-tolls-guess-without-bodies.html REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Heavy gunfire echoed along the main thoroughfare and across several neighborhoods in a firefight that lasted for hours, leaving perforated and burned vehicles scattered across the border city. Social media exploded with reports of dozens dead. Witnesses saw at least 12. But the hours of intense gun battles in Reynosa on March 10 gav... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:34:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1980696-drug-war-death-tolls-guess-without-bodies.html 2013-03-26T19:34:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1969132-mexico-demands-sothebys-halt-auction-artifacts.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government is demanding that Sotheby's auction house halt the planned sale of 51 pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts, arguing they are protected national historical pieces. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday that Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the French government seeking assistance in headi... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:16:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1969132-mexico-demands-sothebys-halt-auction-artifacts.html 2013-03-21T19:16:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1964112-mexicos-president-gathers-power-pushes-reform.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — New President Enrique Pena Nieto has been fast out of the blocks in attacking some of Mexico's toughest issues in a country often stymied by monopolies and corruption. He arrested the most powerful woman in Mexico, leader of the largest union in Latin America, on allegations of corruption that previous presidents saw but were too compro... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:01:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1964112-mexicos-president-gathers-power-pushes-reform.html 2013-03-19T07:01:11Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1946684-mexico-moves-tv-telephone-tycoons.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto moved Monday to overhaul and strengthen the weak and chaotic regulations that have allowed the world's richest man and its largest Spanish-language media empire to exert near-total control of Mexico's lucrative telephone and television markets. The reforms would give the Mexican government tools to take on m... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:21:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1946684-mexico-moves-tv-telephone-tycoons.html 2013-03-12T04:21:01Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1928942-mexicos-ruling-party-yes-to-energy-reform.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's ruling party changed its platform on Sunday to allow for private investment in the oil industry, paving the way for a possible overhaul of a state-owned company that is seen as a pillar of the nation. Nearly 5,000 members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as the PRI, voted unanimously at their national conven... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:28:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1928942-mexicos-ruling-party-yes-to-energy-reform.html 2013-03-04T00:28:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1918104-mexico-plays-hardball-jailing-union-boss.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrest of Mexico's most powerful union leader echoes the hardball tactics of Mexico's once-imperial presidency while pushing forward an education reform that Enrique Pena Nieto has made a centerpiece of his new administration. Elba Esther Gordillo, known for flashing her Hermes handbags and heels, stood behind bars Wednesday in a gr... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:44:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1918104-mexico-plays-hardball-jailing-union-boss.html 2013-02-28T04:44:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1917828-head-mexicos-powerful-teachers-union-arrested.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union was arrested at an airport near Mexico City Tuesday for alleged embezzlement, with federal officials accusing her of using union funds to pay for plastic surgery, to buy a house in San Diego and even to pay her bill at Neiman Marcus. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said that Elba Esther... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:46:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1917828-head-mexicos-powerful-teachers-union-arrested.html 2013-02-27T04:46:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1906662-mexicos-government-pledges-hunt-disappeared.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Thursday that it will work with the International Red Cross on the search for thousands of people who have disappeared during the country's six-year-old war on drug cartels. Officials provided few details of the arrangement signed in a public ceremony by the head of the International Red Cross and Interior Secretary Miguel A... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:59:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1906662-mexicos-government-pledges-hunt-disappeared.html 2013-02-21T21:59:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday. As hundreds of emergency worke... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html 2013-02-01T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854108-mexicos-president-mum-drug-violence.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took office promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico's drug cartels continue unabated. Only the government's talk about them has dropped. Eighteen members of a band and its retinue were kidnapped and apparently slain over the weekend in the northern border state of Nu... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854108-mexicos-president-mum-drug-violence.html 2013-01-29T23:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1827526-us-commandos-boost-numbers-to-train-mexican-forces.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico's bloody drug war with a new U.S.-based special operations headquarters to teach Mexican security forces how to hunt drug cartels the same way special operations teams hunt al-Qaida, according to documents and interviews with multiple U.S. officials. Such assistance could help newly elected Mexi... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1827526-us-commandos-boost-numbers-to-train-mexican-forces.html 2013-01-17T23:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1790034-mexico-finds-smuggling-tunnel-us-border.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have discovered a sophisticated smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation not far from the Nogales port of entry into Arizona, U.S. and Mexican officials said Friday. The Mexican army said the tunnel was found Thursday after authorities received an anonymous call in the border city of Nogales, Sonora... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1790034-mexico-finds-smuggling-tunnel-us-border.html 2012-12-28T18:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1783680-list-1000s-missing-raises-doubts-mexico.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in 2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state of Michoacan to fight drug traffickers. Since then, his mother, Araceli Rodriguez, has taken it into her own hands to investigate her son's disappearance and has publicized the case inside and outside Mex... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1783680-list-1000s-missing-raises-doubts-mexico.html 2012-12-22T19:55:00Z