Posted by Matt in July 27th, 2008 |
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Mexico,
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Drivers unlikely to see gas prices retreat to levels enjoyed for a generation
The two events, half a world apart, went largely unheralded.
Early this month, Valero Energy in Texas got the unwelcome news that Mexico would be cutting supplies to one of the company’s Gulf Coast refineries by up to 15 percent. Mexico’s state-owned oil enterprise [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 19th, 2008 |
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Jewels,
Kidnappings,
Local Bank,
Male Voice,
Mama Papa,
Mexico,
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Youngster
The phone call begins with the cries of an anguished child calling for a parent: “Mama! Papa!” The youngster’s sobs are quickly replaced by a husky male voice that means business.
“We’ve got your child,” he says in rapid-fire Spanish, usually adding an expletive for effect and then rattling off a list of demands that might [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 18th, 2008 |
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Winning The War
Mexico finds tons of cocaine in submarine
Reuters - 4 hours ago
… which they say would do more to weaken the cartels. Some 1700 people have been killed in drug gang violence in Mexico so far this year, and Calderon’s …
Mexico infiltrated
ISN, Switzerland - Jul 17, 2008
With a fast increase of police, will the government prevent [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 6th, 2008 |
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India,
Mexico,
Number Of Countries,
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Percentage Terms,
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Political Instability,
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Corruption continues to intensify in two-fifths of the world’s nations, nurtured by persistent poverty, political instability and crime.
In percentage terms, the number of countries perceived to be corrupt fell slightly, according to recent surveys by Transparency International, an international watchdog group. But that’s only because the sample size of its annual study has gotten larger [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 30th, 2008 |
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Speak fraternally but carry a stick. Is there a new arms race—or just overdue retooling of armies?
Even as its leaders talk, Latin America is re-arming—or rather some South American countries are. In the broader region, including Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, total defence spending shot up to $38 billion in 2007 from $25 billion [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 26th, 2008 |
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Decade,
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Mexico,
Oil Imports,
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Oil Production,
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Pemex
Output is tanking, but there’s fierce opposition to a plan that could reward Big Oil for helping find new reserves
Reform is urgent: Oil output in Mexico, the world’s No. 6 producer of crude, is plummeting. At the Cantarell field, the country’s main source of oil, production is declining 15% annually. Pemex pumped 2.85 million barrels [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 13th, 2008 |
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Alfredo Beltran,
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Sinaloa Drug Cartel
Edgar Millan Gomez was shot dead in his own home in Mexico City on May 8. Millan Gomez was the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in Mexico, responsible for overseeing most of Mexico’s counternarcotics efforts. He orchestrated the January arrest of one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, Alfredo Beltran Leyva. (Several Sinaloa members have [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 28th, 2008 |
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iraq,
Mexico,
Nigeria,
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Oil Output,
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Russia,
Venezuela,
Violence In Iraq
The reality is that as far as the current run-up in gasoline prices is concerned, other factors are more to blame: shrinking oil output from such key producers as Mexico, Russia and Venezuela; internal violence in Iraq and Nigeria; refinery inadequacies in the U.S. and elsewhere; speculative stockpiling by global oil brokers, and so on. [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 16th, 2008 |
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Latin America’s three leading economies – Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico – have dusted off old blueprints for nuclear generators and are developing projects that could more than double the region’s capacity from the power source. Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela are following suit by studying projects to start nuclear energy programs.
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Posted by Matt in April 16th, 2008 |
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The principal characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power. This represents a tectonic shift from the past.
The twentieth century started out distinctly multipolar. But after almost [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 9th, 2008 |
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Vicente Fox
Mexico today is filled with foreboding that very bad things could happen in pursuit of something very good - progress.
Our neighbor to the south began this century casting off the manacles of single-party rule. A new plural democracy elected Vicente Fox as president and hoped he would steer the country to a more prosperous future.
It [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 29th, 2008 |
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Due to increased pressure from the Calderon administration, some members of Mexican organized crime may begin crossing the border in significant numbers to set up US-based operations.
Dozens of murders have resulted from battles between the Mexican security forces and armed criminals along the US-Mexico border since the beginning of this year. It is a spike [...]
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Posted by Matt in August 9th, 2007 |
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Finally, the worse news is that the cheap-labor lobbyists, terrorists and world-governing globalists are all moving ahead with their various plans. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from an alarming story on the front page of yesterday’s Washington Times, which informed us that “Islamic extremists embedded in the United States - posing as Hispanic nationals [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 30th, 2007 |
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On Monday night, the beautiful young woman who represented America in the Miss Universe pageant was booed and mocked as she competed on stage in Mexico City. Rachel Smith, 22, did her best to respond with grace and dignity during the Top Five finalists’ interview segment as the audience disrupted the event.
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The Barbarians are [...]
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Posted by Matt in March 14th, 2007 |
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Anti-American sentiment runs high here, with more than half of 1,000 people surveyed in a recent BBC poll saying they viewed the United States’ influence in the world as mainly negative. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percent.
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Posted by Matt in March 7th, 2007 |
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by Sean Brodrick
3/7/2007 8:00:00 AM
Do you think gasoline prices are too high? Do you think illegal immigration is a problem? Well, get ready for more of both, because Mexico, the #3 supplier of imported fuel to the U.S., is spiraling into a quiet energy crisis that could interrupt our oil supplies, send shockwaves through our [...]
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Posted by Matt in March 4th, 2007 |
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Chinese control of worldwide port facilities is an issue that should be reexamined in light of recent concerns about rising Chinese influence around the globe. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa, owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing, controls 35 major ports in the world, including the four most important ports in Mexico.
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