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Mexico launches investigation into Wal-Mart bribery scandal
The Mexican unit of retail-giant Wal-Mart, Walmex, is accused of bribing Mexican officials in an attempt to obtain permits for expansion of its branches.
Mexico’s Federal Comptroller’s Office has launched an inquiry into bribery charges against a Mexican unit of the American retail-giant Wal-Mart for allegedly bribing Mexican officials to obtain expansion permits.
The comptroller’s office...
Study says Mayan civilization was wiped out by drought
A recent study has suggested that the conditions caused by a mild drought might have been the reason for the collapse of the Mayan civilization.
The research published in the journal Nature says a continuous 25 to 40 percent drop in rainfall reduced water supplies in the homeland of the ancient Maya civilization located in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala.
Researchers at the Yucatan Centre...
Nokia to axe 4,000 more jobs, improve production efficiency
Today, Nokia announced that it’s going to cut 4,000 more jobs at its factories in Hungary, Mexico and Finland in an effort to improve the production efficiency of said plants. The company plans on moving a larger part of the production of its smartphones to Asia, which it says will help reduce the time it takes for its products to reach the market.
As Nokia continues to suffer the effect of...
Megaquake Warning Issued For US-Mexican Pacific Coast
A disturbing report prepared by the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) in Moscow that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Chiapas region of Mexico yesterday is a ‘potential precursor’ to a ‘megaquake’ of at least 7.5-8.3 expected to hit the US-Mexican Pacific coastline within the next fortnight (+/- 7 days).
According to...
Drug cartels have incredible power in Mexico and USA
Drug cartels rule Mexico. Those criminal structures are like transnational corporations. They produce and distribute drugs in Mexico and enjoy their undivided reign in the country. Los Zetas cartel is a special phenomenon in Mexico. The cartel was literally created and developed by US special services.
The unique criminal group originally appeared as a military structure. The group appeared to support...
Attack On White House By Mexican Cartel Stuns Obama Regime
A new Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regime was stunned this past weekend after a brazen attack on the White House was carried out by members associated with at least two Mexican drug cartels that shattered at least one window in what is arguably the most protected building in the world.
According to this report, and confirmed by the US...
Mexican Interior Secretary Dies in Helicopter Crash
Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora has been killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, November 11, 2011.
Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and seven others have been killed in a helicopter crash near Mexico City.
“Unfortunately the interior secretary, his collaborators and the helicopter crew were found dead,” government spokesman Alejandra Sota said in a Friday...
Mexican troops arrest Tijuana drug boss
Mexicans soldiers guard Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, a top operative of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, in Mexico City, on November 7, 2011.
Mexican army troops have arrested a top operative of the once-powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel in the northwestern state of Baja California.
Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, alias “El Sillas”, and three associates were arrested over the weekend in the...
Former Minnesota Governor angry on US wants to move to Mexico
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said he would now refer to the country of his birth as the “Fascist States of America” after a judge dismissed his case challenging airport pat downs, adding that his only recourse now would be to run for President.
“Ventura made his comments outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where in January he sued to challenge the Transportation Security...
14 tons of marijuana seized by U.S. Border Patrol
Over 1000 bundles of marijuana being stacked by U.S. Border Patrol Agents (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sector seized a tractor-trailer with over 14 tons of marijuana valued at more than $22.6 million dollars.
The discovery was made Tuesday evening after a canine team from the Indio station alerted to a large tractor-trailer at the Highway 86 checkpoint...
Gang dumps 35 bodies on street in Mexico
35 dead bodies were dumped on the street in Mexican state of Veracruz
Gunmen have blocked a busy road in the Mexican state of Veracruz in rush hour to abandon two trucks with 35 bodies inside.
In the latest disturbing sign of Mexico’s ongoing gang problems, suspected drug traffickers dumped dead bodies of 23 men and 12 women under a busy overpass in downtown Boca del Rio on Tuesday afternoon,...
Massive US Troop Buildup On Mexican Border Fuels Invasion Fears
A grim report prepared by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, Chairman of Russia’s Government Military-Industrial Commission, is warning today that US President Obama’s order to install Raytheon (RTN) SM-3 missile defense systems 50 miles from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad this past week is “more than likely” related to America’s planned invasion of Mexico that he warns “may be imminent.”
Ivanov’s...
Mayan Secrets to Be Revealed by Mexican Government in '2012' Doc
The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” TheWrap has learned.
The information — protected for 80 years — is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as “shocking,” producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of...
Report: 1,300 children killed in Mexico's drug war
A drug cartel mass grave.
Nearly 1,300 children and teenagers have died in Mexico since the beginning of the drug war in December 2006, the Network for the Rights of Children (Redim) said on Wednesday.
CNN reported that the children have died as a result of the fight against organized crime that began when Felipe Calderón became president in December 2006. The 1,300 deaths represent a 3.7 percent...
Despite Violence, U.S. Firms Expand in Mexico
Newly hired workers, wearing yellow jerseys, were trained at Spellman High Voltage's second manufacturing plant, which makes X-ray components in Matamoros, Mexico.
When the latest bloody headlines from the drug war in Mexico reach headquarters in New York, Ken Chandler, the manager of an American electronics manufacturing plant here, jumps on the phone.
He is not begging to come home. He is begging...