Concerns grow after journalist shot in Mexico
Mexico became Latin America’s most dangerous country in which to be a journalist in 2005, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday.
The organization issued a statement expressing concern about the safety of journalists in Mexico a day after police in the southern state of Oaxaca announced that a radio news reporter had been shot and critically wounded by assailants.
In northern Mexico alone this year, six journalists have been killed and a seventh is still missing, according to Mexican newspaper editors.
In September, Mexican President Vicente Fox said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate freedom of expression crimes, including attacks against journalists.
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Mexico's first lady makes court appearance in lawsuit against biographer
Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun appeared at a Mexico City court on Friday for a hearing on a civil suit she has filed against an Argentine journalist who she claims damaged her reputation and invaded her privacy.
During the hearing, Sahagun stood near Olga Wornat, the journalist who authored two books that cast the first lady in an unfavorable light, but the two did not speak.
Sahagun's lawsuit alleges she suffered "moral damage" after Wornat and a news magazine published documents relating to the annulment of Sahagun's previous marriage.
Both women
Lopez joins Hollywood trail to Mexico's murder town
The plight of more than 400 women murdered in a Mexican city in the last 12 years is to get the Hollywood treatment in a new movie starring Jennifer Lopez.
Lopez and co-stars Antonio Banderas and Martin Sheen are currently filming in the Mexican border town of Nogales, where a set resembling the streets of Ciudad Juarez, where the murders took place, has been erected.
In Bordertown, Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter whose crusading investigations in Juarez, just across the border from Texas, awaken her sense of identity as a Latin woman. Banderas plays a
Delta could grow more in Brazil, Mexico
Even as Delta Air Lines Inc. struggles with its own bankruptcy, the airline could capitalize on the financial troubles of two international competitors: Mexicos AeroMéxico and Brazils Varig.
AeroMéxico, Mexicos biggest airline -- which is for sale -- has been reducing flights to some U.S. cities.
And Brazils largest carrier, the bankrupt Varig, made headlines recently by running out of operating cash, canceling hundreds of flights, and threatening to strand about 5,000 customers at the World Cup soccer competition in Germany -- including, some worried, Brazils national soccer team.
Enter Delta (OTC: DALRQ), which
Mexicos Peso Falls to Eight-Week Low Amid Inflation Concerns
Mexicos peso dropped to an eight- week low against the dollar and local-currency bonds fell on expectations inflation quickened last month.
The peso fell as much as 0.6 percent today before a report that is expected to show consumer prices rose 0.44 percent last month, the biggest increase in seven months, according to the median forecast of 16 economists in a Bloomberg survey. Accelerating inflation decreases the value of peso-denominated assets.
The inflation number today is going to look pretty bad, said Raul Rodriguez, head of economic analysis at Mexico City- based
Mexico drug prosecutor shot dead in ambush
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a federal drug prosecutor in this industrial city, the latest in a surge of shootings linked to organized crime in northern Mexico, police said on Tuesday.
Hitmen strafed Miguel Angel Esquivel's car as he drove through the outskirts of Monterrey, in northeast Mexico, at around midnight on Monday, killing him instantly, the state prosecutor's office said.
More than 1,000 people, most in northern and western Mexico, have been murdered this year in a brutal battle between rival cartels for control of the cross-border trade with the United States in cocaine,
Bulgarian Murder in Mexico Goes Unpunished for 2 Years
The murder of Bulgaria-descended Marika Dimitrova, who was shot dead in the Mexican city of Leon at the end of 2003, has remained unpunished for two years already, the Mexican online edition "A.M." reported.
The incident took place near the school where the woman was teaching French and Spanish. Dimitrova was just about to get out of her car when a passing-by motorcyclist shot at her December 17 2003.
Two years after the murder the Mexican prosecutor's office has failed to arrest the killer.
Initially there have been speculations that the perpetrator
Winning debut: Sorenstam repeats in Mexico
For the second year in a row Annika Sorenstam opened her season with a victory at the MasterCard Classic, shooting a two-under 70 on Sunday to win by one shot.
Sorenstam finished the tournament at eight-under-par 208 for her 67th career title. Her win here last year was the first of 10 on the season, and also the first of three straight.
"To come here with high expectations to defend a title is always tough, but I thought I played really well and I'm very happy about that," said Sorenstam. "This is a great
Mexico's Bolsa Falls for Week on Profit Concerns: Latin Stocks
Mexico's Bolsa index fell, heading for a second straight weekly decline, on concern that earnings growth may slow and the government may become less favorable to investors after this year's election.
Mexico's Bolsa fell 319.21, or 1.7 percent, to 18,199.12 at 2 p.m. New York time, and has fallen 3.6 percent for the week. Cemex SA, the world's third-largest cement maker, led today's decline. Brazil's Bovespa rose 92.96, or 0.3 percent, to 36,975.27, paring its decline for the week to 0.8 percent.
``You are starting to see opinions that emerging
Latin American Stocks Decline, Led by Mexico, on Rate Concerns
Latin America's benchmark stock index fell to the lowest level in more than a month as rising interest rates worldwide prompt investors to pull money out of riskier securities such as equities.
The Morgan Stanley Capital International index of Latin American stocks fell 1.7 percent to 1879.60 as of 12:37 p.m. New York time, its lowest level since Sept. 5, led by Mexico's America Movil, Latin America's No. 1 wireless telephone company.
``Investors are getting out of volatility to go to safe havens,'' said Alfredo Rotemberg, who helps manage $220
Mexico police storm steel plant, 2 shot dead
Hundreds of Mexican police stormed a major steel plant on Thursday to force out striking workers in a violent clash that spilled onto the streets and left at least two workers dead.
Steel workers and police with riot gear and shields fought a pitched battle at the Sicartsa complex, which has been closed for three weeks by workers defending a union boss whom the government accuses of graft.
Dozens were injured when some 600 police moved in firing tear gas canisters early in the morning at the plant in the western state of
