Lady Bears’ Mexico trip mostly business
Baylor’s trip to Riviera Maya, Mexico, sounds like a nice get-away vacation for the national champion Lady Bears.
Take in a little sand, surf and hoops over an extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
But make no mistake about it, this is no vacation.
“You can’t just roam free around Mexico and show up for game time,†said senior guard Chameka Scott. “I think we’re a team that knows when to play and when not to play. And a lot of having fun is actually winning. So we’re going to win first and then have some fun.â€
The fifth-ranked Lady Bears (4-0) will play California (4-1) at 1:30 p.m. today and Marshall (2-1) at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Caribbean Classic. Because of Hurricane Wilma damage, the tournament was moved from Cancun to the Aventura Spa Palace Resort in Rivera Maya.
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Blunt heading to Mexico on trade trip
Gov. Matt Blunt is heading to Mexico on Sunday for his first international trade trip, which includes a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Blunt said his goal is to increase sales of Missouri products to Mexico, as well as to discuss the creation of a Mexican customs facility in Kansas City that will allow goods to be shipped straight into the heart of the United States without first having to clear customs at the borders.
Kansas City's SmartPort project will allow goods from Asia, for example, to travel through the Mexican port city of Lazaro
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
The faithful honor Mexico's holy patroness
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans celebrated a holy day Monday dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to a 55-year-old peasant named Juan Diego near Mexico City on December 12, 1531. Juan Diego was instructed to gather roses and place them in his tilma, a long cloak, and go to see the bishop. When he unfolded his cloak, the Blessed Mother appeared when the roses fell out.
In 1754, Pope Benedict XIV decreed that Our Lady of Guadalupe should be Mexico's national patron and made December 12 a holy day of
South of the Border, the Christmas Bonus Is Sacred
As a gardener, Carlos Bonilla Torres endures a series of indignities much of the year.
Clients order him to scoop dog droppings, tote furniture and wash their cars for no extra pay. Some never speak to him except to complain that the grass needs mowing. He bears it all for $134 a week.
But December is payback time. That's when even Bonilla's most imperious customers hand over envelopes stuffed with cash. The extra $512 he received this year will allow him to buy new clothes for the family and treat them to
Basilica de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe) : Monterrey
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title given to the Virgin Mary after appearing, according to legend, to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism, in the village of Guadalupe (the present-day Gustavo A. Madero, D.F.) near Mexico City in 1531.
Less famously, the same name also refers to a statue of Mary that dating from 1326, found in the city of Guadalupe in Spain.
Origin of the Mexican Lady of Guadalupe
According to the story generally accepted by Catholics, Juan Diego was walking between his village and Tenochtitlan (now
Assembly leader's trip to Mexico rife with political implications
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez leaves for a three-day trip to Mexico this week to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox and other officials, a visit he says is needed to repair frayed relations between California and its largest trading partner.
Nunez said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent comments on border security, including his praise of the volunteer Minuteman patrols, offended some Mexican officials.
"I didn't realize the attitude in Mexico toward Gov. Schwarzenegger is bad, very bad," Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said . "When I talk to people from Mexico, high-ranking officials from Mexico, it is
Mexico leftist: Banks, business leaders a "mafia"
The leftist front runner to become Mexico's next president said its top business leaders and bankers make up an elite "mafia" that has cozied up to government to win favors at the expense of the masses.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivered the scathing attack during his morning television show on Monday and in a weekend campaign swing among peasants in the Gulf state of Veracruz, in a departure from his earlier conciliatory attitude toward big business.
"We face a mafia, a gang, people who have dedicated themselves to taking advantage of the government and putting it
Idaho officials heading to Mexico to boost trade with state
Idaho business and political leaders traveling to Mexico next month for a trade mission want to lure more rich foreign tourists to the state, boost exports of products such as software and help put an end to Mexican trade restrictions on fresh potatoes that have dented sales of Idaho's trademark tuber.
The trip is set for Dec. 3 through Dec. 10, and a delegation of 68 people will accompany Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, who earlier this year spent two weeks in Asia on a trade mission to that region.
This is the fourth
NFL - 49ers, Cardinals set for historic Mexico trip
Sunday 2nd October 2005 will be a momentous date in the 86-year history of the NFL, as it will be the date of the first ever regular season game to be played outside the United States.
The San Francisco 49ers will take on the Arizona Cardinals at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, with a crowd of 85,000 expected.
The event is part of Hispanic Heritage Month, and could pave the way for further games to be held outside the USA, including a proposed game in London.
The game will be broadcast by 18 broadcasters
Asientos : Aguascalientes
Located in the northeast part of the state east municipality is located, approximately to 61 kilometers of the city of Aguascalientes. Towards the northwest the impressive mountainous mountain range of the Mountain range of Asientos is contemplated. The highest tip is the Altamira hill, with 2.600 meters on the level of the sea. Asientos were founded by the gentlemen Francisco Ibarra, Don Benito Gaspar de Larrañaga and Juan Ignacio de Larrañaga Saucedo. In the year of 1548 a group of gambusinos congregated in lands pertaining to the extinguished today Property of Our Lady of the Hill. This
