Monterrey is the capital city of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, well known for its industries, particularly beer, finance, glass, and steel. Carta Blanca, Bohemia, Sol, Casta, Indio, XX, and Nochebuena are examples of the beers produced in the city. Vitro figures as one of the most important glass factories in North America. Cemex, the world wide conglomerate of cement, concrete, and building materials, has its headquarters there, as well as Banorte, the only large Mexican bank controlled by Mexicans. The steel industry used to be led by the “CompañÃa Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey", popularly known as Fundidora, which went broke in the mid-1980s. Today, the remains of the Fundidora factory have been transformed into the beautiful Fundidora Park, which hosts a Champcars race once a year.
Monterrey is located in northeastern Mexico, and has about 1.1 million inhabitants, although the Greater Monterrey metropolitan area (San Pedro Garza GarcÃa, San Nicolás de los Garza, Apodaca, Guadalupe, Escobedo, Santa Catarina, Garcia, and Juarez) add another 2.5 million, making Monterrey’s metropolitan area the third most populous in Mexico. The inhabitants of any part of the metropolitan area refer to themselves as inhabitants of Monterrey, or Regiomontanos, and all the 9 cities (Monterrey, and the other 8 cities of the metro area) are all globally called Monterrey.
Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon: Monterrey
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7 killed in new wave of violence in Mexico
Seven people were killed and 19 others arrested in a new wave of violence affecting several regions of Mexico over the past 24 hours, police said Sunday.
Among the victims were three guards of a prison near the city of Monterrey in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, police said.
The guards were thought to be killed in a revenge by drug-traffickers operating on the Mexican-US border.
So far this year, a total of 25 people have been killed in
Tropical storm Gert kills one, affects thousands in northern Mexico
One person had been killed in floods in Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon caused by tropical storm Gert which touched down in the Tamaulipas state Sunday, local media reported Tuesday.
The victim's body was found entangled in branches and trees, one km away from the spot where he was caught by water of La Silla River, the report said.
According to the Civil Protection Office in Nuevo Leon, rains will continue affecting several states in northern Mexico in the coming hours.
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A partnership of Bombardier Inc., Siemens AG and Grupo Garza Ponce SA won a $244 million contract to equip an expanded Monterrey, Mexico, light rail mass transit system.
Bombardier, the world's biggest maker of railway equipment, valued its share at about $43 million in a statement distributed by Business Wire today. Bombardier said it will provide 14 light rail vehicles to the Monterrey Mass Transit Authority, Metrorrey, with deliveries expected in the second half of 2007.
The Monterrey transit system, Mexico's second-largest, is being lengthened by 8.7 kilometers, including 1.5 kilometers underground, Bombardier said.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Mexico arrests former police official in 1975 kidnap, disappearance of leftist rebel
Police on Thursday arrested Carlos Solana Macias, a former police director in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, for the 1975 kidnapping of leftist rebel Jesus Piedra Ibarra, who was never seen again.
It was the latest chapter in Mexico's uneven efforts to prosecute political crimes of the 1960s and 70s. Piedra Ibarra's mother, Rosario Ibarra, has fought a 30-year struggle for justice in her son's case.
Solana Macias was arrested while driving in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood, and will be transferred to Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo
Sasken plans development center in Mexico
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has announced its plans to set up its international Development and Support Center in Nuevo Leon in Mexico, where it a wholly owned subsidiary, Sasken Communication Technologies Mexico.
Sasken Mexico's 12,000 sq ft development and support centre in Monterrey, in the Apodaca Industrial Park will be able to accommodate 100+ engineers. The process for hiring the required engineers has already been initiated. The facility will be operational by the end of the first quarter of 2006. This center will focus primarily on Embedded System Software Development.
"Mexico has excellent infrastructure
Death toll reaches six, could climb in Mexico blasts
Official says 10 still hospitalized with severe burns
Mexican officials say a sixth person has died of injuries suffered in last week's fiery collision of a propane tanker and freight train in the agricultural community of Lucio Blanco, and the death toll could climb.
"There are still lot of people in very grave condition who could die in the next 15 days," said Roberto Garcia, head of the Department of Civil Protection in Matamoros. He said 10 people are hospitalized with burns over 70 percent of their bodies.
The latest victim was Rodolfo Briseno Flores,
More Bodies Discovered Along Texas-Mexico Border
Authorities say four bullet-ridden bodies have been discovered at a ranch 30 miles southeast of the northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Meanwhile, four more shooting deaths in two attacks also were reported over the weekend in Nuevo Laredo, across the U.S. border from Laredo.
The four bodies found at a ranch in the rural town of Anahuac included a 13-year-old boy.
Jorge Cantu, a spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state attorney general's office, says the victims had been dead about 36 hours before police found them Sunday.
Cantu says prosecutors were investigating whether killings were related to
Mexico warns of long drug fight, more deaths ahead
Mexico warned on Tuesday of a long fight against drug traffickers and more deaths among security forces after two police chiefs were shot dead near Texas.
A spokesman for President Vicente Fox said the fatal shootings on Monday would not deter the government in its "frontal attack against organized crime."
More than 1,000 people died last year as gangs battled for control of lucrative smuggling routes to Texas from northeast Mexico, many in Nuevo Laredo across from Laredo, Texas.
"The Mexican state will emerge victorious, but there will still be a long period of conflict
Mexico's massive coastline of reefs and swells and expanse of mountain ranges cut by long rivers make it very well suited to outdoor adventure. There is an adventure tourism organization in Mexico City, the Association Mexicana de Turismo de Aventura y Ecoturismo (AMTAVE)Jnsurgentes Sur 1981-251, Colonia Guadalupe Inn. Mexico DF.
Aerial sports
There are some agencies which specialize in aerial sports. See under 'Specialists in adventure tourism'under the Directory for Mexico City. Guanajuato, Vallede Bravo (for hang-gliding), and Hidalgo state are most often the backdrop.
Canyoning
Rappel, or abseiling, is often the only way to reach some sites so canyoning is frequently a
