LEIPZIG, GERMANY - The Confederations Cup was supposed to be about the haves and have-nots of world soccer, with Brazil, Argentina and Germany expected to dominate the eight-team championship.
Clearly, no one told Mexico.
“We reckon it’s time the world sat up and took notice of us,” said Jared Borgetti, who scored on a header in Mexico’s 1-0 victory over Brazil on Sunday. “We’ve proved Mexico can play good football.”
The Tricolores look certain to qualify for the World Cup, but this competition has given Ricardo La Volpe’s team a chance to make an impact one year earlier.
Mexico started with a 2-1 victory over Asian champion Japan, then raised its game to beat the Brazilians.
Brazil had looked awesome in defeating European champion Greece 3-0, but Mexico defended solidly against a star-studded attack and consistently put together quality moves.
“They caused us a lot of problems with their fast passes on the ground and they were surprisingly good in defense,” said Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. “There were three or four Mexicans around the ball all the time.”
Although Mexico won a Confederations Cup title at home in 1999 — when it beat Brazil in the final — it has never reached a World Cup semifinal.
Telmex to Cut Rates to Boost Mexico Sales, Chico Says
Telefonos de Mexico SA, the nation's biggest fixed-line carrier, plans to keep cutting rates to bolster telephone use in a bid to halt a three-year decline in local revenue, Chief Executive Jaime Chico Pardo said.
``Raising rates no longer crosses my mind,'' Chico Pardo said in an interview yesterday in Mexico City. ``We've been reducing rates and integrating services in packages to make them more attractive for our clients to encourage more consumption, and we'll stay on this path for a while.''
Telmex, controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, has refrained
UPDATE 1-Hurricane Wilma 'clobbering' Mexico's Yucatan
Massive Hurricane Wilma clobbered Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts on Saturday, threatening heavy damage and loss of life as it meandered slowly into the Yucatan peninsula.
Winds of 125 miles an hour (220 kph) howled in off the sea, knocking over houses, upturning trees and trapping thousands of tourists in cramped shelters. The storm was downgraded to a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from a Category 4 on Friday and a record-breaking Category 5 earlier this week.
The calm of the storm's eye settled over Playa del Carmen early in the day but the storm's north eye
2006, A Complex Year for Mexico
Mexico has begun a year that points to be a complex one on the political field with one of the most disputed electoral campaigns, while very discouraging economic predictions are raising people´s concerns.
The forthcoming July 2 general elections will undoubtedly draw national attention due to the impact that the polling will have in Mexico for the next six years.
The election campaign will formally begin on January 19 and according to polls, the candidate from the opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will start from a leading position.
However, the PRD´s structural bases
Hurricane Stan leaves 231 dead in Central America, Mexico
Rescue workers in Guatemala said they pulled at least 40 bodies from a massive mudslide and found 20 more dead in a swollen river, raising to at least 231 the number of people killed from five days of pounding rains after Hurricane Stan hit Central America and Mexico.
Officials expected the death to toll to climb as they searched for more than 150 others who were missing following the landslide in Solola, a town close to Lake Atitlan, 100 kilometres west of the capital, Guatemala City.
Along the country's Pacific coast, the Nahualate
Linear Gold shares rise after gold discovery in Mexico
Shares of Linear Gold Corp. (TSX:LRR) rose more than four per cent Friday after the Halifax junior miner announced it made a new gold discovery from drilling at its Ixhuatan project in Mexico.
Stock in the company rose 23 cents to $5.68, a gain of 4.22 per cent, in early trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Earlier Friday, Linear Gold announced it has identified a new zone of gold mineralization from drilling southwest of its Campamento gold deposit at the Ixhuatan project.
The drilling showed gold grades ranging from 2.5 grams
S.Korean president to visit US, Mexico, Costa Rica
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will visit the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica early next month, Roh's spokesman Kim Man-soo said Monday.
The president will first fly to Mexico City on Sept. 8 for a four-day state visit there, during which Roh will hold summit meeting with his Mexican counterpart Vicente Fox on ways to enhance their comprehensive cooperative relationship in security and trade, said Kim.
Roh will then fly to San Jose on Sept. 11 to meet with Costa Rican President Abel
The Mexico Equity and Income Fund, Inc. Announces Expiration of, and Subscription Price of the Rights Offering
The Mexico Equity and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE:MXE) (the "Fund") announced today the successful completion of nontransferable rights offering (the "Offer") conducted by the Fund, which commenced on November 17, 2005, expired on December 28, 2005. The Offer entitled shareholders to subscribe for an aggregate of 1,855,128 shares of preferred stock of the Fund ("Shares"), of which, based on a preliminary count 1,429,268 Shares will be issued raising $25,683,946. The Fund has determined that it will not be necessary to issue additional Shares to
Origins
Archaeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3000 years ago. There is some disagreement about the borders and difference between the early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilization, the Olmec culture. The Olmec and early Maya seem to have influenced each other.
The earliest monuments consist of simple burial mounds, the precursors to pyramids erected in later times.
Eventually, the Olmec culture faded after spreading its influence into the Yucatan peninsula, present-day Guatemala, and other regions
The Maya developed the famed cities of Tikal, Palenque, Copán and Kalakmul, as well as Dos Pilas, Uaxactun, Altun Ha, Bonampak and
Origin of the city's name
Through the years, historians have investigated where the origins of the name of the city of Tijuana came to be.
One legend says that it was the name of a ranch in the area, property of "TÃa Juana" – Aunt Jane. In actuality, it is recognized that name comes from the Yuman Indian language from the early inhabitants. In other documents there are mentions of "La Tia Juana", "Tiguana", "Tiuana", "Teguana", "Tiwana", "Tijuan", "Ticuan", "Tijuana". Based on the Yuman language, historians have come to recognize Tijuana originating from "Tiwan", meaning close to the sea.
Popocatepetl volcano sends plume of ash into air outside Mexico City
The Popocatepetl Volcano sent a gritty cloud billowing into the sky outside Mexico City early Thursday.
Officials warned nearby residents to protect themselves against the rain of ash the eruption will likely cause.
The 5,450-metre volcano, which has been erupting intermittently since 1994, posed no other immediate danger, they said.
In July, the volcano sent a column of hot ash 2.4 kilometres into the air and spat out red-hot rocks. But it didn't threaten residents living at the volcano's base.
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