Mexico detains Egyptian on U.S. ‘watch list’
Mexican police have detained an Egyptian man who appears on the U.S. “flight restriction” list as he and a compatriot tried to board an airplane in the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, police said today.
Mohamed Moustafa Abdel Aziz Shahim, 26, was headed for Mexico City accompanied by Ali Ozman Adham, 36, when police picked them up on Saturday.
Shahim’s name appeared on a list of people under watch by the United States, police said. They were handed over to migration authorities where they remain under detention.
“The migration authorities will now decide if they deport them, keep them in custody or if they hand them over to prosecutors, in the case that they have committed a crime,” said a spokesman from the attorney general’s office.
In recent months there have been a string of false alarms over supposed terrorism suspects in Mexico and Central America, seen as weak spots in the U.S. fight against terrorism.
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Egypt and Mexico to resume Afro-Latin dialogue
In the framework of the Egyptian foreign policy interest in reactivating relations with the African and Latin America countries, the Egyptian and Mexican Foreign Ministries have agreed to hold a round of bilateral dialogue in Cairo next October under the rubrics of "dialogue in the 21st century."
This dialogue will discuss ways of boosting bilateral relations in the light of the similarity of challenges facing them.
Egypt's ambassador to Mexico Mamdouh Shawky said noble prize laureates including Ahmed Zewail and Naguib Mahfouz would be invited to take part in the dialogue.
Dialogue will tackle a wide array
Mexico's Imsa to spin off units, list new company
Mexican conglomerate Imsa plans to spin off its plastics and aluminum units and list them in a new holding company on the local bourse, a restructuring that separates out its steel business.
Imsa said its plastics and aluminum subsidiaries, which make products like frames and ladders for the construction industry, will form a new company called G2, according to a prospectus published on Friday.
Shares of Imsa (IMSAUBC.MX: Quote, Profile, Research), which also processes steel for the auto and construction industries, soared on the split news. Shareholders of Imsa will receive one share of
Rape Victims Denied Legal Abortion
Mexican officials actively prevent rape victims from gaining access to legal and safe abortion, and they fail to punish rape and sexual violence inside and outside the family, said Human Rights Watch in a report released today. The 92-page report, "The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico," details the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that pregnant rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers. The report also exposes continuing and pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico.
"Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice,"
Katrina Could be in Gulf of Mexico by Saturday
Most of southeast Florida is under a hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Katrina moves closer to the state. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami have posted tropical storm warnings and a hurricane watch from Florida City just south of Miami north to Vero Beach.
Katrina has maximum sustained winds of 40-miles per hour, but the storm is expected to grow stronger and become a minimal hurricane before it comes ashore Friday morning.
Katrina is expected to emerge over the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday morning and could re-strengthen before making
From Long Island to Mexico, with Love
The electrical system in rural Tenango, Mexico, was so bad Martha Bernal Estrada couldn't iron clothes and watch television at the same time.
She used to have a refrigerator, but that burned out, too. So she stores food on a shelf and makes sure her children quickly drink the milk she buys each day before it goes sour.
"We've always had a problem with the electricity," Bernal said in Spanish. "It was always so low in the house."
But that changed in October when a new electricity system built with money from Mexican immigrants in Farmingville and
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's government congratulated U.S. authorities on Friday for action against Mexican companies and individuals alleged to be involved in laundering illegal drug profits.
President Vicente Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, told a news conference the U.S. declaration was based on investigations within the United States -- implying it did not violate Mexican sovereignty.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday added 30 companies and individuals to a list of alleged drug trafficking organizations. It allows U.S. authorities to seize their U.S. assets and blocks any U.S. citizen and resident from dealing with them.
"The government of Mexico congratulates the U.S. government
Everlast Worldwide Inc. to Introduce Watches in Mexico
Everlast(R) Worldwide Inc.
(Nasdaq: EVST), manufacturer, marketer and licensor of sporting goods and
apparel under the Everlast brand name, today announced that it has expanded
its relationship with Slace, S.A. de C.V. of Anahuac, Mexico by signing a
licensing agreement for the launch of Everlast-branded watches in Mexico.
Slace currently serves as Everlast's licensee for athletic and casual footwear
and men's and women's underwear in Mexico. Watches produced by Slace will be
sold through department, watch and jewelry stores.
George Q Horowitz, chairman and CEO of Everlast Worldwide Inc., said, "Our
licensing program continues to gain momentum.
Teatro Macedonio de Alcalá: Oaxaca City
Teatro Macedonio Alcalá, which as well as being a working theatre houses a collection of romantic art is one of the attractions in the Oaxaca City. This beautiful 1903 Belle Epoque theater, 2 blocks east of the zócalo, holds 1,300 people and is still used for concerts and performances in the evening. Peek through the doors to see the marble stairway and Louis XV vestibule. Sometimes, a list of events is posted on the doors.
Deaths mounting on Mexico’s border security watch
A multimillion-dollar border security program launched in June has realized measurable results, but critics say it has failed to prevent more than 100 deaths since its inception as rival drug cartels fight for dominance along the country’s northern border.
Mexican President Vicente Fox initiated the Mexico Seguro or Safe Mexico program June 11 to address public safety concerns along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Since January, more than 800 have been killed in drug-related violence on the Mexican side of the border with almost daily killings and no arrests reported in Nuevo Laredo.
Although Matamoros and Reynosa have seen
Airbus Wins $600 Million Order From Mexico's Interjet (Update1)
Airbus SAS, the world's largest aircraft maker, won an order from Mexico's Interjet for 10 A320s, worth $600 million based on list prices.
Interjet, a new low-cost airline owned by Mexico's ABC Aerolineas de CV, first signed a commitment for 10 A320s and took options for another 10 planes at the Paris air show in June, Airbus said in a press release on its Web site. Each plane has a list price of $60 million. Interjet officials were not available for comment this morning, said Lucia Sanchez, who answered the phone
