Landon Donovan, the US striker, had given a pre-match interview to Spanish-language media in which he said that the Mexicans were jealous of the US and always out to humiliate them, and he wanted to make them feel miserable. He was not exactly repentant after the game. “They suck,†he said. “I’m so happy. After we got that first goal they were never in the game. Hopefully that will shut them up for the next three or four years.â€
The top three teams from the six-nation qualifying group automatically qualify for Germany. The fourth-place finisher faces the fifth-place team in Asia, either Uzbekistan or Bahrain.
Source: timesonline.co.uk
UPDATE 1-Mexico posts $650 mln 3Q current account deficit
Mexico posted a $650 million current account deficit in the third quarter of this year following a $19 million deficit in the second quarter, the country's central bank said on Tuesday.
The accumulated current account deficit in the first nine months of the year was equivalent to 0.7 percent of gross domestic product.
Analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted Mexico would post a third-quarter current account deficit of $1.226 billion.
"It's clearly far better than expected, and another sign that exports are doing much better than had been feared," said Christian Stracke, lead
Fox ally falls behind in elections
Santiago Creel’s aspirations to represent Mexico’s ruling National Action party (PAN) in presidential elections next year were upset on Sunday, when Felipe Calderon comfortably won the first round of the party’s internal elections to select its candidate.
The surprising result left Mr Creel, who resigned as interior secretary in June to pursue his high-profile candidacy, with just 35.5 per cent of the vote, compared with 45.7 per cent for Mr Calderon. Mr Creel is thought to be President Vicente Fox’s favoured successor.
“Calderon is now the odds-on favourite to easily win,†said Federico Estevez, a
Mexico criticised over lack of human rights progress
Mexican President Vicente Foxs record on human rights has been disappointing in spite of pledges to put the issue at the top of the governments agenda, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Under Mr Fox, whose six-year term ends in December, Mexico has yet to establish accountability for past atrocities or to make serious progress in curbing the abuses that continue to be committed on a regular basis, said US-based Human Rights Watch in a report.
The findings are almost certain to upset Mr Fox, who in 2000 ended 71 years of rule by the
Don't expect a huge crowd in Mexico
Go for it. You know something's phony when the NFL doesn't blow its own horn. Take Sunday night when league history will be made by playing the first regular-season game outside of the United States.
The game is in Mexico City at Estadio Azteca. But there's been hardly a promotional peep.
The catch is that the teams are the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers. That's like promising diamonds and sending zirconia. In the case of the Cardinals, cheap zirconia.
No wonder the NFL has abandoned its original prediction of 105,000 fans. Oh, check that
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - He married Mexico's richest woman, is an old pal of U.S. President George W. Bush and now Washington's envoy south of the Rio Grande is stirring up controversy in a dispute over crime and immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border.
U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza upset Mexico this week by boasting he had shut a consular office in a border city to "punish" the country for failing to halt a drug war there.
It was the latest in a series of run-ins with Mexico's government that have earned Garza a reputation as a bully who, despite his Hispanic
