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Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted disappointing quarterly sales on Thursday as shoppers in key markets like the United States battled high gasoline prices and unemployment, while store traffic continued to decline in China. Lower prices for some food and electronics reduced Walmart’s U.S. sales, and growth at the company’s Sam’s Club unit also fell short of Wall Street expectations – rising at [...]
As Colombian rockero Juanes took home the best album award, Mexican brother-sister duo Jesse & Joy and their pop hit “Corre!” ran away with four awards at the 13th Annual Latin Grammys. Hosted by actors Cristian De La Fuente and Lucero, Thursday night’s event attracted stars from across the world and from dozens of Latin musical genres to the Mandalay Bay Events [...]
For the first time, there is a concerted effort by the Banderas Bay real estate community to come together to create a structured open house series. Titled Parade of Homes, each week the public will have the opportunity to tour available homes in and around Puerto Vallarta listed in all price ranges through a variety [...]
Two-way trade between Vietnam and Mexico reached US$548.5 million in the first eight months of this year, up 30.3 percent over the same period last year. Despite the impact of the global economic slowdown, Vietnam maintained a trade surplus with the North American nation, with its export earnings fetching more than US$470 million, a year-on-year [...]
More than 4,000 archaeological artifacts looted from Mexico and seized in the U.S. have been returned to Mexican authorities in what experts say is one of the largest such repatriations between the countries. The items returned Thursday mostly date from before European explorers landed in North America and include items from hunter-gatherers in pre-Columbian northern Mexico, such as [...]
In the golden age of mariachi, thousands of music lovers would crowd into theaters and fancy restaurants or fill the Plaza Garibaldi in the heart of the capital just to hear their favorite tunes played on guitar and violin. On a recent evening in the same plaza, that golden age was a distant memory. Roving [...]
Nearly two decades after Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets, his eldest son is conquering new markets in Mexico - with a fashion line in his father’s image. Sebastian Marroquin’s designer T-shirts, plastered with photos of Escobar, are hot sellers in Mexican states that are on the front lines of the country’s deadly drug [...]
The hottest label for Mexico’s new middle class seems to be “Made in America.” Nearly 1,120 miles away from Dallas – where the Usry family not only welcomed ABC News into its home but also let it remove everything not made in the U.S. - lives the Campos clan of Mexico City. The Camposes say they seek out American products. “The first thing I [...]
To celebrate Mexican National Independence Day, Viet Nam News presents an article by Mexican ambassador to Viet Nam Gilberto Limon Enriquez.Mexico will celebrate the 202nd anniversary of its National Independence Day on 16th September 2012, 14 days after Viet Nam celebrated the 67th anniversary of its National Day. The President of Mexico sent congratulatory messages [...]
A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the U.S. border, was arrested by Mexican marines and presented to the public Thursday morning. The capture of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez is a major victory in the military battle against drug trafficking, [...]