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Calderon tells G20 that the future is green

“The eyes of the world are on us,” President Felipe Calderon announced at the opening of the G20 summit in Los Cabos this week. “As leaders of G20, we have a great responsibility.”

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World leaders to discuss Euro crisis in Los Cabos

The European economic crisis is expected to dominate the agenda when Mexico hosts the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Baja California next week.

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Students rally against Peña Nieto, Televisa

A string of marches and demonstrations unfolded across Guadalajara and much of Mexico this week, with thousands of young people taking to the streets and finding their voices ahead of the July 1 elections.

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Amnesty International slams government over human rights abuses

President Felipe Calderon has much work to do during his final six months in office if he wants to leave Mexico with a more favorable human rights record, following strong criticism from Amnesty International (AI) in its annual country-by-country report.

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Bus passengers fight back, kill assailant

An attempted robbery on an inter-city bus in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila went horribly wrong early Thursday morning, when the passengers fought back and killed one of the assailants.

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Slim calls for 3-day working week

The world’s wealthiest man Carlos Slim suggested this week that people should work just three days a week but not retire until the age of 70.

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Peso slips as economy shows encouraging signs

The peso closed at a six-month low Thursday as the euro-zone debt crisis, combined with lackluster U.S. economic forecasts, continued to hit currencies in emerging economies across the globe.

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U.S. Embassy issues security warning

The U.S. Embassy issued a security warning to U.S. citizens traveling and residing in Mexico on Tuesday, following arrests made north of the border earlier in the day.

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McCartney’s free show takes on political edge

Five days after his well received performance in Guadalajara’s Omnilife Stadium, Sir Paul McCartney staged an enormous free concert in the Zocalo in Mexico City.

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Presidential debate stirs emotions in Guadalajara

Having recently slipped into third place in the polls, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) came out swinging in Mexico’s second presidential debate at the Expo Guadalajara on Sunday.

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Buyer steps in to rescue troubled airline

Mexicana Airlines is finally on its way back to the skies. After months of negotiations, Med Atlantic has bought the bankrupt airliner, which suspended all flights in August 2011.

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Tourism up

The Ministry of Tourism revealed this week that 4,098,750 tourists visited Mexico from January to April this year, 5.3 percent more than in the same period in 2011.

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Pledges, pledges, and more pledges

Since the start of their campaigns, presidential candidates Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI), Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (PRD) and Josefina Vazquez Mota (PAN) have all in one form or another vowed to eradicate poverty and corruption, create jobs, clean the environment, improve education and health and make the country safer.  So what new promises did they make this week?

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Social networking impacts Mexican election

Websites such as Twitter and Facebook have already had an impact on Mexico’s first presidential election in the age of the social network.

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AMLO moves into second place

Several recent opinion polls have placed leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) above Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) for the first time.

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Huicholes unimpressed by government deal

The indigenous people of the Sierra Madre rejected a government pledge to return land from a Canadian mining company.

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Teachers’ Union digs in over evaluation tests

As long-serving teachers across the nation were honored on National Teachers Day, May 15, rhetoric focused on teacher accountability and the deadlocked initiative to introduce mandatory evaluation tests for the nation’s 1.3 million maestros.

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Presidential frontrunner sees lead slip

An opinion poll released May 31 by the Reforma newspaper chain shows leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador just four percentage points behind frontrunner Enrique Peña Nieto.

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Mexican literary giant passes at age 83

Mexican literary great Carlos Fuentes died in a Mexico City hospital Tuesday, May 15.

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Mexico brags of job gains at G20 meeting

Employment and quality job creation were the focus of last week's G-20 Labor and Employment Ministerial Meeting.

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Busty 'bunny' kicks up post-debate fuss

How one girl in a revealing dress stole the thunder of Mexico's presidential candidates.

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