Collision with tractor trailer kills 6 returning from Christmas vacation

Jan 112009
 
 11/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 21:08 on 11/01/2009 Comments Off
Collision with tractor trailer kills 6 returning from Christmas vacation

A family returning to the United States after spending Christmas with family in Guanajuato and San Luis Patosi, were killed when their vehicle collided with a tractor trailer on Mexico 85 south of Nuevo Laredo. Federal Police said the 2005 Chevy Trailblazer driven by Everardo Aguilar Rodríguez, 43 was being driven in excess of 160 lmh (100mph) when the driver colided with the rear of a tractor trailer pulling a flatbed.  The driver apprently fell asleep at the wheel. Also killed were his wife,María Teresa Rodríguez Chávez,  40; sons David, Gabriel and Daniel Aguilar,  13, 10 and 7  years of age ….Read More

Mexico’s Social Security (IMSS) wins useless bureaucracy award

Jan 092009
 
 09/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:05 on 09/01/2009 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — Here was a contest no Mexican bureaucrat wanted to win. A months-long quest to identify the most nightmarish examples of Mexico’s famously nightmarish red tape ended Thursday with a verdict: The nation’s Social Security agency reigns supreme among government bureaucracies that drive Mexicans nuts. President Felipe Calderon bestowed the dubious honor on the federal agency as part of a contest to find the country’s “most useless tramite,” or bureaucratic process. The contest drew more than 20,000 nominations from Mexicans who endure long lines and lug reams of required paperwork to accomplish seemingly straightforward chores, such as acquiring ….Read More

Armed gang holds up train in Mexico, robs freight

Dec 272008
 
 27/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:58 on 27/12/2008 2 Responses »
Armed gang holds up train in Mexico, robs freight

MORELIA, Mexico — A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The gang parked a pickup truck across the tracks on Friday, forcing the train to stop. The assailants then threatened the train’s crew and opened some of the freight containers it was carrying. A statement by the prosecutor’s office did not specify what the gang stole from the train, operated by Kansas City Southern, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based railway company. But the thieves ….Read More

Gods Gachupines and Gringos – A People’s History of Mexico

Dec 252008
 
 25/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:13 on 25/12/2008 Comments Off
Gods Gachupines and Gringos - A People's History of Mexico

I recently received an advance copy of the new book by author Richard Grabman, Gods Gachupines and Gringos with a request by the author to review it. Being an avid reader with more than a thousand books in my collection, I was pleased to do so.   Gods Gachupines and Gringos is a complete people’s history of Mexico, written in a non academic manner that should appeal to anyone with an interest in history. It is apolitical and presents the history of Mexico from the Pre Conquest days to present day Mexico. And in between those periods, it is a ….Read More

Bad Roads and Bandits? Not in my Mexico

Nov 162008
 
 16/11/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:39 on 16/11/2008 Comments Off

  Not much happening in the world on this lazy Sunday evening so courtesy of my friend at The Mex Files, we’ll put this video out there for you to enjoy. Besides some great sounds by the group Los Felinos de la Noche, it’s got some good behind the wheel video of Mexican highway 57, a road I’ve traveled many times. You’ll be hard pressed to find the pot holed roads and dangerous antiguated junk trucks you’ve come to believe are everyday sights in Mexico. Enjoy your Sunday

Mexican Congress allows foreign investment in oil giant PEMEX

Oct 282008
 
 28/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:53 on 28/10/2008 1 Response »
Mexican Congress allows foreign investment in oil giant PEMEX

<h4>Lawmakers defy AMLO leftists protesting measures supporters say will overhaul industry as production declines</h4>  Ignoring thousands of left-wing demonstrators. lawmakers Tuesday and passed constitutional reforms aimed at allowing foreigners limited investment in Mexico’s vulnerable petroleum industry. After debating over the protests of leftist legislators who had taken over the podium in the Chamber of Deputies, the lawmakers passed the measures 395-82. “With this reform the national economy wins; all Mexicans win,” President Felipe Calderon said in a nationally televised message several hours after the vote. “And it’s particularly important that Mexicans have reached agreement at a time when the world ….Read More

US Consulate in Monterrey attacked with guns and grenade

Oct 132008
 
 13/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:00 on 13/10/2008 Comments Off
US Consulate in Monterrey attacked with guns and grenade

Unknown gunmen shot at the US Consulate in Monterrey and threw a grenade at the building, which did not explode. No one was injured according to a Consulate spokesman. Two unidentified men approached the US Consulate General. One of them fired several times hitting the gates and a window. The second man threw a hand grenade which did not explode because the man forgot to pull the pin, according to the statement issued concerning Sunday mornings incident. Six bullet casings from the pistol were found at the scene. Local Police and US Federal investigators scoured the scene looking for more ….Read More

Panic selling drives Mexican peso above 13-per-dollar mark

Oct 102008
 
 10/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:34 on 10/10/2008 Comments Off
Panic selling drives Mexican peso above 13-per-dollar mark

Traders are falling over themselves this week to unload Mexico’s currency, on fears that a U.S. economic downturn would savage Mexico’s economy. The peso plunged to nearly 13.2 per dollar on Thursday from 12.3 on Wednesday and 10.9 at the end of September. The latest dive has occurred despite heavy intervention by Mexico’s central bank to stem the rout. It’s the peso’s biggest drop in value since the country’s 1994 devaluation. This is panic behavior,” said Alberto Bernal, head of emerging-markets research at Bulltick Capital Markets in Miami. “It has nothing to do with Mexico and everything to do with ….Read More

Mexican drug initiative – Rehab for users, harsher penalties for dealers

Oct 042008
 
 04/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:34 on 04/10/2008 Comments Off
Mexican drug initiative - Rehab for users, harsher penalties for dealers

Turning to Mexico’s increasing narcotics consumption, President Felipe Calderon has proposed stiffer penalties for small-time drug dealers while suspending punishment for addicts who agree to enter rehabilitation. “Drugs are the slavery of this century,” Calderon said in a speech Friday. “Criminals seek to make slaves of children and youths. They seek to place drugs, sometimes free of charge, in schools, in neighborhoods, to create addictions, to generate dependency.” Calderon’s initiative, part of a package of proposals aimed at bolstering his offensive against the country’s powerful drug traffickers, also includes procedures for cleaning up Mexico’s police forces and getting them to ….Read More

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