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Mexico City

Background

Ciudad de México ("Mexico City" in English) is the capital city of the nation of Mexico.It is one of the largest cities in the world and is classed as a megalopolis as it encompasses one large city that has slowly engulfed other, smaller ones. It is located in the Valley of Mexico, a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides by volcanoes towering at 4,000 to 5,500 meters (13,000 to 18,000 feet) above sea-level. Mexico City, as a municipality, was established in 1521 by Hernán Cortéz in the middle of the now drained Lake Texcoco on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, and of its lesser-known twin city Tlatelolco. The municipality was abolished in 1928, and the name "Mexico City" can now refer to two things.

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Last Week - About Mexico City

Mexico stocks fall and close worst year in a decade

...percent. Mexican markets plummeted during the final months of the year as investors, panicked by the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers and the widening global financial crisis, dumped emerging market assets. "It was a very difficult year for everyone,...

7 days ago from Economic Times

Salvadorian troops in Iraq to go home

...CITY, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- El Salvador will pull out its troops from Iraq after the United Nations (UN) mandate authorizing the deployment of the troops as part of U.S.-led coalition force ended Wednesday, said the Salvadorian officials. Officials in San...

7 days ago from Xinhua

Last Month - About Mexico City

Mexico: So far, no exodus from US to Mexico

...CITY (AP) — Mexico says the U.S. crackdown and economic crisis so far aren't convincing large numbers of migrants to return home. Last month, the Mexican government said the number of people trying to sneak into the U.S. illegally has dropped 42 percent over...

30 days ago from Times Record News

Mexico says gang killings up 117 percent to 5,376

...CITY (AP) - Mexico's attorney general says organized-crime slayings more than doubled in the first 11 months of 2008 to hit 5,376. Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora says the 117 percent spike in gangland killings compared to the same period in 2007 is mainly...

30 days ago from ABC4.com (KTVX)

Fireworks blow up Mexican pickup, killing 1

...officials said Monday. Mexico State security spokesman Antonio Ortega said the group was traveling from Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City, to a church in the town of Acolman on Sunday when a spark from a bottle rocket apparently landed in the truck and caused...

30 days ago from Seattle Post Intelligencer

World markets surge on Obama's spending pledge to limit recession

Brazil's Ibovespa index shot up 8.3 percent, to 38,285 and the IPC index in Mexico City gained 5.4 percent to 21,169. Earlier, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index jumped 1,198.78 points, or 8.7 percent, to 15,044.87 — its highest close in seven weeks — while

30 days ago from Canadian Business Online

Mexicans fear Detroit's woes will soon become theirs

Mexico City - As Detroit pleads with lawmakers for a bailout package, Mexico is watching closely, keenly aware that failure of the Big Three to stave off bankruptcy could devastate auto workers south of the border - and reenergize the northward flow of

30 days ago from McClatchy

Times still has foreign correspondents

...as bureau chief in Mexico City. Affectionately dubbed by the desk as the "Queen of the Balkans," and the "Queen of the Seven Hills" at times during 16 years as a correspondent, she has taken on one of the paper's most challenging foreign assignments. Tracy...

30 days ago from LA Observed

Leftist Mexico City mayor says he wants presidency

...CITY—Mexico City's leftist mayor, who has made a name for himself with handout programs and free parties, said Monday that he wants to make a run for the presidency in 2012. Marcelo Ebrard said he "aspires" to be president but will wait until 2011 to declare...

30 days ago from Boston Globe

Drug gang killings in Mexico nearly 5,400 in 2008

...the bloodshed takes place in the northern states of Baja California, Sinaloa and Chihuahua, where powerful cartels headed by Mexico's most-wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman and rival Vicente Carrillo Fuentes fight over smuggling routes into the United States....

30 days ago from Reuters Alert Net

Second Mexican government plane crashes in a month

...MEXICO CITY A government Learjet plunged into a lake in central Mexico, killing two pilots in the second deadly crash in a month involving a federally owned plane, officials said Monday.

The Learjet 23 lost contact with the control tower shortly before...

30 days ago from Kansas City Star

Killings in Drug War in Mexico Double in ?08

...countries. Mexico’s overall homicide rate last year, 11 deaths per 100,000 people, was a small fraction of the rates in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil, he said. Even as he released the new statistics though, the number of killings in Mexico...

30 days ago from The New York Times

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