Mexican President Vicente Fox apologised on Monday for saying that Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won’t, but many Mexicans — stung by a new US crackdown on illegal immigrants — said Fox was just stating a fact. Fox at first refused to apologise for the Friday comment, saying his remark was misinterpreted.
About 11 000 people turned out on Friday to feast on an attempt by 250 chefs and culinary students to set a new record for making and eating the region’s renowned nutty spiced chocolate garnish, known as <i>mole</i>. The chefs spent days preparing the famed Puebla sauce, a traditional Mexican food.
Hundreds of posters advertising the upcoming final instalment of the <i>Star Wars</i> film saga have been stolen from bus stops across Mexico City, 20th Century Fox officials said. The posters are made with a glow-in-the-dark material and cost about $6 (R38) each to make.
No image available
/ 23 December 2004
Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the south-eastern city of Villahermosa, Mexico, has adopted a law banning citizens from allowing themselves to be seen nude by the public, even while in their own homes, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 11 December 2004
Adults tend to ignore the scruffy kerbside shrine. However fast they walk past the drooping flower arrangements, the people of San Juan Ixtayopan admit the consequences of what happened are not so easy to leave behind. It was here that two police officers were murdered three weeks ago, set upon by an enraged mob.
South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was elected on Friday as the new president of Interpol during the final of the 73rd Interpol General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, a spokesperson said. Selebi, who was Interpol vice-president for Africa, was elected by a vote of 89 to 31 over Mexican nominee Genaro Garcia Luna.
Mexico quietly moved to eliminate the death penalty from its military justice codes, hours before the International Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row. The world court case was Mexican President Vicente Fox’s way of formally protesting US death sentences.
No image available
/ 24 September 2003
Hurricane Marty, which battered the Baja California peninsula and sideswiped Mexico’s western mainland coast, has been downgraded to a tropical depression. Marty’s 160kph hurricane-force winds slammed into the Los Cabos tourist region on the Baja California peninsula on Monday, causing at least five deaths.
No image available
/ 23 September 2003
With winds of up to 140kph and driving rain, Hurricane Marty has slammed into Mexico’s Baja California, killing five people, leaving thousands homeless and causing widespread flooding. In the state capital of La Paz, the storm surge put about 50 neighbourhoods under 1,5m of water.
No image available
/ 15 September 2003
Minister Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has said South Africa is concerned and disappointed that trade ministers from across the world were unable to reach a "definite and concrete" outcome at the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20463">Developing countries flex muscles</a>
No image available
/ 15 September 2003
A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles. Led by heavyweights Brazil, India and China, the ”Group of 20 plus” also includes South Africa.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
World Trade Organisation countries on Thursday showed no major signs of shifting from long-held positions in their first multilateral negotiations devoted to farm reform at a key ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
Authorities struggled to evacuate people as Hurricane Ignacio roared along the coast of Baja California on Monday, bending palm trees with winds topping 150kph and lashing resorts with sheets of rain.