em>USA Today, 7/9/2009
Not long ago, this remote Mexican mountain town was in the middle of a construction boom — as families proudly built their American-style dream homes, using cash sent home by relatives working in the USA.
Work on those houses has stopped, leaving shiny steel rebar jutting awkwardly out of concrete walls all over this [...]
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Reuters, 7/8/2009
A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe Calderon’s drug war.
An influx of 10,000 troops and federal police in March brought temporary calm, but three months later drug murders have resumed and [...]
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em>Reuters, 7/9/2009
Walmex, Mexico’s biggest retailer, posted a 16 percent rise in second-quarter net profit on Wednesday as aggressive promotions, improved efficiency and a helpful calendar offset a deep recession.
Wal-Mart de Mexico, or Walmex (WALMEXV.MX), said it earned 3.753 billion pesos ($285 million) in the April-June period, better than the 3.641 billion pesos forecast on average [...]
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BBC, 7/9/2009
Benjamin LeBaron, 32 and Luis Widmar, 29, were beaten and shot after armed men stormed into their house in Galeana in Chihuahua state on Tuesday.
Public safety groups said Mr LeBaron had been killed in retaliation for his stance against organised crime.
He led protests against the kidnapping in May of his brother Eric, who was [...]
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em>Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, 7/8/2009
he Senate voted Wednesday to require actual fencing along 700 miles of the border with Mexico rather than vehicle barriers and high-tech equipment.
The plan by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., won approval by a 54-44 vote as the Senate began a second day of debate on a $42.9 billion measure to fund [...]
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Anna Gorman, LA Times, 7/9/2009
Beginning Sept. 8, the government will award contracts only to companies that enroll in E-Verify, an online program that uses federal databases to check whether employees are in the country legally and authorized to work. Businesses receiving money under the federal stimulus program also will be subjected to the rule, adopted [...]
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