Mexico City, Feb 21 (IANS/EFE) Actor Joaquin Cordero died at his home in the Mexican capital, the secretary of the ANDA actors guild told EFE. He was 89.

Mexico City, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) The police chief of the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo is missing and two of his brothers have been murdered, prosecutors said.

Mexico City, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) A total of 47 Spanish wine producers participated in the 7th Wines of Spain Exhibition held Tuesday here, an event designed to allow local professionals to get to know brands that do not yet have a presence in the Mexican market.

Mexico City, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) Officials will begin working on the legal framework for creating a unified police command in each of Mexico's states, an initiative that has the support of state governors, President Enrique Pena Nieto said.

Mexico City, Feb 18 (IANS/EFE) Mexican authorities decreed a health emergency due to an outbreak of avian flu in the central state of Guanajuato, where some 582,000 domestic fowl exposed to the virus could be slaughtered to eradicate it, officials said.

Texcoco (Mexico), Feb 15 (IANS/EFE) Spain "is a good country" that is "going through tough times" amid economic stagnation and a 26.1 percent unemployment rate, philanthropist Bill Gates said in an interview with EFE in Mexico.

Mexico City, Feb 15 (IANS/EFE) Eurocopter plans to invest up to $550 million in Mexico over the next few years, the European aviation company's president and CEO, Lutz Bertling, said.

Mexico City, Feb 15 (IANS/EFE) The two brothers who make up the Spanish duo Estopa find themselves "more inspired than ever" to create and share music with the public.

Mexico City, Feb 14 (IANS/EFE) The Russian Ballet of St. Petersburg is in Mexico for an 18-city tour that will feature "Sleeping Beauty", organizers said.

Mexico City, Feb 13 (IANS/EFE) Billionaires Carlos Slim and Bill Gates said they planned to use their foundations to promote research and the development of agricultural technology to increase farmers' productivity and reduce hunger among the world's poor people.

Cancun (Mexico), Feb 12 (IANS/EFE) More than 100 community activists and members of environmental groups staged a protest against the Chinese-backed Dragon Mart commercial project in the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancun.

Mexico City, Feb 11 (IANS/EFE) With a combination of catchy numbers and a great deal of energy, Chayanne and Marc Anthony got the more than 100,000 people attending their free concert in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main plaza, up and dancing on the weekend.

Mexico City, Feb 8 (IANS/EFE) Jatco, a unit of Japanese automaker Nissan, said it planned to build a $220 million plant in western Mexico to manufacture 400,000 automobile transmissions annually.

Mexico City, Feb 8 (IANS/EFE) Wind power has tremendous potential for growth in Latin America, where demand for renewable energy is high in Central America and the Caribbean, while Mexico has a favourable political environment for the industry, a company official said.

Mexico City, Feb 8 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen killed nine state police officers and wounded a tenth law enforcement agent in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said.

Chilpancingo (Mexico), Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen raped seven Spanish tourists on the outskirts of the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco, said an official in the prosecutor's office.

Mexico City, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Several hundred animal rights activists took to the streets of Mexico City over the weekend to call for an end to bullfighting in Mexico.

Mexico City, Feb 2 (IANS) Friends of India in Mexico, schoolchildren gathered at a monument here to mark the 65th death anniversary of Mahatama Gandhi as the strains of his favourite hymn "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram", played on the sitar, filled the air.

Mexico City, Feb 1 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's gross domestic product grew around 4 percent in real terms in 2012 and 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter of the year, said authorities.

Mexico City, Feb 1 (IANS/EFE) Mexican actress Ana Claudia Talancon said she was a huge fan of children and soccer, the two subjects of her film, "El sueno de Ivan".

Mexico City, Jan 31 (IANS/EFE) The violence associated with organized crime that is besetting Mexico has spurred a Catholic priest to write and produce a series of short film features that he hopes will touch the hearts of both victims and victimizers.

Monterrey (Mexico), Jan 31 (IANS/EFE) Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon have concluded the work of recovering and identifying a total of 17 bodies found in a well, officials said Wednesday.

Mexico City, Jan 30 (IANS/EFE) A man has been sentenced by a Mexico City court to serve 50 years in prison for the April 20, 2012, murder of retired Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, judicial officials said.

Mexico City, Jan 30 (IANS/EFE) Oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said it took delivery of two ships from South Korea's SPP Shipbuilding Group.

Mexico City, Jan 30 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's federal government and officials from the central state of Queretaro have signed an agreement to build a high-speed rail system, an official said.

Mexico City, Jan 28 (IANS/EFE) German automaker Volkswagen said it will begin manufacturing its redesigned Golf model in Mexico in the first quarter of 2014.

Mexico City, Jan 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recovered from a respiratory infection he contracted after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, a minister said.

San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico), Jan 26 (IANS/EFE) Mexican scientists have discovered fossils of two fish species that lived some 110 million years ago during the Cretaceous period in what is today the southeastern state of Chiapas, officials said.

Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/EFE) Mexico is striving to diversify its tourism sector and overcome an image of insecurity created by thousands of gangland killings.

Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's total public debt is at 35.8 percent of the gross domestic product, the Finance Secretariat said.

Mexico City, Jan 23 (IANS/EFE) The tool of their trade is a flannel rag and their office is the street. They are the windshield cleaners, and their livelihood is now threatened by parking meters.

Mexico City, Jan 23 (IANS/EFE) Mexican archaeologists have discovered in the western state of Nayarit a series of petroglyphs estimated to have been carved between 850 and 1350 A.D., the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said.

Mexico City, Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) Mexico City-based wireless giant America Movil has agreed to buy the media and advertising division of Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE) for nearly 1.7 billion pesos ($132 million), CIE said Monday.

Las Margaritas (Mexico), Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) The Mexican government launched Monday a national program to combat hunger, initially focused on serving the 7.4 million people living in extreme poverty and without enough food.

Mexico City, Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) A team of geologists has discovered a large aquifer far beneath Mexico City that could supply potable water to the capital for many decades and serve as a reserve basin in times of drought, authorities said Monday.

Mexico City, Jan 21 (IANS/EFE) As many as 158 police personnel have been arrested in the northern Mexican state of Durango for alleged ties to organized crime, officials said.

Mexico City, Jan 20 (IANS) Botox could beat steroids in helping faster recovery from plantar fasciitis, the most frequent cause of chronic heel pain, says a new Mexican study.

Mexico City, Jan 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Venezuelan law-enforcers have seized a light plane transporting 530 kg of cocaine but the plane's crew managed to escape.

Mexico City, Jan 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked parliament to postpone his inauguration scheduled for Jan 10 citing doctors' recommendations, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said.

Mexico City, Dec 28 (IANS/EFE) Researchers have discovered 4,000-year-old spearheads and other artifacts at a site in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

Mexico City, Dec 28 (IANS/EFE) Leftist lawmakers have joined forces with business leaders in demanding that officials not issue building permits for a vast Chinese-backed commercial project in the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancun.

Mexico City, Dec 26 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's Atlas soccer team plans to take legal action against the fans who unfurled two banners bearing threatening messages at club offices last week, team executives said.

Mexico City, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) The Mexican government has purchased options to cover crude exports at a price of $86 per barrel, authorities said.

Mexico City, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's government has announced a high-speed rail project in the Yucatan Peninsula aimed at unlocking that region's full economic potential.

Mexico City, Dec 21 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian-Mexican consortium Braskem-Idesa said it has reached a $3.2 billion financing deal for its Ethylene XXI petrochemical project in Mexico.

Mexico City, Dec 20 (IANS/EFE) The toll in the prison riot and escape attempt at the penitentiary in Gomez Palacio, a city in the northern Mexican state of Durango, has risen to 22, officials said Wednesday.

Mexico City, Dec 20 (IANS/EFE) Mexican researchers have reconstructed the political, economic, religious and cultural life of the ancient Mayan capital of Palenque on the basis of inscriptions, authorities said.

Mexico City, Dec 20 (IANS/EFE) State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said production hit 2.57 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude in November, the highest level in the past 19 months.

Mexico City, Dec 19 (IANS/EFE) Walmart de Mexico said it "has had priorities to cooperate in the investigation and safeguard the independence of the investigation" into bribery allegations in Mexico.

Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) Four women from the same family, all of them schoolteachers, were found tortured and slain in the mountains of northern Mexico, authorities in Chihuahua state said.