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  1. People walk past a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City 21/04/2012 REUTERS/STRINGER

    COLUMN-Wal-Mart's Sarbanes-Oxley problem: Alison Frankel

    24 April 2012 15:29 BST | Comments (0)

    Alison Frankel | Anti-Corruption Views

    The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) may not be the only law that Wal-Mart needs to worry about in the fallout of its ...

  2. A woman and a child stand inside the remains of a house that used to be their home, in San Juan Cacahuatepec March 26, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata

    Mobile earthquake app unveiled in Mexico – report

    05 April 2012 12:46 BST | Comments (0)

    Maria Caspani | AlertNet Scrapbook

    New Blackberry app sends phone alerts when an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 or higher is detected

  3. Fernando Tudela Abad, one of Mexico’s foremost climate change experts and undersecretary of environmental policy and planning at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, attends a session at COP17 in Durban, South Africa. Photo: IISD

    Why the UNFCCC needs more countries like Mexico

    30 January 2012 16:26 GMT | Comments (2)

    Guy Edwards | Latin America and Caribbean Views

    Amid the infighting over a climate deal, Mexico is quietly ‘getting on with it’

  4. In this file photo, a Mexican state detective walks past a window where a poster hangs saying

    The Mañana Syndrome? Mexico Delays Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

    24 January 2012 11:09 GMT | Comments (1)

    Matteson Ellis | Anti-Corruption Views

    Mexico still has some way to go to fully implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the organisation's Working Group on ...

  5. Mexico: Bill allows women to head armed forces

    29 September 2011 23:49 BST | Comments (0)

    anastasia-moloney | TrustLaw Scrapbook

    Women may also head Defense Ministry

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    Capital:Mexico City
    Currency:Peso (MXN)
    Time zone:GMT -6

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Elizondo, a Zetas drug cartel leader, is presented to the media in Mexico City

Elizondo, a Zetas drug cartel leader, is presented to the media in Mexico City

Daniel Elizondo, a Zetas drug cartel leader, is presented to the media in Mexico City May 21, 2012. Mexican soldiers have ...

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