Mexico's Richest Man Buys Stake In New York Times

Morning Edition, September 29, 2008 · Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is barely known in the U.S. Most of his wealth was created through the privatization of Mexico's telephone company. Slim recently bought a 6.4 percent stake in The New York Times Company...Slim has a substantial influence over the telecommunications industry in Mexico and much of Latin America as well. He controls Teléfonos de México (Telmex), Telcel and América Móvil companies. Though he maintains an active involvement in his companies, his three sons Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio Slim Domit and Patrick Slim Domit head them on a day-to-day basis.MORE - Slim on WEB - IMAGES - SHOP Carlos Slim

HISTORY ON VIEW

The exhibition “Teotihuacan: City of the Gods” opened this week in Monterrey, Mexico, with more than 400 relics of the mysterious ancient city provided by museums and collections around the world. The exhibition is the largest ever assembled on Teotihuacan.

Teotihuacan was at its peak between 150 BC. and 450 AD, with an estimated 200,000 residents, making it then the largest city in the Americas, larger than Rome and likely the largest city in the world during that age. Yet experts are uncertain as to who built it and why it was suddenly abandoned around 700 AD. For years, archaeologists thought the city was of Toltec origin, but have since determined that the Toltec civilization came later, as did the Aztecs who believed Teotihuacan was a divine city. Sometime during the 7th or 8th Century, Teotihuacan was set aflame and abandoned. Again, the reason remains a mystery.,MORE

LOGISTICS IN THE MEXICAN WAR

(Title Link to story showing Monterrey as it appeared to General Taylor in 1846.)
He had been beset by logistical troubles, culminating in a shortage of wagons for the final approach to Monterrey. This limited his force to 6,000 against 7,000–9,000 Mexican defenders.

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EXPOSITION DEDICATED TO METAL FABRICATION IN MONTERREY

The Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, Int’l (FMA) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), announced plans today to launch a new trade show, FABTECH® Mexico, to be held June 2-4, 2009 at the CINTERMEX exhibition center in Monterrey, Mexico. FABTECH Mexico will co-locate with the established AWS Weldmex (organized by the American Welding Society and Trade Show Consulting) and METALFORM Mexico (organized by the Precision Metalforming Association) shows. The joint event is expected to serve manufacturing professionals and practitioners throughout Mexico and Central America. MORE

Highway Construction

Mexico's Communications and Transport Ministry started seeking bids Thursday for a concession to operate, upgrade and expand toll roads in northeastern Mexico.
The tender calls for the upgrading and construction of 451 kilometers of roads, as well as the construction of the country's first international rail bridge in over a century, the ministry said in a press release.
Dow Jones also reports the 30-year concession includes several highways from the northeastern industrial hub of Monterrey to the U.S. border, and three border bridges. It also includes construction of other roads in the area.
Bids for the highway package are due by the end of March, 2009, and the concession is expected to begin July 31, the ministry said.
The highways being tendered are among those that the government took over in a bailout of private toll roads after the 1995 financial crisis. Proceeds from the new concessions are being used to pay debt related to the bailout and for additional road works.
The northeastern road package is the third under the program. A first package was awarded in 2007 and a second is in process.

Landfill Gas Plant is Model Renewable Energy Project

The landfill, operated by Bioelectrica de Monterrey, SA de CV, a subsidiary
company from SEISA and Gentor, is located in Salinas Victoria just north of
Monterrey. The 12-MW project converts the Simeprode landfill's gas into electricity, which is used to support the solid waste facility's operations as well as Monterrey's light-rail system during the day and city street lights at night. The electricity is also being sold at a discount rate to seven municipalities in the greater Monterrey region...MORE - Bioelectrica de Monterrey

"The Sultannes of the North"

Nicknamed "The Sultannes of the North" and "The City of Mountains", one of the most advanced and developed cities of Mexico and Latin America, home of the suburb of San Pedro, the wealthiest city per capita in all of Mexico and Latin America.
Known worldwide as a business and medical center, this metropoli grew up as an industrial town, and now bursts to life as a trendy and wealthy city with it all. Fashion, Nature, Night life, Business , Medicine, Technology,Education. Monterrey, Mexico's Finest.

Horno 3, an oven that was used for the steel industry's production. Now its the first Industrial History Museum in Mexico. Its considered as Monterrey's Eiffel Tower.

Tecnológico de Monterrey 65th anniversary

The Tecnológico de Monterrey celebrated the 65th anniversary of its founding September 6. The event marks a timely moment to reflect on the Institution's origins, its history, and setting new challenges at the service of Mexico's development.

In 1943, few would have imagined what the Tecnológico de Monterrey would amount to at the turn of the 21st century. Among those that did were Mr. Eugenio Garza Sada and a group of Mexican entrepreneurs that supported his vision of creating a forward-looking educational institution which would produce the country's best talent and would withstand the test of time.

Has it ever. Today, its mission of forging upstanding individuals with ethical standards and a humanistic outlook, who are internationally competitive in their professional fields and at the same time citizens committed to the economic, political, social, and cultural development of their communities and to the sustainable use of natural resources, is reflected day after day in its more than 90,000 students and its close to 200,000 alumni.

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Monterrey Airport

MONTERREY, Mexico, Sept. 10, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., known as OMA, announced an end to its incentive program at the Monterrey Airport, in order to help sustain profitability in light of current conditions in the air transport industry.

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Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Galerias Monterrey

In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon you have an excellent choice where stay during your vacations, the Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Galerias Monterrey and is the only hotel in front of the Monterrey Galleries. The hotel offer 187 executive bedrooms and 22 suites, all of them are big and very comfortable, and decorated by the best designers. Some of the services the hotel offer are breakfast, internet, business center, gym, sauna, Jacuzzi, 7 meeting rooms and a private bridge which connect the hotel with the Gallery. This will be the best choice for you in the city, especially if you travel for business, because around it there are many restaurants and fast foods and different pubs, where your nightlife will be incredible and very relaxing after a long day of work. Walk through exclusive overpass to Cinepolis theaters, Sears, Liverpool and hundred other shops in the Galerias Mall.