
Ford Spain has created a perfume called Olor a Nuevo (which means “smells new”) – the scent of new car. The fragrance forms the keynote of the car manufacturer’s new olfactory campaign, designed in association with Ogilvy Madrid to promote its Seleccion line of used cars. It is promoting the range on the promise that these are “the only used cars that smell new.” Ford Spain has creat…
May 26 2012 | Posted in
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…ard the plane, including two pilots, had died. Officials earlier said they had found wreckage believed to be that of the singer’s Learjet in Nuevo Leon state. Jenni Rivera, born in California in 1969 to Mexican parents, has sold more than 15 million records of Norteno music. She is a judge in the popular television programme La Voz (The Voice). “Everyone was lost,” Jenni Rivera t…
Dec 10 2012 | Posted in
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…y were Central American migrants. The grim find comes just days after police discovered the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 18 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico. Earlier this month 23 dead bodies – 14 of them decapitated – were found in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, also in Nuevo Leon state. Around 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since…

The plane carrying Jenni Rivera plunged from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at more than 600 miles an hour, Mexico’s top transportation official says. Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Mexico’s secretary of communications and transportation, revealed the first detailed accounts of the moments leading up to the crash that killed Jenni Rivera and six other people aboard the…
Dec 12 2012 | Posted in
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…tian E. Esquino Nunez could be wanted for questioning with Mexican authorities, as well as investigators with the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) regarding the fatal crash. The Learjet 25 belongs to Starwood Management, which is, according to records, owned by Nunez. According to ABC News, Christian E. Esquino Nunez and his partner Lance Z. Ricotta were convicted of creating false…
Dec 13 2012 | Posted in
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…board the doomed flight, including Jenni Rivera, 43, a singer and reality star known as the “Queen of Banda”. The Spanish news agency EFE identified the arrested officers as Luis Antonio Ávila Moreno, 23 and Mario Alberto García Pacheco, 24. The items that the duo allegedly stole from the plane were not identified by investigators. As the issue of police corruption rears its ugly head, Mexican aut…
Dec 14 2012 | Posted in
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…board the doomed flight, including Jenni Rivera, 43, a singer and reality star known as the “Queen of Banda”. The Spanish news agency EFE identified the arrested officers as Luis Antonio Ávila Moreno, 23 and Mario Alberto García Pacheco, 24. The items that the duo allegedly stole from the plane were not identified by investigators. Two Mexican officers have been arrested this week for looting fro…
Dec 13 2012 | Posted in
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r. Dressed in white, Jenni Rivera’s family led the memorial service as images of the singer played on three large screens. “We’re not here to mourn the death,” her son Michael, 21, told more than 6,000 mourners who packed the theatre for the service lasting nearly two-and-a-half-hours. “We’re here to celebrate the life and graduation of a singer, an entertainer,…
Dec 20 2012 | Posted in
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At least 38 inmates have died in Apodaca prison riot in northern Mexico. Security officials said the inmates had either forced or bribed a number of guards to open the doors between two separate wings of the jail. A fight broke out between the prisoners, in which the killings occurred. Deadly prison fights between rival gangs are not uncommon in Mexico: last month 31 inmates were killed in simila…

Police have found five severed heads stuffed in a sack outside a primary school in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, in Mexico. The macabre discovery comes after drugs gangs threatened to attack elementary school teachers if they did not pay half their wages to the drugs cartels. The extortion demands forced around 130 schools in the city to close earlier this month, after administrators and…

The odds appear to be stacking up against Mitt Romney winning the 2012 presidential election on Tuesday. Among political journalists, campaign reporters and most pollsters, there’s a congealing conventional wisdom that President Barack Obama is about to be re-elected. On Sunday, new national polls from Pew put Barack Obama up three, and NBC/Wall Street Journal, which gave him a one-point ad…

…nd fellow boxers had gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday to say goodbye to the slain former world champion fighter, known for his flamboyance in and out of the ring. The brawl broke out after 28-year-old Cynthia Castillo, dressed in a pink T-shirt emblazoned with Hector Camacho’s face, leaned down to kiss his body in the open casket. Cynthia Castillo then walked into an area reserve…
Nov 28 2012 | Posted in
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