By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya — who is supposed to be under house arrest while awaiting a trial for alleged embezzling and corruption — was photographed on Saturday, Oct. 9, dining at the upscale Hunan Chinese restaurant in Mexico City’s posh Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. The photographs, taken by columnist Lourdes Mendoza of El Financiero
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Esperanza Gutiérrez Rojano ran like hell out of the plush southern Mexico City Artz Pedregal mall on Wednesday, July 24, a little past 5 p.m., to no avail. Less than a block away, she was stopped by a city policeman and, in no time, she was surrounded by patrol cars. She was laden onto a pick-up converted
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River basin in south central China lies that country’s halcyon Hunan Province. Known for the serene beauty of its majestic forested mountains and tranquil crystalline waters, Hunan boasted its own monarchy during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and was a center of scholarly thought and Confucianism during the
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