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Fashion with a Mexican Flair

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS September is, as they say in Mexico, “el Mes de la Patria” (“the Patriotic Month”), mainly because the country’s national day, the Sept. 16 anniversary of its declaration of independence, falls in the middle of it. There are also several other important Mexican historical anniversaries in September, including the fall of the Niños Héroes (Children Heroes), who

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Germán Larrea in the Spotlight, Again

By RICARDO CASTILLO      Every now and then, more often than not, the name of Mexico’s fourth-wealthiest man, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, dominates the media with controversial reports. In fact, at the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat), there are a myriad of files open charging Larrea with crimes of pollution. And if we gauge the amount of media space devoted

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