Masculine Grooming By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It may still be a man’s world when it comes to business and politics, but in terms of beauty, skincare and personal hygiene products, women definitely have an edge. In most major department stores — and even in supermarkets and drugstores — male grooming products are relegated to a few out-of-major-view shelves, while women’s makeup,
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Exemplary, legally solid and irrefutable, the financial sanctions imposed by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) on Mexican soccer clubs for having imposed a salary cap (also hunger) on women who play professionally in the Liga MX could end up exploding in the Cofece’s face and eventually lead to the disappearance of the country’s fledgling women’s
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By KELIN DILLON A total of 17 teams from Liga MX, Mexico’s top football division, were hit with sanctions of 177.6 million pesos by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) for alleged monopolistic practices and putting a salary cap on the league’s women’s vision. The clubs sanctioned include América, Pachuca, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Santos Laguna, Tigres, Toluca, Pumas, Monterrey, Necaxa, Atlante
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XINHUA The Cruz Azul soccer team ended a 23-year Mexican top flight title drought on Sunday, May 30, by completing a 2-1 aggregate victory over Santos Laguna in the Liga MX Clausura final. Having lost the first leg 1-0 at home, on Thursday, 27, Santos Laguna drew level overall through a 37th-minute strike from Chilean midfielder Diego Valdes at Estadio
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XINHUA Mexico’s Azteca Soccer Stadium, the stage for the 1970 and 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, is set to reopen to the public after a 14-month shutdown due to the covid-19 pandemic. The 88,000-capacity venue will host the Liga MX quarterfinals featuring tenants Club America and Tijuana against yet-to-be-determined opponents on May 15 and 16. “It is with great pleasure
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By KELIN DILLON Twelve of Europe’s biggest soccer teams have announced their intention to leave their current organizations to create the new Super League, affecting several Mexican players playing abroad, including Hector Herrera of Atletico Madrid and Marcelo Flores of Arsenal. The new group consists of six English clubs, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
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XINHUA The soccer match between Mexican giants Guadalajara and Ámerica later this month will be played with the presence of fans, a year after most sports venues in Mexico were shut to the public because of the covid-19 pandemic. The Liga MX announced Friday, March 5, that the state government of Jalisco had given permission for Guadalajara to partially open
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO on an Electrical Collision Course Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) clearly sent a “suggestion” to the Chamber of Deputies in regards to their discussions over the increasingly controversial bill regulating the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). “Do not change even an iota of the text” that they had received from him for a fast-track
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Less than a month after his 60th birthday, Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack, sources close to his family said Wednesday, Nov. 25. Considered one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the game, Maradona became a household name after leading his country to victory in the
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