Articles Archive for January 2010
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According to The Heritage Foundations Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico is currently ranked in number 41 within the 183 countries analysed for the different aspects that constitute economic freedom. On a scale of 0 to 100 Mexico scored 63.2 with an improvement last year of 2.5 points, which ranks Mexico on world´s top 22%.
The Index of Economic Freedom has ten component scores and Mexico is this year among those who have improved the most. It ranks above the BRICs, just five places behind Spain, and instead 23 places above France, …
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Tibor R. Machan, researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, titled one of his books “Generosity: A Virtue in Civil Society”. Today, though in front of a terrible human tragedy, the world is genuinely showing what thousands of years of evolution and civilization could proudly account for. Empathy and generosity throughout the world shine in Haiti’s obscure times.
Among all this generosity, Mexico stands apart. According to Reliefweb data published by The Guardian, Mexico occupies the 7th place among donations sent by countries worldwide- not agencies- to Haiti´s earthquake relief. …
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On January 8, 1910 Alberto Braniff took off for the first flight ever in Mexico and LatinAmerica. His plane, the “Voisin”, built by Gabriel Voisin in Paris, took off from the Balbuena plains near Mexico City and flew for 1.5 kms, reaching a velocity of 56 kms an hour and the dizzy height of 25 mts. A year later, Mexican President Francisco I. Madero became the first world’s Chief of State to fly on an airplane. Charles Lindbergh flew for the first time over Mexican territory on 1927, and it …


