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Mexican glassmaker Vitro plans $146 mn in investment

Agencia EFEApril 30, 2013 15:01

Mexico City, Apr 30 (EFE).- Mexico's Vitro, one of the world's largest glassmakers, said it planned to invest 1.77 billion pesos ($146 million) in different projects this year. "The authorized amount represents an increase of 65 percent compared to the investment carried out in 2012," Vitro chairman Adrian Sada Gonzalez said in a filing with securities regulators. The investment will be used to boost capacity at the Envases y Vidrio Automotriz unit, as well as to improve equipment and facilities, in an effort to consolidate the company's market-leading position, Sada said.

Teen boy shot dead by Mexican police

Agence France-PresseMarch 26, 2013 09:30

Mexican police killed a 13-year-old boy during a raid to rescue a hostage, officials said. The teen was apparently keeping watch over a kidnapped businessman in a house in the state of Nuevo Leon and was shot when he confronted police with a handgun, local security spokesman Jorge Domene said Monday. The operation took place Saturday in Marin, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city. The hostage was freed unharmed and other alleged members of the kidnapping gang managed to flee, Domene said.

Bodies of missing Mexican band members found in well

Thomson ReutersJanuary 28, 2013 23:15

MONTERREY, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Police found a dozen bodies inside a well in northern Mexico, some of them members of a band abducted last week by an armed group, a spokesman for the state of Nuevo Leon, Jorge Domene, said on Monday. Authorities have identified four of the bodies, including that of a Colombian national. All were wearing jeans and T-shirts with the logo of the music group - "Poderoso Kombo Kolombia."