Jimenez, Mexico News

Yale University and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia are launching an enhanced financial aid program to enable Mexican nationals to pursue Ph.D. studies at Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Mattel's Barbie doll has competition -- and she's years wiser and cuddlier. The Miami-based company Baby Abuelita Productions, Spanish for "Little Grandmother," specializes in the soft and elderly.

Mexico's most famous ranchera singer, Lucha Villa earned more notice than Lola Beltran thanks to a long, successful film career in addition to her recording work.

Many of us have experienced the good the bad and the ugly while trekking through Margaritaville, a journey that can leave the even most adventurous a little fuzzy about the merits of tequila.

Lawyer: Judge faults Allstate A Santa Fe judge on Friday ruled that Allstate Insurance Co.

Next Friday an author who has been recognized by the Boston Globe, the New York Public Library, the California Library Association, and the American Library Association will be speaking in Los Baños.Francisco Jimenez will be giving two talks that are free and open to the public: from 3 to 4 at the Los Baños Campus of Merced College and ...

" As the hurricane winds reached their peak at over 150 miles an hour, the two glass doors facing the ocean started to bulge inward.

South Texas favorite Flaco Jimenez performs with his band at the second annual Latino Music Festival at Main Plaza.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 won all five awards it was nominated for Thursday at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas, including two of the top awards of the night and honors in both urban and alternative categories.

A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 scooped up four gold gramophones at the Latin Grammys Thursday night, with their politically charged reggaeton winning best urban album for "Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo." The half brothers that make up Calle 13 - Rene Perez, who is known as "Residente," and Eduardo Cabra, or "Visitante" - posed for cameras on the carpet ...

An agreement on Dutch cooperation and assistance to Mexico in the battle against drug-related violence was finalised during Queen Beatrix's state visit to the Latin American country.

The newly ordained Rev. Fernando Jimenez will celebrate his first Mass on Sunday at his home parish, St.

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

The Conjunto Heritage Taller's 8th Annual Da De Los Muertos Altar y Ofrenda -Homenaje al Conjunto" is from 6-9 p.m., Monday at 725 S. Presa St.

Eric Duran laughs when he's reminded that he does windows in both Spanish and English, so to speak.

Benjamn Domnguez grew up in Jimenez, Chihuahua, a Mexican city whose flat, desert landscapes, he says, "were as bare as a white canvas." Perhaps that is why he was astonished, he said, when one day as a young man he walked into a church sanctuary and for the first time saw a baroque painting of an archangel.

Look, up on the stage, it's Superman. Or in this case, Vicente Fernandez, "El Idolo de Mexico," and arguably the single greatest ever interpreter of ranchera music -- with all due respect to past legends Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante and Javier Solis, the holy trinity of the genre.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho, the Sarai Ribicoff associate professor of American studies at Yale University, will give the Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205 of Gorgas Library.

Two men were sentenced today in federal court after they pleaded guilty to holding seven illegal immigrants in a Las Vegas hotel room against their wills and for ransom.