Mexico town booms as "Wal-Mart for migrants"
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ALTAR, Mexico  - Between mouthfuls of beef tacos, Guatemalan people-smuggler Carlos sits at a road side restaurant in Mexico casually drawing routes on a napkin for illegal immigrants to walk the desert into the United States.
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Violent gangs with roots in U.S.  crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting  up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday.
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Standing in the baking sun outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, hundreds of Mexicans wait anxiously for temporary work visas. But even before they were fingerprinted and interviewed for the permit, many had already paid recruiters thousands of dollars in hopes of easing the way.
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Wal-Mart, already Mexico's largest retailer, is hoping to tap into the country's booming consumer-loan market when it opens its own bank in the second half of next year, executives said on Monday.
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Normally a sleepy refuge for aging hippies and wealthy retirees, this cobblestone town in Mexico's mountainous heartland is abuzz with U.S. election fever as campaigners clamor for their votes.
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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Increased security on the U.S.-Mexican   border is turning human smuggling into a multi-billion dollar   criminal industry and attracting violent gangs with ties to   Mexican drug cartels, authorities say.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world&#39;s largest retailer, said it plans to open as many as 15 new stores in China next year, expanding in the world&#39;s fastest-growing economy as the government lifts curbs on foreign store operators.
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Jose and Rosa Lechuga operated a successful grocery store for a decade in this northeastern Pennsylvania city, but they say a local crackdown on illegal immigrants killed their business.
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In a retail market keen on the word ânatural,â exports of Brazilâs beauty products have been rising quickly.
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US real estate investors are heading south of the border, putting their money in an array of projects and properties they believe will generate attractive returns from Mexico&#39;s growing economy.
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RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. -- Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp in a federal detention system rapidly gearing up to keep pace with Washington's increasing demand for stronger enforcement of immigration laws.
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Bargain-hungry Mexican shoppers flock to a controversial  Wal-Mart supermarket that has been built half a mile away from ancient pyramids.
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Employees at the China headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have set up a Communist Party branch, part of a growing campaign to expand the ruling party's presence in foreign companies.
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MONTERREY, Mexico -- If a quarry needs a migrant worker who can haul 50-pound loads of rock out of a mine, or a big landscaper wants to hire a man who'll mow grass from sunup to sundown for $8 an hour without overstaying his visa, Jeffrey West scrolls through his computer, clicks the mouse and fills...
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The area's mix of retail tenants is changing from mom-and-pop shops to a blend of well-known chains.
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On the only government-licensed hand-pulled ferry along the U.S. border, the chatter is all about the upcoming election. Not the Bush-Kerry race, but the choices for mayor of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the Mexican town on the other side of the Rio Grande.