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Published: 05/20/10

Obamas' Glitzy State Dinner Honors Mexico President Calderón (No Crashers!)

By  Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily
Obamas' Glitzy State Dinner Honors Mexico President Calderón (No Crashers!)

There were no crashers at the glamorous state dinner that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, hosted for President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and his wife, Margarita Zavala, on Wednesday night. Beyoncé sang and after a day focused on contentious immigration issues, the presidents toasted the close cross-border relationship. "Tonight we share the bonds we share as neighbors and as friends," Obama said. "We celebrate all that Mexican-Americans contribute to the United States." The dinner, the coming out for the new social secretary, Julianna Smoot, included 200 guests feasting on a ...

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Published: 03/13/10

Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

By  Emily Schmall - AOL News
Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

MEXICO CITY (March 13) -- How does a country battered by a lethal drug war and the worst recession since the 1930s react when one of its own, Carlos Slim Helu, is deemed by Forbes magazine to be the world's richest person? In a word, mixed. "There's no way for a country with so many poor to have the world's richest man without something being awry," said Pedro Dominguez, a mechanic from Puebla. "The problem is, most Mexican people have no way to attain this kind of wealth." "He has my respect," countered Rafael Contreras Martinez, a housepainter from Izucar de Matamoros, on his way to a ...

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