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Cirque du Soleil plans lounge on Riviera Maya

Quebec-based circus arts company Cirque du Soleil will soon be performing its magic at a permanent theater/lounge on the Riviera Maya. According to Spanish-language daily Mural’s finance correspondent Barbara Anderson, the 20-million-dollar project will be underwritten by Cirque du Soleil and Grupo Vidanta, owners of the Mayan hotel chain.

Zapatistas teach freedom, resistance, self-governance

The Juntas de Buen Gobierno are fundamental to the Zapatista model of participatory democracy.

Almost 20 years since the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) led an armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas on January 1, 1994, the indigenous Zapatista movement remains alive and well.

Unemployment leaps to 5 percent

The National Statistics and Geography Institute (INEGI) reports that 2.6 million of the country’s Economically Active Population (PEA) – around five percent – are unemployed as of the end of the second quarter of 2013. That is up 122,000 from the same quarter last year. In urban areas the unemployment rate reached six percent.

Energy reform bill presented to congress

President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed allowing private companies to profit-share with Pemex on Monday, but said the state-run monopoly would remain in government hands and maintain full ownership of Mexico’s oil reserves.