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Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies.Mexican governors have gone to loopy extremes, like putting up billboards, creating special car lanes or creating mock-ups of Tesla ads for their states.And there’s no guarantee Tesla will build a full-fledged factory. Nothing is announced, and the frenzy is based mainly on Mexican officials saying Tesla boss Elon Musk…

A Mexican restaurant is taking over a high-profile location in the town of Rifle, Colorado, where U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Shooters Grill previously resided. The restaurant, called Tapatios, recently applied for a hotel and liquor license at 120 E. 3rd St., Unit C,, according to the Rifle City Council agenda. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports the council unanimously approved the application at a meeting on Feb. 15. Tapatios runs another restaurant in nearby New Castle,, where the menu features tacos, tortas,…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Feb. 24. I’m Gustavo Arellano, and I’m writing from Orange County, where it’s cold and rainy. I’m also a Metro columnist, which means I’m allowed to have opinions. Like:History is cool.That’s why the past is not even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner — it’s always on my radar. But even a SoCal history nerd like me doesn’t know it all, which is why I was happy to hear recently from Félix Gutiérrez. He’s a professor emeritus of journalism at…

There is a beautiful, but for me also rather placid, sadness at the centre of this new movie from Mexican actor-turned-director Lila Avilés, whose 2018 debut The Chambermaid I very much admired, and which I think had more dramatic weight and bite than this followup, heartfelt as it is.The question arises: what is the “totem” of the title? Is it one of the many objects to which people attach significance here, objects with significance in Mesoamerican history? Or more everyday objects, including a bonsai tree and an…

Customers seeking Adderall, oxycodone, and other medications at Mexican pharmacies are being sold counterfeit pills containing dangerous substances like methamphetamine and fentanyl.In the northwestern cities of Tijuana, Cabo San Lucas, and San José del Cabo, pills advertised and sold as legit pharmaceuticals from actual pharmacies tested positive for the much stronger substances, according to an investigation from the Los Angeles Times.Of 17 pills analyzed by the investigative team, 71% were found to contain either…

BMW is accelerating its electric vehicle production plans, announcing an € 800 million (about $864 million) investment to prepare its San Luis Potosí plant in Mexico for the incoming wave of next-generation Neue Klasse EVs. BMW investing in North American EV production After announcing a $1.7 billion investment in October to expand its Spartanburg production site in the US, BMW plans to boost its North American EV capacity further. As Milan Nedeljković, member of the Board of Management of…

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico —  If you walk down the right side street, the offers are plentiful, even in broad daylight. Young men in plain T-shirts draw near and call out their wares: Pills. Cocaine. Guns.But if you wave them away and go just a few feet farther, you can walk into a pharmacy where you might get something just as dangerous.You just won’t know it.A Los Angeles Times investigation has found that pharmacies in several northwestern Mexican cities are selling counterfeit prescription pills laced with stronger and…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books Make Andrea Pons' recipes for tortas guacamayas (macaw sandwiches), sopa Azteca (Aztec soup, a.k.a. tortilla soup) and sopes (fried masa bowls) Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Clockwise from top left: sopes (fried masa bowls), sopa Azteca (Aztec soup), blistered poblano peppers and tortas guacamayas (macaw sandwiches). Photos from Mamacita: Recipes Celebrating Life as a Mexican…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books 'It used to be a passion project. And then it became my purpose to put this book out there. To help my family stay together' Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Andrea Pons is a Mexican-born production manager, recipe developer, food stylist and cookbook author based in Seattle. Photos from Mamacita: Recipes Celebrating Life as a Mexican Immigrant in America (Princeton Architectural Press)…

They looked just like any other couple getting on in age, walking along a suburban street in the last hours of daylight.They had met in the fourth grade. He went to prison; she got on with her life. Over the years, she heard rumors that he’d become affiliated with the Mexican Mafia.When he got out of prison for the last time, 50 years after they first met, she asked if he’d left all that behind. She wanted to believe him when he said yes. But the past caught up to Donald Ramon Ortiz that afternoon. It came disguised as a…