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  • FILE - In this March 11, 2024 file photo, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, center, is flanked by Mexican Senate Deputy Chairman Francisco Arroyo Vieira, left, and Mexican Senate President Ernesto Cordero as he shows an agreement signed by him and the three major political parties that would create two new national television stations and form a powerful independent regulatory commission, along the lines of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in Mexico City.

    Enrique Pena Nieto has been fast out of the blocks in attacking some of Mexico's toughest issues in a country often stymied by monopolies and corruption.

    LAST UPDATE : Mar 19, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT
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  • Firefighter climb a ladder as they try to control a fire after an explosion at a gas pipeline distribution center in Reynosa, Mexico near Mexico's border with the United States, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012. Mexico's state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, also known as Pemex said the fire had been extinguished and the pipeline had been shut off but at least 26 people were killed during the incident.

    The death toll in a pipeline fire at a distribution plant near the U.S. border has risen to 29, Mexico's state-owned oil company said Wednesday. At least 46 others were injured, and more might be missing.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 07, 2012, 6:30 PM EST
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