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Mexico City: Latin America
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As you’d expect in a city of Mexico City’s stature, there are endless shopping opportunities. There are cosmopolitan, ultra modern shopping malls and department stores, bustling marketplaces, and quaint shops spread throughout the city. Shopping options range from upscale American-style malls and chic boutiques to colorful native markets.
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Global Crossing's advanced fiber-optic MPLS-based network in Mexico runs through a terrestrial system connecting Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mazatlan. Through its subsea system in the Pacific, Global Crossing connects facilities in Tijuana to the rest of its global network. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the company has facilities in 12 of the region's major cities, seamlessly connecting South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the rest of its global network.
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Paseo de la Reforma, the city's main thoroughfare, will give you an immediate idea of why Mexico City has been referred to as the "Manhattan" of Latin America. This elegant boulevard is lined with dozens of magnificent monuments including the much-photographed Independence Monument, which has become the unofficial trademark of Mexico City. Sharing the precious space along Paseo de la Reforma are modern high-rise office buildings, embassies, luxury hotels, colonial mansions, more monuments and shaded pedestrian promenades.
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Mexico City is still the economic, political and cultural hub of Mexico. It is a vivacious, pulsating city that clamors to be chic and modern while showcasing its colorful ancient roots. Interspersed throughout the city's unwieldy, and often unsightly, sprawl, are pockets of beautifully preserved remnants of its colonial and Native American heritage. These include astonishing historic sites, ranging from awesome ancient ruins, to meticulously restored, century-old colonial buildings, churches and mansions, to lovely parks and plazas, to grandiose monuments.
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Americas - Mexico The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City is sending this warden message to inform U.S. citizens that, following a week of heavy rain, the Mexican Gulf coast state of Tabasco is experiencing extensive flooding. According to the State government, Tabasco is now more than 70% under water.
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Located in the heart of the Americas, Mexico City has been a center of life and commerce for over 2,000 years. Tehotihuacans, Toltecs, Aztecs and European conquistadors have all contributed to the city's fascinating evolution, art and heritage.
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