Also known as the business capital of Mexico, Monterrey is one of the wealthiest cities in Mexico and the second largest metropolitan area after Mexico City.
On Wednesday, authorities discovered another six bodies, further to the 10 that had been found in the capital of the state of Mexico since 14 January.
He fears that in the state of Mexico, which borders the capital and contains most of its suburbs, regulation of industry and checks on motorists are weaker.
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In 1995, Argentina faced a liquidity crisis, as capital fled in the aftermath of Mexico's crash.
Guadalajara is fast-becoming Mexico's Silicon Valley with tech entrepreneurs from across Mexico flocking to the capital of Jalisco state.
It would mean no games in Quito, Ecuador's capital, or Mexico City, scene of some of the greatest World Cup matches.
In the State of Mexico, which surrounds the capital, the numbers rose from 65 to 135 over the same period.
The sunny beach resort of Acapulco in Mexico ranked second in the group's list, followed by the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.
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Bank of America is already selling a stake in a Brazilian lender, and its exit of Mexico will help add to its capital and narrow its focus.
With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).
The city of nearly 700, 000 sits on the U.S.-Mexico border and bills itself as the Boot Capital of the World.
It was also to blame for the recession that hit the country when foreign capital flowed out in 1995 for fear of an Argentine version of Mexico's currency crash.
Its activism moves fluidly from social media to the streets, with tens of thousands of students marching in numerous demonstrations in Mexico's capital and throughout the nation.
Last year Monterrey, the country's industrial capital, clocked a higher reading than Mexico City on its index of particles smaller than 10 microns, a form of pollution that is no less dangerous than ozone.
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Malverde, believed to have been a sympathetic bandit killed by the authorities, is revered as a Robin Hood figure in the drug world. (One of the many shrines to this unlikely saint is even displayed in the military's El Museo de Enervantes.) Watchavato's stickers, prints and paintings, which also depict AK-47s, flashy cars and other by-products of narcotrafficking, can be seen throughout Mexico's capital.
As banks in Europe and America scrabble to meet stricter capital requirements, made necessary by the failures of their own exotic lending practices, Mexico is offering some a lifeline.
Mexico abolished capital punishment in 2005, but recent surveys suggest that 70% of Mexicans are in favour of the death penalty.
Mr Obama began a three-day tour of the region in Mexico on Thursday, and arrived in the Costa Rican capital, San Jose, on Friday.
Some streetlights in Mexico City stopped working, and scores of homes and buildings in Mexico City suffered from cracks, particularly in the capital's chic Condesa neighborhood.
On immigration-related websites like the Juarez, Mexico Discussion Forum and Immigrate2US, members often speculate as to why, of all of the cities in Mexico, they are forced to go to the Murder Capital.
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Authorities have said the high death toll in Mexico City was "unusual" for the capital, but ruled out the involvement of organised crime.
As governor of New Mexico he reduced the state's top income tax rate by 40% and the capital gains tax by half.
Together with cuts in federal corporate income tax and a new capital-markets law that improved corporate-governance standards, this lifted Mexico 19 places to 43rd (out of 175 countries) in the World Bank's latest annual survey on the ease of doing business around the world.
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Hundreds of posters, carrying the Green Party logo, and demanding capital punishment for murderers and kidnappers have appeared all over Mexico City.
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