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Detroit’s Big Three accelerate plans to build more small cars in Mexico

By Paul Lienert and Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit’s Big Three automakers are accelerating plans to produce more small cars for the North American market in Mexico as they seek to reduce labor costs, while using higher-paid U.S. workers to build their very profitable trucks, sport utility vehicles and luxury cars. New versions of several of their popular U.S. compact cars are expected to be made in Mexico, people familiar with the companies' plans …

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Tycoons, telecoms and Trotsky: book lifts veil on Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim's brother interrogated leftist rebels for Mexico's intelligence agency while his eldest son often hands out a biographical novel about Leon Trotsky as a gift, according to a new book on the tycoon who was long the world's richest man. The biography, by far the most comprehensive written on Slim, seeks to show how the Mexico City businessman navigated local politics to become the world's richest man in a country where almost half …

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Chevron slashes jobs and spending to weather low oil prices

Chevron Corp is slashing 10 percent of its workforce and sharply paring back its budget, with Chief Executive Officer John Watson giving a downbeat view on Friday of an industry beleaguered by low oil prices. A more than 55 percent decline in crude oil since last year has rippled through the global energy industry, forcing producers and their suppliers to make tough decisions. For Chevron, that means cutting its budget by 25 percent next year by spending less in Australia, Angola and the U.S. Gulf …

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