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UPDATE: Lawsuit reopens Walmart's past practices in Mexico

Walmart's payments to foreign officials in years past are raised anew in a lawsuit by a former executive who says he was fired for refusing to water down a memo he'd written about his findings in Mexico.
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Here's an open line and commentary from Mexico

The Sunday open line.
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Walmart to pay $282 million to settle foreign corruption case

Walmart, the Bentonville-based retailer, will pay $282 million to settle a federal investigation into questionable payments it made to do business in foreign countries.

Arkansas State delays opening Mexican campus

Problems with water and power delivery have delayed the opening of a Mexican campus of Arkansas State University until 2016, ASU said in a news release.
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The Renaud Brothers get their closeup in Filmmaker Magazine

Great story on the website of Filmmaker Magazine about Little Rock's Renaud Brothers, the brains behind the Little Rock Film Festival, who spend the rest of their year shooting documentary and news footage in some of the most dangerous places on earth.

NY Times expands reporting on Walmart bribery in Mexico

Major new investigative piece by the New York Times on bribes paid in Mexico to aid Walmart expansion.
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Girl with no country a step closer to USA

Kaiti Tidwell, the child floated across the Rio Grande as an infant and raised in Glenwood, has made some progress toward being able to legally return to her adoptive family in the U.S.

Exile in Mexico trying to get home to Arkansas

President Obama’s order this week that would stop the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the United States before the age of 16 and are high school graduates and meet other conditions will not help Kaiti Tidwell of Glenwood, who returned to Mexico in May to get the necessary papers she needs to immigrate legally, she tells the Times.
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Walmart updates response to bribery allegations

Walmart has issued an updated response to allegations that the company covered up evidence of bribery in the course of building the retail chain's footprint in Mexico several years ago.

Walmart bribery charge reflects fact of life in Mexico

The allegations that Walmart bribed heavily to gain dominance in Mexico occasions a New York Times look at the institutionalized nature of bribery in Mexico and the cost if puts on the country's economy.
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NY Times: Walmart hushed up bribery in Mexico

The New York Times has posted a big one for the Sunday paper, an investigative report that says, after uncovering use of bribery to dominate the Mexican market in 2005, Arkansas-based retailing giant Walmart took steps to cover it all up. The highest officials in the Bentonville-based company are implicated.

MONDAY: Renaud Bros. on arming the Mexican cartels

Little Rock filmmakers The Renaud Brothers — Brent and Craig — cut their teeth making insightful, powerful documentary in some of the world's most dangerous places, including Iraq and earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
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