LEON, MEXICO — Shoes are to this industrial city what cars are to Detroit. And like the Motor City, Mexico’s footwear capital is feeling the heat of foreign competition. The threat might not be ...

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There’s a new brand making its way to the U.S. from south of the border — Deeohs. Launched by brothers Deigo and Jaime Guemes, who learned the art of shoemaking in their family’s factory in Leon, ...

Monterrey, Mexico – Juan Alvarado has owned a small shoe manufacturing business in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico’s shoe manufacturing capital, for more than 15 years. But the current trade and political ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, claiming that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional ...

LEÓN, Mexico --Late one Friday night, more than a dozen men make tiny Mary Jane-style shoes that fit on the palms of their hands. As they work at the Popitos shoe factory, they shout out the chorus of ...

Along with giving up the chair of St. Peter, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI gave up his stylish red shoes. Now, he's wearing shoes made by a man in... The Pope Emeritus' New Shoes And The Mexican Man Who ...

As Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican and his papacy, he slipped out of his trademark red shoes and put on a pair of Mexican leather loafers. The shoes, actually three pairs, two burgundy and one ...