Grupo Salinas region and by 1987, 59 stores. Elektra Group became a publicly traded company listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, the Mexican Stock Exchange. In 1993, Grupo Elektra bought the Imevisión government television network and renamed it TV Azteca. TV Azteca created an initial public offering in 1997 on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges. In 2012, Grupo Elektra, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Salinas, acquired Advance America for an estimated $780 million USD. In 2003, Grupo Salinas purchased the telecommunicaions company Iusacell and the mobile phone company Unefón. Iusacell was sold to AT&T in 2014, and rebranded
Asociación Mexicana de Debate Metropolitan Debate League, contested by the teams from the México City Metropolitan area, which is pits various teams from each debate society to debate against each other each week, with the amount of "match" victories determining the championship, followed by "debate wins" and "debate points". In addition, AMD has a National ranking that crowns the overall national university champion. Asociación Mexicana de Debate The Asociación Mexicana de Debate (Mexican Debate Association) (AMD) is the regulating body for debate in México, formed by students, former students and debate coaches with experience at the most important debating competitions in the world, such