Mexico Offers New Tax Cuts to Attract Nearshoring Investment
The only requisite for eligibility is that the investment must be made during the rest of 2023 or during 2024
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The Kiss Heard Round the World
The unsolicited kiss video went viral and so was the ensuing scandal in Spain
Read moreNearshoring, Offshoring and the Maquiladora Industry
Even while establishing new industries, U.S. manufacturers kept using the term offshore to refer to assembling in Mexico
Read moreCanelo Undisputed Victory over Charlo
With this unanimous victory, Canelo has a career record of 60 victories, two losses and two draws
Read moreIturbide’s Legacy: Independence and the Flag
Just as important as Hidalgo is the man that crafted the country’s independent separation from Spain after three centuries of colonization, Agustín de Iturbide
Read moreAMLO’s Noncontroversial Megaproject
Ever since the first cross-country railroad from Tapachula on the Guatemalan border to the Juárez at the U.S, border, developing the isthmus into a Panama-type of interoceanic link has been in the plans of numerous Mexican governments
Read moreAMLO’s Electoral Reform on Opposition Collision Course
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The dust from Mexico’s June 5 gubernatorial elections has not yet settled, but the government’s political opponents are all set for the next round with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Last week, the opposition Va por México coalition — composed of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the
Read moreThe Bullfighting Beef: A Whole Lot of Bull
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The two-front legal battle against bullfighting in Mexico was postponed from last week to Thursday, June 9. In essence, a municipal judge has allowed a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital to continue while a lawsuit challenging its legality moves forward. In both cases, bullfights, usually held at the 42,000-seat capacity monumental Mexico City’s
Read moreINE Announces Preliminary Gubernatorial Election Results
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) late Sunday, June 6, issued the preliminary results of the “rapid count” of exit polls in the elections of the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, with little in the way of surprises. According to those results, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, which was founded by
Read morePaving the Way for a One-Party Regime
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO In the eyes of some pundits, the current trend in Mexican elections is the result of a democratic procedure, but for others, the imminent results of the country’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 5, is an ominous path to a return of a one-party system. If all current forecasts are correct, the “awesome threesome” political coalition
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