By RICARDO CASTILLO First USMCA Investment The Canadian firm Bombardier Recreational Products (BPR) announced on Thursday, July 2, the construction of a plant in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which will build four-wheel-drive vehicles, making it the first investment of the new era of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The announcement was made in Mexico by the Economy Secretariat, claiming that the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) takes effect amid a global pandemic and international economic turndown, Canada celebrates its national day on Wednesday, July 1. Canada Day marks the creation of the dominion of Canada through the British North America Act of July 1, 1867, uniting three British territories, the Province of Canada
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Joins the Energy Fray Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) joined the mounting energy fray after the Supreme Court admitted a challenge by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) against the Energy Secretariat (Sener), stopping the implementation of the Policy for Trustworthiness, Security, Continuity and Quality in the National Electrical System, which was published in
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XINHUA The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) officially entered into force on Wednesday, July 1, replacing the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Today marks the beginning of a new and better chapter for trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada,” U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer said in a statement, adding that the USMCA contains “significant improvements and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At the last minute, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies is scrambling to have ready the final approval of regulations for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will go into effect on Wednesday, July 1. On Monday, the Federal Gazette published the approval of the agreement by the Mexican Senate. In the meantime, on Monday, June 29, Foreign
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Headed to Washington There is no doubt that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will make his first international outing to Washington D.C. He announced this week that it was a done deal. The remaining problem is exactly when the trip will take place. AMLO has repeatedly stated he will do it in the first
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Sener Presents Blueprint for CFE and Pemex The Mexican Energy Secretariat (Sener) made public a blueprint of a plan to diminish the use of renewable energy from producers in order to strengthen the battered finances of the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). With this still-unapproved document, the Sener said it hopes
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XINHUA Mexico and the United States have agreed to extend a ban on nonessential cross-border travel by land until July 21, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said Tuesday, June 17. The decision to extend the ban, which began on March 21, by another 30 days followed an assessment of the outbreaks that are developing
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