XINHUA Hong Kong and Mexico signed a bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) to strengthen mutual economic ties, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday, Jan. 24. The agreement, signed in Davos, Switzerland, one day earlier by representatives of the two sides on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, is intended to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Real Border Wall at Guatemala While Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has consistently rejected the idea that there is a crisis at Mexico’s Guatemalan border, new caravans of various sizes continue to arrive there, looking to cross through Mexico to the United States. Their crossing, however, is being impeded by the armed Mexican National Guardsmen,
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A look at the freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the United States and European Union: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Round is dead, trade wars are alive, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is rapidly Pakistan-izing while Asia’s core and its Far East are slowing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The world’s wealthiest 1 percent increased their financial income by 12 percent in 2018, to an average of $2,500 a day, while the underprivileged half of workers that make up the world’s 3.8 billion poorest saw their earnings drop by 11 percent, according to a report released by the nonprofit development organization Oxfam on Monday,
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By RICARDO CASILLO U.S. President Donald J. Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, for a couple of days to participate in the 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) powwow of billionaires and presidents who this year meet under the motto “Creating a shared future in a fractured world.” What’s Earth-fracking Trump doing there? I wonder. The Gringo Lone Ranger is meeting with
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