President Claudia Sheinbaum’s initiative to ban the cultivation of genetically modified corn, which emphasizes its importance to Mexico’s national identity, indigenous peoples, and biodiversity, now awaits a final vote in the Senate.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Frustrated Entrepreneurs Business and politics have intentionally been kept centralized in Mexico City for decades in Mexico. But that arrangement seems to be falling apart as a result of the divide between commerce and industrial chambers leaders, specifically, Carlos Salazar Lomelín of the Business Coordination Council (CCE), Francisco Cervantes of the Industrial Chambers Confederation (Concamin) and Antonio
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XINHUA — The measure aims to help family farms that produce dairy and basic grains, such as corn, beans, rice and wheat…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Bangladesh – once the literal posterchild for a nation on the verge of financial and social collapse – has come a long ways in its brief 48 years, at least in economic terms. For more than a decade, the South Asian country with a massive population of 168 million (making it one of the most populated nations
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With a geographic distance of more than 14,500 kilometers separating his country from Mexico, a diplomatic staff of just one, and a suffering export economy that is struggling to diversify its garment- and leather goods-heavy portfolio (representing roughly 80 percent of all overseas sales) in a global market that is rapidly being devoured by China, Bangladeshi Ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although maize has been the basic food staple in Mexico since pre-Columbian times, nearly 55 percent of the 43 million tons of corn consumed nationally each year are, in fact, imported. Much of the corn comes from the United States, but Brazil and Argentina are also contributors, and there is a lot of concern nationally as to
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