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
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The Italian company Eni announced the discovery Friday by its Yatzil-1, approximately 65 kilometers from the coast
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is back in the news now that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar announced last week a potential $500 billion investment in the new transoceanic project to link up Salina Cruz in the Pacific with the Coatzacoalcos port in the Gulf of Mexico. Hazy as Salazar’s financial plan may be for now,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexico “is opposed the invasion of any country’s sovereign territory by another,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday. March 1, that his government will not impose any economic sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. “Mexico is not going to impose any type of economic reprisal (against Russia) because
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) lukewarm response to Russia’s flagrant invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, really shouldn’t come as any great surprise. After all, Russia is a longtime backer of AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) government, having allegedly financed at least part of López Obrador’s 2018 presidential campaign, according to some
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Jan. 12, U.S. legislators sent a letter to the head of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai protesting purported repeated infractions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) committed by partner countries Mexico and Canada, going so far as to directly ask for intervention by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration into the issue. Highlighting delays and
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By KELIN DILLON The deadly explosion on Mexican oil venture Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) Ku-Alfa platform in the Campeche Sound, which left five dead and two missing, will now result in a 25 percent loss in production for the state-owned company. A total of 142 wells were closed after the disaster, slowing production by 421,000 barrels of oil a day. “The
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was reportedly handed the lucrative operation of the Zama megafield in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, July 2, the same day a burst Pemex pipeline caused a huge fireball in the ocean, which attracted attention and criticism worldwide. Discovered in 2017 by private company Talos Energy, the Zama megafield
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