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 has formally nominated its veteran trade official Jesús Seade Kuri to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thus becoming the first member state to announce a candidate for the post since the WTO officially launched the selection process on Monday, June 8. According to a biographical note posted on the WTO website, Seade
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The much-expected ideological clash between Mexican business and government is now here. It had not happened before because there had been civility on the part of the business community regarding the authentic democratic victory achieved by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in July 2018. But it is now apparent that the business-AMLO friendly relationship may be,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Economy Shielded In one of the multiple events of the four-day-long 31st Reunion of Ambassadors and Consuls 2020 organized by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) from Jan. 7 to Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera took the forum as an opportunity to claim that Mexico – one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Each Latin American nation is different, not just in size. but also politically and economically, different to dire extremes…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … In the midst of violent protests, Mexico’s embassy in Quito has granted political asylum to leftist opposition leader Gabriela Rivadeneira…
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s the end of July and figures are beginning to trickle in regarding the state of Mexico’s economy. The first one landed on Friday, July 26, from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which is the nation’s foremost authority in gauging financial and industrial trends and the news is not good since the Gross Domestic
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