THE SUMMERTIME BLUES By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Summertime in Mexico means a little bit of every season every day. The day may start off warm and springy and turn sweltering hot by mid-afternoon. Then a sudden thunderstorm can bring temperatures down to sweater weather, or, if there is a breeze, even winter chills. All those temperature shifts throughout the day can
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The underlying message at the Mexico-Korea Commercial Forum (Mexco) in Mexico City on Monday, Dec. 6, was loud and clear: Korea wants to reactivate long.-protracted talks to establish a bilateral free-trade agreement with Mexico. During the conference, which was cosponsored by the South Korean Embassy in Mexico and Mexico’s Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (COMCE)
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Three-quarters of all recent South Korean investment in Mexico has been in states that border the United States, according to a recent study conducted by the Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey) in cooperation with the Korean Embassy here. “More than 80 percent of all accumulated Korean investment in Mexico — which now amounts to
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was just released in Korea on Oct. 8, and although it is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references, it can be summarized in few sentences: The average global temperature is now 1 degree Centigrade above its pre-industrial levels. That increase is already
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