By MARK LORENZANA Mexico will allocate 503 billion pesos this year in subsidies to gasoline and domestic electricity — produced with gas and coal — as a key element to combat inflation, Secretary of the Treasury Rogelio Ramírez de la O reported on Monday, Aug. 1. In contrast, the United States is about to embark on an ambitious anti-inflation plan
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 43 indentured Mexican workers who were brought to Canada by human traffickers last year were rescued by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), OPP officials announced on Monday, Feb. 11. The Mexicans, mostly men between the ages of 20 and 45, had been forced to work as cleaning staff at various hotels in
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