Pemex: What’s There to Celebrate?
The cow has run dry and is no longer producing milk
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Mexico Pumps Another 47 Million Pesos into Dos Bocas
Dos Bocas originally received 46.2 billion pesos in the construction budget for the year 2019, 45.5 billion pesos in 2020, 113.7 billion pesos in 2021 and 60.9 billion pesos in 2022, with an additional 47.2 billion pesos now allotted to the project for 2023
Read moreWhen Three Amigos Meet, Friendly Cooperation Will Be Key
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read morePemex Liable to Pay $16.7 Billion in Debt before End of 2024
By KELIN DILLON According to the new 2023-2027 Business Plan Report presented by Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Pemex must pay back more than $16.7 billion in debt amortizations before the end of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, which is set to end in 2024. The report revealed that Pemex was able to put
Read moreIn Search of a Stronger, More Unified North America
OPINION By ERIC FARNSWORTH and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE North America was trending in the midterm elections, although you may have missed it. Think about the top campaign issues in races across the country: economic recovery and job creation, inflation, the price of gasoline, immigration, border security, increasing crime and suffering in communities devastated by fentanyl and other drugs. With the
Read moreA Bicentennial Relationship Still Facing Growing Pains
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreThe Tough Job of Unlocking the USMCA’s Full Potential
OPINION By JOHN BURZAWA, SOPHIE EGAR and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provides continent-wide rules, norms and problem-solving processes that can help the three-member countries to continue the trade and coproduction system established under its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But if the USMCA is to
Read morePemex’s Oil-Refining Operations Lose Millions of Pesos per Hour
By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) continues to bet big on its crude oil refining future through its controversial under-construction Dos Bocas refinery and its official acquisition of the Texan Deer Park refinery at the beginning of 2022, Pemex has seemed to have dealt itself a losing hand. According to new data, Pemex’s refining operations
Read moreDoubling Down against Fentanyl, Arms, Migrant Exploitation
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreThe Missing Links in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
OPINION By JUAN CARLOS BAKER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* A lot has happened in trade matters since the United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) in 2019. The TPP entered into force in December 2018 without the United States but including Mexico and Canada. It was then rebranded as the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership
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