By RICARDO CASTILLO The Last of the Sauri-ans The first week of September in Mexican politics was raucous from start to finish. Here is a capsulated roundup of events: It all started on Monday, Aug. 31, with the first vote at the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for the upcoming third and last year of the current legislature. Contending for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First USMCA Investment The Canadian firm Bombardier Recreational Products (BPR) announced on Thursday, July 2, the construction of a plant in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which will build four-wheel-drive vehicles, making it the first investment of the new era of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The announcement was made in Mexico by the Economy Secretariat, claiming that the
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. For years, Mexicans living abroad have sent billions of U.S. dollars to their families back home. These remittances are a social safety net in rural small towns across Mexico, maintaining entire families who might otherwise have no income, and are an increasingly important source of foreign revenue for the country. According to a Fox News report, remittances
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Indigenous Design Rights International fashion design houses Louis Vuitton and Pineda Covalín are now in negotiations with the Mexican government to pay intellectual and creative rights to the country’s indigenous people after having copied some of their original designs without paying the corresponding copyrights. Legislative changes in Mexico, said Senator Susana Harp, include placing the indigenous communities
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By RICARDO CASTILLO LeBarón Case Falls in Fiscal’s Lap The Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) has under its aegis “total control” over information regarding the murder of six children and three women in northern Mexico last Nov. 4, all of them members of the Mormon binational LeBarón family. Mexican Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero made the official announcement
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Ruckus in Mexico, Silence in United States All hell has broken loose in the Mexican media in the past 48 hours over an nterview between former Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who fired from his post in April 2017 on charges of sexual assault, and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has, at times, also
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