By MARK LORENZANA Less than a week after Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Tatiana Clouthier tendered her resignation, Horacio Duarte has also stepped down as director of the National Customs Agency (ANAM). Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 12, that Duarte is leaving his post to dedicate himself to the “master battle” in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Over the past week, both a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and the current U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Earl Anthony Wayne and Christopher Landau, respectively, have expressed concern over what Wayne labeled “restarting and reinventing the supply chains” of Mexican materials for U.S. corporations. Landau agreed fully with Wayne in his video conference for the Woodrow Wilson
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Don’t Whine Later! The programmed meeting of the Permanent Committee of the Mexican Congress to discuss the revamping of the administration’s Expenditures Bill has been postponed for at least two weeks due to the expanding coronavirus pandemic. Chamber of Deputies Majority Leader Mario Delgado Carrillo said that he had talked over the phone with Senate President Mónica
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO: “I’m not an ornamental vase” There must have been more to the matter than met the naked eye. If not, why did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raise so much hell over it? On Sunday, April 26, the Mexican Business Association and the investment department of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) announced that they
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