Inside Segalmex’s 15 Billion-Peso Embezzlement Scandal
While founded with the positive intention of supplying low-income Mexican families with affordable food resources, Segalmex soon became embroiled in scandal
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The View from the North: No Sugar in Cuba
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Years ago, my mother got a letter from her sister in Cuba complaining about the lack of food. and especially seafood. So my mother said to her Cuban friend, “Can you believe that? No fish in Cuba.” And her friend said, “How can that be? It’s an island. I remember going fishing and catching everything.” And
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jacobson’s Hearsay Interview Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson probably regrets giving an interview to reporter J. Jesús Esquivel that ran on Sunday, May 3, in Mexico’s weekly magazine Proceso. Esquivel mangled the information so badly that Jacobson had to send a set of tweets to claim that she didn’t say what Esquivel said she said.
Read moreJunk Food Industry Sees Perils Ahead
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The new pro-visible labeling law passed unanimously in Mexico’s 500-voting member Chamber of Deputies…
Read moreFar from the Madding Crowd: Tiny St. John’s Very Big Beaches
By RICH GRANT The U.S. Virgin Island of St. John is only three by five miles – the size of Manhattan – but for such a small place, it is ringed with some of the most famous beaches on the planet. A full 60 percent of this green, mountainous paradise is protected from development as part of the Virgin Islands
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