By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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XINHUA The Mexican government has filed a petition with the United States to open a period of consultation to resolve differences over automotive rules of origin that were established under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Economy Secretariat reported Sunday, Aug.22. The petition, which was formally filed on Aug. 20, gives both governments a period of 75 days to resolve the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Chinese firms have invested a staggering $14 billion in Mexico over the past two decades, with 42 percent of this investment occurring in 2019 and 2020. In an analysis from the Academic Network of Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese companies have put $5.81 billion of capital into Mexico in the last
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By KELIN DILLON Following U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Mexico, where she tackled issues like labor reform, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh launched a second complaint against Mexico for its alleged violation of workers’ rights under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The officials allege Mexico has denied collective bargaining and free
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It started off back in 2009 as a simple effort by a group of ecology-conscious business leaders in Texas who decided to join forces to stop the Texas Utility (TXU) energy company in the Dallas suburb of Irving from acquiring 11 permits to open coal-based production plants. Led by Dallas retail mogul Trammell S. Crow, the group
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Over the course of the last six years, U.S. and Canadian companies have invested more than $4.805 billion in Mexico’s energy sector, capital that is now being threatened by the changes to the electricity and hydrocarbon sectors laws promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Among the major companies that have invested in
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