By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Jan. 12, U.S. legislators sent a letter to the head of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai protesting purported repeated infractions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) committed by partner countries Mexico and Canada, going so far as to directly ask for intervention by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration into the issue. Highlighting delays and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS They currently number less than a dozen worldwide. But the little vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest marine mammal, was once a common sight in the shallow, turbid waters along the shoreline of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. The world’s smallest cetacean, the vaquita is native only to Mexico, and the upper Gulf of California is the only place
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government is currently considering lifting endangered-species protection for the totoaba fish, which will almost certainly negatively impact the country’s indigenous vaquita porpoise, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. With only about 10 of the critically endangered marine porpoises, which are endemic to Mexico’s Sea of Córtez in the Upper Gulf of
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