US Must Help Afghans Who Helped It
Two U.S. pundits point out that their country owes Afghans more than a quick goodbye
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Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Read moreHong Kong and Mexico Sign Bilateral Investment Accord
XINHUA Hong Kong and Mexico signed a bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) to strengthen mutual economic ties, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday, Jan. 24. The agreement, signed in Davos, Switzerland, one day earlier by representatives of the two sides on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, is intended to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Real Border Wall at Guatemala While Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has consistently rejected the idea that there is a crisis at Mexico’s Guatemalan border, new caravans of various sizes continue to arrive there, looking to cross through Mexico to the United States. Their crossing, however, is being impeded by the armed Mexican National Guardsmen,
Read moreBuilding US-Mexico Cooperation on Education, Innovation and Workforce Development
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
Read moreThe Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The world’s wealthiest 1 percent increased their financial income by 12 percent in 2018, to an average of $2,500 a day, while the underprivileged half of workers that make up the world’s 3.8 billion poorest saw their earnings drop by 11 percent, according to a report released by the nonprofit development organization Oxfam on Monday,
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