Singapore Ponders Investment in Tehuantepec
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Singapore’s prime minister met with AMLO to discuss his nation’s potential involvement in the Tehuantepec Isthmus project…
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Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
Read moreA Bat Cave with an Unexpected Menu
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … To call Ticuchi a restaurant is a bit of a stretch. It is much more of a tavern than an eatery…
Read moreLabeling Law and QR Code Come to Mexico
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Credible food labeling and digital money are now on the horizon for most Mexicans…
Read moreA Sweltering Summer and a Market Fall
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreCFE to Renegotiate $80 Billion Pipeline Debt
By RICARDO CASTILLO The tip of the iceberg appeared last April in the form of three outages in the Yucatan Peninsula, each affecting approximately 1.6 million electricity users. Back then, the Mexican state-owned company Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) blamed the blackouts on rural cane field fires and line failures. The rest of the iceberg emerged last month, and the truth
Read morePRI Holds Revival to Resurrect Living Dead Voters
By RICARDO CASTILLO A great majority of observers claim that the registration of candidates for the presidency of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is more than a dismal farce: It is the rise of the living dead. Several candidates registered to contend for the post, but among all of them, the governor-on-leave of the southeastern state of Campeche, Alejandro Moreno
Read moreTrending Beauty (What’s New, What Works)
Fashion and Beauty with a Purpose By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS We all want to look gorgeous and stylish in the latest fashions, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The clothes we wear, as well as the makeup and beauty products we use, are a personal expression of who we are and how we feel about ourselves. But in today’s
Read moreDevelop the Isthmus? Not Again
By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s new in Mexican news? Most definitely not President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “new” program that he touted over the weekend of April 27 and 28 as the “Development Curtain” to be built along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – the narrowest land space in southeastern Mexico, between the Pacific and the Atlantic. This same project has
Read moreAMLO’s Letter to Spanish King Ignites a Firestorm
By RICARDO CASTILLO On March 6, Pulse News Mexico published an article offering a retrospective on the arrival of Hernán Cortés to Cozumel island. (It was the first incursion of a European army into the American continent with an intent to conquest.) It happened in 1519. Actually, the intent of that article was to set up an observation point from
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