Mexican News
The latest news from and about Mexican issues.Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Vigna: NAFTA hurts Mexico, too.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 1, 2008 - “At midnight Jan. 1, thousands of Mexican farmers formed a human chain at the Ciudad Juárez border crossing into the United States, under an enormous banner with the slogan Sin maiz no hay pais (’Without corn there is no country’). It was the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement linking Canada, Mexico and the U.S. The farmers were protesting the introduction of complete trade liberalization at the beginning of this year, which means that corn, beans, sugar and powdered milk—the basic foods of Mexico—are no longer subject to import duty.” Read more.
Mexico’s Pemex chief sees oil reform by September - Mexico Media.
Reuters.UK, June 2, 2008 - “The head of Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex sees a proposed energy reform overcoming opposition and being approved before September, Mexican media reported on Monday.” Read more.
Mexico’s Drug Woes a Mounting Threat to Commerce.
Kiplinger Business Resource Center, May 27, 2008 - “A failed state on the U.S. border? It’s a growing possibility. Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s campaign against the drug cartels is getting increasingly deadly, with the gangs killing federal officials at will, almost certainly with inside help. The latest assassinated, Edgar Millán Gómez, was Mexico’s counterpart to the U.S.’ FBI director.” Read more.
Suspected Drug Gangs Kill Mayor In Western Mexico.
NY Times/Reuters, June 2, 2008 - “Suspected drug gang hit men shot dead a mayor in western Mexico as he drove back from a day out with his family, the latest politician to die in Mexico’s drug war, a state attorney general’s office said on Monday.” Read more.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Mexico’s Ghost Towns: The other side of the immigration debate.
In These Times, May 29, 2008 - “Cerrito del Agua, population 3,000, has no paved roads — either leading to it or within it. No restaurants, no movie theaters, no shopping malls. In fact, the small town located in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas has no middle schools, high schools or colleges; no cell phone service, no hospital. Its surrounding fields are dry and untended. The streets are empty.” Read more.
Pemex Reports Net Revenue That Trails Its Forecasts.
Bloomberg, May 29, 2008 - “Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos said net revenue in the first four months of the year trailed its forecast as costs for gasoline imports rose. The company, known as Pemex, reported net revenue of 27.4 billion pesos ($2.64 billion) from January through April, according to a report it sent to the Senate. Pemex had forecast net revenue of 77.9 billion pesos in that period, according to the document distributed by the congressional press office.” Read more.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Immigration Central: Today’s Top Story.
Think Immigration, May 26, 2008 - “On the Border with Mexico, KFOXTV.com reporter Angeeneh Adamain reports on the cartel violence in Juarez, Chihuahua which sits directly across the border from El Paso, Texas.” Read more.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Mexico’s War Against Drugs Kills Its Police.
NY Times, May 26, 2008 - “The assassination was an inside job. The federal police commander kept his schedule secret and slept in a different place each night, yet the killer had the keys to the official’s apartment and was waiting for him when he arrived after midnight. When the commander, Commissioner Édgar Millán Gómez, the acting chief of the federal police, died with eight bullets in his chest on May 8, it sent chills through a force that had increasingly found itself a target.” Read more.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Mexico Soon to be a Bigger Problem.
USA Daily, May 25, 2008 - “As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance is as great as the one involving an invading population.” Read more.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Pemex reform has ‘lost too much time’.
Houston Chronicle, May 20, 2008 - “Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Mexico’s oil industry needs investments in the tens of billions of dollars to find and produce oil and build refineries. But he said an effort by his successor, Felipe Calderón, to persuade Mexico’s Congress to allow foreign companies with needed expertise to work with the nation’s government-run oil company would bring about too little change to be effective.” Read more.
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