Mexican News
The latest news from and about Mexican issues.Thursday, May 01, 2008
Cómo manejar la relación con Estados Unidos
EX Online, May 1, 2008 - “Para campear la descentralización del gobierno federal de Estados Unidos y la negligencia de Washington hacia asuntos mexicanos se han explorado tres caminos en las últimas décadas.” Read more.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Not-So-Great Wall of Mexico.
NY Times, April 20, 2008 - “Remember the fence, the one that Congress told Michael Chertoff, head of homeland security, to build on the Mexican border, with the admonition to let no power on earth stop him — no law or statute, no judge or jury? That fence? News reports out of New Mexico and Texas suggest that it may not be all the wall that it was cracked up to be, or hoped for by the hunker-downers in Congress and on talk radio who clamored for it as the first and most important step toward an illegal-alien-free America.” Read more.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
State oil industry’s future sets off tussle in Mexico
International Herald Tribune, April 8, 2008 - “A bitter debate over what to do about Mexico’s ailing state oil monopoly has dominated national politics here in recent weeks, tapping strong emotions on both sides and resurrecting the political fortunes of the leftist leader who narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election. Revamping the oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the administration of President Felipe Calderón, a conservative economist who won the disputed 2006 election by a hairbreadth.” Read more.
Monday, April 07, 2008
When US economy hurts, Mexico feels it
Miami Herald, April 7, 2008 - “While Mexico is the Latin American country most vulnerable to the U.S. slowdown, experts say political changes and globalization mean Mexico is more able to weather a downturn than in the past.” Read more.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Looming water wars foreshadow big problems.
EarthNews, March 10, 2008 - “Adaptation, or the matter of adjusting to climate change, is sometimes called a cheaper, easier way to deal with some of the consequences of a warming world. But consider the battle between the United States, Mexico and Canada that was triggered here amid the vegetable farms near the California border. For more than 60 years the family of Geronimo Hernandez has raised watermelons, peppers and other crops in the rich, irrigated soil of Mexicali Valley, but within the next five years it could begin to dry up.” Read more.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
The Border and the Ballot Box.
The New York Times, Week in Review, March 2, 2008 - “Immigration has a fantastically complicated political history in the United States. It has produced enough populist anger to elect Know Nothing mayors of Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and San Francisco, all in the 1850s and, more recently, to help Lou Dobbs reinvent his television career and become a best-selling author. But when national politicians have tried to seize on such anger, they have usually failed — and failed quickly.” Read more.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Human Shadows on the Seas.
The New York Times, February 26, 2008 - “A paper in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science is the first effort to map 17 kinds of human ocean impacts like organic pollution, including agricultural runoff and sewage; damage from bottom-scraping trawls; and intensive traditional fishing along coral reefs. About 40 percent of ocean areas are strongly affected, and just 4 percent pristine, according to the review.” Read more.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Business leaders tackle emissions.
Washington Times, February 15, 2008 - “Tim Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation and former Democratic senator from Colorado, said the next 50 years would bring a unique chance to adopt energy sources that emit less carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases. He said that shift would prove to be ‘as important as the computer revolution in generating new wealth and jobs.’” Read more.
All world’s seas show damage.
The Star [Canada], February 14, 2008 - “Researchers studying 17 different activities ranging from fishing to pollution compiled a new map showing how and where people have impacted the seas. The map was released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston and published in today’s edition of the journal Science. {snip] ‘Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected. It was certainly a surprise to me,’ said lead author Ben Halpern, an assistant research scientist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.” Read more.
Monday, February 11, 2008
U.N. Gathering to address climate change.
Associated Press, February 11, 2008 - “The U.N. General Assembly is bringing together business leaders, activists and government officials for a debate on climate change starting Monday — an effort to keep up the momentum for a new treaty by 2009 to fight global warming. The two-day session is a follow-up to the international climate conference in December on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, where delegates from nearly 190 nations agreed to adopt a blueprint to control global warming gases before the end of next year.” Read more.
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