Tag: AMLO

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil has become a beacon for Big Oil foreign investment in the energy sector

  

  When oil executives arrive in Rio de Janeiro this week for Brazil’s biennial Offshore Technology Conference, they will find themselves in Latin America’s most promising market for Big Oil by far. This signals a dramatic change from only a year ago.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Mexico, an example of the financial plight of the Latin American media

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December promising to reduce public spending to free up more resources for the poor. But his austerity drive has left media outlets reeling, and raised questions about whether Lopez Obrador is trying to influence coverage.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Mexican elite forces sent to Culiacan where El Chapo's son cartel forced the army to retreat

  

  Mexico sent in special forces troops to patrol a northern city in the wake of a cartel assault that freed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son in a hail of bullets and also won a U.S. promise to help stop gun-smuggling at their shared border.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Who runs the country? Drug cartels outshoot Mexican military who back down on presidential orders

  

  Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador struggled on Friday to explain his government's capitulation to organized crime after Mexican authorities buckled in the face of an armed campaign of terror and released drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López just hours after capturing him.

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Mexico urged to implement labor reform to help speed ratification of the new North American free trade deal

  

  The leader of a U.S. congressional delegation to Mexico said that Mexico must take more concrete steps to implement its labor reform, after a trip aimed at speeding up ratification of the new North American free trade deal.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico does not seek control of Zama, the country's major oilfield discovery in decades

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that his government is not seeking to take control of the Zama oilfield discovery, which is currently operated by a private consortium led by U.S.-based Talos Energy. The statement follows on a report from Reuters earlier in the week saying that Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, wants to take control of Zama from Talos.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Lopez Obrador prepared to go after his (corrupt) predecessors and their administrations

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the public should have the right to choose whether ex-presidents should face trial once a bill has passed Congress making it easier to hold referendums.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Mexico will help Honduras create 20.000 jobs planting trees

  

  A scheme to create 20,000 jobs in Honduras has been agreed between the country's president and Mexico's leader in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants toward the United States.

• Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Murders in Mexico the highest on record in the first six months

  

  Murders in Mexico jumped in the first half of the year to the highest on record, according to official data, underscoring the vast challenges President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces in reducing violence in the cartel-ravaged country.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Mexico presidency sells its fleet of planes to help finance curbing migration in the south of the country

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that the sale of the former presidential jet and other aircraft from the last government would help fund efforts to curb migration under a deal struck last week with Washington.