Tag: Mexico

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Mexican president jokes about his predecessor's luxurious Boeing Dreamliner: “not even Trump has one like it”

  

  The luxury presidential plane that whisked Mexico’s former leader around the world but is now for sale should tempt Donald Trump to open his wallet, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador joked on Friday.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 19:45 UTC

  AMLO eyes referendum to legalise drugs in Mexico for medical purposes

  

  Mexico's leftwing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took a challenging stance towards traditional medicine and admitted a referendum about legalising some drugs for treatment purposes was likely.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 19:34 UTC

  US Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump's asylum policy for immigrants at US/Mexico border

  

  The US Supreme Court granted a request by President Donald Trump's administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the US-Mexico border, a key element of his hardline immigration policies.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 19:00 UTC

  Mexico to apply sales tax on Netflix, Apple, Spotfy, Amazon Prime

  

  A Mexican sales tax on foreign digital businesses providing audio or visual services could generate tax revenue of about 3.6 billion pesos (US$ 185 million) a year, a senior lawmaker in Mexico’s ruling party said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 18:56 UTC

  The Mexican Treasury to the rescue of debt-laden oil company Pemex

  

  Mexico's US$5 billion rescue package to pay down debt at Pemex is a one-of-a-kind transaction that should give the struggling state oil company breathing space to focus on output and costs, Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Latin America's two largest economies begin talks on a free trade deal

  

  Brazil and Mexico have begun talks on a free trade deal, officials announced seeking to deepen commercial ties between the two largest economies in Latin America as trade tensions threaten to undermine global growth.

• 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.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Mexican president claims he was spied with a “sophisticated camera”, but downplays the situation, “I have nothing to hide”

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday a “sophisticated camera” had been found in his offices, but added that he was unconcerned because he has nothing to hide.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Premier Oil trying to sell part of its Falklands' Sea Lion project

  

  Premier Oil is selling its stake in a “world-class” project off the coast of Mexico and wants to reduce its holding in a long-awaited scheme north of the Falkland Islands as it tries to lighten its US$ 2bn debt burden, reports the Financial Times.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine presidential candidate Fernandez favors the Mexico/Uruguay position in the Venezuela conflict

  

  Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez said on Tuesday that if he wins the October election he would join Mexico and Uruguay in promoting dialogue with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.