Tag: Mexico

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:20 UTC

  Trump warns GM: “close a plant in China or Mexico and bring jobs home!”

  

  President Donald Trump is escalating his pressure on General Motors, as he calls for the company to reopen an Ohio manufacturing plant.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Despite credit agencies forecasts, Mexican economy growing says president Lopez Obrador

  

  Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that there are no signs of an impending recession despite slow economic growth, adding that his flagship infrastructure projects are on track.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  S&P slashes credit rating of several leading Mexican companies including national oil Pemex

  

  Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) slashed the credit rating for Mexico’s national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, piling more pressure on the government to tighten up the debt-laden oil firm’s finances.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  US imposes more sanctions to Maduro's allies; calls on Mexico and Uruguay to recognize Guaidó as president

  

  The United States targeted Venezuela's government with new sanctions on Monday and called on allies to freeze the assets of its state-owned oil company PDVSA after deadly violence blocked aid from reaching the crisis-hit country during the weekend.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:36 UTC

  Mexico disappointed indigenous actress Yalitza was left out of the Oscars' celebration

  

  Cheers echoed through Mexico City’s Roma district when the eponymous film by Alfonso Cuaron won three Oscars on Sunday, but revelers let out a disappointed sigh when best actress didn’t go to the indigenous star of the ode to 1970s life in the capital. In a payback for Cuaron’s black-and-white tribute to growing up among 1970s Roma’s handsome villas and apartment blocks, city officials set up giant screens in a park to watch the live broadcast from Los Angeles.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Sixteen states sue Trump on his national emergency order to build the wall with Mexico

  

  Sixteen US states sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over his decision to declare a national emergency to fund a wall on the southern border with Mexico, saying the move violated the constitution. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, said the president's order was contrary to the Presentment Clause that outlines legislative procedures and the Appropriations Clause, which defines Congress as the final arbiter of public funds.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 10:59 UTC

  US/Mexico Trump challenges Congress and declares a national emergency

  

  President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 11:14 UTC

  “Neutral-neutralized” Uruguay hosts international gathering on the Venezuelan situation

  

  Montevideo, the capital of “neutral/neutralized” Uruguay is hosting this Thursday an international gathering with countries of the Americas and the European Union to address, and attempt to solve or find a way out to the delicate and worsening situation in Venezuela.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Trump announces meeting with Kim, calls for unity and blasts “ridiculous partisan investigations”

  

  United States President Donald Trump has announced in his State of the Union speech that he will hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea's leader this month. In an address to the nation with the theme “Choosing Greatness”, he vowed once again to build a border wall.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Guaidó rejects dialogue offer from Maduro; UN Security Council to address the Venezuela situation on Saturday

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has rejected an offer of talks from President Nicolás Maduro amid an ongoing power struggle between the two. Guaidó declared himself “acting president” on Wednesday, a position that has been recognized by several countries, including the US, Canada, the Lima Group and some EU members, but not the EU as a block..