Tag: Mexico

• Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Mexico buying more Brazilian corn over concern with NAFTA negotiations

  

  Mexican buyers imported ten times more corn from Brazil last year amid concern that NAFTA renegotiations could disrupt their U.S. supplies, according to government data and top grains merchants. Mexico is on track to buy more Brazilian corn in 2018, which would hurt a U.S. agricultural sector already struggling with low grains prices and the rising competitive threat from South America.

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 08:13 UTC

  Mexico presidential race down to three names: Lopez Obrador, Anaya and Meade

  

  The campaign for Mexico's Jul 1 presidential election began in earnest on Sunday (Feb 18) as the country's top parties officially nominated their candidates, with all three front-runners trying to sell a message of change.

• Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  With NAFTA on the cliff, Mexico betting strongly to update free trade agreement with Europe

  

  Mexico believes it can conclude a new free-trade agreement with the European Union before the end of February, Mexican officials have said. The EU and Mexico intend to update a trade deal agreed 21 years ago that largely covers industrial goods. They want to add farm products, more services, investment and government procurement, and include provisions on labor standards and environmental protection.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:47 UTC

  Tillerson praises 'enormous' value of Mexican immigration, but admits US needs 'good discipline'

  

  United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Mexico on Friday that immigrants bring “enormous value” to the U.S., but added the U.S. government lacks “good discipline” in regulating who enters the country to live. After meeting in Mexico City with Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Tillerson told reporters the U.S. has put “many mechanisms in place” over the years to control immigration, but has “never gone back to clean this up.”c

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:42 UTC

  US warns Mexico to pay attention to Russian meddling in the July elections

  

  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Mexico on Friday to pay attention to Russian meddling in elections around the world, following comments from another US official that there were signs of such interference in the country's presidential race.

• Thursday, February 1st 2018 - 21:53 UTC

  Trump presses: Bipartisan efforts stalled in Bargain on Immigration

  

  After the night of Trump’s State of Union address, bipartisan clashes continue since President Donald Trump turned on the pressure on Democrats on Thursday to come to an agreement on protection for the undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

• Saturday, January 27th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Tillerson's first tour of several Latin American countries in early February

  

  United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Austin, Texas, and then to Mexico City, Mexico; Bariloche and Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Perú; Bogotá, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica on February 1-7. According to a release from the State Department, Secretary Tillerson will engage with regional partners to promote a safe, prosperous, energy secure, and democratic hemisphere.

• Tuesday, January 23rd 2018 - 07:46 UTC

  Leading Mexican senator joins presidential hopeful Lopez Obrador

  

  Mexican opposition Senator Gabriela Cuevas said on Sunday she will leave the center-right National Action Party (PAN) to join the campaign of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leads polls ahead of July’s presidential election.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 11:19 UTC

  Busiest air route in North America is Mexico City/Cancun with 3.7m pax

  

  A new study shows that Mexico City to Cancun is the busiest air route in North America. Almost 3.7 million passengers traveled the 1,294 km journey between Mexico City Juarez and Cancun in the twelve-month period between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2017, putting it at the top of the study’s rankings. The average cost of a ticket was US$72.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 09:22 UTC

  Mexican presidential candidate Lopez Obrador presents a moderate pragmatic cabinet

  

  The left leaning front-runner for Mexico’s 2018 presidential election proposed a moderate U.S.-trained economist for finance minister, unveiling a planned cabinet made up of men and women in equal measure.