Tag: Mexico

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 07:50 UTC

  Brazil good at global PR, but loses ground as an IMF group leader

  

  A good one and a bad one for Brazil: The New York Times announced on Sunday that it will launch an online edition Portuguese language edition in 2013 given the country’s growing global clout, but on the other hand Brazil’s nine nation constituency at the IMF will lose a member, Colombia that will join Mexico.

• Friday, September 21st 2012 - 06:42 UTC

  Mexican president-elect Peña Nieto brings up trade issues during visit to Brazil

  

  Latin America’s two largest economies should be expanding rather than curbing trade flows, Mexico’s President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto said in veiled criticism of a Brazilian restriction on Mexican car imports.

• Monday, September 17th 2012 - 18:29 UTC

  Falklands’ referendum will send strong message to world public opinion

  

  The Falkland Islands don’t expect Argentina to accept the results of the coming referendum, but will show the rest of the world, particularly South and Central America that the Islands are a democracy and have the right to self determination, said Falklands’ lawmakers in an interview with the Mexican newspaper Excelsior.

• Saturday, September 15th 2012 - 05:42 UTC

  Obama says his administration has been ‘very aggressive’ in expanding relations with Latin America

  

  US President Barack Obama denied on Thursday contrary to what many of his critics contend that he has neglected Latin America and said that his administration has been “very aggressive” in trying to broaden relations with the region.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  Mexican president says some Latam countries are losing the democracy battle

  

  Democracy is in retreat in some Latinamerican countries warned the Mexican president Felipe Calderon in the Russian city of Vladivostok where he attended the APEC summit forum, (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation).

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:30 UTC

  Mexican political turmoil: opposition leader Lopez Obrador decides to create his party

  

  Mexican opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who twice contested second-place losses in presidential elections, said he would leave his coalition, a move that threatens to create a rift among leftists in Congress.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2012 - 01:17 UTC

  Since 2003 an estimated 261bn dollars have fled from Greece, says NGO

  

  Greek nationals have deposited overseas an estimate 261 billion dollars from illegal activities, from tax evasion and elusion to criminal actions or simple from rampant corruption, according to economist and head of the Non Government Organization, Global Financial Integrity, Raymond Baker.

• Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 06:56 UTC

  Peña Nieto confirmed as president-elect; takes office December first

  

  Mexico's electoral tribunal officially named Enrique Peña Nieto as president-elect on Friday, ending a drawn-out dispute over the results of the July election.

• Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  Colombia GDP overtakes Argentina’s, “a dream come true” says Finance minister

  

  Colombia’s outgoing Finance minister Juan Carlos Echeverry said on Friday that the country’s GDP overtook Argentina’s thus making Colombia’s economy the second largest of South America and third of Latinamerica, behind Brazil and Mexico.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 05:04 UTC

  Mexico strikes light crude oil in deep water deposits; boost for Pemex morale

  

  Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has made a new light crude oil find in the Gulf of Mexico, President Felipe Calderon said on Wednesday, the first such discovery in the country's push to exploit deep water deposits and boost output.