Tag: Mexico

• Friday, November 18th 2011 - 06:32 UTC

  IMF chief Lagarde to visit Peru, Mexico and Brazil end of the month

  

  The Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde will be making her first official tour of Latin America when she visits Peru, Mexico and Brazil at the end of November and beginning of December according to spokesperson David Hawley.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 18:54 UTC

  Uruguay is Mexico’s strategic partner in Mercosur says President Calderon

  

  The Mexican president underlined the strategic importance of Uruguay since it is the only Mercosur member that has a free trade agreement with Mexico, thus making it the ‘strategic partner’ of Mexico in Mercosur.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 16:44 UTC

  President Mujica in Mexico to boost trade and relations with G20

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica arrived Tuesday in Mexico for a two day visit to promote bilateral trade and to address with his host Felipe Calderon issues related to recent discrepancies with the G20 that described Uruguay and Panama as “fiscal havens”.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 17:11 UTC

  Mexican remittances rose in September at fastest pace in five years

  

  Mexican remittances rose at the fastest pace in five years in September as immigrant workers took advantage of the Peso’s decline to send more money to relatives, according to the Mexican Central bank.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 08:13 UTC

  Mexico and Argentina, Latam companies most prone to pay bribes abroad says Transparency

  

  Bribing public officials when doing business abroad is a regular occurrence, according to a survey of 3,000 business executives from developed and developing countries.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 04:13 UTC

  Mexican group organizing round of conferences on the Falklands/Malvinas war

  

  The Solidarity with Malvinas Islands Group in Mexico is organizing a round of conferences next April/June in coincidence with the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war to which will be invited academics both from Argentina and the UK.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2011 - 22:42 UTC

  Latam currencies weakness ‘transitory’ says Mexican central bank

  

  Mexican central bank Governor Agustin Carstens said the Peso’s weakness is “transitory” and the currency is likely to resume its upward trend, along with other Latin American currencies.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:22 UTC

  Human Rights Watch praises “critical” support from four Latam countries

  

  Four Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have been identified among the seven most important countries on the UN Human Rights Council, in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 22:05 UTC

  Mercosur and Mexico auto industry agree to jointly compete with Asia

  

  Mercosur and Mexico signed an agreement which virtually liberates all bilateral auto industry trade and opens prospects for joint undertakings world wide. The event took place in Montevideo, administrative capital of Mercosur.

• Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 02:48 UTC

  US effort to track gun-smuggling to Mexico ends in failure and major scandal

  

  The acting director of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the US attorney in Arizona are resigning over a botched operation to track the flow of guns to Mexico.The ATF' Kenneth Melson had recently faced pressure by Congress to resign.