Tag: Mexico

• 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.

• Saturday, August 27th 2011 - 07:21 UTC

  Mexico demands crackdown on drugs in the US following casino carnage

  

  Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning Friday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the United States after armed men torched a casino in northern Mexico, killing at least 65 people.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  First commercial bio-fuel flight in Latam between Mexico City and Chiapas

  

  The Mexican airline Interjet has successfully conducted the first commercial bio-fuel flight in Latin America, using a jatropha-based fuel that reduces air pollution by 80%, according to company officials.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  CFK praises Mexico and thanks Calderón for understanding Argentine trade policy

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, described relations with Mexico as “splendorous” and said links are solid because both countries “have helped each other through out difficult times in history”.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 03:02 UTC

  Major setback for Mexican telecommunications tycoon and richest man in the world

  

  Telefonos de Mexico SAB, the country’s largest phone carrier plunged the most in the stock market since December 2008 after the government rejected its application to start offering video services.