Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Reuters: Foreign remittances have fallen in July to their lowest level in 10 years. Since they are the second largest part of the Mexican economy after petroleum, and on an equal par with foreign investment, this bodes ill for the economy. Enrique Méndez y Jesús Aranda , La Jornada: Lopez Obrador [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
In Theatres October 10 'All the world was afraid,' says Mandoki. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Maya Entertainment will distribute Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Luis Mandoki's highly controversial documentary FRAUDE MEXICO 2006 The film opens in Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix on October 10. The film had a bumpy ride to the screen. "We faced intimidations and threats," says...
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Remember Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the defeated candidate for the Mexican presidency and self-proclaimed "legitimate president"? Well he's still around and while he isn't the actual president, he's getting involved in policy as if he were one. AMLO's telling Spanish...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I’ve been thinking for a while (and started a post on the subject about two months ago, that I never finished) that Beatriz Paredes Rangel may be Mexico’s first woman President. Since taking over as party chair after Roberto Madazo’s disasterous campaign for President in 2006 and the party purge that finally threw out Elba [...]
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
MEXICO CITY--Two years after an ultra-close election plunged Mexico into a summer of conflict, new evidence has emerged that casts further doubt on the results of the 2006 presidential election that declared Felipe Calderon the winner....
One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Georgie Anne Geyer: Is ‘a Fidel Castro’ in Mexico’s future? The Iraq story makes the papers about once a day, although ever more unenthusiastically for the American reader. Afghanistan edges into newsprint occasionally. But our own hemisphere? Or our important, long-suffering neighbor, Mexico? There the coverage is even worse. Mexico has never been led by a strongman [...]
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
It comes as a surprise to many that prostitutes in Mexico City are unionized, and — while street walking isn’t legal — is tolerated. While some of that may have to do with the Catholic sense of humanity as a community of imperfect humans (as opposed to the puritanical north where every individual imperfection [...]
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The National Movement in Defense of Oil (Movimiento Nacional en Defensa del Petróleo or MNDP), headed by former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, formally presented a resolution to the Mexican Congress on June 3. It calls on the Congress to organize a Nationwide Referendum to let the people vote on the six privatization planks in the energy “reform” plan initiated by Mexican President...
Pytheas Online (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The price of crude oil is soaring on international markets - up to $139 per barrel as of today. This is a incredible boon for oil producing nations, and indeed the nations of OPEC are drawing in record profits. But not every oil producing country is making a fortune. Call it the case of the missing $3 billion. The price of oil keeps climbing and Mexico exports oil. When that happens the
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
MEXICO CITY -- "We are at war," read the headline of a recent El Universal editorial, following the death of yet another federal policeman. More than 4,000 people have been killed in Mexico since the fight against organized crime was launched in December 2006 by President Felipe Calderón. This year, 178 policemen have been killed. Mexican officials maintain that the cartels are retaliating, on the...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Royalty are usually conservatives, but unlike American conservatives aren't hypocrites. North of the border, it appears our republican (and Republican) conservatives — when they aren't stealing money, or their neighbors’ water (or teenage sons) — or finding some new kink not mentioned in the Ten Commandments… Like thou shalt not cavort in diapers with ladies [...]
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Mexico staggers along, with violence and repression everywhere, the economy wheezing, and no white knight in sight. The PRD remains divided and impotent. A substitute national president (Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo) and secretary general (Martha Dalia Gastélum) were named to permit the National Council to dissolvel. They will serve until alleged voting irregularities in the selection [...]
Sally Kern said in the audio that (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Gives a Andres manuel lopez obrador an unusual spin. For more on the perils of online dating, download my talk with WTOP on how to avoid wasting money on useless services. And one of the features included support for DTS HD Master Audio that. By BRIAN STELTER After spending months setting up its pivotal presidential candidate debate and securing two precious hours of prime time, ABC had to set some...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Politicians to discuss how to spend future oil income and what relationship Mexico should have with foreign oil companies
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Sheinbaum and López Obrador laid out what they called Stage Two of the National Peaceful Civil Resistance Movement. Stage Two includes the following: - increasing the number of Brigadistas from 100,000 to 200,000 by the first week of May; - mobilizing the Brigadistas to visit the homes of 1 million families -- meaning 10 million people -- by the end of June, to discuss with them the full meaning of...
