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RELATED STORIES When it comes to casting sisters on TV, there’s good, there’s uncanny and then there’s whatever crazy magic is happening over at Roswell, New Mexico between Jeanine Mason and Amber Midthunder (aka Liz and Rosa Ortecho). “We actually both had these funny kismet moments of people confusing us for each other long before […]
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto offered shelter, medical attention, schooling, jobs to Central Americans traveling in a caravan through his country, calling it a first step toward permanent refugee status. Authorities said more than 1,700 had already applied for refugee status. But several thousand turned down Nieto’s offer, continuing their march to […]
Mexico’s newly-elected, anti-establishment president is planning to scrap some of the deals his predecessor had signed up to, including a $ 1.36 billion order for eight MH-60R Seahawk helicopters for the country’s Navy. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, widely known as AMLO, was elected Mexico’s next president on promises to pursue national interests and reduce the […]
REUTERS/Henry Romero Mexico buys put options from US financial institutions on oil. A change in government may see that hedge out soon. Ultimately, it looks as if the hedging strategy will remain in place. The Mexican oil hedge, or the Hacienda Hedge, is considered the biggest hedging bet on Wall Street as well as perhaps the […]
US President Donald Trump has congratulated his newly elected Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, after multiple polls and an early count showed the leftist anti-establishment candidate decisively leading the vote. “There is much to be done that will benefit both the United States and Mexico!” Trump tweeted Sunday night. Although Obrador, 64, has vowed […]
REUTERS/Daniel Becerril A month before Mexico’s presidential election, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s lead continues to grow. Business leaders and wealthy Mexicans are dismayed, and they’ve tried to warn voters away from the frontrunner. But such warnings are unlikely to persuade Mexicans who are backing AMLO. Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s lead has […]
Thomson Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Taking a lead from the US, Mexico should allow states to begin legalizing marijuana while broader efforts are in limbo, a senior government official said, as the country seeks ways to tackle record gang violence. Tourism Minister Enrique de la Madrid, confronting rising lawlessness in and around the resort […]
Mexico’s former head honcho Vicente Fox is fundraising for a cause and throwing shade at Donald Trump, with a T-shirt range trolling the US president’s supposedly small hands. Talk of Trump having abnormally small hands dates back to the Republican campaign trail in 2016, when GOP party rival Marco Rubio levelled the bizarre accusations against […]
AP Photo/Andy Wong Jorge Guajardo spent nearly a decade in Mexico’s diplomatic corps, serving as consul general in Austin, Texas, from 2005 to 2007 before moving to China, where he became one of Mexico’s longest-serving ambassadors to that country, leaving in 2013. Outside of his diplomatic positions, both of which he was appointed to by […]
(AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez) The world’s largest bottler of Coke shuttered its operations in a town in southwest Mexico on Friday. Coca-Cola Femsa said the shutdown was prompted by constant aggression from organized-crime groups. Attacks on big companies and multinationals have been rare in Mexico in the decade since the country ramped up its war on […]
