Mexico

Newly Elected Congresswoman Kidnapped on Highway in Mexico. More than 120 Politicians and Candidates Have Been Killed Since September 2017

Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora was driving along a highway when two men shot at her vehicle, causing it to flip and she was then pulled from the vehicle and forced to leave with the gunmen. More than 120 Mexican politicians and political candidates have been killed since September, 2017. More than 200,000 people have been murdered since 2006. [...]

Mexico’s New President Reaffirms Commitment to Nationalize Oil Resources

Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) reaffirmed that his administration will spend more than US$2.63 billion to bring the state’s oil refinery company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), up to date.
AMLO said he plans to update the six Pemex refineries in order to reduce imports and increase the country’s crude production quality.
The president-elect, who will be sworn in on December 1, will include the construction of a new plant at the cost of US$ 8.4 billion dollars and should be complete in three years.

Mexico – A step forward towards gender parity

  Though women constitute at least half of the world’s population, their representation in political system is not in commensurate with the proportion of their numbers. Even many advanced countries like US and UK have less number of women when men in Senate and parliament. Mexico is leading the way in giving women to have more say in their politics.[Read More...]

Trump’s trade war weakens US position as global wheat supplier

In the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs contest with Mexico, the Mexicans are on walkabout to find alternative suppliers of goods that Mexico imports from the USA. One of those goods happens to be wheat, and as Mexico partially replaces America as one of its leading suppliers, the US will find itself sitting on a surplus supply and will possess that much less market domination. America has been Mexico’s leading wheat supplier since NAFTA in 1994.

Two Politicians from President-Elect’s Party Killed in Mexico – Reports

Sputnik – 21.07.2018 MEXICO CITY – Two politicians from the young Morena party founded by Mexico’s leftist president-elect were killed on Friday, local media reported. Eliseo Delgado Sanchez, the newly-elected mayor of Buenavista in Michoacan state, was shot dead on the steps of the town hall, the Excelsior news website reported. Earlier on Friday, gunmen […]