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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama's Mexico visit to bolster trade ties |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson, Geoff Dyer Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | "We've spent so much time on security issues between the United States and Mexico that sometimes I think we forget this is a massive trading partner," Mr Obama said |
Friday, April 26, 2013
| Location: | Brazil, Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community |
| Title: | Latin America leads in fight to run WTO |
| Author/Source: | James Politi, Adam Thomson, Joe Leahy Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The race to lead the World Trade Organisation has narrowed to Herminio Blanco of Mexico and Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil, giving Latin America the top job in global trade for the first time and offering further evidence of the region's mounting economi |
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | First cracks appear in Mexico coalition |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The rushed decision, taken in the early hours of Tuesday morning, is the biggest setback for centrist President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary party |
Friday, April 5, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Chinese Foreign Policy, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Hopes of thaw as Pena Nieto heads to China |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Mexico's new president is to meet Xi Jinping of China on Saturday as part of the most concerted effort in years by Latin America's second-largest economy to develop closer economic and trade ties. |
Friday, March 29, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico-US: let's talk about trade |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The forthcoming trip, which Mexico's foreign ministry has described as a working visit to cover everything from trade and competitiveness to security and education, is a big deal for both presidents, but in particular for Pena Nieto. |
Thursday, March 21, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Security: Vigilante groups highlight public frustration with police force |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | During the last few months, armed civil groups, many of their members sporting balaclavas and semi-automatic weapons, have sprung up in different parts of Mexico. |
Monday, March 4, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Pena Nieto expands power as reform beckons |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The changes, which brush away internal rules that have barred PRI members of congress from backing such measures, are a necessary first step in Enrique Pena Nieto's plans to pass energy and tax reforms |
Thursday, February 28, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy |
| Title: | Pemex chief hails Mexico as 'new Mideast' |
| Author/Source: | John Paul Rathbone, Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | "You will have industrialisation in Mexico that didn’t exist before," Mr Lozoya, chief executive of Pemex, the state-owned oil company, declares. "After all, we share the same geology as the USA" |
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Pena Nieto: shaking things up |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times |
| Brief: | Much more specific on policy than previous inaugural speeches, Pena Nieto hit two themes that have plagued Mexico and its development: education and competition policy. |
Thursday, November 15, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Why Mexico's labour reform matters |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Barclays Research, meanwhile, believes that the likely increase in the creation of formal jobs resulting from the changes could boost economic growth by 2 percentage points a year. |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico: why Lopez Obrador matters |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The youth movement known as #YoSoy132 (Translation: I am number 132), which invites people to join the 131 students of Mexico City's Ibero University who last month used social media to protest Pena Nieto's candidacy, has had an unmistakable impact. |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Mexico, Public Security |
| Title: | Multinationals pulled into Mexican drug war? |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | While the cartels have moved out into other crime areas, including extorting small family-run businesses, they have left larger multinational companies largely alone. |