Tag: Report on Mexico

Mexico’s drug problem

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
Mexico’s drug problem

Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, takes office at a very interesting point in Mexican history. Mexico is experiencing an economic upturn that may become even more pronounced if Mr. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party administration is able to work with its rivals in the National Action Party to enact needed reforms to Mexico’s labour, […]

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The people of the sun

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
The people of the sun

To many, Mexico is merely a holiday destination, a place of sun, sand and cerveza, its people represented by the smiling members of the service industry at resorts, shops and tourist traps. Outside the perfectly landscaped resorts are intriguing Mayan and Aztec ruins, as well as drug cartels and the rampant corruption within the police […]

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That’s no way to treat a friend!

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That’s no way to treat a friend!

That’s no way to treat a friend! Laura Neilson Bonikowsky Trade between Mexico and Canada is significant and includes a wide range of products — from airplane and auto parts to crude oil and tequila. In NAFTA’s first decade, trade between the two countries more than doubled from $6.5 billion to exceed $15 billion. Mexico […]

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Forging a new strategic partnership

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Forging a new strategic partnership

Canada and Mexico, living alongside and often in the shadow of the colossus of the 20th Century, have long seen their place in the world as deeply coloured by the reality that they are of the Americas, but not Americans. The two countries have benefited from their proximity to the largest economy on Earth and […]

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From the Arctic to the Usumacinta

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From the Arctic to the Usumacinta

Mexican Ambassador Francisco J. Barrio Terrazas celebrates the astonishing successes of the North American Free Trade Agreement, now approaching its 20th year. But he finds the world’s most vibrant free-trade agreement has now “fallen short” of meeting the next-generation needs of the Mexican, Canadian and U.S. peoples. Here, Ambassador Barrio Terrazas calls for fundamental reform […]

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Mexico on the rise

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Mexico on the rise

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, in his mid-February tour of Latin American countries, succinctly explained Canada’s strategic interest in a more economically integrated partnership of the Three Amigos in the NAFTA free-trade agreement — and most urgently with Mexico, the poorest of them all. “Mexico, in our lifetime, is going to be a Top-10 […]

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