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Mexico and American Oil Companies Want a Crude Swap to Open Loophole in the Oil Export Ban
Mexico and American Oil Companies Want a Crude Swap to Open Loophole in the Oil Export Ban As politicians from oil-producing states work to draw up bills to end the ban on oil exports, Mexican officials are “confident” that the country will soon be importing American crude through a backdoor loophole in the law. Back in January, […]
Mexico’s Pemex Plagued By Deadly Offshore Explosions and Major Pipeline Spills
Mexico’s Pemex Plagued By Deadly Offshore Explosions and Major Pipeline Spills It’s been a disastrous year for Pemex, the state-owned Mexican oil company at the center of the nation’s landmark energy reforms. In just over a month, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) starred in three tragic incidents, two fatal. First was a deadly explosion aboard a Pemex offshore oil […]
MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES
MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES Mexico, a country where tens of thousands have been killed in drug-related violence, and where government officials have been complicit in corruption, murders, and disappearances, seems like a natural place to launch a safe, anonymous way for sources to get information to journalists. […]
In Global Food War, Monsanto Trips Over Mexican Judge
In Global Food War, Monsanto Trips Over Mexican Judge The global food wars are heating up. As I reported last September, Mexico is on the frontline of one of the most important global battles – the battle for the control and ownership of seed stocks. In 2013 a collective of 53 scientists and 22 civil rights […]
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us It will be a nightmare of environmental degradation and global conflict. It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign […]
Canadian Government ‘Optimistic’ Trade War With U.S. Averted
Canadian Government ‘Optimistic’ Trade War With U.S. Averted WASHINGTON – The Canadian government is expressing optimism that a trade war might be averted with the United States in a long-standing dispute over agricultural products. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he likes what he heard this week during a trip to Washington, and senses a willingness […]
U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico’s Struggling Economy | Wolf Street
U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico’s Struggling Economy | Wolf Street. With its vibrant, colourful street life, rich culture, sunny climes, white-sand beaches, and succulent, spicy food, Mexico is – or at least should be – a perfect holiday destination. Yet these days, whenever I tell friends, family or colleagues back in Europe […]
Canadian Oil Surge to U.S. Gulf Puts Mexico on Defensive – Bloomberg
Canadian Oil Surge to U.S. Gulf Puts Mexico on Defensive – Bloomberg. A price war is brewing between Canadaand Latin America over who will satisfy U.S. Gulf Coast refiners’ hunger for heavy oil. The new Seaway Twin pipeline will almost double the amount of heavy Canadian crude coming to Gulf terminals and plants to about 400,000 barrels a […]
Crude harvest: selling Mexico’s oil – Special series – Al Jazeera English
Crude harvest: selling Mexico’s oil – Special series – Al Jazeera English. Against the backdrop of Mexico’s ever-widening gap between rich and poor, growing violence, and stalled economy, President Enrique Pena Nieto has passed a series of economic reforms. Under these reforms, Mexico’s oil, which was expropriated from foreign interests 75 years ago, is now for sale […]
With Water, Life Returns to the Colorado River Delta – Voices
With Water, Life Returns to the Colorado River Delta – Voices. Last spring, on the eighth day of the release of Colorado River water into its channel at the US-Mexico border – an event known as the “pulse flow” – I witnessed something extraordinary. Like most mornings, I headed out with my National Geographic team before dawn […]
Mexicans fight back over their missing – Features – Al Jazeera English
Mexicans fight back over their missing – Features – Al Jazeera English. Baja California, Mexico – Mexico has been in the grip of civil unrest since 43 student teachers from southern Guerrero state went missing after they drove to protest what they perceived as discriminatory hiring practices by the government. Police intercepted the students’ convoy and […]
The Great Change: Revolucíon
The Great Change: Revolucíon. We arrived to rural México in time for the 104th anniversary of Dia de la Revolucíon.The dirt streets of this small village whose central plaza we sit in to write this were lined with people waving flags and singing Cielito Lindo to their children, dressed as revolutionaries, on parade. Ay, ay, ay, ay, Canta […]
OPEC’s Easy Days Setting Oil Production Are Over, Veteran Says; You Need Russia, Norway, Mexico – Bloomberg
OPEC’s Easy Days Setting Oil Production Are Over, Veteran Says; You Need Russia, Norway, Mexico – Bloomberg. The days when OPEC members could all but guarantee consensus when deciding production levels for oil are long gone, according to a veteran of almost two decades of the group’s meetings. The global glut of crude, which has […]
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE. The close-up images show a handful of black teeth sifted out of leftover ash, and bits of charred bone picked from a landfill not far from Iguala. There are also shots of plastic bag scraps that washed up on the banks of Río San […]
Thousands march in Mexico over students – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Thousands march in Mexico over students – Americas – Al Jazeera English. Tens of thousands of people angered by the presumed massacre of 43 students are marching in Mexico City as part of another day of nationwide protests. Protesters on Thursday waved blackened flags of Mexico and many chanted for the resignation of President Enrique […]
