New NAFTA: Text of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

New NAFTA: Text of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) RevealedWritten by Christian Gomez


Late Sunday night, Canada agreed to join the new renegotiated NAFTA — officially named the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA — meeting the self-imposed midnight deadline in order to complete an agreement in time for current Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to sign it before he leaves office on December 1.

In a joint statement United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said:

WHAT IS A MAQUILADORA IN MEXICO?

WHAT IS A MAQUILADORA IN MEXICO?

Maquiladora in Mexico

A maquiladora in Mexico is a factory that operates under preferential tariff programs established and administered by the United States and Mexico. Materials, assembly components, and production equipment used in maquiladoras are allowed to enter Mexico duty-free. Products made can be exported into the U.S. at lower tariffs than those from other countries. Recently, the term “maquiladora” has been used for similar operations in Latin America and Asia as well, though its roots are deeply imbedded in Mexico. As such, a maquiladora in Mexico, and especially Tijuana, has advantages.

Was it just the cell signal?

Was it just the cell signal? Mexicans wonder why Trump took so long to offer his earthquake condolences.
By Joshua Partlow

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks with Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto at the end of their joint statement at Los Pinos, the presidential official residence, in Mexico City on Aug. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

MEXICO CITY — From the moment that the 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico on the night of Sept. 7 to the moment that President Trump called Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to offer his condolences, six days and 13 hours transpired.

Mexican Congress Debates the Monetization of the ‘Libertad’ Silver Ounce

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Guillermo Barba shares his post on a debate in the Mexican Congress to monetize the ‘Libertad’ silver ounce coin. The original article is in Spanish.

What follows below is Barba’s post in English, as it appeared on Hugo Salinas Price’s Plata website.




The Mexican Congress Debates the Monetization of the ‘Libertad’ Silver Ounce
By Guillermo Barba

the US-Mexico trade deficit would very likely expand in the absence of NAFTA.

Scrapping NAFTA Will Sink the Peso and Expand Trade Deficit
Caroline Freund (PIIE)

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Edgard Garrido


The threat of a trade war with Mexico has receded as talks proceed this fall over renewing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). One telling result is that the Mexican peso, which had plummeted in value against the dollar after Trump’s election and again after he took office, has recovered. The peso’s exchange rate value is now stabilized at a level that is actually higher than it was before last November.

Mexico's bloody drug war is killing more people than ever

Mexico's bloody drug war is killing more people than ever
Members of the Mexican federal police and the Mexican army stand guard at the scene of a shooting in Tijuana on April 25. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
Kate LinthicumContact Reporter

Drug war bloodshed in Mexico has spiked to record levels, with more homicides recorded in June than in any month in at least two decades.

Prosecutors opened 2,234 homicide investigations last month, according to government statistics released Friday. That’s an increase of 40% over June of last year and 80% over June of 2015.

Rising demand for heroin in the United States and a bloody power struggle inside one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels have put the country on track to record more killings in 2017 than in any year since the government began releasing crime data in 1997.

ΗΠΑ – ΜΕΞΙΚΟ Το Τείχος Των Νεκρών

ΗΠΑ – ΜΕΞΙΚΟ Το Τείχος Των Νεκρών
To 1982 ήταν η χρόνια εμπλοκής του ΔΝΤ στο Μεξικό όταν αυτό ανακοίνωσε μορατόριουμ για τα διεθνή χρέη του μετά από χρόνια κλοπής των πρώτων υλών του από πολυεθνικές των ΗΠΑ. Όμως καθοριστικό ρόλο άρχισε να παίζει το 1995 όταν το Μεξικό έγινε η πρώτη χώρα που υπέγραψε τη λεγόμενη «Γραμμή Ευέλικτης Πίστωσης» με το ΔΝΤ το οποίο συνεργάστηκεμε το υπουργείο Οικονομικών των ΗΠΑ και την Παγκόσμια Τράπεζα, για να εκπονηθεί ένα σχέδιο«αναδιάρθρωσης της οικονομίας» του.
Μετά η αναδιάρθρωση έπρεπε να εφαρμοστεί έτσι ώστε να πιστωθεί η «Γραμμή» με 30 δισ. δολάρια. Είχε προηγηθεί η εθνικοποίηση των τραπεζών από τον πρόεδρο Χοσέ Λοπέζ Πορτίγιο με στόχο όχι βέβαια την οικοδόμηση ενός σοσιαλιστικού κράτους, μα την εθνικοποίηση του ιδιωτικού χρέους της ολιγαρχίας.

HOW THE U.S. TRIGGERED A MASSACRE IN MEXICO

HOW THE U.S. TRIGGERED A MASSACRE IN MEXICO
PSOURCE: PROPUBLICA
Mark Smith, special to ProPublica
eer en Español.
We have testimony from people who say they participated in the crime. They described some 50 trucks arriving in Allende, carrying people connected to the cartel. They broke into houses, they looted them and burned them. Afterward, they kidnapped the people who lived in those houses and took them to a ranch just outside of Allende.

First they killed them. They put them inside a storage shed filled with hay. They doused them with fuel and lit them on fire, feeding the flames for hours and hours.José Juan Morales Investigative director for the disappeared in the Coahuila State Prosecutor’s Office

Mexican kidnappers pile misery on to Central Americans fleeing violence

Αrt2808 Τριτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2017
Despite Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ rhetoric, refugees are more likely to be victims of crime, with criminal gangs often working hand in glove with the authoritiesMexican kidnappers pile misery on to Central Americans fleeing violence
Central American migrants are smuggled from Guatemala into Mexico via the San Pedro river. Unless they can afford to hire a truck they face a 60km walk to Tenosique, Tabasco. Photograph: Encarni Pindado for the Guardian
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Marco Martínez had just stepped off the bus with five other Honduran migrants when four police cars sped into the terminal in downtown Cárdenas. They ran, but were quickly captured.

Mexican Oil and Drug Cartels: Cocaine & Crude (Full Length)

Αrt2735 Σαββατο 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2017

VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Mexico to see the effects of cartel oil theft firsthand.
Mexico’s notoriously violent drug cartels are diversifying. Besides trafficking narcotics, extorting businesses, and brutally murdering their rivals, cartels are now at work exploiting their country’s precious number one export: oil.

Every day as many as 10,000 barrels of crude oil are stolen from Mexico’s state-run oil company,