By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Financial experts have predicted that Mexico will move up the ranks to become the eighth world’s economic power by the year 2050, when the Gross National Product (GDP) will have increased from $1.18 billion to $7 billion.. The main economic drive of growth in Mexico will be that…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- United Nations Special Envoy Cristof Heyns told Mexican legislators that there is still an alarming rate of human rights violations and impunity in Mexico. Mr Heyns congratulated the government for implementing reforms to protect human rights of those most vulnerable, but he reiterated that despite new laws there are profound deficiencies…
By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- I have to say I actually enjoy reading the different “experts” on drug trafficking that say things without even having ever been in Sinaloa. One thing is to be a researcher and even an expert on mafia and organized crime, and a whole different thing is having lived…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Federal Police Agents arrested three persons in a neighbourhood near Coyoacan in three vehicles that were transporting 4.7 million dollars, 1.1 million pesos in cash and 10 kilograms of a white powder believed to be cocaine. The arrest took place in the southern part of Mexico City in the housing sector…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- After a serious of controversial fatal incidents at the border between the United States and Mexico, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) issued new rules that permit agents to shoot against people who hurl rocks at them only if their lives are in danger. “US agents must not fire their weapons…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Twenty years have passed since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed and put into effect and all that can be said about it today is that only the rich got richer and the transnationals expanded, while in Mexico the poor got much poorer and the in the United…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Mexican Finance Ministry (SHCP, by its Spanish acronym) said today it maintains the country’s economic growth will be 3.9 percent this year, while the positive impact of the energy reform will be in 2015. Finance Minister Luis Videgaray said there are already indicators that show improvement in planned spending, construction and…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- The Brazil World Cup is about 100 days away and Mexico still seems not to be able to get it together under the direction of Miguel “El Pijo” Herrera or so it seems after a very weak performance last night when then tied Nigeria 0-0. Yes it’s the first time the…
MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- At least four northern Mexican states have heightened security and are on alert since Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s arrest February 22 because they fear violent cartel Los Zetas will make a comeback. Authorities from Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Zacatecas feel that with Chapo out of the way the Los Zetas will…
Part 1 / By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Not long after one of Mexico’s most powerful and legendary drug lords Rafael Caro Quintero was inadvertently and maybe even inexplicably released from jailed to the surprise and dismay of the United States government he called on his colleagues for a secret meeting. The meeting…
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