Assembly leader’s trip to Mexico rife with political implications
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez leaves for a three-day trip to Mexico this week to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox and other officials, a visit he says is needed to repair frayed relations between California and its largest trading partner.
Nunez said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent comments on border security, including his praise of the volunteer Minuteman patrols, offended some Mexican officials.
“I didn’t realize the attitude in Mexico toward Gov. Schwarzenegger is bad, very bad,” Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said . “When I talk to people from Mexico, high-ranking officials from Mexico, it is pretty clear that they feel put off by Gov. Schwarzenegger.”
Republicans reacted swiftly, saying Nunez is looking to score political points against the governor as the two sides battle over initiatives on the November special election ballot. Administration officials deny that there are problems in the relationship between Schwarzenegger and Mexican leaders.
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Blunt heading to Mexico on trade trip
Gov. Matt Blunt is heading to Mexico on Sunday for his first international trade trip, which includes a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Blunt said his goal is to increase sales of Missouri products to Mexico, as well as to discuss the creation of a Mexican customs facility in Kansas City that will allow goods to be shipped straight into the heart of the United States without first having to clear customs at the borders.
Kansas City's SmartPort project will allow goods from Asia, for example, to travel through the Mexican port city of Lazaro
Zapatistas start political tour of Mexico
The leader of the military group promises to advance its socialist, pro-Indian cause through peaceful means.
Twelve years after a short but violent New Year's uprising in Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state, the Zapatistas have launched a new campaign to reshape the nation - a political campaign.
The leader of the Mayan Zapatistas, Subcomandante Marcos, launched a national tour Sunday to rally support for the group's pro-Indian, socialist policies, reports the Associated Press.
Thousands of supporters cheered as Subcommandante Marcos, the Indian rights movement's ski-masked leader, roared through La Garrucha on a black motorcycle with a Mexican flag
Mexico gets new political parties
Mexico has added two political parties to its multi-party system ahead of next year's presidential elections.
The new parties -- the New Alliance and the Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative -- must earn at least 2 percent of the vote each in the 2006 race in order to keep their registration as political parties, El Universal newspaper reported.
While party leaders expressed optimism for their new endeavors, neither has any real chance at having a major affect on next year's elections with Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, considered a
Idaho officials heading to Mexico to boost trade with state
Idaho business and political leaders traveling to Mexico next month for a trade mission want to lure more rich foreign tourists to the state, boost exports of products such as software and help put an end to Mexican trade restrictions on fresh potatoes that have dented sales of Idaho's trademark tuber.
The trip is set for Dec. 3 through Dec. 10, and a delegation of 68 people will accompany Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, who earlier this year spent two weeks in Asia on a trade mission to that region.
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In an Open Letter to all Mexican political parties, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan challenged the leaders to make human rights the cornerstone of Mexican life and a fundamental central pillar of their electoral manifesto.
“Mexico is at a cross roads. The democratic transition is about to move to a new phase in the 2006 elections, but respect for human rights – which is central to the democratic aspirations of all Mexicans - is largely absent from the political agenda, or only present in empty words. Political leaders must move from rhetoric to concrete action if Mexico is to
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In Mexico, a man and his 'Penguin' seek office
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico This is the oddest political campaign to emerge in Mexico in many a year.
The candidate is a Marxist rebel leader who once started a civil war, wears a ski mask, smokes a pipe, keeps a crippled chicken as a mascot and is not on the ballot for any political office.
Yet the six-month national tour led by the man who calls himself Subcommander Marcos has all the earmarks of a run-of-the-mill campaign for political office: slogans, chants, partisan songs, rallies large and small, a campaign
Mexicos Calderon to tour Latam, skipping Venezuela
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon, who wants to counter the influence of Latin American leaders like U.S.-foe Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, sets off on a tour of the region next week.
Conservative Calderon, 44, will take in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile and Brazil on the trip, but will not visit Venezuela and other countries like Bolivia whose leftist leaders are aligned with Chavez.
Calderon has said he wants Mexico to play a more active role in regional politics to balance the influence of Chavez, who is trying to reduce U.S power over Latin American affairs.
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General Cable Acquires Mexico-Based Business
General Cable Corp., a leading global supplier of wire and cable products for the energy, specialty, industrial, and communications markets, announced Friday that it has acquired Beru S.A. de C.V. (Beru) based in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Beru operates an automotive aftermarket assembly and distribution operation with annual revenues of approximately $7 million per year.
"The acquisition of Beru is part of our ongoing strategy to support our customers' planned growth initiatives in the expanding Mexican automotive aftermarket. Beru brings to General Cable a profitable, low-cost assembly operation and available capacity to support this growth," said Roger Roundhouse, vice
United States, Mexico, Canada Reiterate Commitment to NAFTA
Officials from the three North American nations reaffirmed their commitment to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as the cornerstone for strengthening regional competitiveness at a March 24 meeting of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission.
Since its implementation in 1994, NAFTA has facilitated strong economic growth and prosperity in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, Mexican Secretary of Economy Sergio Garc�e Alba and Canada Minister of International Trade David Emerson discussed the changing global commercial environment and the implications for North America at the meeting in Acapulco, Mexico.
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