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...“Mexico’s interests are not the United States’ interests on this topic,” said Carlos Pérez Ricart, an author of a book on the DEA in Mexico....
...Venezuela’s opposition parties are discussing a plan to wind up their “interim government” and abandon Juan Guaidó’s claim to be the country’s legitimate leader — belated recognition that the US-sponsored...
...“The last person AMLO sees before the morning news conference is the military,” says Carlos Loret de Mola, a leading columnist critical of the government, referring to López Obrador by his initials....
...“By the time Dos Bocas becomes fully operational the market conditions could be completely different,” said Juan Carlos Rodríguez Arguelles, an analyst at OilX....
...“We have . . . the best electoral institute in the world,” said Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, a lawmaker with the opposition National Action party (PAN)....
...“Airports in other parts of the world that are connected by train work very well,” said Juan Carlos Zuazua, chief executive of Mexican low-cost carrier VivaAerobus, who cited London’s Stansted as an example...
...Another of López Obrador’s projects, the Dos Bocas oil refinery, is officially expected to begin operating next year, but Juan Carlos Rodriguez Arguelles, an economist at OilX, has estimated it will not...
...López Obrador released the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, met and shook the hand of Guzmán’s mother, and publicly apologised for using the drug lord’s nickname....
...“USMCA has been a lifeline for Mexico,” said Juan Carlos Baker, who was a key negotiator of the deal from the Mexican side....
...But right now, it makes no sense,” said Juan Alberto Díaz López, a criminal law professor at Madrid’s Autonomous University.Díaz believes eliminating defamatory speech protections for the monarchy would...
...“I think it’s only a matter of time before the first case is presented [against Mexico under USMCA],” said Juan Carlos Baker, managing director of Ansley Consultores, who helped negotiate the revised treaty...
...According to Mr Guerrero, he could face a nascent challenge to his leadership from two key lieutenants: Juan Carlos González, known as “03”, who the government says founded the elite group last year, and...
...Mr López Obrador ordered Mr Guzmán’s release, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed. Mr Rivera described Mr López Obrador’s strategy as “the least successful” in recent years....
...“It’s an unusual recession in the US because average incomes haven’t fallen due to government aid,” said Carlos Serrano, chief economist at BBVA in Mexico City....
...But his former finance minister Carlos Urzúa poured scorn on the effort, calling it just “another political manifesto” in a column in El Universal newspaper....
...Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador approved the release of a son of jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán on Thursday, after security forces were overwhelmed by the firepower of the Sinaloa...
...La Jornada newspaper leaked an unusually critical closed-door speech by General Carlos Demetrio Gaytán Ochoa in which he said: “We are worried by Mexico today....
...Mr Guzmán praises Mr López Obrador for deploying the new National Guard police force in Iztapalapa....
...Carlos Vecchio, Mr Guaidó’s ambassador in Washington, was keen to portray the Maduro regime as weakening....
...As the telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim once told the Financial Times: “It is unfair that the drug producing countries get to keep all of the problems, and the consumer nations all the profits.”...
...In Mexico City, critics deride the president’s obsession with history, seeing in it autocratic traits characteristic of many previous Latin American populists: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Argentina’s Juan...
...Juan Carlos Baker, former deputy foreign trade secretary and a key player in the USMCA negotiations, also noted that South Korea had been forced to reopen a free trade agreement with the US which it had...
...Incoming Mexican finance minister Carlos Urzúa will hold a news conference at 6pm local (7pm ET) after a day of market drama....
...Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was head of the Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel and evaded capture for years and twice escaped from prison in Mexico....
...What we’re reading ● The tawdry and riveting details of the New York trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán (Wall Street Journal) ● Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s “Mayan trainwreck” (Washington Post) ● Two...
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