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Oct 7, 2024 | 
theskimm.com | Rashaan Ayesh |Marina Carver |Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez |Chantal Vaca
October 7, 2024Amid the growing calls for President Biden to drop out of the election, there’s another ongoing debate: Should there be an age cap for presidential candidates? We talked to Rose McDermott, a political scientist at Brown University. Here’s what she had to say…What are the pros of having an age limit for presidential candidates? There’s a minimum age: You have to be [at least] 35 to be president.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Dustin Tingley |Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
Carbon County also has abundant wind potential. A proposed large-scale development — the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project — would straddle private and federal land. The developers would pay the federal government to use its land. But under existing regulations, unlike fossil fuel extraction, the money companies would pay to produce this renewable energy on government land flows entirely to Washington and stays there.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
marketscreener.com | Noe Torres |Lizbeth Diaz |Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Beyond the common challenges like currency fluctuations and supply shocks that keep the world's central bankers up at night, in Mexico there is an additional foe for those conjuring monetary policy: protection rackets. Extortion has become a massive problem in Mexico, with powerful drug cartels exerting deep influence over swathes of the country.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
gazette.com | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez |Kylie Madry
By Ana Isabel Martinez and Kylie MadryMEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Mexican government has paused its relationship with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday, after their ambassadors criticized a proposed judicial reform that he backs. "There is a pause," Lopez Obrador said in a press conference, clarifying that the freeze was with the embassies and not with the countries.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez |Stefanie Eschenbacher
Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Stefanie Eschenbacher, ReutersMEXICO CITY EnergiesNet.com 08 23 2024 Mexico’s hydrocarbon regulator approved on Thursday a request by state energy company Pemex to expand a natural gas project in the Gulf of Mexico, which requires extra investments of just over $400 million. The Lakach field has been hailed as a potential gateway to a new deepwater Mexican gas frontier.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
gazette.com | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
By Ana Isabel MartinezMEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's president on Friday blasted the U.S. ambassador's criticism of his judicial reform bill as disrespectful, pointing to what he called a long history of "interventionist policy" across the Americas advanced by the United States. Outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has made passage of the judicial overhaul a top priority in his final weeks in office.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez |Raúl Cortés
An additional 1,000 judges and magistrates in Mexico have voted to join an indefinite nationwide strike that began on Monday amid mounting protests against a plan by the ruling party to overhaul the country's judiciary. The National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges, which represents 1,400 judges and magistrates, said late on Monday its members will join the strike on Wednesday after a landslide vote on Monday in favour of the protest.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
bilyonaryo.com | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
By Ana Isabel MartinezMEXICO CITY, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Production at a new refinery owned and operated by Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex will meet a fifth of the country’s motor fuel needs within two weeks, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Production from the Olmeca refinery, located at the Gulf Coast port of Dos Bocas, has been delayed multiple times since its symbolic inauguration in 2022.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
staradvertiser.com | Raúl Cortés |Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
MEXICO CITY >> A Mexican governor hopes halted shipments of avocados to the United States can resume shortly after the U.S. suspended health inspections due to a security incident late last week, he said on Tuesday, though U.S. authorities were more cautious. Michoacan state Governor Alfredo Ramirez said in an interview with Radio Formula he expected the inspection suspension, which has blocked exports of both avocados and mangoes, to be lifted between Tuesday and Thursday.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
whbl.com | Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez
By Ana Isabel MartinezMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A reform proposed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for retirees to have a pension equal to their final salary will come with a cap on monthly payments, according to a document sent to Mexico’s Congress. The draft plan for employees to receive such generous pensions has morphed into one of the stand-out initiatives of Lopez Obrador’s sweeping reforms that include judicial, electoral, environmental and other changes.
