Mexico
Mexico awaits next oil round with cautious optimism
MEXICO CITY Mexico is looking forward to its next round of offshore oil auctions on Monday with guarded optimism thanks to robust interest from oil majors for the shallow-water tenders.
Mexico urges U.S., Cuba to work out differences via dialogue
MEXICO CITY Mexico on Friday urged the governments of the United States and Cuba to find points of agreement and resolve their differences "via dialogue", following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of a tougher policy towards Cuba.
Mexico's peso hits over 13-month high as Fed hike bets fade
MEXICO CITY Mexico's peso firmed on Friday, hitting its strongest level in more than 13 months after weak U.S. housing and consumer sentiment data backed bets of a slower pace of interest rate hikes in the United States.
Ross welcomes producer backing for sugar deal
WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Thursday commended sugar producers for signing onto a "fair" sugar trade deal a day after the United States and Mexico finalized details of the agreement.
Mexico to speed up extradition of Chilean wanted for Pinochet ally murder
MEXICO CITY Mexico and Chile agreed on Thursday to speed up the extradition of Chilean citizen Raul Escobar Poblete, wanted in his home country for allegedly participating in the 1991 murder of senator Jaime Guzman, a close ally of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
OHL Mexico announces tender after offer from IFM
(This June 14 story was corrected to fix headline, paragraphs 1 and 5 to refer to share purchase as a tender offer, not a buyback)
New Mexican-U.S. beer mocks Trump as frowning mariachi
MEXICO CITY Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented U.S. President Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi folk musician to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation. | Video
United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK The United States and Mexico on Wednesday finalized terms of a sugar trade pact that seeks to resolve a years-long dispute between the governments before a North American trade deal is renegotiated.
Mexico says NAFTA agriculture ministers to meet next week
MEXICO CITY Mexico's agriculture minister will visit the United States next week to meet with his U.S. and Canadian counterparts to begin talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mexican government said on Wednesday.
Fire breaks out at Mexico's top refinery, 9 people hurt
MEXICO CITY A major fire broke out at Mexican state oil producer Pemex's Salina Cruz refinery on Wednesday after a crude spill, injuring nine people and extending the shutdown of the plant into a second day, the company said.
Earthquake measuring 7 magnitude strikes off Mexico southwest coast: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
An undersea earthquake measuring 7 magnitude struck off Mexico's southwest Pacific coast on Wednesday, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Mexico's native crops hold key to food security: ecologist
TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mexico's ancient civilizations cultivated crops such as maize, tomatoes and chilies for thousands of years before the Spanish conquerors arrived - and now those native plants could hold the key to sustainable food production as climate change bites, said a leading ecologist.
Canada's detention of Mexicans surges after visa lift
TORONTO Detention of Mexican citizens in Canada has spiked since December, when the government lifted its visa requirement for visitors from Mexico, figures obtained by Reuters show, even as Canada burnishes its image as more welcoming than the United States.
Mexico's Pemex fined $20 million for anti-competitive fuel practices
MEXICO CITY Mexico's antitrust watchdog has fined a division of state-owned oil company Pemex [PEMX.UL] for failing to establish a competitive fuel market, the agency said on Monday.
Mexico retail group ANTAD says same-store sales up 5.7 percent in May
MEXICO CITY Mexico's retailers' association said on Monday that sales at stores open for at least a year rose by 5.7 percent in May compared to the same month a year earlier.
Mexico leftist party says will not join other parties in presidential run
MEXICO CITY Mexico's leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party chief Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ruled out on Sunday aligning with other traditional political parties in the run-up to the 2018 presidential elections.
Mexican authorities find 112 migrants huddled in back of truck
MEXICO CITY Mexican authorities discovered 112 migrants, including four babies, huddled alive in the back of a truck as it traveled along a highway in the country's south, the attorney general's office said on Sunday.
Germany's Merkel says digital world needs global rules
MEXICO CITY German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the digital world needs regulations like those that exist for financial markets in the G20 and for trade under the World Trade Organization.
Walls don't fix migration problems, Merkel says on Mexico visit
MEXICO CITY German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that putting up walls will not solve problems caused by immigration, challenging one of U.S. President Donald Trump's core principles, during her visit to Mexico.
Germany's Merkel says walls don't solve immigration problems
MEXICO CITY German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that putting up walls will not solve problems that countries are seeing due to immigration.
Britain's May condemns 'sickening' attack as van rams Muslim worshippers
LONDON A van plowed into worshippers near a London mosque on Monday, injuring 10 people in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was a sickening, terrorist attack on Muslims. | Video
