Tag: Mexico

Trump’s Warning Shot: 100% Tariff For Chinese Cars Made In Mexico

Trump’s Warning Shot: 100% Tariff For Chinese Cars Made In Mexico | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Trump responds to Biden’s promise to protect Americans from ‘spying’ Chinese vehicles with a threat of a 100% tariff on vehicles crossing in from Mexico 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Former President and 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald […]

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Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?

Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms. Sheinbaum, who is of Jewish descent, holds a staggering 30 percentage point lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur of Indigenous descent. […]

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He’s Accused of Smuggling, but Not Drugs or Guns: It’s Greenhouse Gases

The unusual contraband is sold on Craigslist and Facebook for hundreds of dollars: canisters of a banned refrigerant, for use in outdated refrigerators and air-conditioners, that is also a potent planet-warming gas. On Monday, a California man became the first in the nation to be arrested and charged with smuggling the powerful gases into the […]

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How a ‘Body Farm’ Might Help Tackle Fentanyl Abuse

The two women lifted a stiff corpse from the ground, revealing a squirming bug in the dirt. “That one is a live larva!” said Alex Smith, the lab manager of Colorado Mesa University’s Forensic Investigation Research Station, plucking the larva off the ground and stuffing it into a glass tube. Maggots aren’t just maggots, Mr. […]

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BYD To Finalize Location For Mexican Factory This Year

BYD To Finalize Location For Mexican Factory This Year | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Chinese firm says the site will build vehicles for the local market https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> BYD is continuing its rapid global expansion and looking to lock down a location in Mexico for […]

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BYD Not Planning U.S. Entry Despite Building A Mexican Factory

BYD Not Planning U.S. Entry Despite Building A Mexican Factory | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Chinese automaker’s executive vice president says the brand’s Mexican factory will only build models for the local market https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> BYD has no plans of selling its vehicles in the […]

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Aliados de AMLO indagados por EE. UU. por supuestos vínculos con el narco

Funcionarios de la ley estadounidenses indagaron durante años afirmaciones de que aliados del presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se habían reunido con cárteles del narcotráfico y recibido millones de dólares luego de que asumió el cargo, según consta en registros de EE. UU. y de acuerdo con tres personas con conocimiento del tema. […]

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U.S. Examined Allegations of Cartel Ties to Allies of Mexico’s President

American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter. The inquiry, which has not been previously reported, uncovered information pointing to […]

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How China Broke One Man’s Dreams

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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Elon Musk Invites Chinese Suppliers To Mexico Defying Uncle Sam

Elon Musk Invites Chinese Suppliers To Mexico Defying Uncle Sam | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Despite concerns over Chinese EV makers threatening U.S. automakers, Tesla’s boss is working to establish the nation’s car parts suppliers in Mexico 1 hour ago <!––> <!– –> Last year, during his trip to China, where he met with a […]

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Elon Musk Invites Chinese Suppliers To Mexico Defying Uncle Sam

Elon Musk Invites Chinese Suppliers To Mexico Defying Uncle Sam | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Despite concerns over Chinese EV makers threatening U.S. automakers, Tesla’s boss is working to establish the nation’s car parts suppliers in Mexico 1 hour ago <!––> <!– –> Last year, during his trip to China, where he met with a […]

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BYD Wants To Build A Factory In Mexico As It Seeks Global Domination

BYD Wants To Build A Factory In Mexico As It Seeks Global Domination | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The automaker believes Mexico has vast potential and establishing production in North America could prove very important moving forward https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> BYD isn’t looking to bathe in the […]

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U.S. Gas Producers Are Racing to Sell to Asia. And Mexico Is Key.

​As soon as next year, the United States’ fossil fuel industry will gain its first foothold on a valuable shortcut to sell natural gas to Asia. The shortcut goes straight through Mexico. The new route could cut travel times to energy-hungry Asian nations roughly in half by piping the gas to a shipping terminal on […]

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Geely Is Bringing Zeekr’s BEVs To Mexico

Geely Is Bringing Zeekr’s BEVs To Mexico | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Chinese EV startup has ambitions to sell 230,000 vehicles this year, roughly double what it managed in 2023 https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Zeekr’s compelling range of battery-electric vehicles is set to launch in Mexico as […]

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For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China

In the depths of the pandemic, as global supply chains buckled and the cost of shipping a container to China soared nearly twentyfold, Marco Villarreal spied an opportunity. In 2021, Mr. Villarreal resigned as Caterpillar’s director general in Mexico and began nurturing ties with companies looking to shift manufacturing from China to Mexico. He found […]

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Trump Couldn’t Shut Down the Border. Can Biden?

President Biden is pleading with Congress for new authority to shut down the nation’s overwhelmed southern border, declaring that he has done “all I can do” and urging lawmakers to “give me the power” to fix it. “We don’t have enough agents. We don’t have enough folks. We don’t have enough judges,” Mr. Biden said […]

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U.S. Quietly Resumes Deportation Flights Deep Into Mexico

The United States has quietly resumed deporting some Mexicans on flights that carry them far from the southern border, U.S. and Mexican officials said, a move designed in part to discourage them from repeatedly trying to cross into the United States. The first flight to Morelia, a city in central Mexico hundreds of miles from […]

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Mexico’s Immigration Crackdown

On the Thursday before Christmas, President Biden called Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and asked for help. The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. — about 10,000 per day — had reached the highest level of Biden’s presidency. The surge was creating major problems, including lockdowns at a New Mexico high school where […]

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Bullfighting Returns to Mexico City. A Fight Over Its Future Goes On.

At 4:30 p.m., the near-capacity crowd of 42,000 people at La Plaza México started restlessly whistling. They had waited since May 15, 2022 — a period of 624 days of legal challenges — for bulls to return to the world’s largest bullfighting arena, only to face another delay because of the hundreds of protesters outside. […]

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Secure the Border, Say Republicans. So Why Are They Killing a Plan to Do That?

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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Travel Writers, DJs, And Artists Share Their Favorite Winter Destinations

With the holidays long gone, we find ourselves in January’s mid-winter lull. And if you ask us, it’s better to appreciate the cold instead of going “full hibernation.” 2024 is your year of travel, after all — from seeking out lesser-known “second cities” to embarking on wellness travel trips to living out Almost Famous concert […]

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Strained U.S. Immigration System Draws More and More Asylum Claims

For decades, single young men, mainly from Mexico and later Central America, did their best to sneak past U.S. border agents to reach Los Angeles, Atlanta and other places hungry for their labor. Today, people from around the globe are streaming across the southern border, most of them just as eager to work. But rather […]

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She Looked for Her Missing Brother. Now, People Are Looking for Her.

Only a few torn pieces of the crime scene tape around Lorenza Cano’s house are left. The shards of glass from the front door are gone. So are the bullet casings. All that remains is the hope that Ms. Cano will be found. The 55-year-old activist is one of hundreds of women in Mexico who […]

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With Border Deal Near, Parole and Money Take Center Stage in Senate Talks

A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a compromise to crack down on the surge of migrants across the United States border with Mexico, including reducing the number who are allowed to live and work in the country temporarily, but a final deal depends on resolving critical funding disputes. Much of the recent haggling […]

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These Photos Of El Ganzo NYE Remind Us That Hedonism Is Still Alive And Well

We’re halfway through January — have you done anything cool yet? For those of you who took advantage of our ultimate NYE party guide… are you recovered yet? Perhaps you were entranced at San Diego’s PROPER NYE by the sounds of Chris Lake, TESTPILOT, ZHU, Diplo, and Claptone. Or maybe you found yourself staying up […]

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What the Media Gets Wrong About the So-Called Border Crisis

Until 2022, Honduras was ruled by Juan Orlando Hernández, a repressive, corrupt president who both the Obama and Trump administrations propped up—supposedly because he represented “stability.” (Fortunately, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York was not buying it. Hernández’s preferred successor lost the 2021 election, and soon thereafter the ex-president was on […]

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3 Migrants, Including 2 Children, Drown Near Texas Border

Three migrants drowned in the Rio Grande by Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Saturday, setting off a dispute among state and federal officials in what seemed to escalate the feud between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott over the stringent security measures the state has imposed to keep migrants from entering the country. According […]

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New York Food Delivery Workers, Overlooked in Life, Are Honored in Death

After the brass band packed up its instruments, Sergio Solano and two other food delivery workers walked a white bicycle to an overpass within view of the United Nations headquarters. A fellow worker, or compañero, as they call each other meaning “partner,” had died less than two weeks earlier that September in yet another bicycle […]

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