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...lately has been producing about half that. A balance of at least 400,000 is heading across the border, and there is no end in sight. The bitterly contested July elections--narrowly won (by a margin of 0.6%) by Felipe Calderón against the populist Andrés Manuel L??pez Obrador--were largely fought over economic policies, as are, at least in part, the recent battles in Oaxaca. The campaign exposed a yawning chasm between those benefiting from the status quo and those falling further behind: almost 48% of Mexicans continue to live in poverty. The election was also...
...referring to the broad reform agenda--fiscal, labor, energy and competition--that outgoing President Vicente Fox unveiled but then failed to deliver on. Although more politically adroit, Calderón inherits a far more acrimonious political environment, in which L??pez Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Calderón's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico...
...competitiveness. "The key to being successful in business in Mexico is to have little competition. I guess everyone in the world wants this, but the problem is that the state cannot foster that if you want to be a successful country," says Adolfo Hellmund, a former economic adviser to L??pez Obrador who used to work at ALFA, another Monterrey firm. "They are our Rockefellers and Carnegies. We are now the country of the robber barons...
...based on the letters and journal entries of American student Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Ruled to be an accident by an Israeli Army inquiry, Corrie’s death nonetheless became a cause cél??¨bre among the far left. The play, which opened in London and received mixed reviews in New York, has been heralded as a moving portrait of idealism, activism, and the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...MINUTEMAN BRAWL at Columbia on Wednesday night gathered even more steam over the weekend, with Fox News taking on the protest as a cause cél??¨bre and President Lee Bollinger attempting to stem the fallout. For those following this story closely (catch up here, if not), there's some new must-see video...