Mexico City’s Transit Improvements On Track

Reuters, 11/19/09
Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe’s largest cities.
“We hope that Mexico City will inspire other cities around the world to embrace environmentally sustainable programs,” said Mayor [...]

Mexico Gov’t Closes Gold Mine to Reduce Pollution

Xinhua via COMTEX, 11/19/09
The Mexican government has formally closed a gold and silver mine belonging to Canadian firm New Gold, ordering the firm to reduce pollution after legal authorities revoked New Gold’s license.
The San Xavier mine, located in the central Mexico state San Luis Potosi, has been ordered by Mexico’s Environment Ministry to halt work [...]

Mexico’s ‘Giant Underwater Museum’

BBC, 11/19/09
On 19 November, four sculptures are due to be submerged in the Caribbean waters, off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico’s south-eastern state of Quintana Roo.
They will be the first of many hundreds of figures, which will be dotted around an area of the region’s national park.
The sculptures will be made of PH-neutral [...]

Geopolitical Analysis of Mexico

Stratfor, 11/18/09
As the southernmost portion of North America, Mexico was dealt a difficult geographic hand. It has a small and limited core territory surrounded by mountains, deserts and jungles that are inherently hard to control and nearly impossible to defend against threats from within or without.
The country is funnel-shaped, its high plateau anchored in the [...]

WRI’s EMBARQ Wins Harvard University Award for Mexico City Bus Project

World Resources Institute, 11/12/09
EMBARQ – the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport – today receives the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership from Harvard University for its work in establishing Mexico City’s Metrobus, a sustainable transit project in one of the world’s most populated and congested cities.
“We’re honored to receive this award,” said [...]

New Analysis: Pulling the Plug on Luz y Fuerza del Centro

By Duncan Wood, Senior Associate, CSIS and Director, International Relations, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City

When President Felipe Calderón ordered public security forces to seize the offices and operations of Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LyFC) at 11pm on the 10th of October 2009, and subsequently announced the closing of the company and liquidation of its liabilities to employees, an intense national debate began over the economic and political motivations that led the executive to make this surprise move.

National Employment Service to recruit former employees from LyFC (In Spanish)

El Universal, 11/9/09
The National Employment Service, in coordination with the National Commission on Electricity (CFE), will begin a process of selection and training former employees who applied to the Mexico’s labor support unit on Monday.
According to the Department of Labor, the National Employment Service will be in charge of the recruitment and selection of [...]

Report: Reducing Emissions Growth in Emerging Economies Could Be Cheap

New York Times, 11/3/09
How much would it cost to stop increasing greenhouse gas emissions in Mexico? According to a new study from the World Bank, not very much.
The bank estimates that Mexico could flatline its emissions growth, using a variety of measures, for about $64 billion over the next 20 years — or $3 [...]

Mexico Has ‘Long Way to Go’ on Budget, Oil Reforms, Garza Says

Bloomberg, 11/2/09
Mexico has a “long way to go” in its effort to strengthen the economy by reining in its budget deficit and boosting investment in the oil industry, said Tony Garza, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
The tax increases that President Felipe Calderon pushed through congress yesterday form part of a reform plan aimed at [...]

Pemex Will Maintain Contracts Despite Constitutional Controversies (in Spanish)

El Economista, 10/30/09
Despite the constitutional controversy of Pemex’s new legal framework, approved by the Senate for some types of contracts that the state-owned company made beginning with the 2008 petroleum reform, the company will continue the signing of contracts with other companies.
Pemex director, Juan José Suárez Coppel, explained that the controversy refers to very specific [...]