09/22/2017 Financial Times
First the bad news. Then the fake news?
Mexico suffered its most devastating earthquake in three decades on September 19, a date burnt into Mexicans’ brains as that of the “Big One” when a massive quake in 1985 flattened much of the city, toppled entire blocks, and killed at least 9,500.
This time, the devastation was mercifully more limited — the death toll, still rising, has hit 300 — but the pain was the same, especially in a country that suffered its strongest earthquake in a century only a fortnight ago. The government has been caught on the back foot in other crises, but not this time. It immediately sprang into action and was juggling the disaster response to two major earthquakes in as many weeks in central and southern parts of the country.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Friday that autos and auto parts are a key area in overhauling the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
MEXICO CITY — Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
North American trading partners are downplaying expectations for major progress from talks to update the free-trade agreement that resume in Ottawa on Saturday, even as the clock runs down on their goal of getting a quick deal.
TEOTITLÁN DEL VALLE, Mexico — As a child, Porfirio Gutiérrez hiked into the mountains above the village with his family each fall, collecting the plants they would use to make colorful dyes for blankets and other woven goods.