GAO Report: CBP Unreliable On Border Wait Times | Fronteras Desk

Trade with Mexico, the nation’s third-largest trade partner behind Canada and China, is important to the United States’ economic health, and timely access to Mexican goods is important to both U.S. manufacturers and consumers. The value of goods imported into the United States from Mexico has increased over 30 percent in the last 5 years, and in 2012 imports from Mexico were valued at nearly $278 billion. Most of this trade crosses the border by commercial truck, and in 2012 there were over 5 million truck crossings into the United States from Mexico.via GAO Report: CBP Unreliable On Border...

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Obama administration considers new plan to bolster Mexico’s southern border | Fox News

Obama administration and Mexican government officials recently discussed creating a three-tier security system designed to protect Mexico’s southern border from drug and human traffickers, according to U.S. officials.The border control plan calls for U.S. funding and technical support of three security lines extending more than 100 miles north of Mexico’s border with Guatemala and Belize. The border security system would use sensors and intelligence-gathering to counter human trafficking and drug running from the region, a major source of illegal immigration into the United States.According to the officials who discussed the U.S.-Mexican talks on condition of anonymity, the Mexican government...

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Why President Enrique Peña Nieto Is Changing Mexico With Energy Reform – ABC News

While the U.S. Congress has trouble even keeping the lights on, the pace of change in Mexico under the Presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto has surprised even the most optimistic observers.On August 12th Peña Nieto submitted to Congress a bill that would end the state’s 75-year energy monopoly. Bloomberg reports that Peña Nieto’s plan would allow private companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron to pump crude for the first time since 1938 by changing articles 27 and 28 of the constitution. According to Enrique Ochoa, Deputy Energy Minster, the proposed bill would enable companies that invest in Pemex...

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Una reforma crucial | Opinión | EL PAÍS

México ha puesto en marcha una de las iniciativas más ambiciosas de su historia reciente: la reforma del sector energético. El presidente, Enrique Peña Nieto, presentó el pasado lunes su propuesta para abrir al capital privado la producción de hidrocarburos y poner fin a 75 años de monopolio estatal.El asunto toca la fibra más íntima del país, que conmemora cada año la expropiación petrolera de 1938 como símbolo del orgullo patrio. Pero este bagaje sentimental ha acabado convirtiéndose en un lastre para el desarrollo. La estatal Pemex es un gigante obsoleto y afectado por la corrupción. Baste señalar que...

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Mexican Energy Reform: Politics and Predictions | Center for Strategic and International Studies

On August 13, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto addressed his nation, introducing his proposal for the reform of the country’s energy sector. Petróleos Mexicanos (trademarked and better known as Pemex), the state-owned monopoly in place since 1938, has faced declining profitability in recent years, and without reform, projections for the company’s future are grim. Because of nationalist passions, this is a sensitive issue in Mexico. Bearing this in mind, in his address, Peña Nieto appealed to the country, stressing that reform of the energy sector is the only viable path forward for Pemex and Mexico.Despite its current place among...

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