It’s been a busy year in Mexico, with all the reforms passed by the Peña Nieto administration and the Mexican Congress. The end of calendar year 2013 is a time of reflection on the past year and the year that is about to begin.
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Article by Allan Wall, published December 30th,2013, on Mexidata.info .
Tags: Energy, Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican Politics
The groundbreaking reform of Mexican energy law, which allows private investment, is now the law of the land.
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Article by Allan Wall, published December 23rd, 2013, on Mexidata.info .
Tags: Energy, Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican Politics
Some Americans are afraid to visit Mexico, given the ongoing and well-publicized drug cartel violence. On the other hand, millions of Americans still do visit and aren’t victims of crime.
This is not a merely academic issue for me: I take my family to visit Mexico twice a year. (For my most recent trip, click here.) We’re planning our next trip very soon.
I neither encourage nor discourage Americans from visiting Mexico. They can make their own decisions. But I think it’s useful to see the whole picture – not only about Mexico, but about the United States and how it may be viewed by prospective tourists from other countries.
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Article by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM on December 16th, 2013.
Tags: Mexican Drug War, Travel Warnings, Violence
The pace of reform in the Mexican Congress has been moving rapidly. Within one week, revolutionary changes have been made to energy law and election law.
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Article by Allan Wall, published on Mexidata.info, December 16th, 2013.
Tags: Energy, Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican Politics, PEMEX
Enrique Pena Nieto has completed the first year of his term as President of Mexico. This milestone has given rise to various analyses as to what has been accomplished during his first year, and what may lie ahead.
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Article by Allan Wall, published December 9th, 2013, on Mexidata.info .
Mexico City’s rapid transport system, known as the Metro, moves millions of passengers daily. It is the largest such system in Latin America and the second-largest in North America, after that of New York City. Mexico City’s Metro is an efficient means of conveyance, but it’s more than that. It is also an economic, cultural and even archaeological space. From a tourist’s point of view, I find it very practical.
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Article by Allan Wall, published October 9th, 2013, on Mexconnect.com.
Tags: Archaeology, Mexico City, Transportation
On November 24th, near the San Ysidro port of entry, more than 100 hostile aliens attacked the border patrol with water bottles and rocks (which can be deadly, by the way). What are the ramifications of this incident?
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Blog entry by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM , on November 27th, 2013.
Tags: Border
The magazine Condé Nast Traveler, in its annual readers’ poll, named Mexico’s San Miguel de Allende as the top city of the world in 2013.
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Article by Allan Wall, published November 25th, 2013, on Mexidata.info .
Tags: San Miguel de Allende
The future of Mexico’s state-owned petroleum monopoly PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) is under consideration in Mexico. It might be valuable to compare and contrast PEMEX with other state oil companies worldwide.
Most oil worldwide is controlled by state-owned oil companies. Most of them allow forms of private investment and partnership with private companies. With PEMEX, on the other hand, private investment is very limited. Could this change?
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Article by Allan Wall, published November 18th, 2013, on Mexidata.info.
Tags: Energy, Mexican Economy, Mexican Politics, PEMEX
Today is Veterans Day. Mexico has the biggest contingent of retired U.S. military veterans residing outside the United States.
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Article by Allan Wall, published November 11th, 2013, on Mexidata.info.