Tag: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto

US, Mexico play up increased security cooperation

by Dave Clark / Joshua Howat Berger Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insisted Friday the US and Mexico are bolstering cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, brushing aside concerns about the impact of his boss Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican barbs. The US-Mexican relationship has been strained by Trump’s attacks on Mexican immigrants and the North American Free Trade Agreement — and his insistence on building a border wall. Critics say […]

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Mexico president calls for probe into alleged government spying

MEXICO (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto asked the attorney general’s office on Thursday (June 22) to investigate charges the government spied on private citizens, saying he wanted to get to the bottom of the accusations that he also called “false.” Activists, human rights lawyers and journalists in Mexico filed a criminal complaint on Monday following a report that their smartphones had been infected with spying software sold to the government to fight criminals […]

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Mexican president plagiarized in thesis: university

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s alma mater said Monday he had plagiarized parts of his law school thesis, confirming an investigative news site’s report last week. Mexico’s Panamerican University said it had reviewed the president’s 25-year-old thesis and found five types of “treatment of the ideas of others.” They included “textual reproductions of citations without footnotes or mention in the bibliography,” it said in a statement. In other cases, Pena […]

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Mexican president apologizes over mansion scandal

by Carola SOLÉ MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto apologized and admitted committing an error on Monday over his wife’s purchase of a $7 million mansion from a government contractor as he signed anti-corruption legislation. Pena Nieto enacted the new National Anti-Corruption System aimed at fighting what he described as the “social cancer” afflicting Mexico, but he also used the occasion to address a two-year-old scandal. While he said that he […]

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Pena Nieto calls for “necessary” measures as smog blankets Mexico City

MEXICO City (Reuters) — Mexico City’s government has widened traffic restrictions and recommended people stay indoors due to serious air pollution, as the sprawling capital enters day three of its second-highest alert warning for ozone levels after more than a decade in the clear. The government of Mexico City, which is home to over 20 million people, driving five million cars, blamed the high levels of pollution on the high concentration of ozone in the […]

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Biden rues ‘damaging’ tone against Mexico in U.S. presidential race

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday (February 25) said he felt “almost obliged” to say sorry for verbal attacks on Mexico in the U.S. presidential campaign, in which Republican front-runner Donald Trump has labelled Mexican migrants rapists and drug runners. Speaking alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a visit to Mexico City, Biden never mentioned Trump, who nonetheless loomed large over the proceedings. “There’s been a lot of […]

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Trending in Manila: Who is the #APECHottie?

While leaders of Pacific Rim nations discussed trade and economy issues at a meeting in the Philippines this week, netizens of the host country had a debate of their own: Who is the handsome ‘Hottie’ of the summit? A twitter poll with the hash tag #APECHottie, one of the most trending on social media, pitted new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto for the best-looking leader at the Asia-Pacific Economic […]

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