Photo credit: Gas Prices at Their Lowest Levels Since January by KOMUnews Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has decided to cancel the $10 billion refinery it had planned to build in Tula. According to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal, the government’s oil and gas monopoly has not included the refinery in its 2014-2018 business plan despite announcing that it would in March 2008. The publication...
Photo credit: Black Rock Solar photovoltaic array at Food Bank of Northern Nevada by BlackRockSolar Mexico’s geographic location and solar resources have made it one of the top candidates for solar energy development. However, till 2012, the number of investors in this industry and government support was limited. Now, despite its thriving oil industry and an upcoming offshore drilling treaty with...
Photo credit: Lille, France May 2005 by Hunter-Desportes Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto announced in the beginning of October that his government would be spending $300 billion on infrastructure to increase the country’s GDP’s growth. A week later, the government issued a statement announcing its plans to tender $7.4 billion on three passenger train projects in 2014. Tendering...
Photo credit: Currencies of the world by Images Money Up until two decades ago, Mexico had been suffering economically, driving many among its population to seek opportunity North of the border. However, trends have changed with the arrival of the new millennium. as the growing foreign-born population between 2000 and 2010 demonstrates. One of the reasons behind this shift is that Mexico’s...
Photo credit: Amazon Android1 by melenita2012 I am recovering a July post from Homo Zapping, an independent news blog in Mexico, which reported that President Peña Nieto is trying to set up a big data project that would bring together information from government files and social networks. This project could be in charge of Google, Inc., EMC Computer Systems and Kio Networks with an annual cost of...
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