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| 01VATICAN4659 | AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON BEGINS CREDENTIALING PROCESS: [...] (C) AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON BEGAN THE VATICAN'S FORMAL CREDENTIALING PROCESS MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 6 BY PRESENTING COPIES OF HIS LETTERS OF CREDENTIAL TO ARCHBISHOP LEONARDO SANDRI, "SUBSTITUTE" FOR VATICAN PM EQUIVALENT SODANO. THE AMBASSADOR WILL HAVE THE FORMAL PRESENTATION TO POPE JOHN PAUL [...] |
2001-09-06 15:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE IS MX VT |
| 03SANTODOMINGO5992 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FM ON ECONOMIC, INTERNATIONAL, AND BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Guerrero Prats, at a lunch hosted by the Ambassador October 7, said the GODR was trying through diplomatic channels to restore normal relations with Venezuela after President Chavez downgraded them in September. Trade/economic adviser (and daughter of President Meji [...] |
2003-10-24 19:13:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR EFIN ETRD MARR MX PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SP VE XF KCOR |
| 03SANTODOMINGO6002 | DEMARCHE ON COLOMBIA AND OAS SPECIAL CONFERENCE - [...] Post on October 24 delivered talking points reftel, regarding the proposed side declaration of support for Colombia at the OAS Special Conference on Security, to MFA acting director of international organization affairs Ambassador Radhis Abreu de Polanco. She informed us that our points had b [...] |
2003-10-25 15:27:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | CO DR MX PGOV PREL PTER |
| 04BOGOTA153 | SENATOR FRIST'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) Summary: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Ambassador Wood met with President Uribe in Cartagena on January 4. Uribe made a pitch for additional helicopters and more efficient delivery of spare parts and inquired about the possibility of A-10 Warthogs for the counternarcotics fight. [...] |
2004-01-08 17:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER SNAR ECON CO EC MX PGOV |
| 04GUATEMALA3270 | GUATEMALA/MEXICO BORDER ISSUES, STAFFDEL MEACHAM [...] Summary: SFRC Staffdel Meacham visited Guatemala to discuss a broader North American security architecture and Guatemala's role as the southern border state of that area. Based on meetings with the country team, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Migration, and the Ministry of Defense, Staffdel M [...] |
2004-12-27 16:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OREP PREL SMIG CVIS MASS GT MX CA |
| 04OTTAWA2989 | GETTING TO KNOW YOU: MEXICAN PRESIDENT FOX VISITS [...] (U) Introduction and Summary: Mexican President Vincente Fox marked the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of NAFTA with a working visit to Canada October 24-26. Accompanied by eight cabinet-level officials, three senators, and about 40 business leaders, the [...] |
2004-11-08 19:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL ECON EINV CA MX |
| 04SANTODOMINGO863 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: UN'S INSTRAW GETS NEW DIRECTOR [...] Dr. Carmen Moreno, the recently arrived new director of the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), briefed local diplomats on her plan to revitalize the UN entity, at a breakfast hosted by the Spanish ambassador February 3. Moreno, former Mexi [...] |
2004-02-10 19:43:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN DR MX |
| 05ASUNCION215 | PARAGUAY ON MEXICO HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE [...] (C) February 10 Charge raised ref points with VFM Martinez (FM Rachid had not yet returned to the office from travel) stressing the importance of the issue. Progress on human rights, as Paraguay knows well from its own recent history, depends on holding all governments accountable in internat [...] |
2005-02-10 18:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX PA CHR |
| 05BOGOTA1775 | ELN PEACE TALK'S ADVANCES AND RETREATS [...] (C): Mexican facilitator for the peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Andres Valencia met with the Ambassador on February 18 to report on progress this year. Although January saw positive commitments by both the ELN and GOC on negotiation pre-requisites (ref a), the process stalle [...] |
2005-02-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER CO MX ELN |
| 05BOGOTA3726 | PEACE PROCESS WITH ELN STALLS [...] (C) On April 15, the Ambassador met with Mexican facilitator for the peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Andres Valencia and Mexican Ambassador Chacon. Valencia said the peace process remained stalled due to the ELN's unwillingness to renounce kidnapping during talks. Neverthele [...] |
2005-04-19 20:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL CO MX ELN |
| 05BOGOTA5616 | ELN'S HEROES OF ANORI BLOC DEMOBILIZES [...] (U) Summary: Twenty-nine members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Antioquia surrendered to the Colombian Army's Fourth Brigade on June 1 and agreed to demobilize. The ""Heroes and Martyrs of Anori"" became the first ELN members to demobilize in a mass ceremony. Although the desertions wil [...] |
2005-06-13 15:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL MOPS MX CO ELN |
| 05BRASILIA763 | BRAZIL RESPONSE TO OAS SOCIAL CHARTER DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On March 21, Poloff delivered reftel demarche --regarding the chairmanship of the OAS Working Group to draft the OAS Social Charter and Action Plan-- to Counselor Mariangela Rebua, Head of the Division of Social Affairs, and her Deputy, Adriano Silva Pucci, at Brazil's Foreign Ministry. [...] |
2005-03-21 14:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI BH GY MX XL XM NS |
| 05CAIRO2801 | EGYPT: SUA CONVENTION AND NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel demarche April 11 with Adel Ibrahim, Director of the Office of Arms Control and Disarmament at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ibrahim was generally familiar with U.S. goals pertaining to nonproliferation aspects of the SUA convention (Convention for t [...] |
2005-04-11 16:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KNNP MNUC MX PARM PGOV PHSA PREL EG |
| 05GENEVA2378 | MEXICO WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Mission has received note OGE04632 from the Mission of Mexico, dated September 29, withdrawing Mexico's note of August 19 announcing Mexico's candidacy to chair the next Human Rights Commission. The note has been faxed to IO/SHA and WHA/MEX. 2. Begin text: The Permanent Mission of Mex [...] |
2005-10-04 09:04:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM MX UNHRC |
| 05HERMOSILLO440 | HERMOSILLO - ARMED ATTACK AT COUNTRY CLUB LINKED TO HOSPITAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an early morning raid on November 10th, approximately eighteen men shot their way into the exclusive Los Lagos neighborhood in Hermosillo, firing about 400 high-caliber bullets into the house of a local resident. Although they did not shatter the bulletproof windows of the hou [...] |
2005-11-16 22:08:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC ALOW PREL SNAR MX CASC |
| 05HERMOSILLO456 | HERMOSILLO: RIOT IN JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 8, 2005, a group of fifteen individuals started a riot at the primary juvenile detention facility in Hermosillo. Two Amcit minors are currently detained in this facility. Neither of them were primary participants or seriously harmed, although one was slightly burned o [...] |
2005-11-22 18:28:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC MX |
| 05KINGSTON462 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONCERN OVER MEXICO HUMAN [...] (SBU) On February 16, Poloff called Sheila Sealy-Monteith, Director, International Organizations Department (IOD), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT), to deliver reftel talking points. Sealy-Monteith accepted the information and then responded at lenghth. First, she asked [...] |
2005-02-18 18:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | JM PHUM CU MX CHR |
| 05LAGOS578 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) On April 12 AmEmbassy Abuja delivered text of reftel non-paper to the Nigerian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). AmConsul Lagos delivered the same non-paper to National Maritime Authority (NMA) Director General (DG), Engineer Festus U.C. Ugwu, and NMA Secretary and Legal Advisor, M.E. E [...] |
2005-04-17 16:25:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KNNP MNUC MX PARM PGOV PHSA PREL |
| 05LIMA992 | Mexican Summary of Meeting on Mexican HR Initiative [...] (SBU) Post transmits verbatim text received from the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Ministry of a summary, prepared by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, of the GRULAC working meeting in Mexico regarding Mexico's proposal to develop an informal mechanism for cooperation among GRULAC countries on human r [...] |
2005-03-02 17:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU MX PE UNHCR |
| 05MEXICO6479 | FELIPE CALDERON WINS PAN PRIMARY [...] Summary: Former Energy Secretary Felipe Calderon won PAN,s third regional primary election on Sunday, October 23 with 58 percent of the vote, and avoided a run-off election by winning just over 50 percent of the cumulative vote. Both former Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, once thought to b [...] |
2005-10-24 21:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MX |
| 05MEXICO7321 | CALDERON'S CAMPAIGN TAKES SHAPE [...] (U) Summary: Coming off his victory in the PAN primary, Felipe Calderon has been enjoying good times. He officially became the PAN's candidate in a ceremony conducted December 4. Recent polls show his numbers rising as those the PRD's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and the PRI's Roberto [...] |
2005-12-07 19:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX |
| 05OTTAWA1364 | Security and Prosperity Partnership in Canada - A [...] (SBU) Summary - From a distance Mission Canada is heartened by the effect and attention given to the SPP in Washington, throughout our government. We are hearing from Canadians most affected that this is precisely what is needed. Because of the political situation now in Canada, we can affor [...] |
2005-05-05 19:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EIND ELTN ECON PGOV PREL CA MX |
| 05OTTAWA1384 | CANADA: MISSION PERSPECTIVE ON SPP SECURITY GOALS [...] SUMMARY: Mission Canada appreciates the opportunity to comment on the interagency effort under way to identify a coherent and forward looking security road map for North America. We must continue to search for security weaknesses and identify areas where our three countries can strengthen ou [...] |
2005-05-06 20:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA ECON ETRD MX PGOV PREL EWWT SMIG SNAR SOCI |
| 05OTTAWA2047 | U.S./CANADA ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSIONS AND CEC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: On the margins of the 12th annual meeting of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in Quebec City June 21-22, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson reviewed a wide rang [...] |
2005-07-07 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA MX |
| 05OTTAWA2112 | U.S. EMBASSY OTTAWA RECEIVED DIP NOTE #JLAB-0107 [...] On July 11, 2005 the U.S. Embassy Ottawa received DipNote #JLAB-0107 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, Canada. The original is being sent to WHA/CAN. 2. Begin text of note: The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade presents its compliments to the Embassy of [...] |
2005-07-12 20:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CA MX |
| 05OTTAWA2650 | CANADIAN VIEWS ON CHAVEZ AND THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (C) DCM spoke with Jamal Khokhar, FAC Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, to elicit Canada's views on Chavez and the Social Charter. Khokhar said that prior to the event, Venezuelan Ambassador Perez was called in for Canadian officials to deliver the message that the way Ven [...] |
2005-09-02 21:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | BH GY MX XM KSUM SOCI |
| 05OTTAWA3103 | SPP: FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES WORKING GROUP [...] Introduction and Summary: Treasury DAS for International Monetary and Financial Policy Mark Sobel led the U.S. delegation to the first Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Working Group meeting and the 11th NAFTA Financial Services Committee meeting near Ottawa on October 4, 2005. The [...] |
2005-10-17 20:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL CA MX |
| 05OTTAWA3404 | NOVEMBER 8 MEETING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico attended the ninth meeting of the North American Energy Working Group (NAEWG-9) on November 8 in Montreal, reviewing a broad range of commo [...] |
2005-11-16 17:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND CA MX KTRD |
| 05OTTAWA3726 | TRILATERAL REGULATORY COOPERATION MEETING UNDER [...] On December 9, Canadian, Mexican and U.S. officials met in Ottawa to discuss possibilities for regulatory cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The Canadians, who had proposed and organized the meeting, seem enthusiastic about the prospects for eng [...] |
2005-12-21 20:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV CA MX SIPDIS |
| 05OTTAWA531 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE CONCERNING MEXICO [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche (per reftel) regarding Mexico's regional human rights initiative and our concerns that this might serve to undermine Cuba-specific (or other country-specific) resolutions at the UN's Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to Katherine Verrier-Frechette, Senior Human Ri [...] |
2005-02-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MX CA CHR |
| 05PANAMA680 | PANAMA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL RENZI [...] Embassy warmly welcomes Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), who will visit Panama during April 1-3, 2005. Embassy also welcomes committee professional staff member Mr. Robert Myhill and former HPSCI staffer Brant Bassett. 2. Emba [...] |
2005-03-24 17:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN MX PM |
| 05PANAMA688 | PANAMA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LT COL VINCENT C SMITH [...] Embassy warmly welcomes Lt. Col. Vincent C. Smtih, USAF, as the Escort Officer for Codel Renzi, which will visit Panama during April 1-3, 2005. 2. Embassy Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Karen Covert, telephones: office (507) 207-7131, residence (507) 225-2850, cell (50 [...] |
2005-03-28 19:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN MX PM |
| 05PARIS6984 | 60TH UNFC: FRANCE AGREES AD HOC COMMITTEES A BAD [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-11 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | CA MX AORC PARM PREL MNUC |
| 05QUITO346 | NOTES ON NEW ECUADORIAN AMBASSADOR TO UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and DCM met with newly-named Ecuadorian Ambassador to the UN, Jaime Moncayo Garcia, to express USG interest in a collaborative relationship at the UN. Separately, PolChief raised deep USG concerns over a Mexican human rights initiative (RefTel). Moncayo express [...] |
2005-02-11 22:21:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CU MX EC CHR |
| 05RIODEJANEIRO30 | MAYOR-ELECT ACCUSED OF LEADING SMUGGLING RING [...] (SBU) The respected Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo reports that the mayor-elect of a small city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is leading a family- run smuggling operation that sends Brazilian nationals to the United States via Mexico. According to Folha, [...] |
2005-01-06 10:02:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS ASEC PINR MX BR |
| 05SANSALVADOR2577 | OPIC LOAN TO BAJA SALT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-16 22:35:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV MX ES |
| 05SANTODOMINGO758 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE ON MEXICO HUMAN [...] (SBU) Embassy officer delivered talking points in paras 5-6 reftel to MFA director for UN affairs Michelle Cohen and separately to deputy director Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, who will go to Geneva for the annual UN Human Rights Committee meeting. Embassy expressed particular appreciation for the [...] |
2005-02-15 16:06:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU MX DR |
| 05SANTODOMINGO971 | DOMINICANS OUTLINE APPROACH TO HAITI, CAFTA, U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Haiti, bilateral relations with the United States, CAFTA ratification, promoting consensus on a new OAS secretary general, more active participation in regional and SIPDIS multilateral diplomacy, foreign investment and technology are priorities for the Dominican administration [...] |
2005-02-24 15:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KIPR EFIN EPET CJAN PHUM PGOV DR HA CU MX XM |
| 05TEGUCIGALPA893 | SEAS WITHOUT FRONTIERS; OIL DRILLING WITHOUT FEARS: [...] On April 18th, Mexico and Honduras signed a maritime delimitation treaty for waters in the Caribbean. Both countries agreed to share all information that will assist in finding petroleum deposits and to formalize an agreement for an efficient and equitable exploitation of such deposits. Forei [...] |
2005-04-27 16:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL PGOV ECON EPET EWWT SENV SNAR MX HO |
| 05TORONTO2804 | Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program Benefits [...] Summary: Seasonal Mexican Workers form the backbone of Ontario's multi-million dollar greenhouse farming sector. Mexico's bilateral agreement with Canada defines its sole official guest worker program. The program has expanded over the past thirty years throughout Canada, but workers are conc [...] |
2005-10-25 11:56:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM CA MX |
| 05VATICAN552 | IMMIGRATION ON FRONT BURNER FOR MEXICAN BISHOPS, VATICAN [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for the U.S. and Mexico Paolo Gualtieri received with interest points on the President's plans for immigration reform and applauded the President's initiative in tackling the problem. He told us that every group of Mexican bishops visiting the Vatican this fall [...] |
2005-12-12 17:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL VT MX |
| 05VATICAN562 | VATICAN WARY OF LEFTIST LATINOS [...] (C) The Ambassador shared ref (a) points on Venezuela's nefarious influence in the region with Holy See internal affairs chief (Vatican number three) Archbishop Leonardo Sandri December 17. Some points were news to Sandri, but he was not surprised and said he shared U.S. concerns about Chav [...] |
2005-12-23 11:09:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL VT MX VE |
| 05WELLINGTON792 | 60TH UNFC: NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Largely because of frustration over the lack of progress in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, the New Zealand government supports the draft resolution in the UN First Committee that would establish Ad Hoc Committees under the UN General Assembly. However, New Zealand does not want the [...] |
2005-10-13 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL MNUC CA MX NZ |
| 06ASUNCION1071 | PARAGUAY: DECLARATION IN OAS ON U.S. BORDER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-24 21:42:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PTER SMIG OAS XM MX PA |
| 06BEIJING23954 | NOVEMBER 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key Points at the November 21 MFA Press Conference were: - A/S Hill and VFM Wu Dawei held talks on resumpion of the Six-Party Talks but no date has been set for the Talks to resume. -- The MFA Spokesperson had no comment on reports of the "unfreezing" of DPRK accounts in Macao or about th [...] |
2006-11-21 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN IN CH MX CO |
| 06BOGOTA2282 | BLUE LANTERN: EAVESDROPPING EQUIPMENT LICENSE [...] SUMMARY: Post visited the offices of Eagle Commercial on Wednesday, March 8th to verify the information requested reftel. The company was founded in Bogota, Colombia by Arquemidis Bonilla Vega in 1997 and is a registered distributor, importer, exporter, and retailer of electronic and communic [...] |
2006-03-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC MX CO US |
| 06BUENOSAIRES2782 | ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA ON CHINA, [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana December 14 discussed with Ambassador a broad range of topics. Taiana commented on his trip to China and the GoA's interest in developing Chinese markets for Argentine exports. Taiana said the GoA is pleased with the U.S. Congress' recen [...] |
2006-12-19 17:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL UNESCO AR BL MX CH |
| 06CARACAS2832 | VENEZUELA REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE ELECTED MEXICAN [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez announced publicly September 12 that Venezuela does not yet recognize the elected Calderon government in Mexico. Chavez also criticized EU observer missions as having been excessively lax in Mexico and severe in Venezuela. Mexico and Venezuela, which downgraded [...] |
2006-09-15 21:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE MX |
| 06GUATEMALA534 | FOREIGN MINISTERS' DECLARATION ON U.S. IMMIGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Foreign Ministers of Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic met in Antigua, Guatemala, on March 15, 2006. They reiterated their call for an hemispheric conference to promote "best practices" in temporary worker programs. They agreed to lau [...] |
2006-03-17 16:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM CVIS SMIG GT XK CO DR EC MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO100 | PRESIDENT FOX IN HERMOSILLO FOR SECOND RECENT VISIT [...] (U) Summary: President Vicente Fox returned to Hermosillo on March 7, his second visit in four days. He engaged briefly with miners demonstrating for his assistance outside the Government Palace. The President told reporters that he had no intention of firing the Secretary of Labor and that [...] |
2006-03-08 19:55:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB ECON MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO166 | SPIKE IN DRUG VIOLENCE IN HERMOSILLO [...] (U) Summary: Over the past several months there appears to be a trend of increasing violence in the area in and around Hermosillo, Sonora, culminating with several events during Holy Week. The violence appears to be largely confined to rival drug trafficking groups. Although there is no elemen [...] |
2006-04-22 00:20:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR ASEC CASC MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO228 | MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS VISIT SONORA [...] (SBU) Summary. All three major presidential candidates campaigned in Sonora over the last two weeks, with none of them making a big splash. The calculated distancing of Governor Bours from Robert Madrazo was obvious. However, the Governor still studiously avoided an irrevocable split with Ma [...] |
2006-05-31 02:18:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO24 | HERMOSILLO: MULTIPLE FAILURES LEAD TO PRISON BREAK [...] (U) Summary: On January 15, at approximately 11:30 am, three highly dangerous prisoners broke out of the Centro de Readaptacisn Social I (CERESO) (Center for Social Readaptation, i.e. prison) in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. For one of them, it was his third prison break in as many convict [...] |
2006-01-20 17:10:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC ALOW CASC MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO274 | CULIACAN CONFERENCE EXPLORES REFORM ALTERNATIVES FOR MEXICAN [...] (U) Summary: On May 25, little more than a month before Mexico's national elections, the annual binational academic conference in Sinaloa on democratic development comparatively examined presidential and parliamentary systems. Participants reviewed the strengths and weaknesses of Mexico's p [...] |
2006-06-27 00:31:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON EINV OEXC MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO286 | HERMOSILLO -- OBSERVATION OF JULY 2 NATIONAL AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The voting process in Hermosillo, as observed by Consulate teams, was clean and fair and managed well at neighborhood polling stations. Transit voters at "casillas especiales" experienced long delays and frustrations but showed an admirable determination to vote, some waiting [...] |
2006-07-03 22:24:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO29 | SONORA PRI AND PAN PARTIES PREPARE FOR 2006 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Electoral politics are beginning to grab the local headlines in Sonora. In a state where the National Action Party (PAN) is strongest, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Governor Bours has visibly asserted his local political identity and independence from the PRI nation [...] |
2006-01-21 01:18:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO36 | PRD AND "ALTERNATIVA" PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CAMPAIGN IN [...] (SBU) Summary. PRD presidential candidate Lopez Obrador made his first official campaign swing through Sonora state January 27. His visit culminated in political rally in Hermosillo, which was well attended, but not as large as claimed. He made 32 promises to Sonoran voters - local media fo [...] |
2006-01-31 03:48:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG SNAR MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO55 | CONSULATE HERMOSILLO EAC MEETING, FEBRUARY 10, 2006 [...] (SBU) The Consulate Hermosillo Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met February 10 to discuss a surge during the last week of drug-related violence and developments in the city and the state of Sonora. Some of the events that drew post's attention were: -- On February 7, beginning at 0830 hrs, [...] |
2006-02-11 06:31:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC ALOW SNAR CMGT MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO79 | PRISON CONDITIONS IN SONORA: JUST AS BAD AS ALWAYS, ONLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: After the prison break of January 15 in Hermosillo (Ref A), Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo fired top management and ordered a review of the entire state prison system. The investigation uncovered serious irregularities in 15 of the 16 prisons in Sonora. As a recent visit by Cons [...] |
2006-02-25 01:34:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PGOV ASEC ALOW MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO82 | PRI PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MADRAZO CAMPAIGNS IN SONORA [...] (U) Summary: Roberto Madrazo, presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), held a large political rally February 26 in southern Sonora. He warned of water shortages and promised better economic development programs if elected. Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours did not a [...] |
2006-02-27 23:44:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO9 | SONORA STATE OFFICIALS SEE 5 PERCENT ECONOMIC GROWTH IN [...] (U) Summary. Sonora economic officials are projecting that the state's economic growth rate for 2006 will be 5 percent. This would match 2005, when the Ford Company's major expansion of its automobile assembly operations in Hermosillo gave Sonora a major boost. Plans for a new LNG terminal i [...] |
2006-01-10 23:24:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ENRG EINV EPET MX |
| 06HERMOSILLO95 | PRESIDENT FOX BRIEFLY VISITS HERMOSILLO [...] (SBU) Summary: President Vicente Fox made a lightning visit to Sonora March 4, ostensibly for ribbon cuttings on two highway infrastructure projects in Hermosillo. Local media described the visit as a low-key campaign stop on behalf of the National Action Party (PAN), which it seemed to be, [...] |
2006-03-07 00:42:00 | Consulate Hermosillo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO1002 | POLLSTERS SAY HOLY WEEK POLLS MAY PREDICT NEXT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on 2/21 with four leading Mexican pollsters who, in a lively discussion found a few things to agree on -- including the fact that Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) continues to lead the race. They also agreed tha [...] |
2006-02-24 14:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1080 | RADIO AND TELEVISION PROPOSAL FAVORS MEXICAN [...] (U) Summary: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed legislation in December to reform the Radio and TV Law and change the composition of the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL). The Mexican Senate recently held a series of hearings on the bill and is expected t [...] |
2006-02-28 17:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON MX EINV |
| 06MEXICO1123 | CEO SAYS UNFAIR TO LABEL TELMEX A MONOPOLY [...] (U) Summary: In meeting with Econ Mincouns and Econoff February 10, Jaime Chico Pardo, CEO of Telmex, refuted accusations that Telmex and Telcel are monopolies. He claimed Telmex has experienced a major decline in revenue and currently controls only 38 percent of traffic. Chico Pardo focused [...] |
2006-03-02 14:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON MX |
| 06MEXICO1124 | IN TELEVISA FORUM, ANALYSTS JUDGE CANDIDATES [...] (SBU) Mexican broadcaster Televisa created a TV program in which a group of well-known and respected analysts and think tanks study and comment on various proposals made by the three main presidential candidates. The analysts concluded that none of the proposals of the three candidates would [...] |
2006-03-02 14:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1174 | IS MEXICO RUNNING OUT OF OIL? [...] (SBU) Production from Mexico's Cantarell complex of offshore oil fields, responsible for 61 percent of the nation's oil production, has begun to decline. Recent press reports suggest the decline rate could be as high as 25 percent per year. However, Pemex officials and industry analysts pla [...] |
2006-03-03 18:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO1177 | ECOTOURISM IN MEXICO LACKING GOVERNMENT SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY. Mexico has experienced record years in tourism in both 2004 and 2005. Always looking for areas to improve the already strong industry, many in Mexico support ecotourism with hopes that the diversity of Mexico's environment can assist in the economic advancement of local and indigen [...] |
2006-03-03 20:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV MX |
| 06MEXICO1277 | ALL CANDIDATES LOOKING TO SPEND ON INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), Felipe Calderon and Roberto Madrazo have at least one shared plan: increase investment in infrastructure as the catalyst to spur economic growth, generate employment, improve competitiveness, and promote regional development. Funding their plans will [...] |
2006-03-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1310 | AGAINST THE WALL: US AND MEXICAN CONGRESSMEMBERS [...] (SBU) Summary: During the 45th U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary (IPG) meeting members of Congress from both countries exchanged perspectives on border security and migration. The Mexican delegation stressed shared responsibility for border matters and the contribution Mexican migrants make t [...] |
2006-03-09 21:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO1311 | ACT II: AMLO KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN'S SECOND STAGE [...] (U) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), presidential candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), held a campaign event on 02/26 that filled Mexico City's central plaza (Zocalo) with approximately 70,000 to 120,000 supporters. The event marked the end of a successful first stage of th [...] |
2006-03-09 22:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1370 | LEFT GAINS IN KEY MEXICO STATE ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appears to have won a narrow plurality in the March 12 Mexico state elections, the left-of-center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) made impressive gains, easily displacing President Fox's National Action Party (PAN) as [...] |
2006-03-13 21:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO1456 | THE FOX ADMINISTRATION'S FINAL BI-NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Fox Administration officials see this fifth and final BNC of their term as a chance to highlight bilateral achievements, institutionalize successful mechanisms, and prepare for the heads of state meeting in Cancun. President Fox, who recently announced imminent extraditions o [...] |
2006-03-17 18:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB CVIS EAID MX |
| 06MEXICO1461 | AMLO READY TO MAKE FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-17 20:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO1462 | MEXICO: SRE DOES NOT SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Marta Vasquez, Assistant Director for International Cooperation Against Narcotics-trafficking and Corruption, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Vasquez and Director General for Global Themes, Ernesto Cespedes, are the SRE's lead officials [...] |
2006-03-17 20:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MARR MASS CVIS OAS MX |
| 06MEXICO1463 | MEXICO PLANS TO SIGN MDA ADOPTION WITHIN A MONTH [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Liliana Lopez Ortiz, Assistant Director for International Law, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Lopez reminded Poloff of Mexico's long tradition of supporting international rights and that the GOM was happy to vote in favor of the adopt [...] |
2006-03-17 20:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC ICRC PHUM PREF MX |
| 06MEXICO1464 | MEXICO HAS NOTHING TO SAY OVER U.S.-INDIA CIVIL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Alicia Buenrostro Massieu, Assistant Director General for Africa and Middle Eastern Affairs, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Buenrostro thanked Poloff for the information and said she would look it over carefully. She confirmed that th [...] |
2006-03-17 20:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC MX |
| 06MEXICO1473 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOL BRIAN BLASHICH [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Labor Official Brian Blashich for travel to Palau, Coahuila, Mexico from March 19-23, 2006. Embassy confirms that no further assistance is required. 2. Mexico does have health concerns. You should take normal tourist precautions [...] |
2006-03-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO1476 | LOPEZ OBRADOR'S "ADVISORY COUNCIL" [...] (SBU) PRD co-founder Porfirio Munoz Ledo leads an "Advisory Council" created to feed economic proposals to the AMLO campaign. The council includes some prominent PRD economists whose views tend toward more government intervention in the economy. The extent of the council's influence on AMLO, [...] |
2006-03-17 22:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1492 | MEXICO ENERGY: PEMEX CFO ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE [...] (SBU) The CFO of Pemex, the Mexican oil parastatal, Juan Jose Suarez Coppel painted a rosy picture of the chances for passage of a bill that will allow the firm to operate more autonomously from the government. The proposal would replace most government secretaries and union bosses on the boa [...] |
2006-03-20 16:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO1509 | ROSARIO GREEN ANALYZES PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary General and former Foreign Minister Rosario Green offered to poloff her analysis of Mexico's presidential race. She attributed Madrazo's current electoral problems in part to the fact that the PRI [...] |
2006-03-20 22:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO1515 | MEXICAN ELECTIONS - CANDIDATES PROMISE TO REDUCE [...] (SBU) Commemorating the 68th anniversary of Mexican Government's nationalization of oil company assets on March 18th, candidates publicly discussed their energy plans. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) promise to reduce energy rates provoked criticism from analysts and GOM officials who que [...] |
2006-03-22 14:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1522 | NEW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY IN [...] (U) Two new, potentially confrontational, efforts to combat contraband and piracy have recently been announced. On March 6, President Fox issued a decree to create a new Inter-Ministerial Commission to better coordinate enforcement of contraband and the illegal economy among GOM agencies and t [...] |
2006-03-22 17:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV KIPR MX |
| 06MEXICO1526 | MEXICO ENERGY: PRD DEPUTY ON PEMEX CORPORATE [...] (SBU) Francisco Carillo, the senior member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), on the Chamber of Deputies' energy committee, told us March 16 that a Pemex corporate governance bill would likely pass before the end of April. The three political parties have already agreed informal [...] |
2006-03-22 18:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG MX |
| 06MEXICO1536 | EFFECT OF VIOLENCE ON MEXICAN INVESTMENT [...] SUMMARY. Following the Mexican Competitiveness Institute's (IMCO) announcement that Mexico loses 15 percent of GDP, or USD 1.8 billion due to crime, business leaders including the presidents of CCE (Business Coordination Council, an umbrella group of trade associations); Coparmex (the Nationa [...] |
2006-03-22 20:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KTDB PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1609 | FORGING OPPORTUNITIES WITH CARLOS SLIM'S GRUPO [...] SUMMARY. The Ambassador hosted a breakfast March 16 with CEOs from various divisions of Mexican mogul Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso to discuss how the U.S. Mission in Mexico can assist U.S. companies (particularly small- and medium-sized companies) in entering the Mexican market, and form allianc [...] |
2006-03-27 21:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EIND EINV ENRG MX |
| 06MEXICO1626 | ANALYSTS GIVE CANDIDATES' PROPOSALS LOW MARKS [...] (SBU) A group of forty prominent political and economic experts brought together by a new Mexican think-tank analyzed the three main presidential candidates' proposals in a report called "Evaluate and Decide." The analysts found candidates' proposals incomplete, with all failing to identify f [...] |
2006-03-28 18:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1656 | FORUM HIGHLIGHS CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES IN MEXICO- [...] The UN Economic Commission for Latin America, the Mexican Senate, and Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations hosted a bilateral forum March 6-7 on Sino-Mexican economic relations. Participants in "Opportunities in the Economic and Commercial Relations: China - Mexico in the Latin American C [...] |
2006-03-29 21:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX CH |
| 06MEXICO1716 | SENATE PASSES CONTROVERSIAL BROADCASTING AND TELECOM [...] (SBU) On March 30, with 81 votes in favor, 40 against, and 4 abstentions, the Mexican Senate approved controversial reforms to Broadcasting and Telecommunications Laws. Previously, on December 1, 2005, the Chamber of Deputies had unanimously passed the bill. It has now been sent to President F [...] |
2006-03-31 21:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1758 | MEXICO STILL WAITING FOR RESPONSE ON INCB CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Julian Juarez Cadenas, Assistant Director General for Security and Judicial Affairs, at the Foreign Relations Secretariat's (SRE) Office of United Nations Affairs. Juarez reminded Poloff that Mexico also had a candidate for the International Narcotics [...] |
2006-04-04 20:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR AORC UN MX |
| 06MEXICO1776 | MEXICO'S BANKING SECTOR CONTINUES EXPANSION IN 2005 [...] (U) In 2005, Mexico's banking sector enjoyed continued rapid expansion in both loans and profits. Mortgage and consumer credit grew 35% and 48% respectively, while loans to businesses grew a modest 5%. Banking profits grew 83% over 2004 to USD 4.4 billion, prompting criticism that the banks [...] |
2006-04-05 15:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1797 | AMLO ADVISOR TALKS "FISCAL DISCIPLINE" WHILE [...] (SBU) While economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O tried to soothe concerns about Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (PRD) intentions for the country's fiscal and monetary policies; Felipe Calderon (PAN) and Roberto Madrazo (PRI) adopt populist tints in their own speeches. Ramirez de la O said AMLO wil [...] |
2006-04-06 15:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO1798 | MEXICAN RESPONSE TO HONDURAN FUEL IMPORT ANNOUNCEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-06 15:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET HO MX |
| 06MEXICO1839 | MEXICAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS REALISTIC, SOMETIMES [...] Representatives from various Mexican agricultural organizations gave us their views on U.S.-Mexican agricultural cooperation and trade. The groups held varying views on NAFTA's current impact on their producers and the potential impact of further liberalization, particularly of corn and beans [...] |
2006-04-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1884 | MADRAZO'S ECONOMIC POLICIES: TWO VIEWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate meetings, two factions of the PRI's economic brain trust offered competing economic visions of the GOM's likely economic policy should PRI candidate Roberto Madrazo win the presidency. Jorge Chavez Presa, Madrazo's chief economic advisor, described Madrazo's pla [...] |
2006-04-10 17:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO1889 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RUMSFELD'S [...] (C) Summary: Mexico is the essential partner in U.S. homeland defense, and while the Mexican Navy (Marina) has been an enthusiastic player, the Mexican military (SEDENA) has only recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of cooperation. This visit marks the opportunity to realign our ow [...] |
2006-04-10 19:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO2026 | MEXICO STILL EVALUATING PSI COMMITMENT [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to Julian Juarez, Assistant Director General for United Nations Affairs, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Juarez explained that the PSI issue was undergoing serious discussion within the SRE, but stated that Mexico would most likely not suppo [...] |
2006-04-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC PHSA MX |
| 06MEXICO2042 | REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION PART I: A VIEW FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. Immigration to the U.S. and the subsequent transfer of wealth through remittances is having a major social and economic impact in rural Mexico, as financial transfers are the primary source of income in many areas. While emigration has been common since the 1970's, the rate has [...] |
2006-04-19 17:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO2097 | REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION PART II: THE FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite record amounts of remittances flowing from the U.S. to rural Mexico, sustainable economic development in those regions has been largely elusive. One factor inhibiting productive investment of remittances has been a scarcity of reliable financial services in rural areas [...] |
2006-04-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN ETRD SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO2123 | MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES PART III: HOMETOWN [...] (SBU) Summary. There has been a significant growth in the influence of migrant organizations based in the U.S., often known as "hometown associations" (HTAs). While Mexican immigrants have long supported their communities of origin, HTAs are now larger and better organized, and increasingly [...] |
2006-04-24 12:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO2154 | MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES PART IV: CROSS BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Mexican authorities, the number of people immigrating illegally to the U.S. in the first three months of 2006 grew to 275,792, an increase of 20 percent compared to the same time period in 2005. Many of these migrants have traditionally lacked financial and invest [...] |
2006-04-25 11:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN MX SMIG |
| 06MEXICO2182 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PREPARE FOR FIRST POLITICAL [...] (SBU) As the presidential candidates prepare for their first debate April 25 in Mexico City, the four partipants are emphasizing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (PRD) refusal to attend, while Roberto Madrazo, Patricia Mercado and Roberto Campa take every opportunity to attack the current adminis [...] |
2006-04-26 10:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2220 | TEN ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACING MEXICO'S NEXT PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Whoever wins Mexico's presidential election on July 2 will inherit both the economic strengths built and bolstered during the Fox Administration and the daunting challenges that Fox leaves unfulfilled or simply unaddressed. Fox's major economic legacy will be the macroeconomic stability [...] |
2006-04-26 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2240 | CALDERON SCORES BIG IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary: As measured both by the polls and the pundits, National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Felipe Calderon emerged the big winner in yesterday's presidential debate, offering a national audience a polished, well-organized and engaging summary of his platform. His princ [...] |
2006-04-27 13:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2279 | MEXICO: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post supports continued waiver of Title III provisions of the Libertad Act for Mexico. Mexico continues to have difficult relations with Cuba despite the return of diplomatic envoys in July 2004. Seasoned diplomat Jose Ignacio Pina Rojas replaced Roberta Lajous as Mexico's a [...] |
2006-04-27 20:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU ETRD ETTC PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO2280 | PROPOSED LAW TO LIMIT FOREIGN INVESTMENT DEAD FOR [...] SUMMARY: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies rejected a bill passed by the Senate on April 4 that would have limited foreign neutral investment (i.e. investment in non-voting shares) to trusts, mutual funds, and other investment funds. Although the law would likely have affected investors from E [...] |
2006-04-27 20:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON MX |
| 06MEXICO2297 | BENEFITS OF MAQUILA SHELTER PROGRAM ATTRACTS [...] SUMMARY. The state of Sonora has become the aerospace capital of Mexico, with one third of the aerospace companies in the country having operations there. The port of Guaymas, in particular, has become a hub for the industry. The success may stem, in part, from the services offered by the [...] |
2006-04-28 17:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EIND EINV ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO2333 | PUNTA COLONET PORT AND RAILROAD PROJECT LOSING [...] (SBU) Summary: Dep Econcouns and Econoff met February 17 with Union Pacific Railroad's Director General for Mexico Juan Manuel Carreon to discuss the Punta Colonet port development project in Baja California, Mexico. Carreon believes Union Pacific and partner, Hutchison Port Holdings, a Hong [...] |
2006-05-02 17:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MX EINV BTIO ETTC ETLN EAIR ETRD ENRG |
| 06MEXICO2407 | MEXICO: U.S. DOESN'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT MEXICO'S [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Julian Juarez, Assistant Director General for Security and Judicial Affairs at the Foreign Relations Secretariat's (SRE) Office of United Nations Affairs. Juarez reiterated the SRE's earlier statement that Mexico would not negotiate votes on Human Right [...] |
2006-05-04 23:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR PHUM UNHRC MX |
| 06MEXICO2408 | AMLO: FOREIGN POLICY STAYS THE SAME BUT CAMPAIGN [...] (C) On Tuesday 05/02, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) chaired a foreign policy program hosted by the Consulting Council for an Alternative Project for the Nation. The Council is led by former Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations and AMLO advisor Porfirio Munoz Ledo and [...] |
2006-05-04 23:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2409 | NEW POLLS SUGGEST PAN CANDIDATE CALDERON MAY CROSS [...] (C) Summary: A flurry of post-debate polls puts National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon ahead of former front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)(Democratic Revolution Party - PRD) by between 1-7 percentage points, depending on the poll. PAN party President Manuel Espino [...] |
2006-05-04 23:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO2460 | WHAT AILS THE PRI? [...] (C) Summary: After its considerable successes in the 2003 midterm elections and in state and local races since then, many in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) expected that 2006 would be the year of its restoration, particularly given the public's disappointment with the Fox Admini [...] |
2006-05-09 14:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2517 | SAN SALVADOR ATENCO RIOTERS DRAW BRUTAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary. A May 3-4 riot in San Salvador Atenco was the result of long-simmering local political rivalries. We see no direct relation to the coming presidential election, and the group that precipitated the violence appears to have no reach beyond its community. Nevertheless, the GOM dec [...] |
2006-05-11 17:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO255 | "I'M GOING TO WIN" PAN CANDIDATE FELIPE CALDERON TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: A confident Felipe Calderon and key campaign advisors Ernesto Cordero and Josefina Vasquez Mota told the Ambassador January 10 that recent polls showed Calderon slightly ahead of Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). The National Action Party candida [...] |
2006-01-18 22:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PREL |
| 06MEXICO2555 | MEXICO: SUPPORT FOR MDA STILL STRONG, DELAYED [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Liliana Lopez Ortiz, Assistant Director for International Law, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Lopez Ortiz was happy to hear that the Ambassador's meeting had gone well and reiterated Mexico's support for the initiative. Lopez Ortiz explain [...] |
2006-05-12 20:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM AORC PREF ICRC MX |
| 06MEXICO2559 | MEXICAN TRUCKERS FEAR COMPETITION [...] SUMMARY. Representatives of the trucking industry in Monterrey expressed frustration with inefficient and unsafe operations of Mexican customs facilities in Nuevo Laredo. Although the GOM is improving and updating border crossings, the road system that feeds into them remains substandard caus [...] |
2006-05-12 21:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EIND EINV ELTN ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO2577 | THE CALDERON ECONOMIC PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Senior staffers Ernesto Cordero and Carlos Montano confidently described National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Felipe Calderon's economic platform the week national polls showed Calderon capturing the lead from Party of the Democrat Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel [...] |
2006-05-15 15:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO2595 | FRANCHISING IN MEXICO PART I: AN OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. Buoyed by increased purchasing power, a commercial real estate boom, and greater investor confidence, franchises are transforming the retail sector in Mexico. The franchise industry is an increasingly important component of the Mexican economy, creating thousands of new jobs a [...] |
2006-05-15 22:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO2633 | FRANCHISING IN MEXICO PART II: PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. Being driven by domestic and foreign investment, the franchise industry grew by 17 percent in 2005. While U.S. companies presently comprise most of the foreign-based franchises in Mexico, a substantial increase in the presence of Central and South American, European, and Chine [...] |
2006-05-16 22:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO2637 | WAITING FOR THE WHOLE ENCHILADA: MEXICO REACTION [...] (SBU) Fox administration officials responded immediately to President Bush's 5/15 speech by stressing there was no "militarization" of the border, the shared responsibility for border security, and their concern over the lack of legislative progress on migration. Mexican commentators focused [...] |
2006-05-16 22:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO2702 | AMLO'S THIRD ACT: NON-VIOLENCE AND THE MIDDLE [...] (U) As the campaign season enters its final fifty days, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) prepares to shift his strategy into high gear. After fumbling through March and April, AMLO now finds himself in second place in most polls and looks to [...] |
2006-05-18 23:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO2708 | NEW COMPETITION LAW BRINGS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite significant opposition to proposed changes to Mexico's competition law, the Federal Competition Commission (CFC) negotiated an agreement with the business community led by the Mexican Business Coordination Council (CCE), an umbrella group of trade associations. This [...] |
2006-05-19 23:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO2711 | MEXICAN CONGRESS DEMONSTRATES INDEPENDENCE, NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The final session of the 59th Congress ended on April 28, with the modest results that have become its hallmark under a divided government. Some, including Eduardo Perez Motta, head of the Federal Competition Commission (CFC) believe that the new competitiveness law will become [...] |
2006-05-20 00:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO2758 | BORDER REACTION: MEXICO WORRIES ABOUT "THE WALL" [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and Consulates continued intensive outreach on border issues with key media figures, the campaigns and political parties. While the GOM initially maintained a remarkably unified public line accepting U.S. border security initiatives, the attitude changed dramatic [...] |
2006-05-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO2759 | MEXICANS FAVOR IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) As instructed reftel PolMinCouns joined Amb. George Troup of New Zealand and Australian First Secretary Jessica Lucas to demarche Foreign Relations (SRE) officials 5/19 regarding the proposed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ambassador Troup presented reftel points ora [...] |
2006-05-23 19:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO2888 | MEXICO: OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM'S CONCESSION IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-30 18:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON ETRD EINV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO2958 | MEXICO WILL SUPPORT GRULAC CANDIDATE NOT IRAN FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Norma Diaz, Director for International Organizations at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat's (SRE) Office of United Nations Affairs. Diaz explained that the GOM has no official position on Iran's candidacy for Chairman of the International Organiz [...] |
2006-06-01 20:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SMIG AORC MX |
| 06MEXICO2960 | OAS: MEXICO WILL PERSIST WITH TRADE RESOLUTION [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Astrid Diaz-Infante, Acting Director General for OAS Affairs at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Diaz-Infante agreed that opening up the text of Mexico's "trade and investment" resolution would undo years of negotiations and said that the GOM i [...] |
2006-06-01 20:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3035 | POLLSTERS SEE PRESIDENTIAL RACE AT "CRITICAL" [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador again convened four pollsters (reftel) who concurred that Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon were virtually tied, making this a critical moment for the campaign. Wh [...] |
2006-06-05 19:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3069 | CALDERON AT MOUNT SINAI [...] (U) Summary: On May 31, Felipe Calderon, presidential candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), addressed over 500 members of Mexico,s Jewish community, the first of the three major presidential candidates to publicly appear before this community. In his remarks, Calderon focused [...] |
2006-06-05 22:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3081 | PAN LEGISLATORS OPINE ON CAMPAIGN/PARTY DYNAMICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with TDY Poloff, both Senator Maria Luisa Calderon (sister of ruling National Action Party (PAN) presidential Candidate Felipe Calderon) and Federal Deputy German Martinez (party representative to the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE)), expressed their frustr [...] |
2006-06-06 13:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3136 | VOLATILITY IN MEXICAN FINANCIAL MARKETS [...] (SBU) Summary: During the week of May 29 econoffs and FSN ECON specialist talked with a broad range of analysts and economists from foreign banks and the Mexican Stock Market. Their reading was that the recent volatility in Mexican financial markets was directly tied to capital flight from eme [...] |
2006-06-07 20:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN MX |
| 06MEXICO3148 | PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: CALDERON ON POINTS, AMLO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the second and final of the presidential debates, front-running candidates Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party (PAN) and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the Party of the Democratic Revolution were widely perceived to have debated to a near draw. The debate f [...] |
2006-06-07 23:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3165 | SONORA PROVIDES SOFT LANDING TO NEW FOREIGN [...] SUMMARY. The State of Sonora, often one of Mexico's largest FDI destinations due to its proximity to the U.S. border, has boosted its success in business and capital attraction with its Soft Landing Program. Created as part of the state's incentive package to attract Ford to Hermosillo, the [...] |
2006-06-08 23:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO3196 | BLAST FROM THE PAST: FORMER PRESIDENT ECHEVERRIA [...] (C) Summary: In a July 5 breakfast with poloff, former Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez (1970-76) offered his views on the state of U.S.-Mexican relations and the current election campaign. He expressed concern about the damage the migration issue was doing to U.S.-Mexican relations and ab [...] |
2006-06-09 17:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3267 | OHCHR RUNS SLIM OPERATION IN MEXICO [...] (U) Summary: Minister Counselor for Political Affairs (MCCA) and PolOff met with the representative in Mexico of the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Amerigo Incalcaterra. The OHCHR's strategy in Mexico is to promote a human rights agenda by working wit [...] |
2006-06-14 14:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3296 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We have an effective relationship with Mexico when it comes to counter-terrorism, particularly on special interest aliens (SIAs) and alien smuggling. The first transition challenge will be to make the n [...] |
2006-06-15 00:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MX |
| 06MEXICO3297 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON LAW [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We suggest three overarching messages on law enforcement for the new administration. First, the steadily improving cooperation over the last six years represents a baseline, not an aberration. Second, w [...] |
2006-06-15 00:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM SNAR MX |
| 06MEXICO3302 | AMLO ANNOUNCES A SUBSIDIES PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On May 30, Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced on national TV some details of a comprehensive subsidies program aimed at increasing Mexican families' income and their purchasing power by up to 20%. AMLO expects the plan would spur [...] |
2006-06-15 17:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3305 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON [...] (C) Summary: This is the third in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We need to intensify the effort begun this year to engage Mexico in a constructive approach to border violence that yields a real-time law enforcement response to emergencies. Mexico also needs to impro [...] |
2006-06-15 19:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO3309 | FEDERAL ELECTORAL INSTITUTE COUNSELOR DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Counselor Arturo Sanchez shared with us June 14 some insights on the coming election. He was adamant that despite the usual glitches, election day would be relatively smooth. Nevertheless, he expected a tight race with judicial challenges to fol [...] |
2006-06-15 20:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3321 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the fourth in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. Modern infrastructure, including energy, transport, and telecommunications; respect for the rule of law; and vigorous and open trade under NAFTA will provide the foundation to build a competitive Mexi [...] |
2006-06-16 14:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO3322 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the fourth in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. Modern infrastructure, including energy, transport, and telecommunications; respect for the rule of law; and vigorous and open trade under NAFTA will provide the foundation to build a competitive Mexi [...] |
2006-06-16 14:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO3324 | ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON [...] Summary: This is the fifth in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. The central development challenge for Mexico - and perhaps the main challenge for its new president -- is reducing the poverty that continues to afflict so many here and which drives so many to emigrate. Com [...] |
2006-06-16 15:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SENV MX |
| 06MEXICO3325 | LEADING POLLSTER GIVES EDGE TO AMLO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 15 meeting, Maria de las Heras, one of Mexico's most respected pollsters, told poloff that she believed that if the election were held today, the Party of the Democratic Revolution's (PRD) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) would defeat the National Action Party's (PAN) [...] |
2006-06-16 15:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3338 | EMBRACING THE WINNER AND RETHINKING BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: This is the last in a series of six cables on transiti issues in Mexico. Washington should embrace the winner of the July 2 presidential election early and often (this is all the more important i the winner turns out to be Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador). We hope that senior USG of [...] |
2006-06-16 21:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MX |
| 06MEXICO3351 | LEADING ANALYST OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION PROCESS, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion, leading political analyst Denise Dresser told poloffs that while she was optimistic Mexico's electoral machinery would work, she questioned whether President Fox's successor -- whoever it would be -- would be capable of reforming the Mexican state. S [...] |
2006-06-19 20:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3378 | MEXICO'S EXPANDING TIES TO ASIA [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of A/S Shannon's visit to Asia post met separately with Japanese and Chinese embassy and Foreign Ministry (SRE) officials, all of whom welcomed increased consultation with the U.S. on Mexico's relations with Asia. Japanese diplomat Noriteru Fukushima echoed Tokyo off [...] |
2006-06-19 23:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO3422 | ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL DISCOUNTS "NULLIFICATION" RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: While Mexican media have in recent days lingered on the possibility the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) might annul the 2006 presidential voting, six of the seven members of the TEPJF assured us such a decision was virtually impossible. In a meeting June 20 TEPJF President Leonel C [...] |
2006-06-21 19:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3423 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO LAYS [...] (SBU) Summary: With support from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) sponsored a comprehensive conference on trafficking in persons (TIP) in Tapachula, Chiapas, June 14-15. [...] |
2006-06-21 19:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3438 | EMBRACING THE WINNER AND RETHINKING BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: This is the last in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. Washington should embrace the winner of the July 2 presidential election early and often (this is all the more important if the winner turns out to be Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador). We hope that senior USG [...] |
2006-06-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR MX |
| 06MEXICO3465 | A ONCE MIGHTY PRI STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCY [...] (C) Summary: With Election Day ten days off, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) remains divided and debilitated, struggling to maintain its relevance in a political scene it once dominated. On the one hand, party insiders tell us that presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo appears [...] |
2006-06-23 13:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3486 | FINAL POLLS GIVE NARROW LEAD TO LOPEZ OBRADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last several days, Mexican polling firms have released the results of the final round of polls to be published before the July 2 election. The five most influential polls in Mexico all give a narrow lead of between two and four percent to the Party of the Democratic [...] |
2006-06-23 22:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3494 | SUBJECT: A CONVERSATION WITH AMLO,S INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) Summary: Carlos Robles-Gil, a key infrastructure advisor to PRD presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), discussed AMLO's economic team and proposals related to budget and finance, infrastructure, energy, and trade policy. Robles-Gil said the PRD campaign expects AMLO to [...] |
2006-06-23 23:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EAIR ELTM ETRD PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3572 | TEACHERS' STRIKE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT VOTING IN [...] (C) Summary: As Election Day draws near, public school teachers in the state of Oaxaca remain on strike, with some continuing to threaten to block voting unless a resolution is reached by July 1. What began some five weeks ago apparently as a routine labor action in pursuit of increased wages [...] |
2006-06-27 21:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB MX PINR PREL PHUM |
| 06MEXICO3574 | TEACHERS' STRIKE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT VOTING IN [...] (C) Summary: As Election Day draws near, public school teachers in the state of Oaxaca remain on strike, with some continuing to threaten to block voting unless a resolution is reached by July 1. What began some five weeks ago apparently as a routine labor action in pursuit of increased wages [...] |
2006-06-27 22:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB MX PINR PREL PHUM |
| 06MEXICO3609 | CALDERON'S 100 ACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Only a few days prior to the Presidential election Felipe Calderon, candidate of the National Action Party (PAN), presented 100 actions that he will take during his first 100 days as president. These actions divide into five main themes: public security, economics, equal opport [...] |
2006-06-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO3623 | MEXICAN RESPONSE TO WTO DOHA ROUND DEMARCHE [...] (U) On June 19, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Kenneth Smith Ramos, Economy Secretariat Director General of International Trade Negotiations under Undersecretary Villalobos. Smith reiterated that the GOM supports the ambitious U.S. agenda for the Doha Development Round and said he would [...] |
2006-06-29 19:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD MX WTO |
| 06MEXICO3635 | ECONOMIA OFFICIAL REACTS TO TRUCKING PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: On the side of a June 29 lunch meeting to discuss DDA negotiations, Ken Smith Ramos, Economia Director General of International Trade Negotiations under U/S Villalobos, expressed to Econoff Economia's strong frustration regarding the U.S. decision to postpone the pilot trucking pr [...] |
2006-06-29 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MX |
| 06MEXICO3638 | NEW MANZANILLO LNG PLANT: MEXICO PUTS OUT BIDS FOR [...] (SBU) The GOM published June 6 a solicitation for bids to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and re-gasification plant at Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast, and another solicitation to supply LNG to the plant. Bids are due in by January 16, 2007. GOM officials and experts identi [...] |
2006-06-30 15:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO3662 | NO WINNER IN MEXICO'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS UNTIL [...] (U) Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) announced July 2 that frontrunner presidential candidates Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Revolutionary Democratic Party -- PRD) and Felipe Calderon (National Action Party -- PAN) were effectively neck and neck after both exit polls and quick count [...] |
2006-07-03 13:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3672 | MEXICAN ELECTORAL UNCERTAINTY -- INITIAL MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary. Following Sunday's indeterminate election results, the Mexican Stock Market (Bolsa) opened July 3 up 4.17% where it remains at midday. The peso rose Monday morning to between 11.10 and 11.20 to the dollar after having closed June 30 at 11.42. While some observers point to o [...] |
2006-07-03 20:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3676 | ELECTION DAY IN MEXICO: NOT OVER YET [...] (C) Summary: Election day was calm in Mexico, marked by good turnout and an orderly process. But even a good process does not always provide an immediate result with a closely divided electorate. Electoral authorities insist the country will have to wait for the July 5 official count to know [...] |
2006-07-03 20:53:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3715 | MARKETS ARE UP BUT WILL REMAIN VOLATILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a rough day Wednesday when the Mexican stock market dropped 4.01 percent as a result of Wall Street,s slide and temporary indications that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was ahead in the official election count, Mexican stocks and bonds have rallied today as Felipe [...] |
2006-07-06 20:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3747 | CALDERON DECLARED WINNER; AMLO TO CONTEST RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: On July 6, the Federal Electoral Institute's (IFE) district councils completed their retabulation of the votes cast in last Sunday's election. The official results show Calderon with 35.88% and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) with 35.31%, a margin of 0.57%. We understand that [...] |
2006-07-07 13:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3832 | AMLO TAKES TO THE STAGE: HOLDS FIRST MEETING WITH [...] Presidential candidate for the Coalition for the Good of All, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), held his first post-electoral "informative meeting" in Mexico's central plaza, the Zocalo, on Saturday, July 8. AMLO used the venue to express his concerns with the election process and the Feder [...] |
2006-07-11 18:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3834 | SRE BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7, the SRE held its second post-electoral briefing for the diplomatic community. The briefing was presided over by Foreign Secretary Derbez, although Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Counselor Alejandra Latapi, one of the two IFE representatives in attendance, led th [...] |
2006-07-11 18:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3840 | HACIENDA'S (MEXICAN TREASURY) NEW BUDGET AND [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: The Fox administration continues to take protective measures to shield the Mexican economy from profligate spending. Hacienda's (Treasury) Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law, which entered into force this April is an example of a cautionary move to ensure t [...] |
2006-07-11 23:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3865 | ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL RECEIVES FIRST TRANCHE OF [...] (C) Summary: On July 11, poloffs met with the head of public relations for the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) to discuss the legal challenges to the presidential election results brought by PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). Although as of the time of [...] |
2006-07-12 21:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3879 | AMLO'S FRIEND SPECULATES ON THE CANDIDATE'S [...] (C) Poloffs met early July 4 with Jose Maria Perez Gay, a personal friend of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) tapped to be Foreign Secretary if AMLO had won July 2. Perez Gay said he was perplexed by apparent inconsistencies in preliminary numbers released by the Federal Electoral Institu [...] |
2006-07-13 19:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO3904 | MEXICAN STOCK MARKET ECONOMIST MUSES ON INTERNAL [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary. After a week of political uncertainty and speculation over the market,s reaction to Mexican political events, Econoff met with the deputy director of the Mexican Stock Exchange, Alejandro Reynoso. He confirmed previous common views that market volatility was no [...] |
2006-07-14 16:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO3905 | POLITICAL CHANGES BRINGS UNCERTAINTY TO MEXICAN [...] (U) The Mexican Congress' passage in March 2006 of the Radio and Television Law has brought some uncertainty to Mexico's communication sector. All of the previous Federal Telecommunications Commissioners resigned shortly after its passage leaving the Federal Telecommunications Commission (CO [...] |
2006-07-14 17:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON MX ECPS ETRD EINV |
| 06MEXICO3907 | LOOKING FOR FRAUD IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES? [...] (C) Summary: In a July 12 meeting with poloffs, officials of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) offered an impassioned defense of their work in conducting the July 2 presidential elections. Although they had not yet seen the specific complaints submitted by the PRD (or, for that matter, [...] |
2006-07-14 18:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3913 | AT&T OFFICIALS WITH CALLING PARTY PAYS WOES [...] (U) AT&T officials met with Econoff June 29 regarding Mexico's transition to a Calling Party Pays (CPP) system for national and international long distance calls where the destination is a user of the mobile local service. Controversy surrounding the recent passage and implementation of the n [...] |
2006-07-14 18:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON MX ETRD EINV |
| 06MEXICO3953 | AT MASS RALLY, LOPEZ OBRADOR CALLS FOR CIVIL [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday, July 16, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presided over a mass march and "informational meeting" at which he demanded a complete, nationwide recount of the results of the Mexican presidential election. [...] |
2006-07-18 00:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO3961 | PRI GOVERNORS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE STRUCTURAL REFORMS [...] (U) Summary: Given the upcoming Mexican government transition and the slim margin with which a new president will take office, this is a good time to review federal-state relations and their implications for Mexico's prospects for structural change. The views expressed in this three-part seri [...] |
2006-07-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO3962 | MEXICO'S ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES - A [...] (C) Introduction and Summary. Mexico,s Central Bank Deputy Governor Jose Julian Sidaoui provided a snapshot of the country,s economic situation following the July elections. He said that the surprisingly favorable reaction of Mexican markets, despite political uncertainty, is mainly the resul [...] |
2006-07-18 18:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO3999 | NGO CITES ELECTION "IRREGULARITIES," SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: On July 14, poloffs met with Silvia Alonso, Executive Secretary of the influential NGO Alianza Civica (Civic Alliance), to discuss the findings of her organization's election observation mission. She called on the electoral tribunal (TEPJF) to give greater credibility to the el [...] |
2006-07-19 16:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4000 | NGO CITES ELECTION "IRREGULARITIES," SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: On July 14, poloffs met with Silvia Alonso, Executive Secretary of the influential NGO Alianza Civica (Civic Alliance), to discuss the findings of her organization's election observation mission. She called on the electoral tribunal (TEPJF) to give greater credibility to the el [...] |
2006-07-19 16:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4019 | INFLUENCE OF STATES AND GOVERNORS OVER FEDERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: State governments have limited ability to influence national policies. The local legislature of each state enacts legislation that applies only within its territorial boundaries. However, state legislatures do have a constitutional right to introduce legislation in the nationa [...] |
2006-07-19 22:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4020 | REVIEW OF MEXICAN STATE DEPENDENCE ON [...] (SBU) States and municipalities depend for the vast majority of their revenue on federally collected value-added tax and petroleum revenue funds, but the Fiscal Coordination Law prohibits the GOM from conditioning transfers. On average, 90 percent of state revenue and nearly 75 percent of mun [...] |
2006-07-19 22:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4100 | PRI BOSS HOLDS FORTH ON ELECTION, PARTY'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Federal Deputy Manlio Fabio Beltrones, recently elected to head the PRI faction in the incoming Senate, told poloff that his party would be willing to cooperate on specific issues with the administration of Felipe Calderon, although he doub [...] |
2006-07-25 16:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4139 | LOCAL PRD OFFICIALS CLARIFY PARTY POSITION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with poloffs on July 21, Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) deputies from the Mexico City Legislative Assembly discussed their party's position towards the contested presidential election. Led by Deputy Lorena Villavicencio Ayala, the PRD committee expressed its con [...] |
2006-07-26 12:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4144 | BANK OF MEXICO CONFERENCE ON POVERTY CHALLENGES, [...] (SBU) Mexican economic leaders and World Bank economists discussed the causes and potential solutions for the country,s persistent poverty at a July 19 Mexico City conference &Growth and Reduction of Poverty in Latin America: Virtuous Cycles and Vicious Cycles.8 At the conference, Central Ban [...] |
2006-07-26 17:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO4189 | LEADING MEXICAN ECONOMIST ON TAX AND FISCAL REFORM [...] (C) Econoff met with Dr. Fausto Hernandez, Economics Professor at Mexico,s Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), to discuss Mexico,s fiscal policy. Dr. Hernandez has done extensive research and published numerous studies on the subject. He discussed the origins of low tax collect [...] |
2006-07-27 18:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO4217 | COPARMEX' PROJECT TO REDUCE MEXICO'S REGIONAL [...] (SBU) The Mexican Employers Confederation (Coparmex) is working on a joint plan with universities, unions, municipalities, states, and the banking sector to alleviate poverty, promote investment and create infrastructure in the less developed and "abandoned" south of Mexico. The chair of the [...] |
2006-07-31 18:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO4222 | EMBASSY MEXICO CITY 2006-2007 IPR PROTECTION [...] (U) Despite the increases in raids and seizures carried out over the last year by Mexican Customs (Aduanas) and the Specialized IPR Unit within the Attorney General's office (PGR), markets selling counterfeit goods are ubiquitous and abuse of intellectual property rights (IPR) remains rampant. [...] |
2006-07-31 21:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR KPAO WTRO MX |
| 06MEXICO4238 | AMLO URGES SUPPORTERS "TO SAVE DEMOCRACY" [...] (SBU) Summary: At his third mass "informational meeting," Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO, presidential candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), called on his supporters to begin a continuous vigil until the electoral tribunal (TEPJF) issues its final decision with respect [...] |
2006-08-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4239 | PLAYING WITH A CRYSTAL BALL: PREDICTING CALDERON'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Even as AndrQs Manuel L"pez Obrador continues to challenge the July 2 election results, Felipe Calder"n is quietly planning his transition to power, leading to speculation as to who will be invited to join his future administration. Although we believe it is generally too ear [...] |
2006-08-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO4266 | MEXICAN MARKETS DIP ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday July 30, 2006 Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) again summoned thousands of followers in a "peaceful meeting" in the Zocalo to demand that the electoral tribunal recounts ballots. As part of the protest, AMLO's supporters camped along Paseo de la Reforma, the avenue t [...] |
2006-08-02 13:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN MX |
| 06MEXICO4267 | FORMER MAGISTRATE SEES FULL RECOUNT AS UNLIKELY [...] (U) The Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE) recently held its third post-electoral briefing for the diplomatic community, in which Fernando Franco Gonzalez, former Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) magistrate and current head of the Public Law Studies Center at the Autonomous Technological Insti [...] |
2006-08-02 13:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4288 | MEXICAN TRANSPORT U/S ON CROSS-BORDER [...] (C) Econ Mincouns and Econoff met with Mexican Undersecretary of Communications and Transport (SCT) Aaron Dychter on July 31, 2006. Dychter is concerned that leaks about a proposed cross-border trucking pilot program could have negative effects on the ability to implement the program in the [...] |
2006-08-02 23:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR EINV MX ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS |
| 06MEXICO4290 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR RE-ELECTION OF PROFESSOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-03 01:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNHRC PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4291 | (CORRECTED COPY) PLAYING WITH A CRYSTAL BALL: [...] (SBU) Summary: Even as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continues to challenge the July 2 election results, Felipe Calderon is quietly planning his transition to power, leading to speculation as to who will be invited to join his future administration. Although we believe it is generally too ear [...] |
2006-08-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 06MEXICO4292 | A VISIT TO THE PROTEST'S GROUND ZERO [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 31 and August 2, Poloffs visited Mexico City's central square or Zocalo to observe ground zero in the ongoing protest of the supporters of PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). Thousands of demonstrators were camped out in the Zocalo and on Juarez and Mader [...] |
2006-08-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4310 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESUMED PRESIDENT ELECT [...] (C) Summary: Presumed President-elect Felipe Calderon told the Ambassador 8/2 that he thought the Electoral Tribunal could decide as early as this week to recount a certain number of ballots, a gesture Calderon thought was reasonable in light of the ongoing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) [...] |
2006-08-04 13:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4368 | ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL CALLS FOR PARTIAL RECOUNT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a unanimous August 5 decision, Mexico's Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) rejected the Democratic Revolutionary Party's (PRD) request for a complete, nationwide recount of the results of the July 2 presidential election, ordering instead a recount in the 11,839 precincts (casillas [...] |
2006-08-07 18:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4465 | ANALYSTS PREDICT A LONG SEASON OF PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Three prominent Mexican political analysts believe that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is likely to continue his protests for the foreseeable future. All three expect AMLO to pursue increasingly aggressive tactics in the days leading up to the electoral tribunal's (TEPJF) de [...] |
2006-08-10 04:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4472 | MEXICO PLANS TO HOLD UNHRC SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered talking points in reftel to Rodrigo Labardini, Director General for Human Rights at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE), on August 9. SIPDIS Currently the president of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), Mexico expressed strong views on the recent request [...] |
2006-08-10 18:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4482 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR HRC SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (C) Acting MCPA and Poloff delivered ref A talking points to Dr. Luis Angel Benavides, acting head of the Office of Human Rights and Democracy at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE), as well as to Mariana Salazar Albornoz, Director of International Policy for Economic, Social, Cultural [...] |
2006-08-11 01:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KPAO UNRCR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4490 | PRD EXPLOITS ELEMENT OF SURPRISE IN ON-GOING [...] (U) Summary: Following the Electoral Tribunal's (TEPJF) announcement on August 5 that it would recount 11,839 precincts (9.07 percent of the nationwide total), PRD Candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) vowed new acts of civil resistance. After a noisy protest in front of the TEPJF itse [...] |
2006-08-11 16:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4494 | MESOAMERICAN ENERGY INITIATIVE MOVES AHEAD DESPITE [...] (SBU) Under the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Plan (PIEM), the GOM is continues to vigorously promote construction a refinery in either Panama or Guatemala to serve as an outlet for heavy Mexican crude, as well as provide development opportunities and reasonably priced energy supplies for t [...] |
2006-08-11 18:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO4534 | MEXICO'S "OTHER HALF"--THE VIEW FROM OAXACA (PART [...] (SBU) On August 1-4, poloff visited the state of Oaxaca in order to learn more about the political and economic dynamics of this region, often characterized as part of Mexico's poor "other half." Academics, journalists, protesters, and indigenous citizens described a state--until recently a PR [...] |
2006-08-14 23:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4535 | MEXICO'S "OTHER HALF"--THE VIEW FROM OAXACA (PART [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the end of PRI rule, Oaxaca still lacks a viable economic development strategy and there is no effective political leadership or coordinated social movement to address Oaxaca's significant needs. The teachers' strike reflects the old way of challenging the government und [...] |
2006-08-14 23:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO456 | MADRAZO AIMS FOR THE SENSIBLE CENTER [...] (C) Summary: Roberto Madrazo, candidate of the PRI-led Alliance for Mexico, has kicked off his campaign by trying to position himself as the candidate of the political center. Madrazo used the month long holiday break to smooth over the divisions in his fractious party, restructuring his camp [...] |
2006-01-27 20:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4619 | ASSESSING OAXACA,S POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the past week, the complex political crisis in Oaxaca has worsened, with four people killed in two separate incidents and protestors pledging to intensify their civil disobedience campaign demanding that PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz resign or be removed from office. Tension is m [...] |
2006-08-17 23:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4654 | THE MAKING OF THE SHADOW PRESIDENT? [...] (C) Summary: Several leading Mexican political observers largely concurred that the evolution of the current political stalemate would continue to be largely a function of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) personality. They believed that his manner of thinking was so rigid and self-righte [...] |
2006-08-18 21:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO466 | CALDERON'S CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF [...] (U) Summary. National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Felipe Calderon kicked off his campaign on January 19 in the State of Mexico, where he focused his message on rule of law, values, and economic growth. Calderon will launch a weekly one-hour radio program over the weekend and an [...] |
2006-01-27 22:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV |
| 06MEXICO4704 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REELECTION OF PROFESSOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-21 23:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC US MX |
| 06MEXICO4707 | CHIAPAS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION: PRD LEADS BY A [...] (U) Summary. With over 94 percent of the votes counted as of noon August 21 in the Chiapas gubernatorial race, PRD candidate Juan Sabines Guerrero had a 0.22% lead over PRI-PVEM rival Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas, who is also endorsed by the PAN. However, there are still enough votes left to [...] |
2006-08-21 23:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4708 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OBJECTIVITY OF UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-21 23:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC MX |
| 06MEXICO4857 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED CONCERNING HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to several officials at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE): Director General for North American Affairs, Bosco Marti Ascencio; Director General for the United Nations, Ulises Canchola Gutierrez; Director of International Organizations, Norm [...] |
2006-08-29 17:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF SMIG UNGA PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4907 | COCA COLA MEXICO: DUE DILLIGENCE FOR 2006 AWARD [...] (U) Answers given below pertain to Coca Cola de Mexico's candidacy for the Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate excellence. They are keyed to the questions in reftel. (A) The Embassy sees little downside or embarrassment caused by the selection of Coca Cola de Mexico for the award [...] |
2006-08-30 21:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP MX SENV |
| 06MEXICO4937 | STRENGTHENING CALDERON'S WEAK HAND [...] (C) Summary: In the coming days the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) is expected to confirm National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon's presidential victory, but the protests will continue. Thwarted Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has already [...] |
2006-09-01 12:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO4958 | A DAY AT THE REVOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: With all eyes now focused on the Mexican Congress and the Revolutionary Democratic Party's (PRD) long-threatened effort to deny President Fox the opportunity to deliver his final annual report there, poloff spent much of August 31 with a range of PRD contacts to gain further ins [...] |
2006-09-01 18:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO4963 | 61ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY: UPDATED LIST OF GOM [...] ATTACHED PLEASE FIND AN UPDATED LIST OF THE GOM OFFICIALS WHO CURRENTLY PLAN TO ATTEND THE 61ST UNGA. AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE REGARDING THE DETAILS OF THEIR ATTENDANCE, POST WILL FORWARD IT. 2. VICENTE FOX QUESADA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES DATES OF ATTENDANCE [...] |
2006-09-01 20:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA MX |
| 06MEXICO4964 | MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HELD TIP MEETING WITH CIVIL [...] (SBU) On August 30, the Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) hosted a meeting on trafficking in persons (TIP) that was attended by representatives of the federal government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and UN agencies. Since government and civil society in Mexico have traditionall [...] |
2006-09-01 20:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO4987 | MEXICO'S DRAMATIC POLITICAL WEEKEND [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, September 1, the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) made good on its promise to prevent President Fox from delivering his final annual report to the Mexican Congress, part of the PRD's commitment to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO's) plan to humiliate the Presiden [...] |
2006-09-05 20:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO5005 | IT'S OFFICIAL: CALDERON DECLARED PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (U) Summary: On Tuesday, September 5, the Mexican Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) declared Felipe Calderon President-elect, ending rival candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) two month-long legal challenge of the election results. In a unanimous decision, the seven magistrates a [...] |
2006-09-05 22:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO505 | APOCALYPSE NOT: AMLO ASSURES AMBASSADOR HE WILL [...] (C) On 01/23, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the leftist-Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) sat down with the Ambassador to discuss his proposals on a number of key issues of interest to the United States. Accompanied by his foreign policy advisor, Dr. Jose Maria [...] |
2006-01-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PINR |
| 06MEXICO5134 | CALDERON FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR SARUKHAN ON [...] (C) Summary. DCM met with President-elect Felipe Calderon foreign policy advisor Arturo Sarukhan September 7. Sarukhan said that during the transition, Juan Camilo Mourino would be responsible for developing the 2007 budget with the current government; ex-advisor to President Fox Eduardo Sojo [...] |
2006-09-11 17:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | MX PGOV PREL |
| 06MEXICO5148 | CALDERON STAFFERS ON ECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES [...] (SBU) In a September 7 session with Dr. Sidney Weintraub of CSIS, President-elect Calderon's transition team member Dionisio Perez Jacome (former head of Mexico's Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE)) and former Mexican Energy Secretary and Calderon advisor Luis Tellez described current SIPDI [...] |
2006-09-11 21:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO5157 | MIGRANT ASSOCATIONS SPUR DEVELOPMENT IN MICHOACAN [...] (SBU) Last April Embassy Mexico produced a series of cables (ref. A-D) detailing how the chain of migration and remittances from the U.S. affected life in rural Mexico. At the invitation of our Michaoacano contacts, econoff returned to the town of Venustiano Carranza to meet migrants tempor [...] |
2006-09-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO5165 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-12 17:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MX |
| 06MEXICO5210 | PROTEST CAMPS TO BE LIFTED; NEW PHASE FOR CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: Developments unfolding this week, and conversations with PRD and GDF (city government) insiders, provide ample indication that backers of defeated PRD Presidential candidate Andres Lopez Obrador will dismantle their six week old occupation of Mexico City's central square Zocalo [...] |
2006-09-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO5293 | MEXICO REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE FOR W.H.O. [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-19 18:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | MX PGOV PHUM PREL WHO |
| 06MEXICO5312 | MEXICO'S GOVERNMENT, MEDIA PROCESS AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: While certainly not uniformly laudatory, public and private responses to last week's consular announcement and ambassadorial statement on rising border violence have so far been measured. The statements generated predictable criticism from some quarters that we have impinged [...] |
2006-09-19 21:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS MX |
| 06MEXICO536 | JESUS ORTEGA: AMLO CAMPAIGN INSIDER OR OUTSIDE [...] (U) On 01/24, Poloffs and WHA/MEX Deputy Director met with Jesus Ortega, campaign coordinator for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), to discuss the upcoming campaign agenda, what effect the continued public infighting between the Democratic Revolutionary Party's (PRD) Mexico City factions was [...] |
2006-01-31 17:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO5566 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON UPCOMING SESSION OF HUMAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-28 22:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNHRC PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO5567 | OAXACA: ATTITUDES HARDEN AS PROTESTORS SHIFT [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent days, positions on the opposing sides of the Oaxaca crisis appear to have hardened as tensions continue to mount. To pressure the federal government to send forces to resolve the conflict, local business leaders declared that several thousand establishments, including [...] |
2006-09-28 22:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO5607 | AMBASSADOR'S PRIVATE DINNER WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (C) During a private dinner with Ambassador and Mrs. Garza, President-elect Felipe Calderon expressed his grave concern over the security situation in Mexico. It was heartrending to see Mexico living through such times, he told the Ambassador, and improving security would be a key pillar of [...] |
2006-09-29 22:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO5698 | SRE'S GUTIERREZ TELLS SHANNON BORDER FENCE A [...] (SBU) Summary: A subdued Geronimo Gutierrez used his October 2 meeting with A/S Shannon to voice Mexico's deep frustration with last week's Senate vote to fund a border fence, saying it was a "bitter pill" at a bad time that would complicate bilateral relations. Nevertheless, Gutierrez was ho [...] |
2006-10-06 17:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP MX PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA WHO |
| 06MEXICO5720 | DISSIDENT PEMEX WORKERS SEEK TO OVERTURN YEAR OLD [...] A dissident faction of MexicoQs Petroleum Workers Union is trying to overturn the October 2005 re-election of union Secretary General Carlos Romero Deschamps. The re-election of Romero Deschamps means that he will head the Oil WorkersQ Union from 2007-2012. According to the dissidents, Romer [...] |
2006-10-06 21:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO574 | HE'S GOT MEXICO'S FDI IN HIS HANDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Mexico received USD 17.6 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2005 and is forecast to receive USD 18 billion in 2006 due to large investments in the automotive and auto parts, real estate, housing development, pharmaceutical, food processing and electronics sectors. [...] |
2006-02-02 12:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO5771 | HOPE GROWS FOR A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO OAXACA [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent developments in the Oaxaca crisis point toward a possible easing of tensions and an eventual political solution that would result in the return of law enforcement to the state, an increase in teachers' salaries, and the resumption of public school classes. A Senate commi [...] |
2006-10-11 18:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO5806 | MEXICO REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY TO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-12 22:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO5810 | MEXICO'S PLANS TO AVERT AN OIL CRISIS [...] (SBU) In the next 3-4 years, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will likely be able to keep Mexican oil production from falling sharply; however, in the medium to long term, the outlook is considerably less certain. From 2010 on, production volume will depend on Pemex's ability to get significant [...] |
2006-10-12 22:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO5878 | NATIONAL SPACE POLICY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-17 13:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MX |
| 06MEXICO5919 | BLUE LANTERN OVERSIGHT OFFICER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-18 13:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC ETTC KSEP MX |
| 06MEXICO5935 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On October 16, Poloff led the tripartite demarche, with political officers from the Embassies of Australia and New Zealand, to deliver reftel talking points to Director General of Human Rights and Democracy Rodrigo Labardini and Director of International Policy for Economic, Social and [...] |
2006-10-18 17:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN MX |
| 06MEXICO5991 | CALDERON FOCUSES AGENDA ON PUBLIC SECURITY, JOB [...] (SBU) Begin summary: Since the confirmation of his victory by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, President-elect Felipe Calderon has been engaged in the substantive development of his agenda. This agenda comprises a two-track approach, which includes his shorter-term legislative agenda, presented [...] |
2006-10-19 22:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6043 | SRE FIRM ON OAS DECLARATION ON U.S. BORDER SECURITY [...] Political counselor demarched SRE's Director General for Regional Institutions Andrea Garcia Guerra and her deputy Juan Sandoval the afternoon of October 23, arguing that the Mexican initiative would be counter-productive at this juncture in Washington and could have a negative impact on the u [...] |
2006-10-24 12:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | MX PHUM PREL PTER SMIG XM |
| 06MEXICO6044 | PRESIDENT-ELECT CALDERON'S ADVSIORS DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. During an October 20 seminar on Mexican policy perspectives sponsored by the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), Transition Team International Affairs Advisor Arturo Sarukhan discussed President-elect Felipe Calderon's foreign policy priorities, placing t [...] |
2006-10-24 12:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6085 | PRESIDENT FOX'S NATIONAL SECURITY LEGACY [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of four cables assessing the key accomplishments of President Vicente Fox Quesada during his six years in office, including the expansion of bilateral cooperation that helped Mexico advance in areas of greatest interest to the USG. It focuses on progress ma [...] |
2006-10-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR PTER SMIG MX |
| 06MEXICO6088 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON CHILDREN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Director of International Policy on Civil and Political Rights Dr. Luis Angel Benavides and Director of International Policy on Economic, Social, Cultural and Minority Groups, both of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE). Benavides responde [...] |
2006-10-25 20:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER MX |
| 06MEXICO618 | PULSING THE POLLS: AMLO LEADS, MADRAZO TRAILS, [...] (SBU): Summary: Institutional Revolution (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD) party pollsters, plus Televisa's Mitofsky and newspapers El Universal and Reforma each released polls in January (as the official campaigns kicked off) that confirmed PRD candidate Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) lead, re [...] |
2006-02-03 20:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6182 | GOM INTERVENES IN OAXACA [...] (SBU) Begin summary: The five month-old crisis in Oaxaca reached a critical juncture October 29 with the deployment of Mexico's Federal Preventive Police (PFP) to the embattled state following three October 27 fatalities, including the killing of American journalist Brad Will. This cable asse [...] |
2006-10-31 13:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CONS MX |
| 06MEXICO620 | MEXICO/CENTAM ENERGY - MEXICANS MOVE ON ENERGY [...] (SBU) To avoid the appearance that the U.S. is pulling the strings behind the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Plan (PIEM), Mexican Energy Undersecretary Hector Moreira will not send a team to brief U.S. officials until he has the cover of the proposed Binational Commission (BNC) in Washington. [...] |
2006-02-03 21:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG MX PGOV PREL |
| 06MEXICO6219 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-01 18:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | CU EU PREL PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO6275 | CALDERON WOOS, WOWS, OTTAWA [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Felipe Calderon's October 26-27 visit to Ottawa exceeded expectations on both sides, with Calderon winning over both his public and private sector interlocutors. Canadian embassy contacts tell us he impressed his Ottawa contacts with his energy, intelligence and [...] |
2006-11-03 23:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX CA |
| 06MEXICO6313 | THREE BOMBS EXPLODE IN MEXICO CITY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Shortly after midnight on November 6, three bombs exploded at distinct locations in Mexico City. Significant damage was inflicted on the Federal Electoral Tribunal (Trife), the national headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and a branch office of Scotiabank. [...] |
2006-11-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6314 | BONUS, BONUS, EVERYONE GETS A BONUS [...] Summary: Recently, a joint statement by the head of Mexico,s federal civil service union (FSTSE) and a senior GOM Treasury Secretariat official announced that all federal employees would receive an end of term bonus. The union leader described the bonus as an established employee benefit tra [...] |
2006-11-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6362 | NEW MAQUILA DECREE -- INCREASING MEXICAN [...] (U) The revamping of the Maquila program is the latest step in the GOM's plans to encourage investment and increase Mexico's competitiveness in the global economy. The new decree joins the Maquila and PITEX programs, allows for participation of the service sector, lowers certain participation [...] |
2006-11-08 14:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6391 | NATIONAL TEACHERS' UNION SAYS GOVERNMENT ACTIONS [...] Summary: The National TeachersQ, Union (SNTE) sharply criticized the GOM for negotiating directly with the striking teachers in Oaxaca. In SNTEQ,s view these negotiations, which bypass the national union, will only prolong OaxacaQ,s civil unrest and could potentially spread the problem to ot [...] |
2006-11-08 20:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV CASC KDEM PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6404 | MEXICO'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ISRAEL-RELATED [...] (SBU) On October 25, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Minister Dolores Jimenez, Deputy Director of UN Affairs at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE). On November 6, Jimenez contacted poloff to explain that Mexico's position on at least two of these resolutions -- she did not [...] |
2006-11-08 23:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA MX IS |
| 06MEXICO6413 | WHO ARE MEXICO'S MONOPOLISTS? [...] (SBU) Bank of Mexico and likely incoming Mexican government officials in recent weeks have stressed the importance of opening key sectors of the economy to more competition, but have been hesitant to publicly name the "offending" companies. This telegram spells out which sectors are dominated [...] |
2006-11-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6424 | ECONOMIC TRANSITION NOTES, NOVEMBER 1-8, 2006 [...] (U) Mexico's markets were unaffected by the November 6 bombings. Market expectations are close to government economic predictions, including that the recent inflation spike is temporary and that the government will have its first budget surplus since 1996. The stock market boasted a record ga [...] |
2006-11-09 19:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG ETRD PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6461 | INDIAN REFINER ONLY BIDDER FOR MESOAMERICAN [...] (SBU) Summary. GOM officials responsible for the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Project (PIEM) have selected only Reliance Refining in the first phase of bidding for construction and operation of a Central American refinery. The Indian firm will now have until July 2007 to prepare a proposa [...] |
2006-11-14 17:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 06MEXICO6481 | PRESIDENT FOX'S POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) This is the fourth in a series of four cables assessing President Fox's legacy. In the political area, Fox's greatest achievements were overseeing Mexico's first true political opening, which included a strengthening of the separation of powers and respect for limits on the president's [...] |
2006-11-15 17:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO6483 | MEXICO: LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN BIOFUELS INITIATIVE [...] Summary. Mexican officials, private organizations and energy research centers believe that the country's agricultural production is appropriate for ethanol and bio-fuel manufacturing, but with output of only 45 million liters per year, significant investment and infrastructure development wi [...] |
2006-11-15 19:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 06MEXICO6516 | ECONOMIC TRANSITION NOTES, NOVEMBER 9-15, 2006 [...] (U) Fitch Ratings warned that MexicoQs credit rating could fall in the next three years if President-elect Calderon fails to pass reforms needed to encourage faster economic growth. Calderon continued to publicly call for reforms, and promised to encourage financing for infrastructure; stren [...] |
2006-11-16 21:53:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6531 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION [...] (SBU) On November 16, poloff passed ref A talking points to Minister Dolores Jimenez, Deputy Director General for UN Affairs at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE). Post notes that historically, Mexico has proven a fairly reliable vote against Israel in UN bodies, and we do not expect [...] |
2006-11-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA MX IS |
| 06MEXICO6534 | DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-17 21:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA MX IS |
| 06MEXICO6568 | INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR MEXICO [...] (SBU) The Government of Mexico (GOM) has shown appreciable progress in addressing its deficiencies in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) since the release of the June 2006 TIP Report, especially in the conduct of trafficking investigations. However, to provide a clear and reliable framew [...] |
2006-11-22 00:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN MX |
| 06MEXICO6569 | AMLO ASSUMES SHADOW PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) On November 20, defeated PRD presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated himself "legitimate president" of Mexico before a crowd of thousands of supporters in the city's central square. Although large, the crowd was nevertheless noticeably smaller than those p [...] |
2006-11-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6570 | CALDERON NAMES ECONOMIC CABINET [...] Mexican stocks jumped 1.6 percent on November 21 after President Elect-Calderon announced his Economic Cabinet. Many of the members were expected, having worked on the transition team, and/or for the Fox Administration. The new Secretary for Telecommunications and Transport Luis Tellez, SIP [...] |
2006-11-22 14:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV PREL ETRD PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6571 | CALDERON NAMES ECONOMIC CABINET [...] Mexican stocks jumped 1.6 percent on November 21 after President Elect-Calderon announced his Economic Cabinet. Many of the members were expected, having worked on the transition team, and/or for the Fox Administration. The new Secretary for Telecommunications and Transport Luis Tellez, SIP [...] |
2006-11-22 14:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV PREL ETRD PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6600 | COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT UN DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-24 21:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHCR MX |
| 06MEXICO6604 | CALDERON NAMES SOCIAL CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Calderon announced his six social cabinet selections November 24, saying their overall mission would be to "equalize opportunities" for all Mexicans. The appointments include: Josefina Vazquez Mota as Secretary of Education; Beatriz Zavala Peniche as Secretary [...] |
2006-11-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6652 | OAXACA CRISIS WORSENS DAYS BEFORE FELIPE CALDERON [...] (SBU) Begin summary: The political crisis in Oaxaca worsened over the weekend of November 25 when provocateurs turned what started out as a peaceful protest led by the People's Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) into a violent confrontation with the Federal Preventive Police (PFP). By the morn [...] |
2006-11-28 22:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO6656 | CALDERON NAMES POLITICAL CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Calderon announced his four political cabinet selections on November 28, bringing into his government one of his closest aides to run the presidency and naming a controversial Jalisco politician for Secretariat of the Interior. The appointments include: Francisco [...] |
2006-11-29 01:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6760 | US-MEXICO "HYPERBORDER" CONFERENCE [...] (U) On November 16 and 17, Embassy EconOff and Ciudad Juarez ConOff attended the 2nd Annual Hyperborder Conference in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. They also spoke with the Director General of the Associacion de Maquiladora A.C. Consul General Donna Blair offered remarks at the op [...] |
2006-12-05 22:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ECIN ETRD ELTN ETTC ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO6783 | MEXICAN ENERGY ROUNDTABLE: DECLINING OIL REVENUE [...] (SBU) According to studies completed by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), President Felipe Calderon will contend with a real drop in oil revenue from about USD 54 billion in 2006 to the USD 27 billion range in 2012 as a result of decreasing production, a likely fall in heavy crude [...] |
2006-12-06 21:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET MX |
| 06MEXICO680 | LOPEZ OBRADOR REVEALS SOME NAMES FOR HIS POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Leading presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) revealed the names of three key potential cabinet members on January 30, in an attempt to calm fears that his economic and foreign policies would be too radical. AMLO said his economic advisor, Rogelio Ramirez de la O (ref [...] |
2006-02-08 21:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6810 | MEXICO Economic Notes, November 30-December 6, [...] (U) President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa followed his short, but successful inauguration with a speech at the National Auditorium detailing key goals of his administration. CalderonQs Secretaries of Finance, Economics and Labor have named their respective undersecretaries. The new Director Gen [...] |
2006-12-07 17:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6820 | MEXICO: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) Post supports continued waiver of Title III provisions of the Libertad Act for Mexico. The Mexican International Development Bank has begun the process of recovering debt from Cuba. Mexico's exports to Cuba have decreased slightly in 2006 while imports increased over 250 percent. Relation [...] |
2006-12-07 22:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU ETRD ETTC PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6823 | MEXICO'S CALDERON SUBMITS BUDGET TO CONGRESS [...] (SBU) The new Mexican government of President Felipe Calderon, which took office on December 1, submitted its 2007 budget proposal to the Chamber of Deputies on December 5. The $205-billion budget is based on assumptions of 3.6% real GDP growth, inflation of 3.0%, a Mexican oil mix price of $4 [...] |
2006-12-07 23:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6861 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SPECIAL SESSION ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-11 18:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PHUM PREL SU UN MX |
| 06MEXICO6867 | A CONVERSATION WITH PRD MORAL LEADER CUAUHTEMOC [...] (C) On December 7, Poloffs met with PRD "moral leader" and founder and three time presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas to get his perspective on the events leading up to Felipe Calderon's inauguration as president. Cardenas lamented the damage done to the PRD's public image by Andres M [...] |
2006-12-11 20:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6871 | CALDERON'S SECURITY CABINET [...] (SBU) Felipe Calderon security cabinet appointments, made the day before his December 1 presidential inauguration, include: Guillermo Galvan Galvan as Secretary of Defense, Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza as Secretary of Navy, Genaro Garcia Luna as Secretary of Public Security, and Eduardo Me [...] |
2006-12-11 21:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO6933 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 7 Q DECEMBER 13 [...] (U) The first budget from the Calderon Administration, for fiscal year 2007 (ref A) was met by loud protests over proposed funding levels for education and infrastructure, as well as an increase in the tax for soft drinks. A detailed cable regarding contentious parts of the budget will follo [...] |
2006-12-14 23:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6934 | CALDERON,S BUDGET PROPOSAL SPARKS DEBATE OVER [...] (SBU) The level of educational spending in Mexican President Felipe Calderon,s 2007 budget proposal has set off a firestorm of protest. While the budget proposal increases real spending on education by 4.2% when compared to the approved 2006 budget, it decreases real spending by 1.2% when com [...] |
2006-12-15 00:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO6972 | POST'S NOMINEES AS OAS DEMOCRACY PRACTITIONERS [...] Per reftel, post would like to nominate the following persons for selection as "OAS Democracy Practitioners." 2. Name: Jose WOLDENBERG Karakowsky Bio: Woldenberg, 54, holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology, a Master's degree in Latin American studies, and a Doctorate in political scie [...] |
2006-12-15 23:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MX OAS KSUM PHUM |
| 06MEXICO7007 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-20 14:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN MX |
| 06MEXICO7015 | SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER DISCUSSES MEXICAN [...] (SBU) Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens for weeks has highlighted publicly the need for fiscal reform in Mexico. At a recent conference in Mexico City, he said that Mexico needs to implement a broad fiscal reform to confront growing pension liabilities, rising payments on financed investment [...] |
2006-12-20 23:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO7032 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 20 [...] (U) The revenue portion of the budget was first approved by the Chamber of Deputies and then the Senate though the Senate rejected the specific provision regarding the soft drink tax. However, this will probably not prevent the elimination of the discriminatory 20 percent tax on beverages swe [...] |
2006-12-21 19:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO7033 | CALDERON DEBUTS WITH A DEFT HAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first weeks in office, President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa has seized the initiative on several important issues, demonstrating his intent to forge an activist presidency. The change in atmospherics between the Fox and Calderon administrations has been evident from Calder [...] |
2006-12-21 19:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO7037 | NEW MEXICAN ENERGY UNDERSECRETARY DISCUSSES PLANS [...] (SBU) Constitutional reform in the energy sector is at least three years away according to the newly appointed Undersecretary for Energy Planning at the Mexican Secretariat of Energy (SENER), Jordy Herrera. In the meantime, the Calderon Administration will introduce legislation to "strengthe [...] |
2006-12-21 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON ELAB MX |
| 06MEXICO7054 | MEDIA WARS: THE CONTINUING DEBATE OVER [...] (U) Summary: The new head of the Secretariat of Transportation and Communications (SCT) Luis Tellez has been sending mixed signals this past week over whether or not the Calderon administration will push for the opening of a third television broadcast channel in Mexico. Both Tellez and a com [...] |
2006-12-22 19:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS MX EINV |
| 06MEXICO7055 | AMBASSADOR MAISTO CALLS ON SRE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: During a brief visit to Mexico City December 13-14, USOAS Ambassador John Maisto met separately with outgoing SRE Undersecretary for Latin America Jorge Chen Charpentier and his successor, Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez. Chen offered a readout of the recent South American summit in [...] |
2006-12-22 19:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OAS MX VE CI BR BL CU NI |
| 06MEXICO7064 | MEXICAN CONGRESS PASSES SPENDING BILL, CLOSES IN [...] Summary: After easily passing the revised revenue package on December 21 (ref A), the Mexican Chamber of Deputies passed a USD 208 billion spending bill on December 23 by a vote of 440 in favor to 20 opposed, with five abstentions. The final bills largely conformed with President Calderon's bu [...] |
2006-12-26 21:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG MX |
| 06MEXICO7067 | UNDERSECRETARY OF GOVERNMENT DOUBTS NEAR-TERM [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary of Government Abraham Gonzalez Ulleda discussed the state of dialogue with Oaxaca protesters, asserted that agitators arrested by the GOM had received due process and were subsequently released from federal custody or transferred to state prisons, and acknowledged t [...] |
2006-12-26 22:42:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO7111 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 28, [...] (U) Mexico's 2007 federal budget has been approved by the Mexican Congress and published in the Official Gazette. The US$208-billion budget largely reflects President Felipe Calderon's initial proposal, but Congress edged up funding for education, highways, and pensions in rural areas, while [...] |
2006-12-28 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO742 | PAN DEPUTIES DENOUNCE BORDER FENCE PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, ten members of the National Action Party's (PAN) faction in the Chamber of Deputies met with poloffs to voice their strong opposition to the provision of H.R. 4437 calling for the extension of the fence that now exists along portions of the U.S.-Mexican border. T [...] |
2006-02-10 18:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO743 | PAN DEPUTIES DENOUNCE BORDER FENCE PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, ten members of the National Action Party's (PAN) faction in the Chamber of Deputies met with poloffs to voice their strong opposition to the provision of H.R. 4437 calling for the extension of the fence that now exists along portions of the U.S.-Mexican border. T [...] |
2006-02-10 18:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO744 | PAN DEPUTIES DENOUNCE BORDER FENCE PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, ten members of the National Action Party's (PAN) faction in the Chamber of Deputies met with poloffs to voice their strong opposition to the provision of H.R. 4437 calling for the extension of the fence that now exists along portions of the U.S.-Mexican border. T [...] |
2006-02-10 18:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO764 | MEXICAN TRADE NEGOTIATOR ON NAFTA MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Mexican trade negotiator Ken Smith Ramos told us February 2 that Mexico expected the upcoming proposed March NAFTA Ministerial would cover the relationship between NAFTA and the SPP, regulatory cooperation, development of a list of panelists as set out in NAFTA Chapter 20, increased fle [...] |
2006-02-10 21:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD MX |
| 06MEXICO765 | MEXICANS REACT NEGATIVELY TO EXPULSION OF CUBAN [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 3 the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in Mexico City (next door to the U.S. Embassy) expelled a 16-member Cuban delegation that was participating in an energy conference with the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association. The expulsion came after OFAC advised the Sheraton's parent c [...] |
2006-02-10 21:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MX CU |
| 06MEXICO787 | AVIATION COOPERATION CONTINUES, ICAO DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and TSA officials met February 7 with the Director General for Mexican Civil Aviation (DGAC) and other high level DGAC officials to discuss numerous aviation related matters including Bill Voss' candidacy for Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation SIPDIS [...] |
2006-02-13 22:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR MX CMGT PINS PTER |
| 06MEXICO792 | LEADING POLLSTER ANALYZES PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: One of Mexico's most respected pollsters, Maria de las Heras, told us that according to her own data, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), presidential candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), remained the candidate to beat in Mexico's July 2 presidential election, [...] |
2006-02-14 14:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO806 | CANDIDATES PLAY TO AUDIENCES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (SBU) On the campaign trail the week of February 6, the three main presidential candidates, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), Felipe Calderon, and Roberto Madrazo, concerned about losing potential votes in a close race have avoided detailed explanations of their economic proposals and focuse [...] |
2006-02-14 18:13:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO820 | BANK OF MEXICO OFFICIAL WORRIES ABOUT AMLO [...] (SBU) Bank of Mexico (BOM) deputy governor Jose Sidaoui told Econoffs February 9 he is worried that leading presidential contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), should he win, would rule like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Sidaoui also commented more generally about Mexicans' ingrained depende [...] |
2006-02-14 21:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO829 | FOLLOWING THE APEC ROAD MAP [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ Specialist met February 9 with the Director of Multilateral and Regional Negotiations for the Mexican Secretariat of Economy Flavia Farinetti de Wiechers to discuss APEC 2006 initiatives and agenda. Farinetti said that the GOM strongly supports Vietnam's road ma [...] |
2006-02-14 22:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON MX APECO ETRD |
| 06MEXICO858 | PRI DISSIDENTS SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary: In order to broaden our understanding of the dynamics within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), over the past two weeks, poloff met with three dissidents within the party's congressional faction, two of whom had just announced their defection from the party. In frank c [...] |
2006-02-15 20:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO864 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO THROUGH INDUSTRIAL [...] SUMMARY. The Mexican Association of Industrial Parks (AMPIP) celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2006. Composed of private companies, Mexican State Governments and real estate funds, AMPIP promotes economic development by lobbying the government on behalf of its members and promotion of the [...] |
2006-02-16 14:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV MX |
| 06MEXICO895 | DEMONS IN EDEN - LYDIA CACHO CASE UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. The case of Lydia Cacho, the independent journalist arrested in December on libel and defamation charges, exploded back into the headlines on February 14 when the media released excerpts of a tape containing alleged phone conversations in which businessman Kamel Nacif is heard plo [...] |
2006-02-16 22:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MX KCRM KWMN KCOR |
| 06MEXICO953 | CANDIDATES AND THEIR OWN REFORMS [...] On the campaign trail the week of February 14, Felipe Calderon and Roberto Madrazo spoke on their reform priorities while Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced his "new" agenda, which centers around the idea that no "so-called structural reforms" are needed. Calderon continued promotin [...] |
2006-02-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO956 | CONTEMPLATING A MADRAZO FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: If elected, we believe Roberto Madrazo would seek to conduct a foreign policy that falls somewhere between the U.S.-centered policy advocated by the Fox administration and the "non-aligned" policy traditionally maintained by presidents from the Revolutionary Institutional Party [...] |
2006-02-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 06MEXICO991 | EMPLOYING MEXICO'S INCARCERATED, ONE MAQUILA AT A [...] SUMMARY. U.S. based Kojo Industries is working with the GOM and Mexican State governments to construct and operate maquiladoras at prisons throughout Mexico. The program is intended to reduce crime and encourage dual parenting while providing employment both during and after incarceration. [...] |
2006-02-23 19:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND EINV PGOV MX |
| 06MEXICO999 | AMLO'S PUTATIVE FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES A CRASH COURSE ON THE U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-23 22:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MONTEVIDEO379 | VAZQUEZ DELIVERS CLEAR PUBLIC SIGNAL OF SUPPORT [...] On an official visit to Mexico prior to his arrival in the U.S. on April 30, President Vazquez delivered his clearest-yet public signal of support for an Uruguay-U.S. bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). In the press conference that followed his meeting with Mexican President Fox, Vazquez f [...] |
2006-04-27 15:29:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL MX UY |
| 06NASSAU1609 | BAHAMAS UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT OAS DECLARATION ON US [...] On October 23, Poloff delivered Reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Permanent Secretary Marilyn Zonicle. Following discussion of U.S. concerns, Zonicle acknowledged similar Bahamian sensitivity to border control issues in light of Bahamian challenges with Haitian and [...] |
2006-10-23 20:22:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PTER SMIG MX XM OAS BF |
| 06OTTAWA3229 | 218TH MEETING OF THE CANUS PERMANENT JOINT BOARD [...] (SBU) On September 20-21, 2006, Canada and the U.S. convened the 218th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Ottawa. U.S. co-Chair George Nethercutt and Canadian co-Chair Rick Casson led the meeting. Overview/Opening Remark [...] |
2006-10-25 20:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MX CA |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN1230 | DEMARCHE: DECLARATION IN OAS ON U.S. BORDER SECURITY [...] On October 23, we verbally presented the talking points contained Reftel to MFA Americas Division Director Margaret Rousseau who also handles the OAS portfolio. 2. In response to a question from Rousseau, we assured her that the US delegation has worked long and hard in an effort to craft [...] |
2006-10-23 20:08:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | OAS PHUM PREL PTER SMIG MX XM TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN671 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] |
2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN672 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] |
2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
| 06SANJOSE1195 | OAS/GA: COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO VENEZUELAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on May 31 to Carlos Cordero, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cordero stated that Costa Rica's delegation to the OAS General Assembly meetings will be Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno, Amb. Jose Joaquin Chaverri, Dir [...] |
2006-05-31 22:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON MX CS VZ |
| 06SANSALVADOR2562 | EL SALVADOR: MFA SAYS WILL SUPPORT CONSENSUS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-25 12:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SMIG OAS MX ES |
| 06SANSALVADOR52 | EL SALVADOR: GOES VIEWS REGARDING UPCOMING MEXICO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador has on several recent occasions discussed with Salvadoran Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez a planned January 9 meeting on U.S. immigration policy to be held in Mexico City; it will likely include foreign ministers of Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Rep [...] |
2006-01-09 12:54:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES MX PGOV PREL IMMIGRATION |
| 06SANSALVADOR77 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN [...] (C) Ambassador Barclay spoke for 45 minutes on January 10 with Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez regarding the January 9 regional meeting on migration held in Mexico. (Note: The meetings had been originally scheduled to treat both energy and migration issues, but in response to Lainez's suggest [...] |
2006-01-11 14:47:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREL PGOV ES MX VE BL IMMIGRATION |
| 06SANTIAGO1095 | MEDIA REACTION - U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-23 17:34:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO CI MX |
| 06SANTIAGO1172 | MEDIA REACTION - VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-30 12:08:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO CI MX |
| 06SANTIAGO1244 | MEDIA REACTION - VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY [...] On May 5, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 102,000) carried an article by Alvaro Vargas Llosa entitled, "The Battle for the Security Council." Quote: "U.S. officials believe the GOC and Chile's 'establishment' are reluctant to vote for Chavez, but are concerned in view of Presid [...] |
2006-06-07 20:47:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO CI MX |
| 06SANTIAGO1462 | MEDIA REACTION - MEXICO, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AFTERMATH [...] On July 7, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 102,000) carried a column by Alvaro Vargas Llosa entitled, "Calderon's Difficult Challenges." Quote: "Calderon's victory is a counterweight against populism. We must not forget that Calderon's campaign frontally opposed populism, not j [...] |
2006-07-10 11:50:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO CI VE MX |
| 06SANTIAGO225 | DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDATE WILLIAM VOSS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-01 19:19:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR ICAO AR CO HO MX PE |
| 06SANTIAGO839 | MEDIA REACTION-CHAVEZ' INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-21 14:20:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO CI VE MX |
| 06SANTODOMINGO333 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ INVITES PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Dominican President Leonel Fernandez has formally invited President Bush to attend a May 30-31 extraordinary summit meeting of the 8 countries members of the Central American System of Integration. The presidents of Colombia and Mexico will be invited. Dominicans will consider the pos [...] |
2006-01-31 21:01:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC DR PREL XK CO MX |
| 06SEOUL491 | KOREA LAUNCHES SPECIAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) Korea added to its rapidly lengthening list of trade negotiations by announcing on February 7 the launch of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with India during the visit to Seoul of Indian President Abdul Kalam. The same week, Korea and Mexico held a first [...] |
2006-02-13 22:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL KS IN MX |
| 06STATE203788 | IRAN AND SYRIA NONPROLIFERATION ACT -- [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Mexico City please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: The Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act (ISNA) requires periodic reports to Congress identifying foreign entities with respect to whom there is credible information indicating that they have tr [...] |
2006-12-28 21:05:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC MX |
| 06TEGUCIGALPA2013 | DEMARCHE: DECLARATION IN OAS ON U.S. BORDER [...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the Mexican Declaration in the OAS on U.S. Border Security (Ref A) to Amb. Eduardo Rosales, the Foreign Ministry's Director General of Foreign Policy on 10/24. Rosales was not/not familiar with the Mexican proposal, as the Foreign Ministry's phone and fax l [...] |
2006-10-24 18:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | XM PHUM PREL PTER SMIG MX HO |
| 06USUNNEWYORK570 | MEXICO: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given by the United St [...] |
2006-03-23 15:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN MX |
| 06VATICAN240 | HOLY SEE: MARTINO DISCUSSES NICARAGUA, SECURITY WALL WITH [...] (C) Cardinal Renato Martino (please strictly protect here) told the Ambassador November 16 that the Holy See had attempted to get Cardinal Obando y Bravo out of Nicaragua in the run-up to the recent elections, but that Obando y Bravo had not acted on the Vatican's "invitation" for him to come [...] |
2006-11-21 14:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI NU CU MX VT |
| 06VATICAN60 | (CORRECTED COPY) HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] |
2006-04-03 16:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI FT MX BR |
| 06VATICAN61 | HOLY SEE: PROMINENT LATIN AMERICAN CARDINALS SEEK USG HELP [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, two influential Latin American cardinals told Ambassador Rooney of their concerns for the continent and urged USG support for efforts to promote free trade and understanding of market economies to upper and lower classes in the region. End summary. 2. [...] |
2006-04-03 16:03:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD SOCI VT MX BR |
| 06VIENNA982 | AUSTRIA TO SUPPORT USG STANCE ON SMALLPOX [...] No summary [...] |
2006-04-03 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL WHO JA MX AU |
| 07BEIJING3063 | MAY 8 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: ARMS SALES TO SUDAN; [...] Key points at the May 8 MFA Press Conference made by MFA Spokesman Jiang Yu were: -- The MFA said arms sales to Sudan are limited to conventional weapons and such sales to African nations are generally "small-scale." -- In light of PM Abe's reported gift to the Yasukuni Shrine, China hope [...] |
2007-05-08 10:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SU JA KN CA PM MX IV RW VM |
| 07BEIJING3535 | MAY 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, ENVOY TO SUDAN, [...] Key points at the May 24 MFA Press Conference were: -- IAEA and UNSC decisions must be implemented, but all parties must intensify diplomatic efforts so as to arrive at an enduring, comprehensive solution that serves the interests of all, said the spokeswoman. -- China hopes the Sudanese G [...] |
2007-05-24 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SU JA KN IR PM BM MX IN GM |
| 07BEIJING7127 | NOVEMBER 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, U.S.-CHINA [...] Key points at the November 15 MFA Press Briefing: -- Foreign Minister Yang in Teheran urged Iran to "show flexibility and keep positive contact" with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Union (EU). -- China has seen the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review and [...] |
2007-11-15 10:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH IR AF JA FR UK MX |
| 07BOGOTA418 | COLOMBIA SEEKING THE LEAD ON REGIONAL [...] (U) After sharp reductions in kidnapping and homicide rates in Colombia, the GoC is seeking to position itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT) efforts in the region. Colombia signed a bi-national agreement with Paraguay to provide training and technical assistance in crime scene and kidna [...] |
2007-01-19 20:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV PREL PTER SNAR ASEC CO MX PA |
| 07BOGOTA7470 | UNITED STATES, COLOMBIA AND MEXICO MEETING [...] (C) Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Karen Tandy met with Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos Calderon and Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza on October 9 to promote increased counternarcotics cooperation. The meeting was part of a series and led to ag [...] |
2007-10-18 22:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC ECIN PTER SNAR MX CO |
| 07BOGOTA8170 | COLOMBIAN AND MEXICAN AUTHORITIES MOVING SWIFTLY IN WAKE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Mexico (GOM) seized two large cocaine shipments that originated from Colombian seaports in October. In response to these seizures, the Government of Colombia (GOC) sought additional information from the GOM and initiated formal investigations of all involved [...] |
2007-11-21 18:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM PTER MX CO |
| 07BRUSSELS1241 | EU LATIN AMERICA MINISTERIAL IN SANTO DOMINGO [...] (U) SUMMARY. European Union Secretary General and High Representative Javier Solana and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner will attend the EU-Latin America Ministerial meeting in Santo Domingo April 19 and 20. Solana will visit Mexico prior to arriving in Sa [...] |
2007-04-13 10:43:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN MX DR GT PE CO XM XK |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1436 | MEXICAN AMBASSADOR ON RELATIONS WITH ARGENTINA AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting July 13 with Ambassador, Mexican Ambassador to Argentina de la Garza Sandoval discussed President Kirchner's visit at the end of July to Mexico to sign an "Agreement of Strategic Association," which will group together under one instrument a number of existing bilat [...] |
2007-07-24 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MX AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1519 | KIRCHNERS: PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: In recent group and individual discussions with G-8 and Spanish Ambassadors, all agreed that Cristina Kirchner is trying to convey more interest in international affairs and to show that she is listening to concerns expressed by others. But her proposals for how she will govern [...] |
2007-08-03 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ETRD AR SP GM MX |
| 07BUENOSAIRES864 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana briefed Ambassador Wayne on his recent trip to, and Argentine relations with, Mexico, as well as President Kirchner's meeting with Brazilian President Lula Ignacio da Silva. Taiana, who accompanied First Lady Cristina Kirchner to Mexico [...] |
2007-05-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR MX BR |
| 07GUADALAJARA119 | EMILIO TAKES CHARGE: JALISCO GETS THIRD SUCCESSIVE PAN [...] Summary: Former Guadalajara Mayor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez assumed the Governorship of Jalisco March 1, calling upon his constituents to "think big" and work together to make the state a leader in business, education, social services, and environmental protection. He also promised to put grea [...] |
2007-03-09 16:22:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR OEXC MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA141 | JALISCO GOVERNOR SPELLS OUT ECONOMIC PRIORITIES [...] Summary: Newly-inaugurated Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez outlined the key areas of his economic agenda during a March 15 address to Guadalajara's Chamber of Commerce. His focal points included improving U.S. market access, reducing regulatory red tape for businesses, boosting the c [...] |
2007-03-22 16:03:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA226 | SECRETARY GENERAL ENDORSES ORAL TRIALS FOR JALISCO [...] On April 30, 2007, the Consul General met with Jalisco's recently-appointed Secretary General (Lt. Governor) Fernando Guzman Perez Pelaez, to seek his formal endorsement for judicial reform efforts in the state, particularly oral trials. Guzman expressed support for this initiative and agreed [...] |
2007-05-09 21:13:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS EAID PGOV MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA327 | JALISCO REMAINS A LEADER IN REMITTANCES [...] SUMMARY: When compared to other Mexican states, Jalisco is the third largest recipient of remittances from abroad, receiving nearly US$2 billion in 2006. In comparative economic terms for every dollar in foreign investment Jalisco received five dollars in remittances, and the total value was [...] |
2007-07-03 17:05:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB SOCI MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA329 | CHILD LABOR IN JALISCO: CRISIS BUT VERY LITTLE ACTION [...] SUMMARY: Jalisco suffers from high rates of child labor including the sexual exploitation of children. A recent symposium and UN visit has highlighted the problem, but has so far not resulted in any policy changes or new government initiatives. A local union is working to promote action o [...] |
2007-07-03 17:39:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PHUM MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA330 | TEPATITLAN'S NEWEST EXPORT - ITS WOMEN [...] Summary: At a recent promotional event for the tourism industry of Tepatitlan, the region's women were promoted as the strongest draw for foreign tourists. According to a local official, the number of prostitution arrests have spiked recently, raising questions about the area's vulnerability [...] |
2007-07-03 18:26:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA347 | ANOTHER BORDER PROBLEM: JALISCO AND COLIMA SPAR OVER [...] Summary: Boundary issues are not solely confined to Mexico's international frontiers. A long-running land dispute between Colima and Jalisco has heated up in recent months, with both sides making sharp declarations and dispatching extra police forces to their common border. The Mexican Army [...] |
2007-07-12 16:31:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EINV SOCI MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA351 | PROGRESS ON JUDICIAL REFORM IN JALISCO [...] Jalisco is moving forward on judicial reform under the new government of Emilio Gonzalez Marquez. With our encouragement back in April, Jalisco's Secretary General Fernando Guzman finally sent a letter dated June 17 in which the Government of Jalisco formally committed itself to pursue the im [...] |
2007-07-13 22:58:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV EAID MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA365 | GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO HARNESS REMITTANCESS HAVING MIXED [...] In the last seven years the GOM has attempted to harness the power of the billions of dollars remitted from migrants in the U.S. via socioeconomic development programs. Two specific programs are Tres Por Uno (Three for One) and Proyectos Productivos (Productive Projects), formed by migrant clu [...] |
2007-07-18 18:10:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN MX |
| 07GUADALAJARA379 | INCREASINGLY URBAN AND FEMALE CENTRAL WESTERN MEXICO [...] Summary: According to recent studies, the profile of immigrants to the United States from Central Western Mexico has changed in recent years. Immigrants from urban locales have been on the rise and the female percentage among this population has increased as well. Academics cited the more e [...] |
2007-07-31 20:31:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG PGOV PREL ECON MX XM |
| 07GUADALAJARA610 | UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA - A LEFTIST ICON'S NEW PRAGMATISM [...] Summary: Slowly but surely the left-leaning and often anti-U.S. University of Guadalajara is adopting a more practical relationship with the Consulate and USG. As the second-largest public university in Mexico, the University is closely tied to the state library and hospital and owns several [...] |
2007-12-18 23:36:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL ECON PREL MX |
| 07HANOI687 | UPDATE ON OUTBREAK COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AVIAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (GVN) has a comprehensive prevention and control approach for avian and pandemic influenza (AI) based on a national surveillance system in the developing world context. The approach integrates both animal and human health sectors. The GVN leader [...] |
2007-04-12 00:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU KPAO SENV OCII AJ CB CA CH EG IN ID LA MX |
| 07LAPAZ3253 | LOANS TO MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS [...] (U) The following is in response to a potential Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) program to support loans to Microfinancing Institutions (MFI) and, in particular, the Bolivian MFI, Fundacion Boliviana para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (FUNBODEM). FUNDOBEM is part of the Women's [...] |
2007-12-14 16:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON BL BR CO IN ID MX NU PK RP |
| 07MANAGUA2402 | REGIONAL PARTNERS SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT DIRECTION [...] (C) Ambassadors from Spain, Japan, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico share similar concerns about the direction of Nicaragua under the Ortega Government. They are frustrated by the GON's lack of professionalism, transparency and accountability, and have a low level of confidence in the gove [...] |
2007-10-30 21:57:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID BR CI CO ECON JA MX NU PREL XM |
| 07MEXICO100 | DEMARCHE REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-08 22:40:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP UNSCR MX IR |
| 07MEXICO1020 | PRESIDENT CALDERON SEEKS INVESTMENT FOR MEXICO,S [...] (SBU) Summary: Speaking three months after taking office, President Calderon offered his perspective of why Mexico is uniquely positioned to become one of the world's leading investment destinations and gave an overview of progress on his three priorities: security and the rule of law, poverty [...] |
2007-02-28 19:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO1023 | NEW DEPUTY PROSECUTOR GENERAL FOR FEDERAL CRIMES [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-28 20:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR MX |
| 07MEXICO1041 | SCENESETTER FOR AGRICULTURE SECRETARY JOHANNS [...] (SBU) Summary: We welcome your visit to Mexico City as an outstanding opportunity to demonstrate our continued interest in working with the new Mexican government on tackling the sensitive issues surrounding the bilateral agricultural relationship, which will be key to making progress on oth [...] |
2007-03-01 16:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BEXP ETRD ECON KJUS PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1068 | ANTI-DRUG OPS EXTENDED TO EIGHT STATES [...] (C) In the first three months of his presidency, President Calderon has initiated "surge operations" involving the mass deployment of federal police and troops in anti-drug operations in a total of 8 of Mexico's 32 states. When measured strictly by the quantity of drugs seized and the number [...] |
2007-03-02 13:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO108 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 13 -- [...] (U) The first budget from the Calderon Administration, for fiscal year 2007 (ref A) was met by loud protests over proposed funding levels for education and infrastructure, as well as an increase in the tax for soft drinks. A detailed cable regarding contentious parts of the budget will follow. [...] |
2007-01-09 19:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1102 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO MEXICO, MARCH [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico warmly welcomes you to Merida. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and appears to have the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed three months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in tackling hi [...] |
2007-03-05 19:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON OVIP MX |
| 07MEXICO1119 | TERRORIST FINANCE: MEXICAN OFFICIAL DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) The head of Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Luis Urrutia, called Econoff on March 5, 2007 about the non-paper she sent him on illicit cash couriers (Refs A and B). Urrutia told Econoff that Mexico understands the threats associated with illicit cash courier activity and that [...] |
2007-03-06 14:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX |
| 07MEXICO1180 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 6 to the Foreign Secretariat's (SRE's) Deputy Director General for UN-Related SIPDIS Security and Legal Issues Julian Juarez Cardenas. Juarez appreciated learning the U.S. views regarding the IAEA's report on Iranian compliance with UNSCR 1737 and [...] |
2007-03-07 23:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IR MX IAEA |
| 07MEXICO1181 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-07 23:45:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER MX |
| 07MEXICO1196 | SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA [...] (SBU) The mission's point of contact on the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report is Poloff Walter R. Miller. He may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247. Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working wit [...] |
2007-03-08 22:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 07MEXICO12 | ISNA SANCTIONS NOTIFICATION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-03 21:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC MX |
| 07MEXICO1200 | SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-08 22:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 07MEXICO1201 | SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-08 22:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 07MEXICO1209 | DEMARCHE TO MEXICO ON USG PRIORITIES FOR HUMAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Luis Benavides, Director of International Policy on Political and Civil Rights, and Mariana Salazar, Director of International Policy on Cultural, Social, Economic and Minority Rights, both of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations. 2. (C) Con [...] |
2007-03-08 23:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHCR MX |
| 07MEXICO1237 | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY REMARKS SHARED WITH [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-10 00:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1256 | SENIOR MEXICAN ENERGY OFFICIAL SEES CRISIS COMING [...] (C) The Mexican Undersecretary for Energy Planning, Jordy Herrera, told a Department of Energy (DOE)-led USG delegation that Mexico's oil production could decline from 3 MBD to 2.5 MBD before stabilizing within two years. We were told President Calderon is planning a March 18 public address [...] |
2007-03-12 21:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO1258 | CALDERON ANNOUNCES INCREASED FARM ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) This message is based on Global Agriculture Information Network Report Number MX7016 from Embassy Mexico City's Foreign Agricultural Service Section. Summary ------- 2. (U) Last week the Calderon administration rolled out a number of agricultural/rural development initiatives in a f [...] |
2007-03-12 22:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON SENV MX |
| 07MEXICO1259 | MEXICAN ENERGY OFFICIALS TALK BILATERAL [...] (SBU) A Department of Energy (DOE) delegation and Mexican officials discussed areas for bilateral cooperation between the U.S. and the Calderon administration, as well as trilateral cooperation with Canada where applicable, including: -- Biofuels - exploring technologies and applications fo [...] |
2007-03-12 22:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO1271 | MEXICAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS LNG AND COAL MARKETS [...] (SBU) A Department of Energy (DOE) delegation and Mexican officials discussed supply challenges facing the North American (liquefied natural gas) LNG market. Lack of reasonably priced liquefied LNG will likely cause the GOM to place its Manzanillo regassification project (reftel) on hold. Wit [...] |
2007-03-13 16:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO1330 | MEXICO,S TWO SUGAR CANE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy personnel recently met with representatives of Mexico,s National Union of Sugar Cane Producers (UNPCA) and the National Union of Cane Growers (UNC) to discuss these two organizations, views on increasing Mexican ethanol production. The cane producers are the intermediaries b [...] |
2007-03-15 17:23:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ENRG ECON EPET PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO1357 | OUTCOME OF OPENING MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Poloff participated in the March 12, 2007 opening meeting of the Community of Democracies (CD) working group on "poverty, development, and democratic governance" held at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in Mexico City. The SIPDIS working group was inaugurated by Mexican Unders [...] |
2007-03-16 21:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA MX |
| 07MEXICO1358 | PRESIDENT CALDERON ALL BUT EMBRACES OPPOSITON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-16 21:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO1367 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MARCH 9 - MARCH 16 [...] (SBU) A senior Mexican Treasury (Hacienda) official told emboffs that pension reform introduced this week would pass before a general fiscal reform because it was less contentious. The Mexican Senate nixed Carlos Hurtado as a new Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico (Central Bank). A judge r [...] |
2007-03-16 23:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL |
| 07MEXICO1389 | MEXICAN GOVERNMENT MOVING FORWARD ON LONG-AWAITED [...] (SBU) The Finance and Social Security Committees in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies (lower house) on March 20 approved new draft legislation to reform the Social Security and Services Institute for State Workers (ISSSTE), the agency responsible for providing pension and health care services fo [...] |
2007-03-21 13:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO1451 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MARCH 16-23, 2007 [...] (SBU) The Mexican Chamber of Deputies (lower house) on March 22 approved new draft legislation to reform the agency responsible for providing pension and health care services for government employees. The centerpiece of the reform is the replacement the current "defined-benefits" system with a [...] |
2007-03-23 18:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO1452 | CORRECTED COPY - MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MARCH [...] (SBU) The Mexican Chamber of Deputies (lower house) on March 22 approved new draft legislation to reform the agency responsible for providing pension and health care services for government employees. The centerpiece of the reform is the replacement the current "defined-benefits" system with a [...] |
2007-03-23 18:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO146 | DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Luis Landa Fournais, Director General for Economic Relations at the Foreign Relations Secretariat. No specific response was given. Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity GARZA [...] |
2007-01-11 21:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO1466 | APPROVAL FOR MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT TEAM [...] (U) This is an approval message. 2. (S) Ambassador approves MIST concept under USSOCOM Trans-regional PSYOP (TRP) Execution authority and Rewards Information Program (RIP), and executed through the USNORTHCOM Information Operations (J39) for planning, coordination, product development, prod [...] |
2007-03-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | MARR MOPS PTER OPRC MX |
| 07MEXICO1484 | LAMY AND SOJO ON THE DOHA ROUND AND THE [...] WTO Director General Lamy and Mexico's Economy Secretary spent two hours discussing the status of the Doha round of trade negotiations and the stake that Mexico and other developing economies have in its successful conclusion. Lamy said the three main challenges are getting the U.S. to offer [...] |
2007-03-26 18:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO EAGR KTEX ELAB ENRG MX CN |
| 07MEXICO149 | MEXICO'S NEW TRADE CZAR - BEATRIZ LEYCEGUI [...] (SBU) The Secretariat of Economy's new Sub-Secretary for International Trade Negotiations, Beatriz Leycegui, is a seasoned trade hand (she was a Mexican NAFTA negotiator and has since worked in the private sector as a trade lawyer and consultant) and committed to maintaining good commercial re [...] |
2007-01-11 23:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PREL PINR MX VE |
| 07MEXICO152 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 11, 2007 [...] (SBU) GE/NBC asked the Embassy to continue pressing the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) to drop frivolous criminal charges against the company, meanwhile GE Chairman Jeff Immelt made similar points to President Calderon. The Mexican Telecom Regulator (Cofetel) will hold a teleconfere [...] |
2007-01-11 23:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO1550 | CALDERON WARNS OF PEMEX CRISIS [...] (U) President Calderon spoke frankly about the challenges facing Mexico in the petroleum sector on "Pemex Day," March 18, the 69th anniversary of the expropriation of foreign oil company assets in Mexico. He announced that Mexico has less than ten years of reserves remaining at current produc [...] |
2007-03-27 19:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO1581 | ZOCALO RALLY SHOWS AMLO'S CONTINUED STRENGTH -- [...] (SBU) Summary: Until the March 25 closing rally in Mexico City's central square or "Zocalo," many political analysts and observers, including many PRDistas, were writing off Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) 2nd National Democratic Convention (NDC) as an utter failure. Although AMLO manage [...] |
2007-03-28 23:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO160 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVED FOR VISIT OF TIP [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark Taylor, Senior Coordinator for Reports in the Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (GTIP) for travel to Mexico City and Ciudad Juarez from January 14-17, 2007. Purpose of the visit to Mexico is to hold consultations [...] |
2007-01-12 18:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PHUM PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1627 | MEXICO,S SENATE APPROVES PENSION REFORM [...] (SBU) The Mexican Senate approved draft legislation to reform the Social Security and Services Institute for State Workers (ISSSTE), the agency responsible for providing pension and health care services for most government employees. The bill, which has already passed in the lower house, stil [...] |
2007-03-30 21:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO1678 | PRESIDENT CALDERON, GOVERNOR PENA NIETO, VOW TO [...] Last week at two separate events, Mexican President Calderon and the governor of the State of Mexico vowed to combat the trade in pirated and counterfeit goods, arguing that strong IPR protection is a necessary condition for attracting investment, strengthening competitiveness, and generating [...] |
2007-04-03 17:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO1688 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON, 10-11 APRIL 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Garza and Mission Mexico welcome you to Mexico City. Since his December 1 inauguration, President Felipe Calderon has taken several bold actions to confront the public security challenges facing Mexico: he has launched major military-backed surge operations against [...] |
2007-04-03 19:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SMIG SNAR MX |
| 07MEXICO1709 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INFORMATION REGARDING THE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-04 17:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN IR IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC MX |
| 07MEXICO1710 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-04 17:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR MX |
| 07MEXICO172 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVED FOR JANE NADY SIGMON, [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Jane Nady Sigmon, Senior Coordinator for International Programs in the Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) for travel to Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Tapachula, Mexico City and Cancun from January 14-20, 2007. The pu [...] |
2007-01-12 22:53:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN OTRA PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1720 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL THOMPSON VISIT TO [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Thompson for travel to Mexico City from April 10 to 11, 2007. The purpose of the visit to Mexico is to meet Government of Mexico officials and Embassy personnel on bilateral law enforcement issues. 2. Post control officer for the visit is [...] |
2007-04-06 23:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT ASEC MX OREP PREL |
| 07MEXICO1815 | MEXICO HOSTS PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders from seven Central American nations, plus Colombia, met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Campeche April 9-10 for a two day summit aimed at revitalizing the long-stagnant Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), a regional development initiative proposed by former President Vic [...] |
2007-04-12 18:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MX PGOV |
| 07MEXICO185 | PRESIDENT CALDERON CALLS FOR GREATER FOREIGN [...] (U) Summary: During the January 9-10 annual meeting of Mexican ambassadors and counsels, President Calderon envisioned Mexico's foreign policy as "more of Mexico in the world and more of the world in Mexico." He told his country's top diplomats to execute a "responsible and active foreign pol [...] |
2007-01-13 00:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO1854 | ONDCP WALTERS MEETINGS WITH MEXICAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 27 visit by John Walters (ONDCP) helped initiate coordination with the newly installed Calderon Administration. In separate meetings with Attorney General Medina Mora and Public Security Secretary Garcia Luna, Director Walters emphasized the importance of information [...] |
2007-04-13 22:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO186 | FALL LEGISLATIVE SESSION: IN LIKE A LION, OUT LIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: The first session of Mexico's 60th Congress concluded on December 23 with a trajectory defying easy characterization. The session could not have begun in a less auspicious manner, with PRD legislators seizing the podium in the Chamber of Deputies to prevent President Fox from [...] |
2007-01-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO1922 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING GOM PARTICIPATION IN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-18 23:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG KCRM PARM TRGY MX |
| 07MEXICO1925 | MEXICAN JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES [...] SUMMARY: In a series of ongoing events, Mexican authorities temporarily reinstated Napoleon Gomez Urrutia as the leader of the National Miners Union, SNTMMSRM. This reinstatement was followed by a national SNTMMSRM convention on April 17, 2007, in which Gomez was then definitively reaffirmed [...] |
2007-04-19 15:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO1933 | MEXICAN AVOCADO GROWERS DETERMINED TO KEEP [...] (U) This message is based on information and analysis from Embassy Mexico's Foreign Agricultural Service Office, including the November 30, 2006 USDA Global Agriculture Information Network Report Number MX6101. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The Avocado Producers and Exporters Association of Me [...] |
2007-04-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR MX |
| 07MEXICO1963 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE. PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMAL [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) Director General for Middle East and Africa Ana Luisa Fajer Flores. Fajer was aware of the event and said Mexico would probably send its concurrent Ambassador to Egypt and Iraq, Jaime Nualart. She asked if Mexico would [...] |
2007-04-20 21:23:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UNAUS MX |
| 07MEXICO1996 | TIP PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM MEXICO FOR 2007 ESF AND [...] (U) Embassy Mexico City established a committee to review 14 project proposals from non-governmental organizations in Mexico requesting funding support from FY2007 INCLE and ESF appropriations. The following sections of the Embassy were represented on the committee: Political, Public Affairs, [...] |
2007-04-23 20:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MX |
| 07MEXICO2113 | MEXICO'S LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS APPROVES [...] (SBU) On April 26, Mexico's lower house of Congress approved a bill criminalizing trafficking in persons (TIP) at the federal level, with 396 votes in favor and one abstention. This bill is a revised version of the one unanimously passed by the Mexican Senate in December 2005. Post's contact [...] |
2007-04-30 13:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG MX |
| 07MEXICO213 | MEXICO ENERGY REFORM [...] (C) Embassy Mexico is supporting the establishment of a Mexican private sector working group to promote serious, in-depth discussion of the future of energy in Mexico. Energy is at the core of debates affecting the Government of Mexico's fiscal future. President Calderon and other leaders hav [...] |
2007-01-16 21:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO2183 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-03 16:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT MX |
| 07MEXICO2202 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, APRIL 27 - MAY 4 [...] (SBU) The Mexican senate approved a bill combating terrorist financing that will now go to the President for signature. The Bank of Mexico (BOM) raised interest rates by a quarter percent to head off inflation, and the Finance Secretariat and BOM revised this year's growth forecast SIPDIS [...] |
2007-05-04 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2219 | UPDATE ON MEXICO IPR ISSUES - SOME ENCOURAGING [...] (SBU) Mexican officials responded positively to Post's 301 demarche, reflecting a growing sense of commitment to taking IPR infringement more seriously. In recent weeks, President Calderon reiterated his government's determination to combat piracy, the Mexican Senate passed a bill that would g [...] |
2007-05-04 21:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD PINS MX CH |
| 07MEXICO2235 | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 27, Secretary Guillermo Galvan spent nearly two hours fielding questions and offering comments to 19 legislators in a public hearing called by the Chamber of Deputies' Defense Committee to discuss the military's growing role in counter narcotics operations. Galvan's f [...] |
2007-05-07 15:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO2254 | MISSION MEXICO CONTINUES TO MONTIOR MURDER OF [...] SUMMARY: Mission Mexico personnel have continued their efforts to monitor the situation surrounding the recent murder in Monterrey of agricultural worker labor union organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz. Embassy Mexico City,s Labor Counselor and AmConsul Monterrey,s Pol/Econ Officer visited the FLO [...] |
2007-05-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB KFRD PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS MX |
| 07MEXICO2285 | NORTHERN MEXICO: LABOR UNIONS COMPETE AMONG [...] SUMMARY: If the northern Mexican states of Nuevo Leon (which includeS the major industrial city of Monterrey) and Coahuila are any indication, labor relations in that part of Mexico are marked by a general sense of cooperation between the unions and the region,s larger private and public empl [...] |
2007-05-09 11:50:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO2334 | MEXICO ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 4-11, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Inflation fell in April, despite price increases for some commodities. President Calderon is exploring how to proceed with fiscal reform. The United States and Mexico held the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Consultative Committee on Agriculture, and discussed implementing [...] |
2007-05-11 18:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ELAB EFIN PGOV ETRD PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO2388 | INTERNATIONAL WORKERS, DAY CELEBRATIONS HIGHLIGHT [...] SUMMARY: In most countries May 1, (International Workers, Day) is viewed as a date to commemorate labor unity. That said, public events proclaiming the goal of worker unity were not much in evidence this year in Mexico. Instead, the most obvious display to come out of this year,s May 1 celeb [...] |
2007-05-14 21:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI MX |
| 07MEXICO2518 | MEXICO'S GOVERNMENT BUILDING SUPPORT FOR FISCAL [...] (SBU) President Calderon and members of his administration have been working with Congress to build support for fiscal reform. The government would like for the reform to be approved during a special session of Congress this summer so the new measures can be incorporated into the President's [...] |
2007-05-17 21:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO2520 | CONFUSING STATISTICS AND CONFLICTING OPINIONS [...] SUMMARY: The child labor scenario in Mexico is complicated by out-of-date or confusing data about the magnitude of the problem and by ambivalent opinions as to what, if anything, can or should be done about the predicament. The Mexican government, International Organizations and NGO,s all ha [...] |
2007-05-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI UNCHC PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO2545 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 11 - MAY 18 [...] (U) Mexico's economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 percent in the first quarter of 2007, the lowest in a year. In a speech accompanied by controversial teachers' union president Gordillo, President Calderon outlined coming educational reforms. The Mexican Supreme Court began considering [...] |
2007-05-18 21:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2576 | PRI SET TO WIN YUCATAN GOVERNORSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. With 80% of the votes counted, it appears that PRI candidate Ivonne Ortega has won the race for Governor in the Yucatan. The elections occurred in a climate relatively free of conflict or controversy with some irregularities noted in smaller towns. The elections should not be [...] |
2007-05-21 23:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO2651 | MEXICO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) Post supports continued waiver of Title III provisions of the Libertad Act for Mexico. The Mexican International Development Bank has begun the process of recovering debt from Cuba. There are small exchange programs between the two countries. Mexico continues to promote respect for human [...] |
2007-05-23 22:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ETTC PREL CU MX |
| 07MEXICO2653 | MEXICO NOT LIKELY TO VOICE CONCERN OVER [...] (C) Summary: Political Counselor met with Mario Arriola Woog, SRE's Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, on May 21 to emphasize that growing political, economic and commercial ties between Venezuela and Iran not only served to undermine international sanctions against the l [...] |
2007-05-23 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR MX |
| 07MEXICO2666 | RENEWABLE ENERGY IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Embassy Mexico, working through USAID under the auspices of the ongoing Mexican Energy Network (ref A), joined with the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Autonomous Mexican Institute of Technology (ITAM) on May 15, 2007 to present a conference on identifying and overcomin [...] |
2007-05-24 18:02:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO2670 | MEXICAN ECONOMY SLOWS IN FIRST QUARTER [...] (SBU) The Mexican economy is showing signs of slower growth, with the forecast for real GDP growth around 3.2% for 2007, down from 4.8% last year. In the first quarter of the year, the Mexican economy grew at its slowest rate in more than a year, in part due to the slower pace of the U.S. ec [...] |
2007-05-24 19:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO270 | MEXICAN AUTO SECTOR OPTIMISTIC [...] (U) Experts on the Mexican auto industry believe the industry will not only weather the expected slow down in U.S. demand, but will maintain its competitive edge over cheaper labor countries in Asia and South America. While production and exports will likely hold steady, domestic sales figures [...] |
2007-01-19 17:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ELAB ETRD MX |
| 07MEXICO2716 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 19 - MAY 25 [...] (SBU) Mexican inflation, though relatively high, fell in the first half of May. PRI unions stood behind victorious Yucatan gubernatorial candidate Ivonne Ortega, contributing to her victory, despite unions' recent, less-than-active support for PRI candidates. The U.S. and Mexican government [...] |
2007-05-25 17:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2719 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES + 3, [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles, Ms. Laura Jordan, Mr. Douglas Rohn, and Mr. Stevel Hill for travel to Mexico City from 28-30 May for trilateral meetings. 2. Post control officer for the visit is Political Officer Pris [...] |
2007-05-25 18:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | CA MX OTRA PREL US |
| 07MEXICO2723 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-25 21:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR MX |
| 07MEXICO2724 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-25 21:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC MX |
| 07MEXICO2748 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 19 - MAY 25 [...] (SBU) Mexican inflation, though relatively high, fell in the first half of May. PRI unions stood behind victorious Yucatan gubernatorial candidate Ivonne Ortega, contributing to her victory, despite unions' recent, less-than-active support for PRI candidates. The U.S. and Mexican government [...] |
2007-05-29 18:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2752 | WORLD BANK BLAMES MEXICAN UNIONS AND PRIVATE [...] SUMMARY: World Bank (WB) officials recently visited Mexico City to formally release a report on Mexico,s efforts to enact economic reforms. The report entitled, &Mexico Beyond State Capture and Social Polarization8, concluded that the country,s endeavors to carry out meaningful reforms are be [...] |
2007-05-29 19:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB IO PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO276 | CORRECTED -- MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 6 - [...] (SBU) GE/NBC asked the Embassy to continue pressing the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) to drop frivolous criminal charges against the company, meanwhile GE Chairman Jeff Immelt made similar points to President Calderon. The Mexican Telecom Regulator (Cofetel) will hold a teleconfere [...] |
2007-01-19 20:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO278 | SUGAR UNIONS SEEK SWEETER DEAL ON RETIREMENT [...] SUMMARY: Mexico,s largest sugar workers unions have threatened to go on strike beginning January 21, if an agreement is not reached on member retirement benefits. At issue is a disagreement with the sugar mill operators over whom (the industry, the Mexican Social Security Agency or both) is r [...] |
2007-01-19 23:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAGR ECON PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO2783 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-30 22:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY MX |
| 07MEXICO279 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 11 - 17 2007 [...] (U) In response to sharp increases in tortilla prices, the Calderon government has agreed to temporary price restraints with a number of producers and distributors. Finance Secretary Carstens has said he believes that the drop in oil SIPDIS prices is temporary and will not result in budget c [...] |
2007-01-19 23:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ECPS ELAB EPET ETRD PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO2796 | MEXICO PUBLICLY SUPPORTS NOMINATION OF ROBERT [...] (U) On May 30, the Mexican Ministry of Finance issued a press release supporting the nomination of Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank. Early on May 30, the Embassy had delivered reftel demarche to the Mexican Secretariats of Finance, Foreign Affairs, and Economy. The Finance Minis [...] |
2007-05-31 18:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IBRD MX |
| 07MEXICO2804 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED ARMS TRADE TREATY [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 31 to the Foreign Secretariat's (SRE's) Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues Julian Juarez Cardenas. Juarez said the GOM is aware of U.S. opposition to the UN-proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Mexico views the U.S. as a [...] |
2007-05-31 22:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC UNDC PARM MX |
| 07MEXICO2837 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 26 - JUNE 1 [...] (U) President Calderon said he was displeased by the appreciate of the peso resulting from the Bank of Mexico's decision to raise interest rates. He also urged governors to negotiate on fiscal reform. Finance Minister Carstens expects mid-year GDP growth to reach 3.8 %. Cofetel issued regulat [...] |
2007-06-01 19:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2852 | PRESIDENT CALDERON UNVEILS MEXICO'S NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary: President Calderon has announced a National Development Plan for Mexico. The plan calls for extensive political and economic reform covering a wide range of areas from security to competitiveness to foreign policy and the environment. Although many of the proposals have been pen [...] |
2007-06-01 22:43:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP SENV EAID PGOV EFIN EINV MX |
| 07MEXICO2858 | MEXICAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY LOSING JOBS TO CONTRABAND [...] SUMMARY: According to representatives of the Mexican Textile and Clothing Industries, as well as leaders of various Textile Workers Unions, their segment of the economy has lost some 318,000 jobs since 2000, with another 500,000 jobs currently at risk. Both the industry and the unions attrib [...] |
2007-06-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD KTEX PGOV PINR ECON MX CH |
| 07MEXICO2886 | HUMAN RIGHTS TALKS REVEAL AREAS OF AGREEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials held trilateral talks in Mexico City on human rights cooperation. This is the first of two cables summarizing the talks, and will focus on issues relating to the upcoming OAS General Assembly (OASGA); issues relating to the UN Hum [...] |
2007-06-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC MX OAS HUMAN |
| 07MEXICO2897 | SPP/NAEWG: U.S.-MEXICO MEETING ON GAS HYDRATES [...] (SBU) Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) officials discussed cooperation on gas hydrate research with Mexican Energy Secretariat and Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) officials under the auspices of the North American Energy Working Group (NAEWG) and the Security and Prosper [...] |
2007-06-04 21:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO2903 | PAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPELLS GOOD NEWS FOR CALDERON [...] Summary: During the June 2-3 national assembly of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), delegates chose new National Council members, who will be responsible for electing the party's next president in March 2008. An estimated 60-70% of the Council members are reported to favor President Cal [...] |
2007-06-04 23:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO2934 | ELECTRICAL WORKERS, UNION COMPLAINS ABOUT THE HIGH [...] SUMMARY: During the week of May 14, the Mexican Electrical Workers, Union (SME), an organization closely tied to Mexico,s main opposition party, launched a charm offensive lamenting the high cost of electricity for average consumers. According to the SME, the cost of electricity to the avera [...] |
2007-06-05 22:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV ENRG PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO2947 | NORTH AMERICAN PARTNERS DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: This is the second of two cables summarizing trilateral talks on human rights cooperation with Canada and Mexico held in Mexico City on May 29. This cable focuses on issues relating to the UN system, with a particular focus on those before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC); ref [...] |
2007-06-06 19:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC MX OAS HUMAN |
| 07MEXICO306 | MEXICO'S NEW ECONOMY SECRETARY MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Mexico's top trade and industry official wants to deepen North American economic integration and improve the country's investment climate to counter growing competition from China and elsewhere. After a short briefing on the Mexican government's (GOM) approach to dealing with the recent [...] |
2007-01-23 14:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON BEXP WTRO MX CH |
| 07MEXICO3080 | MEXICO COMMITTED TO SUCCESSFUL TRADE RELATIONSHIP, [...] (SBU) The Calderon administration recognizes the vital economic role played by a bilateral trade relationship that is, on the whole, quite healthy. Nonetheless, Mexican officials are worried about the political implications of a growing perception in Mexico that NAFTA implementation is a one- [...] |
2007-06-12 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ERTD ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO3111 | NEW SLATE OF INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP PARTICIPANTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Focusing this year on economic competitiveness, immigration and security/law enforcement, legislators at the 46th annual Interparliamentary Groups (IPG) agreed their countries shared common stakes in economic development and improved security. Coming as it did two days afte [...] |
2007-06-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO3124 | MEXICO SEE FDI SURGE FROM TAX HAVEN COUNTRIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the first quarter of 2007, Mexico has experienced a surge in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from "tax haven" countries such as the Virgin Islands and Bermuda. FDI inflows from these countries have been second only to inflows from the United States. Officials from the Se [...] |
2007-06-14 19:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO3176 | MEXICO COMMEMORATES WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOR [...] SUMMARY: In commemoration of the UN/ILO,s World Day Against Child Labor, the Lower House of the Mexican Congress and the CROC labor union (the country,s third largest labor federation) organized a highly publicized press event to highlight the gravity of the problem of child labor in Mexico. [...] |
2007-06-18 20:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PHUM EAGR KWMN SOCI PINR KCRM MX |
| 07MEXICO3246 | MEXICO'S CALDERON UNVEILS TAX REFORM PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) On June 20, President Felipe Calderon submitted to the Congress Permanent Standing Commission a fiscal reform proposal that focuses on boosting government revenues and combating tax evasion. The initiative aims to increase federal tax collection by 1.9 percent of GDP and state collectio [...] |
2007-06-21 20:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3266 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JUNE 2 - JUNE 22 [...] (SBU) Reaction to the Calderon Administration's release of its fiscal reform proposal was mixed. Consumer price inflation fell 0.49% in May, resulting in a reduced annual inflation rate of 3.95%. Opening of corn, bean, milk and sugar markets under NAFTA scheduled for January 2008 may not h [...] |
2007-06-22 16:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB ENRG ETRD KIPR MX |
| 07MEXICO3297 | JUNE 2007 PRE-CANCUN IPR UPDATE [...] (SBU) President Calderon's National Development Plan included a paragraph on the importance of IPR protection. Calderon had IPR talking points for his meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G-8, but told the press he didn't have time to raise the issue. The Chairman of the lower hous [...] |
2007-06-22 21:23:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR PINS ECON ETRD MX CH |
| 07MEXICO3300 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Summary. The United States Government is aware of eighteen (18) claims of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Mexico (GOM). Eight (8) cases are NAFTA Chapter 11 cases. In addition, one (1) case was resolved in 2006. End Summary. 2. a. Claimants A [...] |
2007-06-22 21:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3302 | VIOLENCE CONTINUES UNABATED [...] (C) Summary: Widespread narco-violence in Mexico continues unabated since the Embassy reported on soaring Cartel-related bloodshed in mid-May. While there have been no spectacular, multi-fatality shootouts matching the spate that characterized the early spring, 37 federal, state and local of [...] |
2007-06-25 13:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV ASEC ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO3304 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-25 13:23:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3305 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-25 13:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3306 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3307 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3308 | MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3442 | STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...] |
2007-07-02 15:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX |
| 07MEXICO3443 | STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...] |
2007-07-02 15:09:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX |
| 07MEXICO3444 | STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...] |
2007-07-02 15:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX |
| 07MEXICO346 | SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY GUITERREZ'S [...] (SBU) Summary: We welcome your visit to Mexico City as an unparalleled opportunity to set the stage and coordinate with the new Mexican government on concrete measures we can take together to move the relationship forward in many important economic areas, including improving competitiveness [...] |
2007-01-23 23:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ETRD ECON KJUS PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO347 | MEXICO TOURISM SECRETARY: NO WORRIES ON WHTI [...] (U) Summary: The Mexican Secretary of Tourism has said that the impact of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) on international tourism to Mexico will be minor. According to estimates by the Secretariat of Tourism (Sectur), Mexico's revenue losses from WHTI will be less than 3 percen [...] |
2007-01-24 13:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR CASC CPAS EIND KHLS MX |
| 07MEXICO351 | MEXICAN FINANCE SECRETARY DISCUSSES REFORM AGENDA, [...] (C) Ambassador Garza met with Mexican Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens on January 22, 2007. The Ambassador began the meeting by congratulating Carstens for the Calderon administration's strong start -- highlighting their counterdrug and anticrime efforts. Carstens told the Ambassador that [...] |
2007-01-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PGOV PTER PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO3511 | MEXICO'S INVESTORS DISCUSS EFFECTS OF NARCO CRIME [...] (U) Summary: Narcotics-related violence in parts of Mexico continues to raise concerns about its potential effect on Mexico's investment climate. On June 28, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) addressed this issue, by holding the International Forum on Investment and Security, where b [...] |
2007-07-03 21:39:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECIN ELAB PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO352 | SUGAR WORKERS APPARENTLY ACCEPT A DEAL THAT IS NOT [...] SUMMARY: Mexico,s largest sugar workers union and sugar mill operators appear to have reached a deal that for now has averted a strike scheduled to begin on January 21. Although the two parties negotiated several topics, the main issue was a disagreement over retirement benefits. The union w [...] |
2007-01-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAGR ECON PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO3653 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IOM [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-11 20:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG MX |
| 07MEXICO3703 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JUNE 22 - JULY 13 [...] (SBU) The Calderon Administration is working with the Mexican Legislature to promote a fiscal reform initiative, possibly a prelude to a series of other reforms (energy, labor, education, etc.). Over the past two weeks, we have spoken with officials outside and inside the Congress to get a s [...] |
2007-07-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PTER |
| 07MEXICO3724 | UPDATE ON PHARMACEUTICAL IPR ISSUES IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Embassy officials met with the head of Mexico's Federal Commission of Health Risk Protection (COFEPRIS - rough equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) to discuss issues of concern to U.S. drugmakers, including data protection, patent linkage, and Mexico's proposed elimination [...] |
2007-07-16 20:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD MX |
| 07MEXICO379 | BRIDGES THAT DIVIDE US: FACILITATING US-MEXICO [...] (SBU) The overall message conveyed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Bohigian during his three-day, SIPDIS three-state tour of the U.S.-Mexican border was that there is much that the two federal governments can do to help improve cross-border commerce, to the benefit of consumers, b [...] |
2007-01-25 16:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ELTN ETRD MX |
| 07MEXICO380 | GOM BACKING OFF PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN FIGHTER [...] (S) In response to reftel demarche the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns about a possible Mexican Navy purchase of Russian fighter aircraft with (in separate conversations) Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan, Presidential Counselor Juan Camilo Mourino, Foreign Minister Patricia E [...] |
2007-01-25 19:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PREL MASS MARR ENRG MX RS |
| 07MEXICO381 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TODD ANDERSON AND [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Todd Anderson and Cheryl Goodman, of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for travel to Mexico City, Tijuana and Cancun February 5-11, 2007. The purpose of the visit to Mexico is to review the efforts of US agencies and multilateral organiza [...] |
2007-01-25 20:57:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | AGAO OTRA PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO3839 | ZAPATERO VISIT BOOSTS CALDERON [...] (SBU) Summary: During his four-day visit to Mexico, Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and President Calderon agreed to cooperate on apprehending ETA members and other extremists, develop infrastructure and the tourism sector, increase people-to-people contacts through a "Dialogue Forum," [...] |
2007-07-20 16:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO3859 | U.S. FIRMS REACT TO MEXICAN FISCAL REFORM PLAN [...] (SBU) While American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (AmCham) member firms object to many portions of the Calderon Administration's fiscal reform plan, they have given their qualified support to the proposal. The draft law would set up a minimum business tax in an attempt to plug the numerous [...] |
2007-07-20 20:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO389 | RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-01-25 22:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC ETTC MX |
| 07MEXICO390 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24, [...] (SBU) Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens discussed technical assistance, and Economy Secretary Sojo raised border facilitation in meetings with the Embassy. The Embassy's Energy Reform Project held its first public meeting. Questions remain even within Pemex about the cause of a six percent [...] |
2007-01-25 23:49:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO391 | TORTILLA PRICE SURGE AND CALDERON RESPONSE [...] (U) This cable incorporates information and analysis from a Global Agricultural Information Report (no. MX7003, dated January 19, 2007) produced by Post's Foreign Agricultural Service office. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The first real economic test for the new administration has been a rap [...] |
2007-01-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD MX |
| 07MEXICO3926 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG PRIORITIES FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-24 22:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA MX |
| 07MEXICO3931 | SPECULATION ON MEXICO'S MEDIA SECTOR [...] (SBU) Ernesto Piedras (strictly protect throughout), President of the Competitive Intelligence Unit and Angel Lopez Hoher (strictly protect throughout), Head of the Unit for Planning, Liaison and International Affairs at the Mexican Federal Competition Commission (Cofeco) agreed that a new Me [...] |
2007-07-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINV PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO3937 | MEXICO'S NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN [...] (U) Summary. President Calderon presented the National Infrastructure Program (NIP) on July 18. The NIP is the infrastructure component of Mexico's National Development Plan (ref A) and seeks to improve Mexico's competitiveness. The plan presents ambitious goals for infrastructure investment [...] |
2007-07-25 16:37:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELTN ENRG MX |
| 07MEXICO3993 | PETROLEOS MEXICANOS: A VERY, VERY GOOD PLACE TO [...] SUMMARY: On July 17, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico,s national petroleum company (Pemex), and the Petroleum Workers Union (STPRM) announced an agreement on a new collective bargaining contract for 2007-2009. The current Pemex/STPRM contract was set to expire on August 31, 2007. This was report [...] |
2007-07-27 21:55:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO4017 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JULY 14 - JULY 27 [...] (SBU) Senior Mexican officials told Commerce Assistant Secretary Bohigian they wanted more participation from U.S. SIPDIS Cabinet level officials to push the prosperity agenda at the upcoming North America SPP Summit. While the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) publicly announced its [...] |
2007-07-30 22:41:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO4062 | DEMARCHE REGARDING NTC [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-01 19:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO4114 | AMCONSUL MATAMOROS HOSTS UNION, PRIVATE SECTOR AND [...] SUMMARY: On July 20, AmConsul Matamoros hosted a meeting aimed at opening a discussion on ways to prevent drug abuse in general and abuse in the workplace in particular. The meeting was attended by representatives of Mexico,s largest labor federations (CTM), the local president of a national [...] |
2007-08-02 21:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ELAB PGOV ECON PINR SOCI MX |
| 07MEXICO413 | PARTY POLITICS DIVIDE LABOR MOVEMENT "UNITY" OVER [...] SUMMARY: The successful organization of Mexican labor movement participation in a January 31 st, mega-march to protest price increases in basic food items now appears very much in doubt. The unified image labor had hoped to project in demonstrating against price increases was shattered when i [...] |
2007-01-26 22:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON SOCI PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO414 | MEXICAN REACTION TO EXTRADITIONS MUTED; [...] (SBU) Summary. Mexican reaction to the recent, unprecedented extradition of 15 wanted criminals to the U.S. has been muted. Although such massive extraditions predictably triggered isolated complaints from the opposition that the move violated Mexico's "national sovereignty," such complaint [...] |
2007-01-29 13:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO4144 | IPR TRAINING FOR MEXICAN CUSTOMS AT VERACRUZ [...] (U) The Embassy, together with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, held a five-day training seminar on detecting, detaining, and deterring the importation of pirated and counterfeit goods for Mexican customs and law enforcement officials at the Port of Veracruz. The seminar was [...] |
2007-08-03 21:35:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR SNAR MX |
| 07MEXICO4151 | FURTHER REACTION TO MEXICAN FISCAL REFORM PLAN [...] (SBU) Six weeks after the introduction of the Calderon Administration's proposal for fiscal reform (ref A), companies and business organizations continue their objections to the most controversial aspects of the plan, a flat minimum tax on revenues (CETU) and a tax on cash deposits (ICI). Som [...] |
2007-08-03 22:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4191 | AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (U) Summary: In ref A, Post sent Treasury's Office of International Affairs the Spanish-language presentation from the American Chamber of Commerce about its concerns regarding the fiscal reform proposal that President Calderon submitted to Mexico's Congress (ref B). Below is an English-langu [...] |
2007-08-07 19:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4236 | MEXICO: U.S. INVESTORS ASK FOR INTERVENTION ON TAX [...] Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. 2. (SBU) This is an action message, see paragraph 2. 3. (SBU) Summary and Action Request. Representatives of U.S. real estate firms in Mexico contacted the Embassy August 6 to express their concern over the Calderon administrations tax reform [...] |
2007-08-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4246 | THE LABOR SITUATION OF THE MEXICAN TEXTILE AND [...] SUMMARY: Beginning on July 31, the Mexico office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) foundation, a German non-profit organization, and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) held a two day seminar on the &Future of the Textile Industry in Mexico.8 The se [...] |
2007-08-09 18:24:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV PINR CH MX |
| 07MEXICO4265 | PARTIES ACCENTUATE THE NEGATIVE AFTER MIXED STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recriminations are raining this week across Mexico's political landscape in the wake of August 5 state and local elections in Baja California, Aguascalientes and Oaxaca. All three parties are smarting in one locale or another. In Baja California, PRI's Jorge Hank Rhon broke [...] |
2007-08-09 21:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO4280 | FISCAL REFORM: CURRENT STATUS [...] (U) Summary: Mexico's opposition parties continue to deliberate on whether to allow a Special Session so that Congress could rule on Calderon's fiscal reform proposal before the FY 2008 budget must be submitted on September 8. Despite criticism of the CETU minimum alternative tax by business, [...] |
2007-08-10 17:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP SENV EAID PGOV EFIN EINV MX |
| 07MEXICO4282 | MEXICO'S MAQUILAS CLAIM NEW TAX COULD KILL [...] (U) Summary: Econoff spoke with representatives from the National Council for the Maquiladora Export Industry (CNIME) August 7 regarding the effects the new Single Rate Business Tax (CETU) will have on the industry. The President, Jose Jesus de Calleros, said that CNIME supports the concept of [...] |
2007-08-10 21:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV ELAB MX |
| 07MEXICO4286 | POSSIBLE TELECOM PROPOSAL FOR NORTH AMERICA LEADERS' [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexico's Communications and Transport Ministry (SCT) has asked the Calderon Administration to present a dramatic telecom proposal at the North America Leader's Meeting in Montebello, Canada on August 20-21. Under the proposal, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) would [...] |
2007-08-13 13:44:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB PGOV PREL SPP KIPR EAIR MX |
| 07MEXICO4291 | POSSIBLE TELECOM PROPOSAL FOR NORTH AMERICA LEADERS' [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexico's Communications and Transport Ministry (SCT) has asked the Calderon Administration to present a dramatic telecom proposal at the North America Leader's Meeting in Montebello, Canada on August 20-21. Under the proposal, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) would [...] |
2007-08-13 13:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB PGOV PREL SPP KIPR EAIR MX |
| 07MEXICO4293 | FUTURE OF THE SPP AND NAFTA - MEXICAN VIEWS LEADING INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 9, Econoffs met with officials from Mexico's Ministry of Economy to discuss GOM positions for the North American Leaders Meeting in Montebello August 20-21, and the NAFTA Free Trade Commission meetings in Vancouver August 13-14. Expressing concern over the downplaying [...] |
2007-08-13 13:47:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD SPP MX |
| 07MEXICO4331 | CALDERON MAINTAINS HIGH APPROVAL RATING [...] President Calderon's public approval rating stands at 64%, according to a reliable Mexican poll that registered his approval at 68% in April. The four point decline falls within the poll's margin of error, and reflects the continued strong standing of the president as he prepares to give his [...] |
2007-08-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO4334 | MEXICAN TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY TARGETS TELMEX [...] (SBU) On August 3, as part of the Ninth Meeting of the High Level Consultative Commission (HLCC) on Telecommunications, Rafael del Villar, Under Secretary for Communications at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT), briefed a small group of Department of State (DOS), Feder [...] |
2007-08-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS ENIV PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4341 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--MEXICO'S RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-14 20:54:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA MX |
| 07MEXICO4390 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BLUNT'S AUGUST 20-21 VISIT [...] (SBU) My staff and and I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed his first 9 months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in implemen [...] |
2007-08-16 18:31:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ECON PGOV PREL MX OVIP BLUNT ROY |
| 07MEXICO4399 | SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF COMPETITION IN MEXICO'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Below is an analysis and English-language summary of the 900-page final decision by Mexico's Supreme Court (SCJN) that some provisions of the April 2006 Radio and Television Law are unconstitutional. The Court threw out the most blatant anti-competition measures that led the 2006 [...] |
2007-08-16 22:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON EINV PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4451 | A LOOK AT MEXICO'S NASCENT PRIVATE EQUITY INDUSTRY [...] (U) A strong private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) industry has long been seen as an important vehicle for economic growth, the development of small- and medium-sized businesses, and job creation. Recent reforms measures and relative political and macroeconomic stability have made Mexi [...] |
2007-08-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4460 | MEXICO BORDER WORKING GROUP TOUR A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Mexico Border Facilitation Working Group (BFWG) toured points of entry (POEs) in Laredo, Nogales, and San Diego to witness first hand the bottlenecks that limit cross border trade and gain insight on possible low cost/high impact changes that could rectify the problems. [...] |
2007-08-21 17:10:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD ELTN PGOV PREL MX |
| 07MEXICO4512 | ECONOMIC COSTS OF HURRICANE DEAN IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary. Thirty-six hours after Hurricane Dean struck land along the southern edge of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as a category 5 hurricane preliminary assessments show that damage is less than predicted. The tourism industry was minimally affected as the famed Riviera Maya received less [...] |
2007-08-22 22:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ENER PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO455 | MEXICAN ELECTRICITY U/S ON LIBERALIZATION, [...] (U) This is an action message, see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Reuben Flores, Mexico's new Undersecretary for Electricity in the Energy Secretariat (SENER) supports further trans-border electrical interconnections between the U.S. and Mexico as long as they make economic sense. On reform [...] |
2007-01-30 19:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG MX |
| 07MEXICO4552 | MEXICO'S 2008 BUDGET PROCESS [...] (SBU) The Calderon administration is required to submit its 2008 budget proposal to Congress by September 8. The Chamber of Deputies has until October 20 to approve the budget,s revenue section and send it to the Senate, which has until October 31 to ratify it. The Chamber must pass the expe [...] |
2007-08-24 22:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4554 | UPDATE ON ECONOMIC COSTS OF HURRICANE DEAN IN [...] (U) Pemex has reported that it should complete the inspection of its installations today, August 24. After having examined most of its offshore facilities yesterday, Pemex had not found major damage. Oil and gas production in the Campeche Sound restarted on August 23, and as of 19:00 that da [...] |
2007-08-27 12:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ENER PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4598 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) My staff and I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed his first 9 months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in implementing [...] |
2007-08-27 20:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ENRG PREL MX OVIP DANIEL SULLIVAN |
| 07MEXICO4614 | UNION PACIFIC MEXICO TALKS COLOMBIA RAILROAD [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-27 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ELTN ETRD EINV MX |
| 07MEXICO4696 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO PRE-BRIEF MEXICO ON UNDER [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-30 19:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR PREF PTER PARM EAID ECON OPDC CO MX |
| 07MEXICO4702 | HONORING THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-30 21:17:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | POL CASC MX |
| 07MEXICO4726 | FDI IN MEXICO EXPECTED TO REACH 23 BILLION USD [...] (U) Summary. The Mexican government revised its foreign direct investment (FDI) forecast for 2007 upward to 23 billion USD after a stronger than expected first half of the year. The manufacturing sector is the number one recipient of FDI, while the United States continues to be the number on [...] |
2007-08-31 19:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EFIN MX |
| 07MEXICO4815 | EEB A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES FISCAL AND PEMEX REFORM [...] (C) In an August 29 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan, Under Secretary of Finance Alejandro Werner expressed confidence SIPDIS that changes to the proposed Mexican Single Rate Income Tax for businesses (CETU) would allow the tax to be [...] |
2007-09-06 22:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4816 | REALISTIC VIEW OF CHALLENGES IN STATE OF UNION [...] (U) On September 2, President Calderon presented his 2007 State of the Union Address (Informe) at the Palacio National. The Informe covered rule of law and security, competitive economy and job creation, equal opportunity, sustainable development, effective democracy and responsible foreign p [...] |
2007-09-06 22:32:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB EFIN PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO483 | CALDERON, ON FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO EUROPE, STAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This week, President Felipe Calderon wrapped up a six day official visit to Europe, his first since taking office. The visit took him to Berlin, Madrid and London and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Calderon's team successfully used the tour to mount a major i [...] |
2007-01-31 22:30:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO4856 | EEB A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING [...] (SBU) A/S Dan Sullivan met with a range of senior GOM officials to encourage high-level Mexican participation from the full range of relevant ministries in the September Major Economies Meeting on Climate Change (MEM) proposed by President Bush. Upon being assured that the MEM is aimed at con [...] |
2007-09-07 22:20:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG MX |
| 07MEXICO4867 | MEXICAN FINANCE UNDERSECRETARY OPTIMITIC ON ENERGY [...] (SBU) In an August 21 meeting with Congressman Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) Mexican Finance Undersecretary Alejandro Werner (strictly protect throughout) predicted that if fiscal reform goes well, the Calderon Administration would next turn to reform in the energy sector. He explained that Pemex ne [...] |
2007-09-10 19:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO4871 | CALDERON SENDS MEXICO'S 2008 BUDGET PROPOSAL TO [...] (U) President Calderon presented his 2008 federal budget proposal to the Chamber of Deputies on September 8, 2007. The $220-billion spending plan is based on assumptions of 3.5% real GDP growth, inflation of 3.0%, a Mexican oil mix price of USD 46.60 a barrel, and an average nominal exchange r [...] |
2007-09-10 19:21:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4881 | JUSTICE REFORM SEASON OPENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Proposed constitutional changes that briefly became the focus of criticism by human rights lawyers last week are the first step in a protracted effort by the GOM to modernize the administration of justice in Mexico by granting police and prosecutors greater authority and a wide [...] |
2007-09-10 23:03:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO4906 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: IRAN AT THE SEPTEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) Poloffs delivered reftel demarches on September 10 to the Foreign Secretariat's (SRE's) Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues Julian Juarez Cardenas. Juarez noted U.S. views and reiterated Mexico's policy with regard to the Iran issue: The GOM respects each co [...] |
2007-09-11 21:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC MX |
| 07MEXICO4916 | READ-OUT OF BILATERAL MEETINGS ON MEXICO'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 16-17, Department of Commerce/Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) senior technical and policy representatives participated in a bilateral technical exchange in Mexico City, Mexico. This meeting was in response to a specific request by the Mexican Government seeking a [...] |
2007-09-11 21:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PTER MX |
| 07MEXICO4917 | TOURISM UNDER SECRETARY TALKS OPEN SKIES, [...] (SBU) On September 10, EconCouns and EconOff met with Mexican Undersecretary for Tourism Operation, Francisco Madrid Flores, and Director General of Regional Programs, Juan Carlos Arnau Avila. When Econoffs noted the benefits of a U.S.-Mexico open skies deal Flores said pre-clearance for passe [...] |
2007-09-11 21:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EAIR ELAB PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4970 | MEXICO'S TAX REFORM BILL NEARING ADOPTION [...] (SBU) President Calderon's economic team and political parties, mainly the National Action Party (PAN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), have reached a consensus on almost all issues included in the tax reform bill. Legislators in the finance committee of the Chamber of Deputie [...] |
2007-09-14 12:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4980 | PEMEX PIPELINE ATTACK CAUSES ECONOMIC DAMAGE [...] (U) A series of attacks on Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) gas lines in eastern Mexico have caused large disruptions to production countrywide. The militant group Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) claimed responsibility and vows continued attacks until their demands are met. Business groups estim [...] |
2007-09-14 15:25:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON EIND PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO5044 | MEXICAN CONGRESS APPROVES LONG-SOUGHT TAX REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mexico's Senate approved an overhaul of the country's tax laws on September 14 -- a move that will strengthen public finances and give President Calderon another legislative victory. The Chamber of Deputies has already approved the bill, so most of the reforms only require the [...] |
2007-09-18 20:07:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO508 | CALDERON CRITICS MARCH ON THE ZOCALO [...] (SBU) On January 31, demonstrators thronged Mexico's central square or "Zocalo" to protest the rising cost of staple foods, and call for wage increases. Participating organizations, mainly labor and peasant groups, issued a statement called the "Zocalo Declaration," demanding food and energy [...] |
2007-02-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 07MEXICO5101 | MX #2007-217, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST [...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS, on Crime Scene |