- Busy Mexico border sees backup following attacks
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 2 Mitsubishi's Mexicali plant: seeing impacts on shipments via border, air, cargo ships The world's busiest border crossing just got a lot busier. The San Ysidro-Tijuana border is seeing heavier-than-normal delays amid tightened security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. The crossing ......
- Growing unemployment.
The unemployment rate in Mexico was already on the rise before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, events which have already caused airlines in the United States, Mexico and around the world, to cut jobs. Many fear that other key industries will be hit hard next. In ......
- Keep it moving
For a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the roadways and bridges leading to the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico looked like parking lots. That backlog eventually cleared as customs agents stopped inspecting each vehicle and focused on high-risk shipments. Since then, border-crossing procedures that ......
- Santa Ana lands Mexico trade center
Santa Ana late last month beat out rival cities in Southern California and Texas in a bid to host Mexico's first U.S. trade center, which is set to open later this month. The city was picked over Los Angeles and San Diego for the center, as well as Houston and ......
- Letter to our Readers.
Dear Readers, As the world economy struggles to regain its footing after the September terrorist attacks, one thing has become clear: being a dooms-day scare monger is passe. Just consider how most economists are predicting a rebound in the U.S. economy by the third quarter of next year; barring any ......
- Latin America.
Latin America: Latin America is expected to be one of the regions hardest hit by the combination of a global economic downturn and the September 11th terrorist attacks on the US. In late September, the Inter-American Development Bank revised its forecast for 2001 growth for the region downward to 1%....
- Home game.
With banks getting back on the lending track, Mexican real estate isn't just about office and industrial properties anymore A bright light is shining down on the real estate industry amid the approaching gloom of the U.S. economic slowdown. After six years of doldrums, following the 1994/1995 peso crisis, Mexico's ......