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Mexico’s Electricity Bill Rolls Back Energy Reforms and Threatens Relations with Trading Partners By Inu Manak and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon SHARE In a bid to leave his mark on Mexico’s energy sector, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is rolling back reforms by his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto that were designed to increase competition in the energy market. For years, Mexico’s energy market was in decline due to a lack of foreign investment and competitive pricing, governance challenges, capital constraints, and a drop in crude oil product...

IN 1902, Britain, Germany and Italy imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela after president Cipriano Castro refused to honour debts and pay damages incurred by European companies and citizens during the civil wars that followed the Republic’s independence from Spain. Violent intervention is still employed by Western governments nowadays when they consider it necessary — but more often as not their commercial interests are protected by international trade treaties and investment agreements. Of these, more than 2,750 bilateral investment treaties, multilateral investment treaties and free tra...

Okay, I know that it's become something of a cliche for blogs and news sites to repost John Oliver clips, but dammit, if the guy...

Elisa Fernandez Saenz, Country Representative of UN Women in Vietnam (Photo: UN Women Vietnam) Hanoi (VNA) - A national forum on “Engaging Men and Boys in the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Elimination of Gender-based Violence” was held for the first time in Hanoi with 200 delegates participating both online and in person. The forum was jointly held by UN Women in Vietnam, the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS), and the Network for the Prevention of and Response to Gender Violence (GBVNet), with financial support from the Australian Government. It offered an opportunit...

Both school districts were closed last week due to winter weather and school breaks.