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Friday, 26 February, 2021

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Jude Webber’s top reads this week: How McKinsey lost its ‘mystique’ | Tragedy on K2 | The fight against vaccine hesitancy
Thursday, 25 February, 2021

Energy Source
Biden’s interior secretary pick makes inroads with the oil sector Premium
Plus: Consequences of the Texas freeze range from soaring toxic emissions to adding fuel to the fire for Mexico’s nationalistic energy ambitions
Wednesday, 24 February, 2021

Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Mexico’s comptroller backtracks on audit of scrapped airport project
Unusual U-turn on finding came after criticism from president López Obrador
Tuesday, 23 February, 2021

Mexico
Mexico’s sexual misconduct scandals engulf president’s party
Accusations against veteran politician Félix Salgado Macedonio cause widespread outrage
Sunday, 21 February, 2021

Coronavirus pandemic
Deaths surge in Mexico as pandemic extracts a heavy toll
Covid-19 tsar says his conscience is clear despite one of the world’s highest excess death rates
Monday, 15 February, 2021

News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
Mexico’s investment drought holds back recovery from pandemic
Electricity sector rule change is latest in series of investor-unfriendly decisions
Friday, 12 February, 2021

Mexico
Tampons vanish as Mexico City takes aim at single use plastics
Ban of the sanitary products — and their applicators — has taken the capital’s female residents by surprise
Monday, 8 February, 2021

Global InsightMexico
López Obrador’s pandemic optimism falls flat after he catches Covid-19
Populist Mexican president under fire for handling of health crisis
Monday, 1 February, 2021

Mexico
Mexican electricity reform set to raise trade tensions with US
Government pushes plan to favour state-run utility despite warning on USMCA
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Monday, 25 January, 2021

Coronavirus pandemic
Mexico’s Covid-sceptic president tests positive
Andrés Manuel López Obrador met business leaders and toured country before announcing infection
Friday, 22 January, 2021

Honduras
Honduras locks in permanent ban on abortion
Move to outlaw procedure forever comes after Argentina legalised termination on demand
Wednesday, 20 January, 2021

News5 min
Mexico’s avocados: curbing the thirst for ‘green gold’
As production climbs the impact of irrigation technology that reduces water consumption and increases yields is becoming ever more important
Wednesday, 20 January, 2021

Utilities
A power outage dims climate hopes in Mexico
President López Obrador’s championing of fossil fuels has short-circuited the shift to renewable energy
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Biden-Harris: what you need to know
Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?
Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, will find relations with the US more challenging
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Mexico
Joe Biden could find Mexico a truculent neighbour
Andrés Manuel López Obrador learned to live with Trump in return for being left alone. That looks set to change
Sunday, 17 January, 2021

Global migration
Guatemala launches crackdown on US-bound migrant caravan
Large group of Hondurans fleeing hurricane devastation could present test for Biden border policies
Saturday, 16 January, 2021

Mexico
US threatens to end co-operation with Mexico on criminal cases
Case of former defence minister accused of cartel ties raises tensions ahead of Biden inauguration
Friday, 15 January, 2021

Mexico
Mexico clears ex-defence minister accused by US of cartel ties
López Obrador tones down law that would have hampered operations of American anti-narcotics agents
Thursday, 14 January, 2021

Energy Source
How Mexico’s Pemex went from cash cow to financial drain Premium
Plus: API lays down battle lines against Biden, McKinsey’s gloomy climate outlook and fossil fuels coming rebound
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

News in-depthMexico
Populist Amlo’s tight grip on Mexico finances holds back Covid stimulus
López Obrador loathe to spend more despite gloomy growth forecast
Saturday, 9 January, 2021

FT Magazine
The women creating culinary acts of remembrance for Mexico’s missing
The ‘Rastreadoras’ have published a book of recipes with their loved ones’ favourite foods
Tuesday, 5 January, 2021

Petroleos Mexicanos
Pemex drains reserves of quick fixes as cash crunch looms
World’s most indebted oil company can no longer delay wholesale reform
Monday, 4 January, 2021

Julian Assange
UK court blocks Assange’s extradition to US
Judge rules WikiLeaks founder would be a ‘substantial’ suicide risk if held in harsh prison conditions
Tuesday, 29 December, 2020

Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega tightens screws on opponents as Nicaragua polls loom
President pushes through new laws and pressures media and human rights groups
Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

Mexico
Mexico’s central bank wins respite on dollar-buying bill
Critics warned law could undermine its autonomy and force it to absorb unwanted foreign currency