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The article focuses on Tesla's plan to build a factory in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, employing thousands of people, with potential to become the company's largest and produce not only cars but also batteries, semiconductors, and software, as well as making Mexico a central player in Western Hemisphere.

The article reports on the concern of U.S. oil companies on the outcome of the 2018 presidential election in Mexico. The leading candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, wants to reverse policies in energy production and consumption entered by the U.S. and Mexico. He has promised to end oil exports by 2022 and to build two refineries to process crude for domestic consumption.

The article reports that international oil companies have agreed to pay billions of dollars to the Mexican government for rights to drill in Gulf of Mexico and offshore territories, which include companies such as Total and Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

The article discusses the potential effects of a reform of Mexico's oil policy, proposed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, that would allow private oil companies to partner with Mexico's national oil company. Topics addressed include possible increases in oil drilling in Mexico, and a potential reduction of the United States' reliance on oil produced by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The article reports on the decision of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to gave oil companies temporary permission to export a limited amount of oil to Mexico though it does not make a broad national security exception for the region to release larger-scale exports.

The article reports on the auction of 14 oil blocks by Mexico to attract international energy companies.

The article reports that Mexico attracted low bids from foreign oil companies for the 14 exploration blocks it auctioned in 2015.

The article reports that BP had agreed to pay $4.5 billion in fines and other penalties, as well as plead guilty to 14 criminal charges associated to rig explosion in 2010 that killed 11 people in Mexico. The government says that BP's negligence can cause explosion, sink Deepwater Horizon drill rig and unleash a gusher of oil. It mentions that the settlement would resolve the Clean Water Act claims, and BP admitted that it withheld documents and provide false information.

With oil continuing to leak Wednesday from a runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico despite BP's success in capturing some of the flow, a top Coast Guard official ordered the company to come up with a plan ''to ensure that the remaining oil and gas flowing can be recovered.'' In a letter to Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, Rear Adm. James A. Watson, the on-scene coordinator of the unified command that is overseeing the response effort, gave the company three days to provide plans for ''parallel, continuous and contingency collection processes.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED Transocean's corporate motto is ''We're never out of our depth.'' But after last month's fatal explosion on a Transocean oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, that assertion is open to question. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, Mexico -- To the Mexican people, one of the great achievements in their history was the day their president kicked out foreign oil companies in 1938. Thus, they celebrate March 18 as a civic holiday. Yet today, that 72-year-old act has put Mexico in a straitjacket, one that threatens both the welfare of the country and the oil supply of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The swine flu is producing global hesitation over eating pork. As more cases of the new influenza emerged on Tuesday, deepening worries about a possible pandemic, several nations slammed their borders shut to pork from the United States and Mexico. Wall Street analysts predicted a sharp decline of pork sales in grocery stores, and some consumers began steering clear of pork chops. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on Mexican President Vicente Fox 's statement that his government would begin suspending trials against suspected drug traffickers wanted in the U.S.

Presents news briefs related to social and political developments. Order of Tony Garza, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, to reopen the American Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Investigation on the mishap of Air France jet; Condition of food supply in Africa.

Discusses the progress of the North American Free Trade Accord, or Nafta, on its 10th anniversary. Details of the accord; Effects of Nafta since its inception, including stimulated trade and overall economic growth; Negative aspects of Nafta, such as the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States; Effects of the application of Nafta in specific regions of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Reports on the impact of the border crossing actions taken by United States, Canada and Mexico to guard against possible terrorist infiltrators.

Reports on the predicament facing Mexican President Vicente Fox on whether he will cast his vote in support of a U.S.-led war against Iraq at the United Nations Security Council.

Presents world news briefs as of January 27, 2000. Counterstrike held by students and faculty of the national university in Mexico City, Mexico; Approval of an anti-apartheid bill in South Africa; Subdued celebrations of Republic Day in India.

Focuses on the activity of Mexican drug cartels in the New York City metropolitan area. Law enforcement officials who contend that the cartels have made their first beachhead in the area; The Mexican cartels as playing a subsidiary role to the Colombian ones; A cocaine shipment that the Drug Enforcement Administration intercepted; Evidence that the Mexican cartels are increasing their competition with the Colombian organizations.

Reports on the conflict between the United States and Mexico caused by Mexico City taxis. Information on crimes committed against Americans in taxis in Mexico City; Reference to the warning issued by the American Embassy in Mexico City against the taxis; Response of Mexican politicians to the issue.

Focuses on La Malinche, the Indian mistress of Hernan Cortes, and the feelings towards her in Mexico, 500 hundred years after she moved there. Description of the house she lived in; Use of her name as an insult; Protrayal of La Malinche as the perpetrator of Mexico's original sin.

Reports that Mexican officials are complaining to the Bill Clinton Administration and Congress that the United States needs to do more to stem the deluge of illegal weapons crossing the United States border into Mexico. Why Mexico has called for tighter United States gun control; Discovery of two truckloads of grenade launchers and M-2 carbine barrels and magazines at a border crossing outside San Diego, California.

Reports that data released by Mexican oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) shows that it overstated its crude oil reserves since 1970. Reaction to this data; Significance of this; Information on Pemex; Comments from oil consultant Rafael G. Quijano.

Reports that on March 16, 1997 the Mexican Government persuaded the European Union to rescind a donation to a local human-rights group seeking to monitor congressional and mayoral elections in July, 1997 for a possible fraud. Reaction from members of the European Parliament to Mexico's efforts; Concerns from members of the European Parliament that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party may try to thwart expected advances by the two opposition parties.

The article discusses the possibility that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto could enact policies that end the nationalization of Mexico's oil industry as of December 12, 2013. Topics addressed include the proposed legislation that would allow private business to drill for oil and natural gas in partnership with Mexico's state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company, as well as the symbolic and cultural significance of oil within Mexico.

Hurricane Ike lashed the Texas coast Friday night with 110 mile-per-hour winds as it churned toward this city and threatened to devastate Galveston and other towns along the Gulf of Mexico with a wall of seawater 20 feet high. By late in the day, more than a million Texans had left their homes for safer places inland, but tens of thousands decided to tough it out, and the authorities feared that those people had put their lives at risk. Officials in Galveston, on a vulnerable barrier island, estimated that 40 percent of the city's 57,000 residents had ignored an order to evacuate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]