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Tesla to invest about $5bn in Mexico plant

MEXICO CITY: American electric car maker Tesla will invest about US$5 billion in a massive new factory in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, a senior government official said Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Tesla to build in northern Mexico sfter AMLO speaks to Musk

Tesla Inc. will build a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico, the nation’s president announced, ending weeks of speculation over where the electric-car maker would choose to operate in the country.

Tribune News Service

Mexican President Confirms Location Of Next Tesla Factory

The location was heavily rumored to be in Mexico, but we didn't know exactly where until today.

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Mexican president says Tesla to build plant in Mexico

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a plant in the city of Monterrey, an industrial hub in northern Mexico

The Independent UK

This affluent city in Mexico has become a way station for migrants with eyes on Texas

MONTERREY, Mexico — Graced with Lone Star brands like H-E-B, Whataburger and 7-Eleven, this affluent city in northeastern Mexico is home to global conglomerates and posh neighborhoods, enjoying strong economic and cultural ties to Dallas-Fort Worth. It’s a mere two-hour drive from the Texas border.

Tribune News Service

Confronting the growing drought risk

Drought may be an ancient scourge, but it is getting worse. No region or country today is immune to its effects. Southern Europe is in the grip of a severe drought -- the worst in 70 years for Italy. In the western United States, the past two decades have been…

Bangkok Post

‘It’s plunder’: Mexico desperate for water while drinks companies use billions of litres

As drought grips cities like Monterrey, people queue with buckets for brackish water. But Coca-Cola and other firms are still extracting groundwater

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Taps have run dry in Monterrey, Mexico, where there is water for factories but not for residents

MONTERREY, MEXICO — Three months pregnant and queasy with morning sickness, Yasmin Acosta Ruiz pushed a cart laden with buckets of water through the scorching July heat. As she and her 7-year-old son eased the cart over a speed bump, water sloshed onto the pavement. They both winced.

Los Angeles Times

Migrants say US policy at border is leading to abuse by Mexican authorities

MONTERREY, Mexico — A campaign by Mexican governors, under pressure by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to stem the flow of migrants from Central America and beyond to Texas has led to a surge of complaints of abuse by state authorities, including violent attacks, extortion and even forcing migrants to disembark…

Tribune News Service

Exclusive-Three migrants were kidnapped in Mexico. The U.S. had vowed to protect them

Three asylum seekers were kidnapped in April while in a U.S. migration program that had placed them in the care of Mexican officials in the city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, one of the victims and the U.N. migration agency said.

Reuters

Monterrey suffers weeks-long water cutoff amid drought

The industrial hub of Monterrey has long been one of Mexico’s most prosperous cities, so its almost 5 million residents were shocked when they lost the most basic of services: water

The Independent UK

Dams, taps running dry in northern Mexico amid historic water shortages

Her elderly neighbor is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water?

Reuters

Mexico’s ‘aborteria’ is a haven of last resort for women from Texas

In a calm residential neighborhood, 15 minutes from the center of Monterrey, Mexico, on the second floor of their house, Sandra Cardona and Vanessa Jimenez created an abortion sanctuary.

Tribune News Service

Everything we know about the murder of Debanhi Escobar, 18-year-old dumped in Mexico cistern

Escobar’s family demand answers after her body was found severely decomposed in a motel water tank

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Mexican women protest following murder of woman found dead in cistern after haunting last photo went viral

Officials found Debanhi Escobar’s body in unrecognisable condition in cistern at motel in Monterrey

The Independent UK

Hundreds of women protest in Mexico City over murder of 18-year-old dumped on side of road by taxi driver

Officials found Debanhi Escobar’s body in unrecognisable condition in cistern at motel in Monterrey

The Independent UK

Women protest in Mexico City over killings, disappearances

Hundreds of women are protesting in Mexico City following the horrifying death of an 18-year-old in the northern city of Monterrey

Reuters

Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence

Standing atop a windswept hill in northern Mexico, surrounded by dozens of fellow mourners, Mario Escobar prepared to bury his teenage daughter, Debanhi, one of the latest victims of the country's crisis of violence against women.

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In northern Mexico, authorities search for missing women amid spate of disappearances

More than two dozen women and girls have disappeared so far this year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, sparking frantic searches among residents who hope their loved ones have not become the latest victims of endemic gender violence.

Benzinga

Yuchai Engines Power Latest Chinese Bus Export Order To Mexico

China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE:CYD) stated subsidiary GYMCL's YC6GN natural gas engines became the exclusive engine to power 800 Ankai buses recently shipped to Mexico. The new Yuchai-powered Ankai buses will operate in Monterrey, Mexico. Monterrey is replacing its traditional energy city buses to provide a more environmentally friendly travel solution. The YC6GN…

Benzinga

Mizuho Upgrades This Water Treatment Company - Read Why

Mizuho analyst Brett Linzey upgraded Pentair PLC (NYSE:PNR) to Neutral from Underperform and raised the price target to $62 (an upside of 7%) from $60. The company's purchase of Manitowoc Ice business for a net price of $1.38 billion strengthens its commercial water franchise and should be meaningfully accretive to margins, states Linzey. Pentair recently agreed…

The Independent UK

Elina Svitolina dedicates Monterrey Open victory to Ukrainian army

Ukraine’s number one beat Russian Anastasia Potapova in the final

Evening Standard

Elina Svitolina ‘on a mission for Ukraine’ after U-turn to thrash Russian Anastasia Potapova in Monterrey

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina described herself as “on a mission for her country” as she performed a U-turn to take on Russian opponent Anastasia Potapova in Monterrey.

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian tennis star refusing to face Russian opponent unless IOC demands are followed

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has made a stance after being drawn against Russia's Anastasia Potapova in the first round of the Monterrey Open in Mexico

The Independent UK

Emma Raducanu pulls out of tournament in Monterrey due to injury

The British number one suffered a minor injury to her left leg in Guadalajara earlier this week

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