LOS ANGELES TIMES
READERS FUME, MUSE ON THE KILLING OF CECIL THE LION
August 1, 2015
...You only have to look at the outrage in the U.S. at to know that big game hunters don't represent America.
Most Americans cannot relate to Palmer's “sport.” He paid more money than many Americans make in a year to cause an innocent animal a slow, agonizing death.
Zimbabwe is one of the world's poorest countries. How many children in the southern African nation could be vaccinated, fed and educated with the $50,000 Palmer reportedly paid to hunt? Trophy hunters should fill their wall space with real trophies: shots of schools they have helped build or faces of those whose lives they've changed.
CATHERINE JAYNE
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-le-0801-saturday-cecil-lion-20150801-story.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
OIL REFORM WILL HELP MEXICO
December 25, 2013
Though many Mexicans still feel resistant to allowing foreign companies to drill for oil in Mexico, the state-run Pemex today is hardly what President Lazaro Cardenas envisioned when he established it in 1938 to provide for the Mexican people.
Indeed, the company has failed utterly in one of its most basic tasks: supplying subsidized, cheap fuel to Mexicans, half of whom live in poverty.
Mexico's energy reforms are poised to bring desperately needed foreign capital and technical expertise, enabling the country to make the most of its vast hydrocarbon wealth and bring down energy prices. Lower energy prices will help bolster Mexico's manufacturing sector and lead to job creation. In addition, more foreign companies will relocate their manufacturing bases to Mexico from China, where energy costs have been rising.
Once these developments become apparent, the voices of dissent will grow even more faint.
CATHERINE JAYNE
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/25/opinion/la-le-1225-wednesday-pemex-20131225
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FINANCIAL TIMES
ENERGY REFORMS COULD BRING PROSPERITY TO MEXICO
September 24, 2013
The Mexican public’s hostility to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposed energy reform, which would open Mexico’s oil industry to foreign investors for the first time since 1938, is indeed…
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