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President Felipe Calderon Vetoes Ethanol Legislation, Cites Concerns About Possible Corn, Sugarcane Shortages, Sourcemex Writers
President Felipe Calderon Vetoes Ethanol Legislation, Cites Concerns About Possible Corn, Sugarcane Shortages, Sourcemex Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
Citing the priority to ensure that Mexico's food needs are secure, President Felipe Calderon has vetoed legislation to create an ethanol industry in Mexico. The veto does not end the effort but requires that Congress make several modifications to the bioenergy law (Ley de Promocion y Desarrollo de los Energeticos), which the Chamber of Deputies approved near the end of its legislative session in April (see SourceMex, 2007-06-06). The initiative that came out of the lower house was based on a similar measure approved in the Senate in 2006.
Chanber Of Deputies Approves Initiative To Promote Ethanol Industry In Mexico, Noticen Writers
Chanber Of Deputies Approves Initiative To Promote Ethanol Industry In Mexico, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
In late April, the Chamber of Deputies approved legislation to promote the creation of an ethanol industry in Mexico, but critics are concerned about repercussions on the country's corn and sugarcane production. The ethanol provision in the bioenergy law (Ley de Promocion y Desarrollo de los Bioenergeticos), approved primarily with the support of the governing conservative Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), garnered 243 votes. All other parties, including the environmentally oriented Partido Verde Ecologista Mexicano (PVEM) and the center-left Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD), opposed the initiative but obtained only 127 votes. The …
Brazil Pushes To Expand Ethanol Industry With Multiple International Deals, Notisur Writers
Brazil Pushes To Expand Ethanol Industry With Multiple International Deals, Notisur Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
Brazil's government has been aggressively promoting its ethanol industry, seeking to capitalize on high fuel costs by selling the fuel derived from various crops like corn and sugar. In the drive to triple the volume of ethanol exports, Brazil has signed multiple international energy agreements, most notably with the US, its biggest customer. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's effort to expand ethanol production has faced criticism externally from Latin American leaders like Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Cuba's President Fidel Castro and internally from poor people's movements and environmentalists. Among these criticisms are assertions that using food crops for …
Central America Caught In The Changing Political And Moral Environment Of Ethanol, Noticen Writers
Central America Caught In The Changing Political And Moral Environment Of Ethanol, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
One of the outcomes of US President George W. Bush's recent trip to Latin America was a rare convergence of opinion between London's The Economist and Havana's Fidel Castro. The newspaper could not resist calling Castro "Cuba's tottering Communist dictator," but it nevertheless gave him full credit for warning against the "sinister idea of converting food into fuel." The glossy publication noted huge increases in the price of corn and explained, "As more land is used to grow corn rather than other food crops, such as soy, their prices also rise. And since corn is used as animal feed, the …
Region Could Suffer Severely From U.S Ethanol Policy, Noticen Writers
Region Could Suffer Severely From U.S Ethanol Policy, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
The tortilla paradox is coming to Central America. First seen in Mexico (see SourceMex, 2007-01-10 and SourceMex, 2007-01-31), the phrase has come into use to denote a price reversal by which tortillas now cost more in the lands where they are the staple food than they do in New York. The World Food Organization (FAO) says cereal grains, particularly corn and wheat, have reached their highest prices in a decade. The spike, says theFAO, is the result of the US choice to feed corn to its cars as well as to livestock and people, as much of the world's corn …
Region Embrances Ethanol; A Cafta Complication, Noticen Writers
Region Embrances Ethanol; A Cafta Complication, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
In its desperate search for solutions to skyrocketing energy costs (see NotiCen, 2005-06-16), Central America may have stumbled upon an alternative that could end up costing even more. The production of ethanol, a plant-based combustible, can reduce the region's reliance on gasoline and diesel, but it could also hinder chances of passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the US Congress. If the region becomes a producer and refiner of the alcohol fuel, it could also become an exporter to the US under CAFTA provisions. This would upset the carefully crafted arrangement by which US farmers are …