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Discusses the Aztec tradition of cutting paper figures for use in religious rituals among Nahua Indian descendants in Veracruz. Relationship between horticultural practices and religious rituals; Community ritual held each year before the spring planting; Altar as the center of activity where the shamans place paper figures representing seed spirits; Use of paper to make holy books, adornments for statues, clothes for priests impersonating deities, and sacred banners and flags.

The article focuses on the 94-cent Automated Postal Center (APC) stamp for a regular size letter and the 1.20 U.S. dollars APC stamp for an oversize letter to countries other than Canada or Mexico. With no prior announcements and unknown to collectors, fine paper was introduced to succeed the original coarse paper used on the APC stamps. As a result, fine paper mint examples of these stamps are rare. To identify the stamps, the relevant chronologically numbered transactions at APC kiosks which also appear as control numbers on the stamps is published.

Mexican industrial real estate trust Fibra Next has postponed its initial public offering (IPO) due to a delay in obtaining the necessary tax paperwork. The company plans to proceed with the IPO once it has the proper documentation. The IPO aimed to capitalize on the trend of manufacturers moving to Mexico to be closer to the US market. Fibra Next's IPO would have been the largest in Mexico since 2018. [Extracted from the article]

Mexican industrial real estate trust Fibra Next has delayed its initial public offering (IPO) due to missing tax paperwork, which undermined investor demand. Local pension funds were unable to participate in the deal without the final tax paperwork. The company plans to reattempt the IPO once it has the proper tax paperwork. The IPO aimed to capitalize on the trend of manufacturers moving to Mexico to be closer to the US market. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on upcoming international technical conferences organized by the Wire Association International (WAI) in Italy and Mexico, for which the association has issued a Call for Papers. The conferences will focus on technical subjects as well as broader topics such as sustainability, workforce issues, operating best practices, and general business influences in the wire and cable industry.

The article discusses the author's presentation about the level of recovered paper (RP) exports from the U.S. to Mexico in 2011, which he gave at the 2011 Paper Recycling Conference and Trade Show held on October 23-25 in Chicago, Illinois. He offered a brief profile of the country's paper industry. He explained the decline in his forecast on the amount of RP exports from 1.8 million tons to 1.6 or 1.7 million tons. He also described the domestic production of finished product in the country.

The article features children's books illustrator Rachel Griffin. It says that Griffin had once worked in a fashion industry in London, England and then move into on the paper industry, where she worked as a maker of greetings cards. It also mentions that Griffin presently makes a range of what it defines as luxuriously, richly embroidered collages. Griffin says that her first big project in the line is an illustrated book on the Day of the Dead in Mexico.

The article reflects on the report from the U.S. Department of Commerce that determines the demands from China for U.S. recovered paper from January to November 2005. The report implies that China's demand was more than the demands from other foreign countries such as Mexico and India. For the same period, the industry has gained a significant amount of shipment for China alone.

The article profiles Carlos Slim, a telecommunications tycoon in Mexico and the world's richest person. It states that he started a stock brokerage which slowly grew to corporate empire and owns the América Móvil SAB de CV, the largest wireless service provide in Latin America. It cites that the estimated values of the companies he run is worth $150 billion. It mentions that he purchased 6.4 percent stake in the New York Times Company. INSET: At NYT, a History of Asking 'How High?'.

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The article reports that consumption volumes for the paper and board (P&B) sector in Mexico has remained stable at around 1.7 metric tons in the first quarter of 2012.

A collection of images in the Liberty Variorum series taken by Charles Grogg, and photographs pf pilgrims by Mexican artist Alinka Echeverria documented in the Road to Tepeyac series are presented.

Several photographs of paper money and coins around the world are presented including the money printed on sheets of plastic used in Australia, Nigeria and Mexico, coins in ancient China that were produced with holes in the middle and the currency in Fiji.

Reports the letter of the Mexican environment ministry on the discovery of the DNA from genetically modified maize existing with native varieties. View of the campaigners on genetically modified crops; Criticisms on the publication of the letter; Status of the agricultural products on the issue.

The article focuses on the conceptual newspaper Mira Mexico consisting of photographs on the Mexican drug war self-published by conflict photojournalist Louie Palu in January 2013 in partnership with three media agencies including Canada's the Globe and Mail, and the Foreign Policy in the U.S.

The article reports on the outcome of the enactment of Public Law 229, which is designed to facilitate the importation of foreign workers to the U.S. The law aims to restrict labor piracy in the fields. In March 1944, foreign workers provoked the police into counteraction after forcing to enter Mexico City, where registration for enlistment and transportation to the U.S. was being arranged. Mexican President Avila Camacho, in response, issued a proclamation or easement absolving Mexican agrarians in the U.S. from farming their land grants.

The article reports on the decline of paper stock prices in the U.S. in the final quarter of 2011. Prices of old corrugated containers (OCC) mixed paper deinking grades and pulp substitutes decreased by 20 to 50 U.S. dollars per ton. China plays a primary role in the decline, according to many paper stock dealers. Mexico has significantly reduced its intake of deinking and office grades from the U.S. coated paper producer Verso Paper is planning to idle three of its paper machines permanently.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue including the sugar industry in Mexico, abstracts of the Sugar Processing Research Institute (SPRI) Conference papers, and the Sugar Industry Technologists meeting in New York in May 2016.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Awards Ceremony held in the Grand Coral Ballroom of the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel, in Cancun, Mexico on December 9, 2008. The 2008 subcommittee chairs included Steve Morse, Bonnie H. Ferri, and Siva Banda. Yutaka Yamamoto, vice president of Publication Activities, presented three paper awards, while Jay Farrell, vice president of Technical Activities, presented the Control Systems Technology Award.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Mexico Knows How to Fight a Trade War: Shannon O'Neil Despite its initial bravado, Mexico will suffer, particularly if the U.S. ups the ante with further tariffs or threats to Nafta. [Extracted from the article]

As the South African economy emerges from the downturn induced by COVID-19, policy makers are concerned with recovery, reconstruction, and transformation. This paper focuses on the recovery from the severely depressed levels of economic activity that occurred in April 2020. However, before considering the period after the economic trough of April 2020, a mention of economic conditions prior to the pandemic is worthwhile. In brief, economic performance was terrible by almost any metric. Furthermore, economic performance had been poor since 2008, with evidence pointing to ongoing deterioration culminating in the fourth quarter of 2019, when per capita GDP contracted, unemployment ticked upwards to its highest level since 1994, productivity declined, and inequality worsened. The striking difficulties of the South African economy in avoiding/absorbing shocks--whether internally generated, such as shocks to electricity supply, or externally generated, such as changes in terms of trade or investor sentiment in relation to emerging markets--have been an integral part of this disappointing economic performance over time. In short, the situation prevailing prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was one of economic weakness. Beginning from this position of weakness, the economic shock related to COVID-19 was enormous, likely the largest single economic shock in the history of South Africa. According to official statistics, GDP in the second quarter of 2020 was approximately 17% below the level registered in the second quarter of 2019. In assessing this shock, it is important to recall that GDP is a flow concept. One can, in principle, consider the volume of flow over any arbitrary period: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a semester, a year, and so forth. The lockdown associated with COVID-19 precipitated an extraordinarily rapid decline in economic activity. Indeed, the available analytics and data point to a trough in economic activity, or flow value of GDP, at less than 70% of the level that would have pertained in the absence of the pandemic, or a greater than 30% decline in the flow rate of GDP (Arndt et al 2020). If we accept a 17% reduction as the average flow rate of GDP over the quarter and we accept that the economic shock related to COVID-19 was unprecedently rapid and drove a decline in the flow value of GDP of much more than 17% at the trough (which probably occurred sometime in late April or early May), then we must also accept a rapid recovery in economic activity in May and June in order to achieve an average decline of 17% over the quarter. Furthermore, this relatively rapid recovery continued. GDP in the third quarter of 2020 was "only" about 6% below the levels recorded for the third quarter of 2019, with the corresponding figure for the fourth quarter at about 4%. Other figures, including recent ones, broadly support this basic story. For example, retail sales in February 2021 were up 2.4% year-on-year, with the previous two months, January and December, having registered only a slight decline year-onyear. Correspondingly, manufacturing production and sales were down by 2.1% in February 2021 year-on-year. A few broad observations emerge from this history and the available data. First, the South African economy has exhibited more resilience to the COVID-19 shock than performance up to December 2019 might have led one to expect. In Mexico, for example, the distance between fourth quarter GDP in 2020 and that in 2019 was greater than for the same comparison in South Africa. At the same time, Mexico registered close to twice as many deaths related to COVID-19 per million population as South Africa. Second, multiplier effects are important. As discussed in Arndt et al (2020), multiplier effects accounted for the bulk of the initial economic contraction. However, they also operate positively, buoying the recovery experienced to date and bringing economic activity back towards the levels of 2019. Third, while having GDP about 4% down year-on-year is much better than the 17% decline observed in the second quarter, 4% down is still a deep recession by ordinary standards. While some sectors are producing at close to levels observed in the fourth quarter of 2019, others are more strongly affected. The incidence of these depressed levels of economic activity remains likely to be tilted toward lower-income households, which are more vulnerable to begin with. Overall, there remains substantial slack in the economy, multiplier effects still apply, and many households remain deeply vulnerable to severe economic hardship. Finally, prospects for economic growth remain circumscribed by the pandemic over the near term. The experience of India in April and May 2021 provides a stark warning of the social and economic implications of easing public health restrictions too soon. These public health restrictions constrain the pandemic but also limit the potential for further growth/recovery, at least until a significant share of the South African population has been vaccinated. This milestone may be obtained sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Hence, the 'recovery period' looks likely to extend for an additional nine months or more. To analyse recovery, we model policy impacts over four quarters. However, the distinguishing feature of recovery policies is not the time horizon over which they will run; rather it is in how quickly they can be implemented and take effect. Recovery is not a stage that has to be completed before reconstruction and transformation can begin. Instead, it is a process that will morph into reconstruction over time. We therefore confine our modelling to measures that have been proposed and which, in our judgement, could be implemented quickly. Simulations examine COVID-19 income support interventions to households considered by the government of South Africa under alternative financing options. All scenarios are run from the fourth quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021. The most aggressive option, funded by reduced government savings, adds 2% to GDP (at market prices) over the period of observation, i.e. the year to the third quarter of 2021 relative to a scenario with no intervention. Less aggressive options contribute significantly less, due to counter balancing multiplier effects. Thus, financing matters. If the most aggressive intervention is financed by raising taxes of the top decile, a 0.7% increase in GDP is achieved. The reason for the lower impact, despite the full amount of income support being disbursed, is that highincome households will spend less, in order to pay for higher taxation. All intervention plans are strongly progressive. Further, even in the most aggressive scenario financed by reduced government savings, the government debt-to-GDP ratio declines, as higher GDP and higher tax collections more than fully offset the increment to government debt. These are important results. The paper concludes that the South African government has been justified in considering and implementing aggressive intervention policies. Maintenance of these policies is appropriate as long as public health measures to restrain spread of COVID-19 also constrain economic activity. Looking forward, and assuming vaccines will allow return to more normal behaviour either towards the end of 2021 or in early 2022, government needs to consider tapering of extraordinary COVID-19 support programs. More importantly, attention needs to be devoted now to kindling and maintaining much more rapid economic growth rates than have been attained over the past dozen years. If there is a silver lining to this terrible pandemic, it most plausibly lies in the creation of the policy space to enact measures and reforms that lead to equitable, sustainable, and much more rapid economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Corporación Durango, a Mexican paper manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy. Durango was due to make a $26.5 million coupon payment on the bonds on October 5, 2008 but failed and filed for debt restructuring under the Mexican Concurso Mercantil process. The company defaults on $509 million in bonds due 2017.

The article reports on the plan of Shorewood de Mexico to establish a paper packaging facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The move is aligned with the company's business strategy to enhance the packaging services it offers to customers worldwide. The company stresses that the decision was carried out after its joint venture with Cartograf S.A. de C.V. Shorewood de Mexico specializes in the manufacture of cartons and is equipped with lithographic and rotogravure presses.

Since 2013, the FDA and Mexican authorities have inspected 11 farms and packing houses that produce cilantro from Puebla. To be allowed to resume imports in to the U.S., Puebla cilantro suppliers will have to show health officials that they've put practices in place to overcome unsanitary conditions, the alert said. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on a working paper which examined the state of manufacturing plants in India and Mexico. The authors found that the employment gap suggests that Indian and Mexican factories are not investing as much as their U.S. counterparts in terms of process efficiency, quality and in accessing foreign and domestic markets. They mentioned that a certain type of misallocation can discourage investments that increase plant productivity.

The article reports that during March 2005, board mills have been taking a lot of downtime. Some how it was the normal spring maintenance outage. But there are numerous mills that are turning away OCC tons because the finished goods orders simply are not there. All of this has suppliers scrambling to find buyers as the weather warms and generation rises. The Southwest, however, remains soft as a number of major consumers push tons out into the open market. Yes, Mexico is still buying and China will buy if the price is right, but not to the point where U.S. board mills feel they have to compete for tons.

The article reports on the prices of most paper stock grades in 2011. Higher prices reached earlier in 2011 are seen holding on for grades such as old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspapers, office grades, and deinking grades. One paper dealer sees OCC prices staying tight. One recycler cites strong order for coated book stock into Mexico and Latin America.

A calendar of international events from November 2008 to February 2009 is presented, which includes the Paper Stock Industries (PSI) Chapter Fall Conference in Orlando, Florida, the 16th International Mexican Recycling Congress and Expo in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and the International Electronics Recycling Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

The article mentions the move of the Banco de Mexico to encourage hoarding by providing unlimited quantities of gold at 5,520 pesos a kilogram.

The article reports on the growing fears over the possible failure of the debt refinancing plans of Mexican cement company Cemex. The company failed to lengthen maturities on $418 million of commercial paper while its stock price tumbled in the second week of December 2008. The company's share price tumbled 18.7% after it was only able to exchange $71 million of its $418 million of commercial paper in return for longer term debentures.

The article offers updates from the U.S. paper stock market as of May 2012. According to several paper stock dealers, there were indicators that domestic recycled board mills have met their inventory needs and are reducing new purchases of old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspapers (ONP) and mixed paper. One major factor affecting the paper stock market are Chinese mill buyers. Several countries with paper stock market slowdown are Mexico and Canada.

Reports that Mexican housing finance company Metrofinanciera has placed two transactions via sole lead IXE for a combined $138 million. Metrofinanciera expected to price a two-tranche $200 million deal in the cross-border market in the short-term; Price of one residential mortgages transaction; Rating of the deal by Moody's Investors Service and Standard and Poor's.

The article focuses on the rate given to Mexican corrugated box maker Corporacion Durango SA de CV by Fitch Ratings Inc. It states that Fitch gave a B foreign and local currency issuer default rating to the firm. With the rating action, it assigned a B+ rating to the company's proposed $150 million amortizing five year notes and its proposed $370 million notes due in 2017. Durango's credit ratings are supported by the firm's leading business positions in corrugated boxes and newsprint.

Focuses on the reorganization of Mexico-based papermaking company Corporación Durango as part of the test of a bankruptcy law in the country. Cost of debts of the company; Duration of the restructuring according to chairman and CEO Miguel Rincón; Views of Pedro Jimenez, senior associate at legal adviser White & Case, on persuading creditors to reorganize the company.

The article presents information on several resources related to Mexico. Learn more about Mexico's history in the 2004 nonfiction book "The Life and Times of Mexico," by Earl Shorris. Learn where to buy handmade paper, wood carvings, handwoven rugs, and other crafts around Mexico in our Authentic Shopping Guide. Sample a selection of Mexican music in the online World Music Guide.

Presents news related to environment and geography as of February 2000. Efforts of environmentalists to prevent the planned salt works in Baja California, Mexico; Ways to reduce the global consumption of paper; Details on the chemical contamination of killer whales off Canada's west coast.