MEXICO CITY, July 4 (Reuters) – Multiple big screens adorn Mexico City’s Paseo de Reforma in preparation for Sunday’s World Cup last-16 clash between Mexico and England, but among them are reminders of the pain continuing in the background of the tournament. In between the screens along the city’s main thoroughfare are posters for Mexico’s more than 135,000 missing people, a figure that has surged since 2006 when then-President Felipe Calderon launched a war against the country’s drug cartels. It has also not been an unusual sight to see Reforma…
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Mexico’s imports of corn, mostly from the U.S., are on track to break their annual record potentially reaching 17.9 million metric tons by the end of the year according to experts’ estimates. This occurs amid growing demand for animal feed and despite the Mexican government’s early calls for self-sufficiency. Propelled by increased use of corn as livestock feed, Mexico’s imports of corn peaked in 2018 at 17.1 million metric tons according to estimates agricultural consulting group GCMA. More than 90 percent of Mexican imports are of U.S. genetically-modified yellow corn.…