Those agencies have "typically treated the Mexican agencies as servants," said Sergio Aguayo, a professor at the Colegio de México.

We are a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic specialists.

During the years when contributions exceeded payouts, the Mexican agency was flush with money and decided to expand into health care and the other diverse components that now are part of the system.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Plants, animals, fungi, microbes, A partnership with Canadian and Mexican agencies, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mexican agency OKs KCS purchase of railroad stake.

On March 27, only days before the United States' report was due, the Mexican regulatory agency announced new rules to force Telmex to bring down costs and provide services to its competitors.

Officials of Grupo Beta, a Mexican agency created several years ago to protect the rights and security of immigrants, carry rehydration kits and antivenom medicines in their vehicles for emergencies.

IN a high-rise in Mexico City, officials at Semarnat, the Mexican environmental regulatory agency, unfurl a large map of the Jalisco coast and spread it across a desk.

In the last year, officials said, relations between the agency and the Mexican agencies with which it had collaborated have been uneven and marked by mutual wariness.

Many Mexican agencies have survived by allying with international companies, which tends to obscure the smaller agency's identity.