OPINION By KELIN DILLON After hundreds of thousands of people marched the streets of Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 13, in protest of constitutional reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), the impact of the massive citizen turnout has reverberated throughout the country and across the world
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER They say that fear and anger are the two most effective motivators in mobilizing a society electorally. What the people of Mexico witnessed in terms of the government’s reaction to the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, citizens’ March for Democracy was a clear demonstration of what ended up happening with the way of reacting from the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The results from the presidential election in Brazil on Sunday, Oct. 30, show a deeply divided nation. The map of voter breakdowns was reminiscent of that Bush-Kerry map from 2004, when one region voted one way and the other the other way. As NPR pointed out, “In just three years, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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OPINION By JUAN CARLOS BAKER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* A lot has happened in trade matters since the United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) in 2019. The TPP entered into force in December 2018 without the United States but including Mexico and Canada. It was then rebranded as the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRUAZE The great Hungarian theoretician György Lukács was a member of the intellectual circle of German socialist Max Weber and was therefore well aware of the famous reflection of the master: “Whoever seeks the salvation of his soul and that of others must not do so through the path of politics, whose tasks, which are very opposed
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The political opposition in Mexico City, and particularly the conservative National Action Party (PAN), hopes to have the 2024 election in the bag. The party’s optimistic calculation is based on the overwhelming success it enjoyed in the 2021 citywide election and is reinforced by the fact that, since then, leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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Espionage
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OPINION By INU MANAK Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Imposing and threatening new tariffs have generated many headlines in recent years, whether it involved the United States’ North American neighbors, its partners in Europe or its competitors in Asia, especially China. Much less attention has been given to divergent approaches to regulations and standards, which often pose
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The year 2022 has witnessed a little history back in the Old Country. The entire world saw Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on tv and iPhones, and now, we will see yet another UK first: three difference prime ministers in the span of just one year. Prime Minister Liz Truss is now former Prime Minister Truss. And
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