OPINION By ANTONIO ORTIZ-MENA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* It is striking that, more than a quarter century after the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) entry into force, it is still necessary to provide a business case for deeper North American cooperation on economics and beyond, but that is where we are. After the 1989 Canada-U.S.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was a political rock rattle and roll in the Mexican government Tuesday, July 9, when, over the course of just one hour one Treasury Secretary resigned and a new one was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To offer a proper sequence of events, allow me to start from the beginning of the series
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The 10-page-long resignation letter Senator Germán Martínez Cázares sent to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 21, resigning from the directorate post of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) marked a turn of political chess castling even before the president has been in office for six months. Immediately after Martínez Cázares’
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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