An Americas Summit, without AMLO
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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AMLO Won’t Go to Americas Summit (Surprise, Surprise!)
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same
Read moreSummit’s Success Hangs in the Balance
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a growing number of Latin America’s leftist leaders join forces, threatening to boycott the upcoming Ninth Summit of the Americas that is slated to take place in Los Angeles from June 6 through June 10, unless it includes the participation of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the once-crucial hemispheric meeting could potentially become irrelevant. Both Mexican
Read moreKrakow: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Ugly
By RICH GRANT We did not want to go to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After all, it had taken us a lot of time and effort just to get to Krakow. The sun was out, and it was a perfect day. Pretty Polish girls walked by in summer dresses. The cafes of Old Town were buzzing and there were buskers singing and juggling
Read moreThe View from the North: AMLO’s Midterm Election Blues
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexico held its largest midterm elections in history on Sunday, June 6, and the results weren’t great news for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) did gain political territory by winning 11 or 15 governorships up for grabs, the party lost large swathes of ground in Mexico City and
Read moreThe Tempest over Mexico’s Proposed Electricity Bill
By RICARDO CASTILLO There is no doubt that the Mexican Supreme Court’s harsh blow against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Energy Bill on Wednesday, Feb. 3, which shot down 22 articles of the controversial edict pushed through last year by Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle, wobbled the administration. The court voted against the bill because of what it considered radical
Read moreThe View from the North: No ‘Sister Souljah Moment’ for Biden
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. On Monday, Aug. 31, Joe Biden looked at the camera and said something like this: “Do I look like a guy who supports lawlessness?” Frankly, he doesn’t. What he looks like is a man who has said nothing since the urban riots across the United States started and then suddenly decided to talk about them because
Read moreUS House Democrat Free Trade Working Group Meets with AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
Read moreA Brief Review of Mexico’s Neoliberal Era
By RICARDO CASTILLO Now that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared on Sunday, March 17, “the end of the neoliberal era,” a brief review of what it was seems to be in order. AMLO says that it lasted 36 years through six different presidents; his gauge is correct. He also said in his calling neoliberalism defunct that his
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