By KELIN DILLON Following a joint energy trade consultation held in Washington, D.C., between Wednesday, Nov. 30, and Thursday, Dec. 1, Mexican Secretary of the Economy Raquel Buenrostro and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced a number of potential proposals to address Mexico and the United States’ ongoing dispute on Mexican energy policy – including potential “tri-national working groups” –
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OPINION By JOHN BURZAWA, SOPHIE EGAR and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provides continent-wide rules, norms and problem-solving processes that can help the three-member countries to continue the trade and coproduction system established under its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But if the USMCA is to
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By JENNIFER SCHNEIDER The waves lapped against the small fishing vessel in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. While the Internet connection glitched, a young Clint Borgen used the paychecks from his job on the fishing vessel to fund what would eventually become a national campaign that focuses U.S. political attention on extreme poverty around the globe. That was back in 2003, when
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite orders from the powers that be (make that, power that be) for all government employees to put on their marching shoes and show their “solidarity” for the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his egocentric march of self-adornment on Sunday, Nov. 27, and despite reports from Tepito merchants and others
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Both U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are slated to make their first official visits to Mexico in those capacities in early January to attend the North American Leaders Summit (NALS), which will be hosted by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) starting on Jan. 9. During his daily press conference on
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Oh, Canada
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON According to former United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiator Kenneth Smith, Mexico may face historic sanctions levied against it by the United States and Canada if the trio cannot reach an agreement on Mexican energy policy during its presently ongoing energy panel. These pending sanctions have the potential to be the highest penalties ever seen under the 20-plus-year history
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Lots of foreigners have worked in Mexico long enough to have contributed to a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) pension. In Mexico, accreditation is calculated in terms of weeks worked, 500, if you started to work anytime before 1997, when the law was changed to require more weeks from younger generations. So if you worked
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