By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO-Trump: The Art of the Deal The smoke screen left behind on Thursday, Dec 5, by the noisy visit of U.S. Attorney General William Barr cleared rapidly over the next three days as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) practiced both the art of the deal and quid pro quo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Supreme Court Judge The Mexican Senate elected Ana Margarita Ríos-Farjat as a new member of the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN). Up until now, lawyer Ríos-Farjat had been working as head of the nation’s Tributary Administrative System (SAT), the Treasury Secretariat unit that oversees the nation’s tax collection. Ríos-Farjat received 94 votes from the senators (a minimum
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The new pro-visible labeling law passed unanimously in Mexico’s 500-voting member Chamber of Deputies…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Credible food labeling and digital money are now on the horizon for most Mexicans…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Now that the annual hoopla of Mexican Independence celebrations is over, the nation will move on with one of the most important issues at hand, which is getting from Congress the approval of the 2020 Economic Package that will go into operation next Dec. 1. The package was delivered to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After six hours of heated debate, Mexican Chamber of Deputies president-reelect Porfirio Muñoz Ledo decided on Tuesday Sept. 3, to step down from the post. By so doing, he prevented a constitutional crisis within the chamber, which in turn would have reflected in more conflict for the bills that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wants to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The octogenarian uprooted an agreement voted into practice in 2007 stating that each party had the right to lead the legislative house for one year…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may be money for the Mexican democratic dream, but a lot of people are wondering if it really does have to be that expensive. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, the National Electoral Institute (INE) requested 12.5 billion pesos for its 2020 overall national operations from Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies. The figure does not include the 5.4 billion
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Now and then, you have a woman in Mexican politics hit the headlines. But what was most unusual on Monday. Aug. 12, and early Tuesday, Aug. 13, was to have three ladies in politics in less than 24 hours grab media coverage. Whoever had doubts that women are advancing in strides in politically impossible macho-land had better
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Once upon a time, back on Dec. 2, 2012, when former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto appointed Rosario Robles Berlanga as the Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary, this columnist published an article in The News – then the only English-language daily in Mexico – claiming that Rosario was “a woman for all seasons” and “a survivor.” That may
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