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
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At the last minute, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies is scrambling to have ready the final approval of regulations for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will go into effect on Wednesday, July 1. On Monday, the Federal Gazette published the approval of the agreement by the Mexican Senate. In the meantime, on Monday, June 29, Foreign
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By RICARDO CASTILLO One person not mentioned in Mexico during last Sunday’s official ceremony commemorating the 107th anniversary of the Feb. 9, 1913, Loyalty March was U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. The ceremony held at Chapultepec Castle was a reenactment of the march led by then-democratically elected Francisco I. Madero from his home to the National Palace. The date also
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA The newly revised United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) represents “a net negative” for all three economies due to its regulatory mandates, especially concerning automobiles, said a report from the Washington-based financial thinktank Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) released on Tuesday, Dec. 17. The USMCA modernizes trading rules and strengthens enforcement of labor and environmental rights, but its restrictions on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Snafu over Gay Zapata Painting Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata was murdered 100 years ago, on April 10, 1919. Over the last century, he became a Mexican Revolution icon, a magic figure with a holy aura. But all hell broke loose this week at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) when, in an exhibit to
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA Just as Mexican, U.S. and Canadian negotiators in Mexico City were ironing out last-minute modifications to the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Tuesday, Dec. 10, and signing a modified protocol that would allow for a trinational board of experts to oversee labor conditions (one of the major stumbling blocks for U.S. Democrats), up in Washington, the U.S. House majority
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s going both in the Mexican Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? U.S. House Democrats want to include additional clauses that Mexico will not accept. Namely, they want to have inspectors included in union elections to guarantee that the pact’s labor chapter is enforced. In Mexico, mining
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XINHUA … Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador asked U.S. legislators onnot to entangle internal political issues with the ratification of the USMCA…
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