By RICARDO CASTILLO Electoral Fraud at the INE? On Friday, Feb. 7, the 11 councilors of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) carried out the reelection of its executive secretary to serve for six more years, with eight votes in favor and three against. The reaction in Mexico to the surprise reelection of Jacobo Molina and against INE president Lorenzo Córdova
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The United States’ new ambassador-designate to Mexico, Christopher Landau, arrived in Mexico City on Friday, Aug. 16, with a warm handshake extended for all Mexicans up front. Landau will indeed need all the hands he can find for shaking because, as the old Mexican adage goes, the oven is too cold to bake bread. (No está
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Narco Seduction
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By MATT SEDDON In 13 B.C., the Roman Emperor Augustus built an altar to peace on the outskirts of Rome. He had just returned from squashing resistance to the empire in what is now Spain and France. The altar – called the Ara Pacis Augustae – was beautifully carved with images that reinforced Roman notions of the Pax Romana, the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An event that went almost unnoticed in the Mexican media on Thursday, April 4, was the meeting between World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevêdo and Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín. The main reason why this meeting was not given the press coverage that it should have been afforded was because it was overshadowed by the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DAVID M. LUNA (The following article first appeared in “The National Interest” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) As the United States debates “emergencies” at its southern border and negotiates a trade deal with China, U.S. leaders must confront the lethal trade in fentanyl from other North American countries
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