By RICARDO CASTILLO Over the past week, both a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and the current U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Earl Anthony Wayne and Christopher Landau, respectively, have expressed concern over what Wayne labeled “restarting and reinventing the supply chains” of Mexican materials for U.S. corporations. Landau agreed fully with Wayne in his video conference for the Woodrow Wilson
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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 Let the fireworks light up the cloudy Mexican economics sky. The great news deserves the glow in the heavens. The economy grew in the second quarter of 2019 by 0.1 percent and, according to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which carries out the official econometrics gaging, “there is no recession.” The news was made
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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