Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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US-Taliban Talks: How to Avoid a Rush to Failure
By A COLLABORATION OF U.S. DIPLOMATS WHO HAVE WORKED ON AFGHANISTAN
Read moreArgentina Moves Toward the Center
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
Read morePolitical Bombshell Rocks Baja California
By RICARDO CASTILLO On Monday, July 8, the Baja California state assembly approved by a majority vote a bill to extend the governance period of newly elected Governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez from two to five years. Bonilla Valdez was elected last June 2 to govern for two years. Normally, Baja governors are elected to govern for six years. Elections
Read moreAMLO’s July 1 Victory Is Now a Holiday
By RICARDO CASTILLO Although Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is celebrating the first year of his landslide victory on Monday, July 1, he has actually only spent seven months as head of state. His six-year term began on Dec. 1, 2018. But a year ago, there was no doubt about it, and he began giving orders right from
Read moreMexico, Home of Fifis and Chairos
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s always been political slang wherever there are politics, which is in every territory that has an organized government administration. In this sense, Mexico is no different. But for this writer, there are two words currently in Mexican political vogue that were not always there before. In fact, these words that came into fashion in the few
Read moreA Dubious Future for Mexico’s PRI and PRD Political Parties
By RICARDO CASTILLO Is there anything left for Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to celebrate now that they have been diagnosed as last-stage, end-of-life patients? Maybe not, other than the fact that in their deathbeds they are still desperately clinging to life. The stories of the two parties is extremely different, although their
Read morePlanning for the Day After in Venezuela
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read morePAN and Morena Vie for Baja and Puebla Governorships
By RICARDO CASTILLO The next round of elections in Mexico is just around the corner. slated for Sunday. June 2. There will be political activity on different basis in six different states. Clearly, the attention will be most focused in the states of Puebla and Baja California. where elections for governor will be attracting the bulk of attention. They are,
Read moreAMLO Vows Not to Seek Reelection
By RICARDO CASTILLO Why exactly did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sign a document on Tuesday, March 19, swearing not to seek reelection as president? That question has many answers, but it is extremely odd — this year being 2019, more than five and a half full years before the next presidential term — that any sitting president
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