2022: Let the Games Begin
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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What’s on the Horizon for US-Mexican Relations?
OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and
Read moreAMLO’s Electricity Reform Could Cost 261 Billion Pesos
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform — which would prioritize the use of state-run carbon-based fuels over private, clean-sourced energy — passes, the federal budget could lose up to 261 billion pesos in 2022, according to the Center for Economic and Budgetary Research (CIEP), Mexico’s top independent thinktank. In
Read moreA Difficult Year in Review
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAnother Three Amigos Summit
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS Admonishes Mexico’s ‘Dirty’ Energy Reform, AMLO Bites Back
By KELIN DILLON If passed, the controversial proposal to reform Mexico’s energy sector and give its control to the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) could skyrocket the country’s carbon emissions to 65 percent, warned the U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The constitutional changes proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) would see priority upload to
Read moreGovernment Budget ‘Shields’ Mexico from Foreign Litigation
By KELIN DILLON In a move on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance dedicated 154.7 million pesos in budget to the General Directorate of Legal Consulting for International Trade of the Secretariat of the Economy, to be used during 2022 to defend the country against potential litigation from outside countries. The International Trade Legal Consultancy likewise provides advice and
Read moreDialogue Solid, but There’s Still Lots to Resolve
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreThe World According to Bartlett
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The question that everyone in Mexico should be asking themselves is whether ordinary citizens are more interested in subsidizing, with their own paychecks and a reduced quality in their public services, an ideologized concept of national sovereignty as purported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), or paying less for
Read morePRI Honchos Warn Support of AMLO’s Bill Would End Party
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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