OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Neither Alejandro Moreno, president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), not Marko Cortés, head of its conservative National Acton Party (PAN), are willing to budge from their positions, despite the fact that both parties registered a resounding defeat in the country’s June 6 gubernatorial elections. That leaves the Mexican people with only one alternative:
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s ever-more-controversial Tren Maya tourist train project — a 1,500-kilometer railway system imposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that has been widely condemned for threating both the fragile geography of the country’s Yucatan Peninsula and over half of the region’s indigenous flora and fauna — is now facing yet another obstacle in its completion. The
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OPINION By COLIN ROBERTSON Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Like globalization and the rules-based multilateral order, the North American idea risks falling victim to larger geopolitical forces. But even in the absence of energetic political leadership, we can still make progress, by building on existing initiatives, to the mutual benefit of all three nations, Canada, the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO U.S. Special Envoy for the Climate Change John Kerry on Tuesday, June 14, called on the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to open the country to private investment in the energy sector. Kerry, who met with AMLO at the National Palace on Tuesday, said that the Joe Biden administration has been working through U.S.
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After an increased Day-without-a-Car program on Wednesday, June 8, limiting the circulation of vehicles in Mexico City and the Valley of Mexico , which included some privately owned cars with 0 or 00 inspection tags, Mexico’s Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late in the afternoon that it would suspend Phase 1 of the Environmental Contingency,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Over 70 percent of the world is covered in a blanket of rich, vibrant blue, from the depths of which once all life on Earth came. The oceans are the planet’s life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism. And they produce at least 50 percent of the planet’s oxygen, are home to most
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Due to high ozone levels throughout Mexico City and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late Tuesday, June 7, that Phase 1 of the environmental contingency plan would be implemented for all vehicles with license plates ending in the numbers 3 and 4 for Wednesday, June 8. High temperatures, reaching
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