Mexicans Sue Walmart over El Paso Shootings
XINHUA … Ten Mexican nationals are suing the U.S. chain store for failing to protect its customers in the El Paso mass shooting last August…
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Evo’s Asylum Irked Some, Pleased Others
By RICARDO CASTILLO … There have been two distinct reactions in Mexico regarding the government’s granting former Bolivian President Evo Morales political asylum…
Read moreEbrard Condemns Bolivian Coup
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Mexico has officially condemned what it considers to be a military coup against a duly elected president…
Read moreMorena’s Hot Fray for Party President
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Hustle, tussle and lots of bustle is going on inside Mexico’s governing political party, as it heads into its first true internal election for party leader…
Read moreMexican Embassy in Quito Offers Asylum to Opposition Leader
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … In the midst of violent protests, Mexico’s embassy in Quito has granted political asylum to leftist opposition leader Gabriela Rivadeneira…
Read moreUS House Democrat Free Trade Working Group Meets with AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
Read moreThe View from the North: AMLO Feeling the Heat
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Although I live in the United States, as a Latino, I tend to follow Latin American politics closely, particularly in the case of Mexico. And in recent days, I’ve spoken with several of my Mexican friends and they’re all singing the same song: How did this guy Andrés Manuel López Obrador guy (AMLO) ever manage to
Read moreMexico and US Get Ready to Rumble, Again
By RICARDO CASTILLO Hopefully, I’m wrong in my appraisal of curent Mexico-U.S. bilateral relations, but it all points in the direction that the pushy administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is about to shove the Mexican government again. Lest we forget the predicament of last May, President Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent punishment export tariff on all merchandise
Read moreTime for Cooperation, Not Coercion
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreGas Supply for CFE and Mexican Industry Assured
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s an old Mexican adage that says that it is cheaper to make a poor deal than to fight a great fight. This might seem to be exactly what happened in the negotiations headed by Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Director Manuel Bartlett Díaz and seven gas pipeline companies that signed contracts for gas ducts with the
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