By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The political clock is ticking, and Mexico now has just weeks to make more than a year’s worth of water payments to the United States in compliance with a 1944 bilateral treaty. But while Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeated said in his morning press conferences that the country will meet the Oct. 24
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As hundreds of Texas farmers along the Rio Grande border are feeling jittery about the water owed to them by Mexico, the brawl at the very source of the tensions, La Boquilla reservoir in Chihuahua, continues to grow. The expected flow of what the Texans consider to be their water is being stalled on the Mexican side
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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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