By RICARDO CASTILLO On Monday, July 15, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the implementation of a new rule which would deny immigrants who arrive through Mexican territory seeking asylum access through the southern border. Under the new regulation, all Central American asylum seekers on the way to the United States would be required to first pursue safe haven in a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The revolt of Mexico’s Federal Police against their new bosses, the National Guard (GN) commanders, was the culmination of tensions that had been in the making for a while now. (See my previous article on the issue “Trump’s Adamancy Sparks Frictions within National Guard.”) On Wednesday, July 3, some 300 members of a total of 10,000 that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After the threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose export tariffs on Mexico if it didn’t stop the flow of migrants coming out of Central America, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has complied both with stopping Trump from slapping Mexican exports with his blatantly illegal tariffs, but also, cartoonists claim, can trump up his roster
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Timing is a must in politics, and timing is what we’ve got as now incumbent candidate Donald Trump launched his bid for reelection to the presidency of the United States on Tuesday, June 18. Trump pulled recently what probably constituted his most dangerous threat, worse than going against nuclear Iran, on Mexico. He threatened to increase import
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just how the Mexican National Guard is going to operate as of Monday, June 10, along the 11-municipalities in the state of Chiapas – along the Guatemalan border – is anybody’s guess. Most likely, the promoter of the move, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), does not know either. And there are many reasons for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may not be all that much in the way of meeting U.S. President Donald Trump’s expectations for the Mexican government to put a halt to the swelling human tide of immigrants bellowing in hunger and poverty north from Central America through Mexico to the United States, but it does represents a first solid step in an
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Wherefore art thou, Donald Trump? In reelection limbo, it seems. Over the past two days, the president of the United States has been directing his same old capricious criticism at Mexico, alleging that the United States’ southern neighbor “is doing nothing” to stop the now very dangerous northern flow of desperate migrants from Central American countries. And
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By MATT SEDDON As I began finalizing preparations for Holy Week in the church I serve, Denis Hernández Barona crucified himself. The Cuban immigrant chained himself to a cross on the Mexican border with Guatemala to protest against a recent wave of deportations of Cuban migrants. The story caught my eye as I readied my church to remember Jesus carrying
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An event that went almost unnoticed in the Mexican media on Thursday, April 4, was the meeting between World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevêdo and Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín. The main reason why this meeting was not given the press coverage that it should have been afforded was because it was overshadowed by the
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