By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government said Wednesday, Aug. 4, that it will file a suit against several U.S.-based gun manufacturers, claiming that lax controls have led to a surge in the illegal flow of weapons across the border, The Washington Post reported. The Washington Post said that the suit will be filed in a “U.S. federal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although it has been around for more than a decade, the Merida Initiative is one of the most poorly understand bilateral agreements ever established between Mexico and the United States. Signed into existence back in June 2008 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush and his then-Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderón, the multifaceted security cooperation accord was intended to
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) The negotiations in Washington over security at the U.S. southern border should focus on three of the real emergencies that are causing widespread human suffering and exacting high costs in both the United States and Mexico: illegal drug trafficking
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the United States may have serious and justified concerns about a porous border with Mexico allowing illicit drugs and undocumented immigrants entering its territory unlawfully, Mexico is equally concerned about the illicit flow of firearms into its territory. According to Renato Sales Heredia, head of Mexico’s National Security Commission (CNS), at least 2,000 illegal firearms enter the
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