The High Stakes of the US-Mexico Relationship
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Message to Trump: Don’t Mix Migration and Trade
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
Read moreDoubling Down on the Lethal Flow of Fentanyl
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DAVID M. LUNA (The following article first appeared in “The National Interest” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) As the United States debates “emergencies” at its southern border and negotiates a trade deal with China, U.S. leaders must confront the lethal trade in fentanyl from other North American countries
Read moreThree Real Emergencies the US Must Address on its Southern Border
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
Read moreUS Consulate in Guadalajara Reopens
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara, Jalisco, opened its offices for normal operations on Tuesday, Dec. 4, after having suffered two grenade attacks onthe night of Friday, Nov. 30, just hours before Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was sworn in on Dec. 1. The consulate was closed on Monday so that officials
Read moreAttack on US Consulate in Guadalajara Might Be Drug-Related
By THE PULSE NEWS STAFF The grenade explosion at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Jalisco, late Friday, Nov. 30 — just hours before the swearing of Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — may have been linked to local drug cartels, according to both Mexican and U.S. authorities. The explosions of two grenades, which occurred about 7:30 p.m.,
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