OPINION By GOLDY HYDER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Just like the covid-19 virus, the devastating effects of climate change know no borders. Flooding, forest fires and other extreme weather-related natural disasters are now regularly wreaking havoc on communities across North America. The costs of these catastrophes are measured not only in dollars and pesos, but in
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OPINION By IÑIGO FERNÁNDEZ BAPTISTA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* In 2006 — more than 16 years ago — in the midst of the bird flu, Jeffrey Staples published an article in Harvard Business Review stating that a pandemic could become the single greatest threat to business continuity. That prediction took solid form with the covid-19 pandemic
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OPINION By CARLOS PASCUAL Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* General Motors stated in November 2021, just seven months after announcing plans to invest $1 billion in electric vehicle production in Mexico, that “Mexico won’t be a destination for foreign investment” unless it provides a solid legal basis to “meet our objective of having zero emissions in the
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OPINION By GUILLERMO E. JASSON Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* As some of China’s competitive advantages erode, North America (NA) has an opportunity to reposition itself as an attractive alternative to the Asian giant to manufacture for local and international companies. This repositioning could attract foreign investment, create jobs and stimulate economic growth in NA, improving the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON According to data from Mexican Congress’ approved budgets for Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned gas company could be putting the lives and wellbeing of its employees and the populations residing near Pemex drilling sites at risk due to a lack of continual maintenance within the company’s infrastructure. While figures from 2018 show 17.26 billion pesos in budget
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By KELIN DILLON In the one year following the May 3, 2021, tragic Line 12 metro accident in Mexico City that killed 26 passengers, few steps have been taken to ensure the preventable accident does not happen again, nor that its victims are taken care of. The collapsed portion’s reconstruction is still lagging on, Mexico City has avoided civil litigation
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance. Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to
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By KELIN DILLON The elimination of Mexico’s Trust Fund for Natural Disasters (Fonden) by the country’s federal government has resulted in hundreds of public projects halting due to a lack of resources, despite their need for “priority and immediate attention.” The trust was eliminated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in November 2020, leaving a large number of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Bill It will come as no surprise for most people in Mexico that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Electricity Reform Bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as programmed by Congress’ majority rule, now in the hands of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party, and will now head to the Senate. If
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