By RICARDO CASTILLO Additional Tag-ons to the USMCA No sooner had U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to the House of Representatives for a vote on Friday, Dec. 13, than Democratic Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MA) introduced initiative HR5430, which tags five U.S. inspectors to oversee union elections in private companies in Mexico. Immediately, Mexico’s USMCA
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By RICARDO CASTILLO LeBarón Case Falls in Fiscal’s Lap The Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) has under its aegis “total control” over information regarding the murder of six children and three women in northern Mexico last Nov. 4, all of them members of the Mormon binational LeBarón family. Mexican Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero made the official announcement
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Chamber of Deputies has approved the 2020 budget, which helps social programs and cuts funding for autonomous institutions…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The election of the new head of Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights was a dramatic show from beginning to end…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … According to a video, the former president’s campaign was financed by illicit money…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … It took only one and a half hours of half-hearted debate for the Senate to agree to accept Medina Mora’s resignation by a majority vote…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the once-Catholic-conservative National Action Party’s (PAN) 24th General Assembly over the weekend definitely came across more like a witches’ coven to demonize current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party than an attempt to restore order within its own constituency and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The leftist parties in Mexico have followed a complicated and convoluted path to political power,..
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After six hours of heated debate, Mexican Chamber of Deputies president-reelect Porfirio Muñoz Ledo decided on Tuesday Sept. 3, to step down from the post. By so doing, he prevented a constitutional crisis within the chamber, which in turn would have reflected in more conflict for the bills that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wants to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The octogenarian uprooted an agreement voted into practice in 2007 stating that each party had the right to lead the legislative house for one year…
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