By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s new brand of diplomacy is about to undergo its first acid test. On Friday, Jan. 4, the Foreign Relations ministers or secretaries of the 14 Latin American nations that make up the Lima Group (a multilateral body that was established following the Lima Declaration on Aug. 8, 2017, in the Peruvian capital under which representatives of 17 countries
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s official. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO, officially became Mexico’s 58th president during a three-and-a-half-hour-long inaugural ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 1, which began at 11 a.m. at the San Lázaro Congressional Offices and ended at the National Palace in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico. AMLO officially assumed the Mexican presidency at 11:22 a.m., local time.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just prior to his third monumental blunder last week, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso bragged boisterously to the media that his relation with the White House had never been as good as it had been in those now-seemingly far-away days. Anyone even vaguely familiar with Mexican international relations knows that bilateral relations have been severely strained by U.S.
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