By RICARDO CASTILLO A request for an arrest warrant from Mexico’s Fiscal General against former Treasury and Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso bounced by a federal judge last weekend and not only prevented a major scandal for Videgaray, but also reinforced the fact that the so-called “attorneys for the people” just cannot manage to put a viable case together.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Whereas U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit during his first campaign on Aug. 31, 2016, represented a devastating political for then-Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) visit to the White House on Wednesday, July 8, will surely be beneficial to the U.S.-Mexican bilateral agenda as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The United States’ new ambassador-designate to Mexico, Christopher Landau, arrived in Mexico City on Friday, Aug. 16, with a warm handshake extended for all Mexicans up front. Landau will indeed need all the hands he can find for shaking because, as the old Mexican adage goes, the oven is too cold to bake bread. (No está
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Echoes of the mysterious meeting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had with Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, last March 19 are now thundering across the political landscape. The following day, as reported by Pulse News Mexico, AMLO said, “Basically, we dealt with the issue of (joint) development cooperation, and about the possible signing of a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to discuss the possible signing of a bilateral accord to invest $10 billion in southern Mexico and Central America, AMLO said Wednesday, March 20, during his daily morning press conference. The president said that meeting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO How well are relations between Mexico and the United States doing? Or to be blunt about it, how are relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)? According to a clique of prophets of doom that gather every Wednesday night in a Mexican commentary program called “Tercer Grado” (“Third Degree”) on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is leaving office with a bang. Today, Friday, Nov. 30, he is in Buenos Aires meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sign the would-be final draft of the new North American Free Trade Agreement, or whatever it is called nowadays. (I say would-be because on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s outgoing president, Enrique Peña Nieto, will arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, Nov. 29, to participate in the G-20 meeting, sign the latest draft for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – which will replace the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – and present U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) are mulling over whether Trump should or should not attend AMLO’s inaugural ceremony on Dec. 1. Trump last week said he was expecting to have a great relationship with AMLO, and even considering visiting Mexico. He left the possibility open by saying, “we’ll see what happens.” AMLO is
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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