XINHUA Mexico has formally nominated its veteran trade official Jesús Seade Kuri to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thus becoming the first member state to announce a candidate for the post since the WTO officially launched the selection process on Monday, June 8. According to a biographical note posted on the WTO website, Seade
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By RICARDO CASTILLO García Luna Refuses Mexico’s Help Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, Mexico’s former top cop Genaro García Luna appeared before Judge David Horan of the Dallas Federal Court on Tuesday, Dec. 17. García Luna, who was the public security secretary under former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), declined during his brief 10-minute court appearance his right
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Snafu over Gay Zapata Painting Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata was murdered 100 years ago, on April 10, 1919. Over the last century, he became a Mexican Revolution icon, a magic figure with a holy aura. But all hell broke loose this week at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) when, in an exhibit to
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XINHUA Just as Mexican, U.S. and Canadian negotiators in Mexico City were ironing out last-minute modifications to the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Tuesday, Dec. 10, and signing a modified protocol that would allow for a trinational board of experts to oversee labor conditions (one of the major stumbling blocks for U.S. Democrats), up in Washington, the U.S. House majority
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There was really very little to discuss on Sunday, July 21, during the just-over-an-hour-long meeting in Mexico City between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. It was clear previous to the meet that Mexico had achieved the goals demanded of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)by U.S. President Donald
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Regardless of the fact that the United States still does not have an ambassador in Mexico, diplomatic relations are intensifying to the point that this coming weekend there are two mini-summits planned that will deal with some of the many pressing issues between the two nations. First, Mexican Foreign Relations Undersecretary for North America Jesús Seade Kuri
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Hold the tequila! During the bilateral U.S.-Mexico celebration on Monday, Aug. 27, because the administrations of Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto had come to agreement, Mexico’s Peña Nieto invited The Don to a tequila toast that the U.S. president referred as to the new Mexico-U.S. Trade Agreement. In fact, Mexico’s still greenhorn diplomat, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis
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