By RICARDO CASTILLO New Supreme Court Judge The Mexican Senate elected Ana Margarita Ríos-Farjat as a new member of the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN). Up until now, lawyer Ríos-Farjat had been working as head of the nation’s Tributary Administrative System (SAT), the Treasury Secretariat unit that oversees the nation’s tax collection. Ríos-Farjat received 94 votes from the senators (a minimum
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s going both in the Mexican Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? U.S. House Democrats want to include additional clauses that Mexico will not accept. Namely, they want to have inspectors included in union elections to guarantee that the pact’s labor chapter is enforced. In Mexico, mining
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XINHUA The Mexican government has rejected a U.S. proposal to send labor inspectors to supervise the application of new regulations contained in a revised free trade agreement, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Tuesday, Dec. 3. “We don’t accept that, that is, having some kind of inspectors to see if a company is complying with the law,” AMLO said
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XINHUA … Mexico’s labor market is facing a bleak outlook over the next few years as the economy shows no signs of recovery from slow growth…
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XINHUA … More women are entering the workforce across Latin America, with an increase of 11 percent in the last 30 years…
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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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 EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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