Supporting Prosperity by Approving the New USMCA
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Labor Day Unionists Meeting Buries Charrismo
By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
Read moreGuidelines for a New Labor Law
By RICARDO CASTILLO Prior to Easter vacation, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved the new Labor Law. Since it is a complex document, I will try simplify it to make it more comprehensible. It must be stated beforehand that this reform to Article 3 of the Mexican Constitution was demanded by Canadian and U.S. union centrals in order to bring
Read moreNAFTA to USMCA: A Southern Partnership Perspective
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreNew Labor Central Kicks Off Under Gómez Urrutia
eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he
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