By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During a visit to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray and Mexican Secretary of Gobernación (Segob) Alfonso Navarrete, in conjunction with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen, announced that Mexico and the United States will
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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 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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a whirlwind tour of the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico last week, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono made it clear to his Mexican counterpart, Luis Videgaray, that despite the current stagnation of the trilateral renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), his government is committed to maintaining and broadening commercial and economic ties with Mexico. Kono,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray seems to be a master chef for all the dishes in the nation’s formidable international menu. But being a jack-of-all-trades has its shortcomings, and, indeed, Videgaray is now in hot water many reasons. FIRST: Last Monday, May 21, Videgaray convened with the so-called Lima Group’s (GL, for Grupo de Lima) representatives, comprised by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last Sunday, May 6, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate José Antonio Meade Kuribreña made a second launching of his floundering campaign. The change came perhaps too late, just 50 days before Mexico’s July 1 election. The fact is that until then, Meade – seen as an honest and indeed enthusiastic candidate – was one of a group of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been down in the polls for so long that he’d forgotten what it felt like being up. That sensation, however, somewhat eased last week as he delivered a speech politely calling upon U.S. President Donald Trump to reign back his egregious horses. The reaction to his speech was monumental. Immediately, every
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The purpose of U.S. presidential envoy Jared Kushner’s 12-hour trip to Mexico on Wednesday, March 7, remains a mystery. Traveling on a commercial airline all night, he arrived on time to meet with Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray for nearly three hours before both of them moved from downtown Mexico City to the presidential residence of Los Pinos.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There is a vast chasm between tweet and fact. There was a worldwide sense of panic and urgency last week — including here in Mexico — when Tweeting Donald threatened to slap tariffs of 10 and 25 percent, respectively, on aluminum and steel. But there is no real need to worry, at least, not for now. U.S. President
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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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