Improving Cooperation against Drugs
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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May 5 Holiday Brings Minor Skirmish for AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO The organized Cinco de Mayo marches in different cities across Mexico on Sunday, May 5, were the first organized protests against the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). There was one in Mexico City that garnered about 15,000 participants, according to figures released by the Mexico City government, and less meaningful ones in Guadalajara and
Read moreDevelop the Isthmus? Not Again
By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s new in Mexican news? Most definitely not President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “new” program that he touted over the weekend of April 27 and 28 as the “Development Curtain” to be built along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – the narrowest land space in southeastern Mexico, between the Pacific and the Atlantic. This same project has
Read moreThree Real Emergencies the US Must Address on its Southern Border
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) The negotiations in Washington over security at the U.S. southern border should focus on three of the real emergencies that are causing widespread human suffering and exacting high costs in both the United States and Mexico: illegal drug trafficking
Read moreNarcos: Transnational Cartels and Border Security
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreYucatan To Host 10-Day Tribute to Departed Spirits
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the first time in the southeastern Mexican state’s history, the government of Yucatán will host a three-city celebration of the Festival de las Ánimas (Festival of Spirits, a slightly less macabre take on Mexico’s renowned Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead) from Wednesday, Oct. 24, through Friday, Nov. 2. For the last three years,
Read moreThe Fantastic Four’s Debate Debacle
By RICARDO CASTILLO Sunday night television is never prime-time viewing in Mexico. But last Sunday, May 20, ratings were through the roof on a double-header featuring first the Mexican Soccer League championship game between the Torreón Saints and Toluca Red Devils, and, later, the second of three presidential debates, this time featuring the “Fantastic Four” hopefuls. In case you’re interested, the Saints became
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