By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 5, an editorial by the New York Times’ Natalie Kitroeff and Maria Abi-Habib revealed that the United States has purportedly lost faith in its appointed ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, and reportedly believes that the diplomat has exhibited a repeated pattern of favoring Mexico and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) policies over
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OPINION By COLIN ROBERTSON Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Like globalization and the rules-based multilateral order, the North American idea risks falling victim to larger geopolitical forces. But even in the absence of energetic political leadership, we can still make progress, by building on existing initiatives, to the mutual benefit of all three nations, Canada, the
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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 KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — One aspect of the covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent global economic that has universal impacted countries around the world is worker desperation. Here in Mexico, unemployment and underemployment have skyrocketed, and more than a million pay-rolled workers lost their job in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. And to make matters worse, now unscrupulous
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By KELIN DILLON In a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 21, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard denounced the fact that Haitian migrants, who passed through Mexico on their way to the United States in hopes of gaining asylum, were deceived by the leaders of their former countries of residence, including Chile and Brazil, to encourage
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has claimed credit for the record number of remittances flowing into Mexico, representatives of the National Front of Immigrants have criticized the executive for his words, laying blame on AMLO for making Mexico an unattractive place to work. More than $4.54 billion was sent to Mexico from workers in
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By KELIN DILLON On Friday, Aug. 13, Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy, which requires those seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their court hearings. The 2019 law was previously given a memorandum by National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this past June, until Kacsmaryk
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By KELIN DILLON As the flow of migrants to the border of the United States and Mexico has continued, criminal groups have seized the opportunity to exploit this already-marginalized group, extorting and kidnapping them as a new facet of their illicit enterprise. Rather than just charging exorbitant fees to traffic migrants through the border, these groups have begun holding them
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