By RICARDO CASTILLO An event that went almost unnoticed in the Mexican media on Thursday, April 4, was the meeting between World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevêdo and Mexican Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín. The main reason why this meeting was not given the press coverage that it should have been afforded was because it was overshadowed by the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to discuss the possible signing of a bilateral accord to invest $10 billion in southern Mexico and Central America, AMLO said Wednesday, March 20, during his daily morning press conference. The president said that meeting
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By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By JACQUES GOODLOE Special to Pulse News Mexico The idea of an “axis of the willing against illegal migration” composed of Italy, Germany and Austria has been proposed by Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s right populist leader. He spoke about this with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who shares the Austrian chancellor’s views on tighter border controls. Kurz said fighting illegal
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the second straight year, the number of monarch butterflies arriving in Mexico for their winter retreat has dropped dramatically, according to Mexican government sources. Compared to last year, the number of monarchs, which migrate annually from as far north as Canada during the winter months, has dropped by nearly 15 percent compared to last year’s figures,
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