By SILVIO CANTO, JR. From what I here from friends in Mexico, doctors in that country are working in overcrowded hospitals and are being forced to wear the same medical masks for several days. And despite Mexican government figures that seem almost inconceivable regarding the number of covid-19 cases and deaths from the disease, countless national and international nonofficial sources
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Hopefully, I’m wrong in my appraisal of curent Mexico-U.S. bilateral relations, but it all points in the direction that the pushy administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is about to shove the Mexican government again. Lest we forget the predicament of last May, President Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent punishment export tariff on all merchandise
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just how the Mexican National Guard is going to operate as of Monday, June 10, along the 11-municipalities in the state of Chiapas – along the Guatemalan border – is anybody’s guess. Most likely, the promoter of the move, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), does not know either. And there are many reasons for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may not be all that much in the way of meeting U.S. President Donald Trump’s expectations for the Mexican government to put a halt to the swelling human tide of immigrants bellowing in hunger and poverty north from Central America through Mexico to the United States, but it does represents a first solid step in an
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As the internal conflict inside Venezuela grows on a daily basis, the numbers of voices in Mexico pleading with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to declare himself in support of the cause of the now-enormous number of nations (and columnists in Mexico) favoring self-appointed “substitute President” Juan Guaidó over ruling President Nicolás Maduro. On Monday, Feb.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s new brand of diplomacy is about to undergo its first acid test. On Friday, Jan. 4, the Foreign Relations ministers or secretaries of the 14 Latin American nations that make up the Lima Group (a multilateral body that was established following the Lima Declaration on Aug. 8, 2017, in the Peruvian capital under which representatives of 17 countries
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s official. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO, officially became Mexico’s 58th president during a three-and-a-half-hour-long inaugural ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 1, which began at 11 a.m. at the San Lázaro Congressional Offices and ended at the National Palace in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico. AMLO officially assumed the Mexican presidency at 11:22 a.m., local time.
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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 With Canada joining the newly drafted United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the stage is set for the leaders of the three nations to sign the accord, once their respective senates have revised it. It is generally thought that the signing ceremony, if there is one, will be circa Nov. 29 or 30, 2018. On Wednesday. Oct. 3, U.S. President Donald Trump
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