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An Unlikely Political Romance

By RICARDO CASTILLO     The recent exchange of  love letters between the unlikely pen pals of U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) only serves to confirm the statement I made in a recent column regarding the potential of similarities between the two: Birds of a feather flock together. AMLO sent a four-point letter to Trump via U.S.

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Videgaray, in the Eye of the Hurricane

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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