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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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that more Mexicans are – at long last – interested in a presidential race. The figures for some foreign observers may not be impressive, but, locally, the audience participation results of last Sunday’s debate issued by the National Electoral Institute (INE) showed that 11.4 million Mexicans watched it and that two out of every
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The eighth Summit of the Americas (SOA). which concluded Saturday. April 14, in Lima, Peru, was little more than a watered-down exercise in continental power. For starters, the “mini-summit” was unintentionally bombarded by U.S. President Donald Trump by his not attending. Also silently absent from the event was talkative Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, who was not invited. A face-to-face clash
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Some Mexicans just don’t like the way the electoral procedure is being carried out by the National Electoral Institute (INE). The problem is that those disgruntled Mexicans are blaming the INE for what they perceive as irregularities in the process, but the procedure was designed by Congress, and the only way out of this long and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may only be mid-January and it’s definitely freezing cold weatherwise, but the war of words in the Mexican elections is already heating up fast. Presidential “pre-candidate” Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO, for short) is deeply concerned that things might turn violent before the July 1 election day. The problem is, maybe, he’s got a valid point. Two weeks ago in
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