By RICARDO CASTILLO Back on Jan. 7, 1994, I attended the press conference in Austin, Texas, in which then-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari told the new U.S. president-elect, Bill Clinton, a phrase in English that is still at the very heart of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its core raison d’être. “We want trade, not aid,” Salinas said, emphatically correcting
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By RICARDO CASILLO U.S. President Donald J. Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, for a couple of days to participate in the 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) powwow of billionaires and presidents who this year meet under the motto “Creating a shared future in a fractured world.” What’s Earth-fracking Trump doing there? I wonder. The Gringo Lone Ranger is meeting with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Despite the fact that U.S. President Donald Trump keeps swinging his Damocles sword over the trilateral talks, aimed particularly at Mexico and Canada, the sixth round of negotiations in Montreal officially kicked off on Sunday, Jan. 21, and will extend through Jan. 29. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer keeps repeating what he has been saying all along since the North
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