By RICARDO CASTILLO There was really very little to discuss on Sunday, July 21, during the just-over-an-hour-long meeting in Mexico City between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. It was clear previous to the meet that Mexico had achieved the goals demanded of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)by U.S. President Donald
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Regardless of the fact that the United States still does not have an ambassador in Mexico, diplomatic relations are intensifying to the point that this coming weekend there are two mini-summits planned that will deal with some of the many pressing issues between the two nations. First, Mexican Foreign Relations Undersecretary for North America Jesús Seade Kuri
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico’s USMCA Dreams
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. President Donald J. Trump is off visiting the queen in England, but he did not forget that he’s got a bone to pick with Mexico. And to remind everyone that “President Trump is dead serious about taxing Mexican imports,” he left behind acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvane, who on Sunday, June 2, kept
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On Thursday, May 30, Mexico’s Senate received from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) a request to complete the last step in the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). “This is the only missing procedure,” AMLO said during the presentation of the proposed agreement at the National Palace during his daily morning press conference, “and in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The countervailing duty the U.S. government slapped on Mexican tomatoes as of Tuesday, May 7, means different things to everyone involved in this agribusiness, politicians included. Definitely, the new duty came as a big surprise for the Mexican government, where opinions vary from Economy Secretary Graciela Márquez Colin saying “We’ll sell them somewhere else” to President Andrés Manuel
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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