A Sweltering Summer and a Market Fall
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Eclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
Read moreAlfonso Romo, AMLO’s Link to the Wealthy
By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
Read moreAMLO’s Economic Thimblerig
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another of his baffling political sleights of hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, July 31, somehow managed to convince his adoring hordes of blind followers that a 0.1 percent growth rate for the second quarter of 2019 – which, in fact, confirmed that the country is in a state of economic
Read moreFigures Show Mexico Not in Recession
By RICARDO CASTILLO Let the fireworks light up the cloudy Mexican economics sky. The great news deserves the glow in the heavens. The economy grew in the second quarter of 2019 by 0.1 percent and, according to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which carries out the official econometrics gaging, “there is no recession.” The news was made
Read moreThe Mexican Recession that May Not Be
By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s the end of July and figures are beginning to trickle in regarding the state of Mexico’s economy. The first one landed on Friday, July 26, from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which is the nation’s foremost authority in gauging financial and industrial trends and the news is not good since the Gross Domestic
Read moreA Review of the First Year of Five Mexican Presidents
By RICARDO CASTILLO The word “recession” currently seems to be striking terror in the heart of most Mexicans. And given the humongous volume of antagonism President Andrés López Obrador (AMLO) is confronting, the word is even more threatening to his opponents. Not only that, AMLO is fighting a war of economic terminology in which the truth is in the voice
Read moreThe View from the North: Violence Turns Mexicans against AMLO
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve heard from many of my Mexican friends about the surging violence south of the U.S. border. It is no longer a case of cartel versus cartel. Instead, the murders have spilled into urban areas, and the Mexican people are scared. I saw this post from Mamela Fiallo Flor in
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Pemex Officials Feel the Squeeze
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The Fall of Pemex
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