High Global Stakes, but in a Calmer Tone
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Preventive Detention, a Means of Control and Abuse in Latin America
By MARK LORENZANA In March of this year, the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele, declared a state of emergency after police recorded a total of 62 homicides in a single day. It marked the most violent day in 30 years for the Central American country, which has contended with criminal gangs for decades. El Salvador has
Read moreThe View from the North: Short Honeymoon for Latin America’s Leftists
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Am I happy that Latin American nations are electing leftists? Of course not, but it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Down in Chile, leftist President Gabriel Boric, who came to power in March of this year, is already struggling in the polls. He is learning that changing a country’s constitution is
Read morePeruvian Photo Exhibit to Open along Avenida Reforma
PULSE NEWS MEXICO An exhibition of 30 large-format photographs of Peru and Amazonia is slated to open on Friday, July 22, along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma along the Walk of the Friendly Cultures, located between the Ahuehuete Roundabout and Avenida Insurgentes. The images, which are being presented by the Peruvian Embassy in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexico City
Read moreThe View from the North: Petro Vs Reality
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. A couple of nights ago, I got a taste of what politics in Colombia is all about these days. A 40-something Colombian lady in my class said she was worried about her country going to the left. Another young woman from Colombia had a smile on her face that reminded me of the Barack
Read moreEcuador, Mexico Inch Closer to Trade Deal
XINHUA Mexico and Ecuador made “substantial progress” toward a Productive Integration Agreement in the ninth round of negotiations held between Monday, May 23, to Friday, May 27, in Quito, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fishing said Monday, May 30. “The negotiating teams of both countries held high-level technical meetings in which significant progress was made with
Read moreBritain Opens Free-Trade Talks with Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The British government on Friday, May 20, announced that it has begun preliminary negotiations with Mexico to establish a bilateral free-trade agreement. According to British Trade Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, using as a template the European Union-Mexico agreement that was negotiated over two decades ago, the United Kingdom, which ceased to be included in that
Read moreMexico Ranks Third Globally in Covid Fatalities
By KELIN DILLON According to new data from Johns Hopkins University, Mexico currently ranks in third place worldwide for covid-19 fatalities, only eclipsed by Yemen and Peru globally. The fatality rate is determined by the proportion of deceased persons in comparison to the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases, standing in contrast to mortality rate, which is determined through the
Read moreAMLO’s Not-So-Stringent Nonintervention Policy
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is a great defender of the concept of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries … except, when he’s not. Should the country in question be a pseudo-democracy such as Venezuela or Cuba, then he is more than willing to toss his unflinching values of nonintervention out the window
Read morePandora Papers Implicate Billionaires, Legal Advisor to AMLO
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
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