By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, June 9 — one day after his much-anticipated meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris — Mexican President Andrés Manel López Obrador (AMLO) bragged about how he and Harris had “forgone protocol” and had a friendly meeting. In this case, AMLO was half right: While Harris complied with the
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XINHUA The newly revised United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) represents “a net negative” for all three economies due to its regulatory mandates, especially concerning automobiles, said a report from the Washington-based financial thinktank Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) released on Tuesday, Dec. 17. The USMCA modernizes trading rules and strengthens enforcement of labor and environmental rights, but its restrictions on
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS “In my entire career as a diplomat, I have never seen anything like it,” groused one ambassador at the Thai national day reception Monday, Dec. 3, referring to the diplomatic protocol – or lack thereof – during the inauguration ceremony of Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on Saturday, Dec. 1. “I have to say
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