By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Regardless of their political leaning — Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — what Americans witnessed in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 6, represented a repugnant and shameful disgrace for every U.S. citizen. The savage violation of the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of rightwing ultraists who, egged on and enabled by the incendiary rhetoric of
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By KYLIE MADRY For U.S. citizens living in Mexico, it’s not too late to send a mail-in ballot ahead of the Nov. 3 elections – though time is running out. If you’re already registered to vote, you’re eligible to vote via mail from abroad. The county you’re registered to vote in should have already sent a ballot by mail or
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, almost every adult U.S. citizen — including those living abroad — have both the right and the responsibility to vote in the U.S. 2020 presidential elections. And while it may seem cumbersome to fill out the form (it isn’t; it usually only takes a few minutes), getting your ballot in to
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The latest electoral poll in Texas shows President Donald Trump up by 7 points over Joe Biden, and Senator John Cornyn up by 8 points. I’m not at all surprised by those numbers, but the information about Hispanics in Texas is quite interesting. According to the Dallas Morning News: “Among Hispanic voters who spoke Spanish at home,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At the last minute, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies is scrambling to have ready the final approval of regulations for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will go into effect on Wednesday, July 1. On Monday, the Federal Gazette published the approval of the agreement by the Mexican Senate. In the meantime, on Monday, June 29, Foreign
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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 EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA Just as Mexican, U.S. and Canadian negotiators in Mexico City were ironing out last-minute modifications to the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Tuesday, Dec. 10, and signing a modified protocol that would allow for a trinational board of experts to oversee labor conditions (one of the major stumbling blocks for U.S. Democrats), up in Washington, the U.S. House majority
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XINHUA … Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador asked U.S. legislators onnot to entangle internal political issues with the ratification of the USMCA…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
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