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Former US Envoy Says AMLO’s Political Noise Clouds Relationship

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Kelin Dillon Leave a comment

By KELIN DILLON In a new interview conducted by Mexican daily newspaper El Financiero, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta S. Jacobson characterized the presently contentious relationship between Mexico and the United States as one “like a family,” while highlighting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) propensity toward making “noise” around the neighboring trade partners’ relations. According to Jacobson,

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Mexico News Roundup

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Thérèse Margolis One comment

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online

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Biden Taps Harris to Deal with Border Crisis

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Xinhua One comment

XINHUA U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 25, that he had picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country’s diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border. Biden made the announcement at the White House, saying of Harris that nobody “is better qualified to

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The View from the North: Jacobson Helps to Stir the Pot

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Leave a comment

By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden sent Roberta Jacobson, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and now-Biden “border czar,” to Mexico on Tuesday, March 23. I guess that the delegation’s main topic of discussion was the current border “challenge.” Remember how well Roberta’s last big venture turned out? She negotiated the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba. We remember

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Mexico News Roundup

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Ricardo Castillo Leave a comment

By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in

Border Crossings Expected to Reach 20-Year High

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Xinhua One comment

XINHUA The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Tuesday, March 16, that the number of immigrants attempting to enter the United States through its southern border is expected to reach the highest level in two decades. The statement came amid a recent surge in unaccompanied migrant children making the trip with the aim of reuniting with

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Biden Taps Former Envoy to Mexico to Oversee Border Policy

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Pulse News Mexico Leave a comment

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named his country’s former ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, to oversee bilateral border relations with Mexico. The nomination of Jacobson by Biden, who is due to take office today, Jan. 20, was confirmed Monday, Jan. 18, by the incoming president’s chief adviser for Latin America, Juan Sebastián González. “I

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Mexico News Roundup

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Ricardo Castillo Leave a comment

By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from

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Posted on May 6, 2020 by Ricardo Castillo Leave a comment

By RICARDO CASTILLO Jacobson’s Hearsay Interview Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson probably regrets giving an interview to reporter J. Jesús Esquivel that ran on Sunday, May 3, in Mexico’s weekly magazine Proceso. Esquivel mangled the information so badly that Jacobson had to send a set of tweets to claim that she didn’t say what Esquivel said she said.

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Landau Arrives in Mexico

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Ricardo Castillo Leave a comment

By RICARDO CASTILLO The United States’ new ambassador-designate to Mexico, Christopher Landau, arrived in Mexico City on Friday, Aug. 16, with a warm handshake extended for all Mexicans up front. Landau will indeed need all the hands he can find for shaking because, as the old Mexican adage goes, the oven is too cold to bake bread. (No está

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