By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Three and a half months after his nomination by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed attorney Christopher Landau to serve as Washington’s ambassador to Mexico on Thursday, Aug. 1. The position has been open since the departure of U.S. Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, an appointee of former U.S. President Barack Obama, in May
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced late Tuesday, March 19, that it had granted its bene placito (formal diplomatic approval) to the nomination of U.S. veteran appellate lawyer Christopher Landau to serve as ambassador to Mexico. Landau, who has no formal diplomatic experience but an impressive legal career, was officially nominated for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO How well are relations between Mexico and the United States doing? Or to be blunt about it, how are relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)? According to a clique of prophets of doom that gather every Wednesday night in a Mexican commentary program called “Tercer Grado” (“Third Degree”) on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador Roberta S. Jacobson and her husband Jonathan Jacobson headed back to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 5, after just short of a two-year stint in Mexico. “I am sad to leave Mexico, but take with me a deep affection for this marvelous country and the Mexican people,” Jacobson said as she prepared to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The purpose of U.S. presidential envoy Jared Kushner’s 12-hour trip to Mexico on Wednesday, March 7, remains a mystery. Traveling on a commercial airline all night, he arrived on time to meet with Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray for nearly three hours before both of them moved from downtown Mexico City to the presidential residence of Los Pinos.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There is a vast chasm between tweet and fact. There was a worldwide sense of panic and urgency last week — including here in Mexico — when Tweeting Donald threatened to slap tariffs of 10 and 25 percent, respectively, on aluminum and steel. But there is no real need to worry, at least, not for now. U.S. President
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It is said in Mexican political jargon that if the river is making noise, it’s because water is running. In this case, the rumor bouncing around everywhere in Mexico is that the President Enrique Peña Nieto administration is preparing to commit a “mega-fraud” in the traditional style of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the upcoming July 1
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By RICARDO CASTILLO I can breathe a sign of relief; it didn’t happen! My biggest fear about last week’s fly-by-night visit to Mexico City by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was that he’d announce the replacement of Ambassador Roberta Jacobson. That didn’t happen and that’s very good news. That, of course, should be a warning to ambitious fellows who want
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