By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS What’s that old saying? Let sleeping dogs lie? Well, obviously, the U.S. Democrats didn’t pay attention to it. Rather than allow diplomacy to work its course and to try to resolve mounting tensions with Russia through peaceful negotiations and friendly coaxing, they have spent the last year and a half painting the Kremlin as an international Perils-of-Pauline-worthy
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The first of three periods dictated by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) will come to an end on Sunday, Feb. 11. This period was to denote both political alliances and carry out what in the United States would be considered primaries to select officials running for office. Over the next five months, the INE has programmed two more periods.
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Is Russia meddling in the on-going Mexican electoral process? Is U.S.-born but now-Mexican citizen and National Autonomous University of Mexico professor John Ackerman Russian President Vladimir Putin’s man in Mexico? Ackerman denies it, but that does not stop the Mexican press from pointing him out as the man behind the Russian election interference ploy? Ackerman adamantly repudiates these allegations and the rumor of
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