Tag Archives: Secretary of Foreign Relations

Experts Condemn AMLO’s Aim to Withdraw from the USMCA

OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a continued period of tension between Mexico, Canada and the United States over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial energy policies, which directly violate portions of the free-trade United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and his continued public rhetoric against foreign and private investment, López Obrador has now publicly floated the idea of Mexico reneging

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AMLO, Ebrard Respond to Trump’s Claims of Influence

By KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two

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US Climate Envoy Kerry Visits Mexico amid Energy Concerns

By KELIN DILLON In the midst of controversies surrounding Mexico’s energy sector, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry visited the country on Wednesday, Feb. 9 to meet with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to discuss the two nations’ heavily intertwined environmental policies and pursuits. Considering López Obrador’s pending initiative to give

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Ebrard’s Former Officials Named in Line 12 Collapse Complaint

By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 18, Mexico City’s Office of the Attorney General (FGJ) filed a formal complaint for wrongful death with the Superior Court of Justice (TSJCDMX) against 10 former public officials tied to the May 3 collapse of capital’s Line 12 metro, all who served under current Secretary of Foreign Relations and former Mexico City Mayor at

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Ebrard Denounces Chile’s, Brazil’s Claims to Haitians

By KELIN DILLON In a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 21, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard denounced the fact that Haitian migrants, who passed through Mexico on their way to the United States in hopes of gaining asylum, were deceived by the leaders of their former countries of residence, including Chile and Brazil, to encourage

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U.S. Disavows Dropped Charges Against Cienfuegos

By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) exonerated the controversial General Salvador Cienfuegos of any wrongdoing on Jan. 14, following the country’s former defense secretary’s extradition from the United States late last year, drawing intense criticism from U.S. authorities. Cienfuegos was arrested on Oct. 15, 2020, by U.S. officials in Los Angeles on drug trafficking and money

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