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Navigating Mexico: The High Cost of Doing Business in Mexico

By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Most people would agree that the most essential function of a government is to provide safety and security to its citizens. In Mexico, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who says the government is doing well when it comes to offering safety. Recent polls conducted by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography

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Navigating Mexico: Just How Free Is Mexico?

OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREEN Once again the U.S.-based Cato Institute thinktank — for the seventh year in a row — has published its yearly Human Freedom Index, known to political science students as the HFI. The index measures 165 countries on 12 freedoms: rule of law, security and safety, movement, religion, civil society, expression, relationships, government size, legal

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What’s on the Horizon for US-Mexican Relations?

OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and

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CDMX Mayor Offers Solidarity, Protection to Threatened News Editor

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum vowed moral support and police security Saturday, Nov. 27, for El Universal newspaper editor Francisco Reséndiz, who was threatened with bodily harm earlier that day by two men who boxed in his car when he was driving. “We strive every day to make our city a space of freedom

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Mexico Assumes Temporary UN Security Council Presidency

By KELIN DILLON As temporary member of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico assumed the role of the organization’s rotating presidency on Monday, Nov. 1, with an emphasis on combating corruption, arms trafficking and preventive work for international security. Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Juan Ramón de la Fuente said that Mexico would likewise put a spotlight on women’s

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