OPINION By JOSÉ ANTONIO MEADE Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* It has become common place to speak about the disruptions brought about by the covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine in everything from global value chains, inflation, food availability and economic performance. This has led many to seek alternative solutions to improve supply chain resilience and
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By JERRY HAAR Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The second decade of the 21st century increasingly mirrors the world’s political and economic environment of a century before when nationalism, protectionism and isolationism occupied center stage in the global political economy. The key drivers of economic growth and development — neoliberal economic policies and free market-oriented institutional
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By KELIN DILLON Several days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the controversial Dos Bocas Refinery on Friday, July 1, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola released a scathing two-part analysis of purported lies featured in López Obrador’s inaugural address, revealing apparent inconsistencies in AMLO’s contentious Tabascan pet project. According to Loret de Mola – a perennial
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OPINION By IÑIGO FERNÁNDEZ BAPTISTA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* In 2006 — more than 16 years ago — in the midst of the bird flu, Jeffrey Staples published an article in Harvard Business Review stating that a pandemic could become the single greatest threat to business continuity. That prediction took solid form with the covid-19 pandemic
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OPINION By CARLOS PASCUAL Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* General Motors stated in November 2021, just seven months after announcing plans to invest $1 billion in electric vehicle production in Mexico, that “Mexico won’t be a destination for foreign investment” unless it provides a solid legal basis to “meet our objective of having zero emissions in the
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By KELIN DILLON In the recently released 2022 edition of Brand Finance’s Oil & Gas 50, Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) fell from 16th to 20th place in the rankings of the world’s 50 largest oil companies. The drop stems from Pemex’s 6 percent reduction in valuation from 2021 to 2022; while the Pemex brand was valued at
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 22, the U.S. government approved Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) $596 million purchase of Shell’s Texas refinery Deer Park, with the acquisition planned to be finalized within the first few weeks of 2022. “The purchase shows a good relationship between the United States and Mexico,” said Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo
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By KELIN DILLON Halfway through the six-year administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has lost 38.4 percent of its stake in the world’s energy market, dropping out of the top 10 most important international oil companies. Just in 2017, Pemex ranked highly in value according to British firm Brand Finance’s
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