By RICARDO CASTILLO Is there anything left for Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to celebrate now that they have been diagnosed as last-stage, end-of-life patients? Maybe not, other than the fact that in their deathbeds they are still desperately clinging to life. The stories of the two parties is extremely different, although their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Echoes of the mysterious meeting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had with Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, last March 19 are now thundering across the political landscape. The following day, as reported by Pulse News Mexico, AMLO said, “Basically, we dealt with the issue of (joint) development cooperation, and about the possible signing of a
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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 As the internal conflict inside Venezuela grows on a daily basis, the numbers of voices in Mexico pleading with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to declare himself in support of the cause of the now-enormous number of nations (and columnists in Mexico) favoring self-appointed “substitute President” Juan Guaidó over ruling President Nicolás Maduro. On Monday, Feb.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, presented diplomatic credentials to UN Secretary General António Guterres in a brief ceremony on Monday, Feb. 18. A U.S.-trained medical psychiatrist who was secretary of health under former President Ernesto Zedillo and an academician who served as rector at the National Autonomous University
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The left-leaning government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on Dec. 1, has made it clear that it will continue to support Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In a statement issued by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) in the late afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 23, the Mexican government stated: “In accordance
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s diplomatic corps is currently holding its 30th Meeting of Ambassadors and Consuls in Mexico City. A total of 105 working diplomats will have their top moment on Wednesday, Jan. 9, when they meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace where he will outline the diplomatic course for the nation over the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s new brand of diplomacy is about to undergo its first acid test. On Friday, Jan. 4, the Foreign Relations ministers or secretaries of the 14 Latin American nations that make up the Lima Group (a multilateral body that was established following the Lima Declaration on Aug. 8, 2017, in the Peruvian capital under which representatives of 17 countries
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While still haggling with Congress to avoid a government shutdown over his demand for additional monies to fund fa border wall or other border security measures, U.S. President Donald J. Trump scored at least one political victory on Thursday, Dec. 20, when Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced that migrants seeking asylum in the
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