OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
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OPINION By ANTONIO ORTIZ-MENA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* It is striking that, more than a quarter century after the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) entry into force, it is still necessary to provide a business case for deeper North American cooperation on economics and beyond, but that is where we are. After the 1989 Canada-U.S.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly insisted that the price of electricity has remained stable under his administration, the price of high-consumption domestic electricity (DAC) continues to increase, with an additional boost of 4 percent just in in July, making for an accumulated increase of 38.8 percent over the last
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) signed an initiative on Tuesday, July 5, eliminating Daylight Savings Time (DST) in order “to not compete with people’s biological clock and to return to ‘God’s clock’.” That initiative was then sent to the Mexican Congress to be approved. Noting that the economic gains resulting from DST were minimal compared
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last decade, the state of Michoacán, located in central Mexico, has been a constant topic in the news’ headlines around the world due to the cartel violence that has exacerbated in this region. This is so much so that Michoacán has been positioned as the Mexican state with the highest murder rate in
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Less than three and a half months after he cut the ribbon on his new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — which, due to a plethora of problems, such as a lack of working conveyor belts to move luggage and no viable public transportation to and from the hub, is still receiving just 12 flights per day
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OPINION By GOLDY HYDER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Just like the covid-19 virus, the devastating effects of climate change know no borders. Flooding, forest fires and other extreme weather-related natural disasters are now regularly wreaking havoc on communities across North America. The costs of these catastrophes are measured not only in dollars and pesos, but in
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON During his daily morning press conference held on the morning of Thursday, June 30, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) referred to Mexican advertising executive Carlos Alazraki as “a follower of Adolf Hitler’s thought” in spite of Alazraki being Jewish and an active member of Mexico’s Jewish community, sparking criticism over AMLO’s alleged antisemitism. Implying
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Tamaulipas reporter Antonio de la Cruz from the Ciudad Victoria newspaper Expreso was shot dead on Wednesday, June 29, while leaving his home, becoming the 12th journalist to be killed so far this year in Mexico. De la Cruz, who had been working at Expreso for more than 25 years, was, at that time, accompanied by his
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By KELIN DILLON Two days after the bodies of 51 undocumented Latin American immigrants were found suffocated to death in a tractor-trailer truck outside of San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, June 27 – a discovery U.S. authorities characterized as the worst and most deadly migrant-smuggling incident in recent memory – immigration specialists have raised concerns about the alleged corruption that
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