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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By MARK LORENZANA Two Mexican nationals were charged in a U.S. federal court late Tuesday, June 28, in connection with the human smuggling attempt in which at least 51 undocumented migrants died after being trapped inside a trailer truck just outside San Antonio, Texas. The two Mexicans, who were arrested shortly after the abandoned truck was discovered on Monday, June
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By KELIN DILLON After years of contention between the neighboring United States and Mexico over the latter’s energy sector, according to a report by U.S. news´service Bloomberg, the office of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is working to amp up its complaints against Mexico surrounding its violations of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and is expected to submit a request
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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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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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Neither Alejandro Moreno, president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), not Marko Cortés, head of its conservative National Acton Party (PAN), are willing to budge from their positions, despite the fact that both parties registered a resounding defeat in the country’s June 6 gubernatorial elections. That leaves the Mexican people with only one alternative:
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The tragic June 20 slayings of two Jesuit priests in the Chihuahua town of Urique has shone the global spotlight on Mexico’s growing crisis of violence and organized crime. But while these appalling murders are a clear example of the blanket impunity with which drug cartels and other organized crime groups operate under the leftist administration
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By KELIN DILLON Following recent reports that the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on pace to become the most violent presidency in Mexico’s recent history, a trend coupled with record-high levels of extortion and high-profile crimes like the June 20 murder of two Chihuahua priests, security experts have come out in condemnation of AMLO’s “hugs-not-bullets”
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It isn’t hard to find dirt on Mexico’s Maccise family, a devious mafia of media power and political imposition based out of Toluca, in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), that has used its money and political clout to influence elections, silence reporters and bulldoze legislation for its own agenda for more than three decades. The family’s
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By MARK LORENZANA The number of missing women in Mexico City has increased 900 percent so far under the administration of Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum, compared to the previous administration headed by Miguel Ángel Mancera. According to Mexico’s National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, the number of missing women in the capital increased from 93 cases (registered
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