By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DIEGO MARRQUÍN BITAR Friday, July 1, will mark the second anniversary of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The first two years look promising, but it is not yet clear if the outcomes will be sufficient to retain public and political support when the agreement is reviewed in 2025-26. Given the USMCA’s economic importance for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A confrontation between workers at a Cruz Azul cement plant in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo on Wednesday, April 27, left at least eight people dead and 11 others injured, according to preliminary reports from local officials. The brawl broke out in the early morning Wednesday at the Tula, Hidalgo, plant, about 100
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constitutes the first formal complaint against Mexico for violations of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Canadian-owned Tridonex auto parts corporation filed a legal protest against the workers union at the company’s Matamoros, Tamaulipas, plant, on Tuesday, May 11. Tridonex, which is headquartered out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filed the complaint under the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Prior to Easter vacation, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved the new Labor Law. Since it is a complex document, I will try simplify it to make it more comprehensible. It must be stated beforehand that this reform to Article 3 of the Mexican Constitution was demanded by Canadian and U.S. union centrals in order to bring
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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