OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While most of the civilized world was busy condemning Vladimir Putin for his alleged war crimes and attempted genocide of the Ukrainian people on Wednesday, April 6, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) preferred to use the bully pulpit of his daily press conference to instead condemn members of the U.S. Congress for “daring” to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, March 22, questioned the U.S. Congress’s decision to allocate emergency funds for Ukraine wartime relief due to Russia’s invasion of that country while continuing to stall on providing financial aid to Central America. “The aid for Ukraine was approved in just two days, while support
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former career diplomat and senior adviser for the Project on Prosperity and Development, with JAMES SCHWEMLEIN and HANNAH DAVIN (The following article was written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with express prior permission.) U.S. President Joe Biden and his team have said that
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Five former U.S. ambassadors offer advise on what to do next
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s an old practice in Mexican political journalism known as “tying knives” (“amarrando navajas,” if you want the Spanish term.) The term is not political in origin. In fact, it actually refers to the moment before a cockfight when the people in charge of making the birds fight tie a steel blade to the roosters’ spurs. Consequently,
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA The Mexican government has rejected a U.S. proposal to send labor inspectors to supervise the application of new regulations contained in a revised free trade agreement, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Tuesday, Dec. 3. “We don’t accept that, that is, having some kind of inspectors to see if a company is complying with the law,” AMLO said
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