By RICARDO CASTILLO Additional Tag-ons to the USMCA No sooner had U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to the House of Representatives for a vote on Friday, Dec. 13, than Democratic Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MA) introduced initiative HR5430, which tags five U.S. inspectors to oversee union elections in private companies in Mexico. Immediately, Mexico’s USMCA
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to make a “minute-by-minute” account of what really happened…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The United States’ new ambassador-designate to Mexico, Christopher Landau, arrived in Mexico City on Friday, Aug. 16, with a warm handshake extended for all Mexicans up front. Landau will indeed need all the hands he can find for shaking because, as the old Mexican adage goes, the oven is too cold to bake bread. (No está
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After the threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose export tariffs on Mexico if it didn’t stop the flow of migrants coming out of Central America, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has complied both with stopping Trump from slapping Mexican exports with his blatantly illegal tariffs, but also, cartoonists claim, can trump up his roster
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to discuss the possible signing of a bilateral accord to invest $10 billion in southern Mexico and Central America, AMLO said Wednesday, March 20, during his daily morning press conference. The president said that meeting
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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 Like whirlwind, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took the nation by storm in December, outlining the shape of things to come in Mexico during 2019. AMLO was anything but contemplative during his first month in office. To begin with, he held 20 hour-long press conferences to explain either what he had done the the day before or what he
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If you are a U.S. citizen living abroad who has already registered to vote, the last day to have your absentee ballot for the Nov. 6 midterm elections sent via the U.S. Embassy is on Friday, Oct. 26, at 1 p.m. With a close race for a number of house and senate seats on the line,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Always the diplomat, during the annual Memorial Day ceremony at Mexico City’s National Cemetery on Monday, May 28, U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires William H. Duncan spoke not only of the sacrifice of the courageous U.S. men and women who gave their lives in military service to their country, but also of the noble sacrifices of Mexican military personnel who have died
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador Roberta S. Jacobson and her husband Jonathan Jacobson headed back to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 5, after just short of a two-year stint in Mexico. “I am sad to leave Mexico, but take with me a deep affection for this marvelous country and the Mexican people,” Jacobson said as she prepared to
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