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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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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XINHUA … Mexico is currently in contact with the United States over the potential impact of designating drug cartels as terrorist groups…
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There was really very little to discuss on Sunday, July 21, during the just-over-an-hour-long meeting in Mexico City between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. It was clear previous to the meet that Mexico had achieved the goals demanded of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)by U.S. President Donald
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As a result of the political bullying imposed on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) by his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, the plans to integrate the country’s new police force, the National Guard (GN), have been thrown out of kilter. Originally, had The Donald not been hit by the whim to slap tariffs of AMLO’s administration, if
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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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