A Path to Border Diplomacy
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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AMLO Sends USMCA to Mexican Senate
By RICARDO CASTILLO On Thursday, May 30, Mexico’s Senate received from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) a request to complete the last step in the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). “This is the only missing procedure,” AMLO said during the presentation of the proposed agreement at the National Palace during his daily morning press conference, “and in
Read moreBuilding US-Mexico Cooperation on Education, Innovation and Workforce Development
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
Read moreWhy the Americas Summit Was a Bomb
By RICARDO CASTILLO The eighth Summit of the Americas (SOA). which concluded Saturday. April 14, in Lima, Peru, was little more than a watered-down exercise in continental power. For starters, the “mini-summit” was unintentionally bombarded by U.S. President Donald Trump by his not attending. Also silently absent from the event was talkative Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, who was not invited. A face-to-face clash
Read moreNAFTA Is History … Underway
By RICARDO CASTILLO Back on Jan. 7, 1994, I attended the press conference in Austin, Texas, in which then-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari told the new U.S. president-elect, Bill Clinton, a phrase in English that is still at the very heart of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its core raison d’être. “We want trade, not aid,” Salinas said, emphatically correcting
Read moreMexico Reiterates Stance on Wall
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Mexican government, through its Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), reiterated on Thursday, Jan. 18, its official position on U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, emphatically stating that it would never pay for the wall’s construction. In a written statement issued by SRE, which essentially restated the Mexican government’s position on the subject as expressed in previous SRE statements issued on June 22 and Aug.
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