OPINION By IÑIGO FERNÁNDEZ BAPTISTA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* In 2006 — more than 16 years ago — in the midst of the bird flu, Jeffrey Staples published an article in Harvard Business Review stating that a pandemic could become the single greatest threat to business continuity. That prediction took solid form with the covid-19 pandemic
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OPINION By CARLOS PASCUAL Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* General Motors stated in November 2021, just seven months after announcing plans to invest $1 billion in electric vehicle production in Mexico, that “Mexico won’t be a destination for foreign investment” unless it provides a solid legal basis to “meet our objective of having zero emissions in the
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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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OPINION By COLIN ROBERTSON Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Like globalization and the rules-based multilateral order, the North American idea risks falling victim to larger geopolitical forces. But even in the absence of energetic political leadership, we can still make progress, by building on existing initiatives, to the mutual benefit of all three nations, Canada, the
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in his morning press conference on Monday, June 13, claimed that the price of gasoline is skyrocketing in the United States mainly because the U.S. government has stopped investing in oil due to its preference for electric cars. “The United States has a serious problem because a gallon of gasoline,
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By MARK LORENZANA Brittney Griner, the superstar center who plays for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), has now been in Russian custody for more than 100 days. Griner also plays for Russian basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg in the WNBA offseason, and in Feb. 22 of this year was arrested upon her arrival in Moscow after
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As millions of people around the world commemorate the 78th anniversary of the heroic sacrifices of World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy on Monday, June 6, we at Pulse News Mexico want to join in paying our respects to the more than 160,000 Allied troops who landed along that 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to
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Russia Offers Ukraine an Olive Branch
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Wishful Thinking
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