US-Mexico Ties: Temperatures Rising
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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The Return of Corporativism in Mexico
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The facts suggest that, using the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext, a perverse political pact is rapidly returning Mexico to the levels of bureaucratic inefficiency that prevailed in the country during the 1970s. That unwritten pact is between the federal government and some of the bureaucratic labor unions that exist today inside and outside of the
Read morePemex Workers Allege Forced Mutilation by Union Bosses
By KELIN DILLON Workers from Mexico’s Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil business have alleged that company unions forced them to injure and mutilate themselves in order for the union to collect insurance money, reports a story from the daily Mexican newspaper El Universal. The union purportedly manipulated the employees to cause an accident within the Pemex facilities “because another worker is
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