A Pressing Agenda for AMLO and Biden
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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The USMCA and Pacta Sunt Servanda
OPINION By ANTONIO ORTIZ-MENA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* It is striking that, more than a quarter century after the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) entry into force, it is still necessary to provide a business case for deeper North American cooperation on economics and beyond, but that is where we are. After the 1989 Canada-U.S.
Read moreMaking North America a Clean Energy Leader
OPINION By GOLDY HYDER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Just like the covid-19 virus, the devastating effects of climate change know no borders. Flooding, forest fires and other extreme weather-related natural disasters are now regularly wreaking havoc on communities across North America. The costs of these catastrophes are measured not only in dollars and pesos, but in
Read moreBuilding North America through Digital Commerce
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
Read moreSustainability Is Key to North America’s Near-Shoring Potential
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
Read moreUnited Nations Declares World Oceans Day 2022
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Over 70 percent of the world is covered in a blanket of rich, vibrant blue, from the depths of which once all life on Earth came. The oceans are the planet’s life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism. And they produce at least 50 percent of the planet’s oxygen, are home to most
Read moreMuñoz Ledo Accuses AMLO of Coddling Drug Cartels
PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Porfirio Muñoz Ledo — a former Mexican ambassador to the United Nations, former federal deputy, former staunch supporter of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), founding member of the left-leading Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), former presidential wannabe and current ambassador to Cuba — said Thursday, June 2, that the AMLO administration is in bed
Read moreNonprofit Group Hopes to Steer Investment to Latin America
PUBLIFIX BOGOTA, Colombia — Between Sunday, April 24, and Wednesday, April 27, the nonprofit Latimpacto is slated to host its first international conference in Cartagena, Colombia, to explore ways to jumpstart fresh investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The multinational forum is aimed at bringing together the most relevant actors in impact generation, including corporations, investment funds, grantmaking foundations,
Read moreSeven Women Disappear Daily in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may have screamed foul when the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) on Tuesday, April 12, declared that disappearances in Mexico are on the rise, thanks to organized crime groups, government complicity and “almost absolute impunity” for culprits, even going so far as to call the committee
Read moreAMLO Calls UN Enforced Disappearance Committee Liars
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one day after the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) issued a report calling the surge in disappearances in Mexico “alarming” and noting that the impunity of the culprits is “almost absolute” thanks to corrupt public servants and spiraling organized crime, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday, April 13, called the committee
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