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Building a Competitive North America on the Existing Foundation

OPINION By JERRY HAAR Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The second decade of the 21st century increasingly mirrors the world’s political and economic environment of a century before when nationalism, protectionism and isolationism occupied center stage in the global political economy. The key drivers of economic growth and development — neoliberal economic policies and free market-oriented institutional

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AMLO’s Latest Ballistic Missile Is Aimed at Education

OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER After a resounding failure to pass his controversial electricity reform bill in the April 17 vote at the Chamber of Deputies, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist, in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have set their aim on yet another target: the opposition. That campaign is gaining traction by Morena further

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Pushing the Elephant up the Stairs

By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER There is no doubt that the Mexican government’s hasty declaration that the covid-19 pandemic is over was motivated by politics and economic interests, not medical science. The administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) didn’t even wait until the daily coronavirus death toll had dropped before issuing a jump-the-gun covid all-clear “green” infection risk

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Building 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

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AMLO Enters Presidential Stage Amid Frictions

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily, Monday-through-Friday, 7 a.m. press conferences at National Palace downtown Mexico City are paying off. Every morning, he gets hold of the nation’s mike to clear out the daily barrage of misunderstandings about his administration. In short, every morning, AMLO gets to wash the dirty dishes caused usually by his personnel and.

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