By KELIN DILLON On Friday, Oct. 8, officials from the the United States and Mexico held a call with one another to discuss the potential effects Mexico’s proposed electric reform could have on the relationship between the two countries, less than two weeks after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent the reform to Congress for approval. Mexico’s Deputy
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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XINHUA The Mexican government has filed a petition with the United States to open a period of consultation to resolve differences over automotive rules of origin that were established under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Economy Secretariat reported Sunday, Aug.22. The petition, which was formally filed on Aug. 20, gives both governments a period of 75 days to resolve the
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Chinese firms have invested a staggering $14 billion in Mexico over the past two decades, with 42 percent of this investment occurring in 2019 and 2020. In an analysis from the Academic Network of Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese companies have put $5.81 billion of capital into Mexico in the last
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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