By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Negotiations on the updated version of the European Union-Mexico Global Agreement (EUMGA) are expected to be completed in the very near future, with the final accord being signed by the start of 2020 and its implementation shortly after, EU Ambassador to Mexico Klaus Rudischhauser said Thursday, May 9. The agreement, which has been being carefully hammered out
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DAVID M. LUNA (The following article first appeared in “The National Interest” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) As the United States debates “emergencies” at its southern border and negotiates a trade deal with China, U.S. leaders must confront the lethal trade in fentanyl from other North American countries
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) The negotiations in Washington over security at the U.S. southern border should focus on three of the real emergencies that are causing widespread human suffering and exacting high costs in both the United States and Mexico: illegal drug trafficking
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By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Antonio Ramírez Itehua, the mayor of the farming town of Astacinga, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, was shot in the early morning hours of Monday Feb. 4, and remains in serious condition. Ramírez Itehua, a member of the Nueva Alianza political party, was attacked by unknown armed assailants in a drive-by shooting
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In 2018, there were 33,341 homicides in Mexico, up more than 15 percent from 2017, when 28,866 murders were registered, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Safety Protection System (SESNSP). That makes 2018 the year with the highest number of murders since the government first began taking an annual registry in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Even though it’s been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, and will surely be fast-tracked by the Mexican Senate, the integration of the National Guard (GN) remains a farfetched endeavor. The approved bill provides for the GN to section off Mexico into 266 different commands. Initially, the National Guard will be made up of as many as 50,000 officers from the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a recent surge in violence and the shooting death of seven men in a local bar on Jan. 5, Playa del Carmen is a safe destination for tourism, the Mexican Caribbean resort town’s recently instated mayor, Laura Esther Beristáin Navarrete told a small gathering of journalists in Mexico City on Wednesday, Jan. 9. “Yes, we have
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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