By RICARDO CASTILLO MLK III at Guerrero Homage Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of U.S. civil rights activist MLK, Jr., was the keynote speaker Sunday, Feb. 14, at the homage paid to the memory of Mexico’s second president, Vicente Guerrero. Guerrero was killed 190 years ago at Cuilápa, Oaxaca. Guerrero, a descendant of African slaves brought to Mexico,
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Two former U.S. envoys outline an effective approach
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Regardless of their political leaning — Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — what Americans witnessed in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 6, represented a repugnant and shameful disgrace for every U.S. citizen. The savage violation of the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of rightwing ultraists who, egged on and enabled by the incendiary rhetoric of
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Six former U.S. envoys warn against a premature pullout
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jiménez Espriú Resigns After accepting the resignation of Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced this week that the new secretary will be Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal. Jiménez Espriú turned in his resignation last week after AMLO announced that all customs houses were going to be managed by
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The Untouchability of Enrique Peña Nieto
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Whereas U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit during his first campaign on Aug. 31, 2016, represented a devastating political for then-Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) visit to the White House on Wednesday, July 8, will surely be beneficial to the U.S.-Mexican bilateral agenda as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
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By THÉRÊSE MARGOLIS In Mexico, Mother’s Day is a very big deal, with mandatory presents, commemorative lunches and even mariachi serenades. Father’s Day, not so much. In case you are interested, the much-maligned holiday for Pops came into existence back in 1909 in the United States, when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, “tried to establish an official equivalent to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As the world unites to fight off the pandemic of coronavirus, yet another plague is threatening the earth and mankind: the threat of the loss of the world’s bee populations. Bees are the world’s chief pollinators, fertilizing about a third of all the food we eat, and 80 percent of all flowering plants. Collectively, they account for
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