By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Real Border Wall at Guatemala While Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has consistently rejected the idea that there is a crisis at Mexico’s Guatemalan border, new caravans of various sizes continue to arrive there, looking to cross through Mexico to the United States. Their crossing, however, is being impeded by the armed Mexican National Guardsmen,
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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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