Newsrack | Trump, Human Rights, Coronavirus, Trade, Energy

1. Woodrow Wilson Center’s Duncan Wood explores three basic truths of the US-Mexico relationship:
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/506278-trump-and-mexico-3-basic-truths-of-the-bilateral-relationship-revealed

2. José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director at Human Rights Watch, delves into Trump/AMLO’s human rights record:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/07/mexicos-president-and-trump-have-common-they-both-trample-human-rights

3. Rep. Verónica Escobar (D-TX) writes a letter to President Donald Trump asking to devise  a bilateral Covid-19 strategy with Mexico:
https://escobar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=376

4. Cato Institutes’s Simon Lester argues that the new USMCA deal between Mexico, the US and Canada is not really about free trade:

https://www.cato.org/blog/politics-renegotiating-nafta

5 API’s Frank J. Macchiarola raises alert about discrimination against US energy firms in Mexico:

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/07/07/usmca_is_a_win_now_lets_focus_on_successful_implementation_498372.html