By Connor Pfeiffer * At the September 2022North Capital Forum in Mexico City, I was struck by the enthusiasm emanating...

The early March murder of two U.S. citizens and the kidnapping of two others in Matamoros and the spiraling confrontational...

By Monserrat López Pérez * Mexico is trapped in a vicious cycle of violence and impunity. In 2022, 85 people...

After the recent trinational meeting between the US, Mexico, and Canada, a US government official emphasized that this was a...

Democracy is a fragile form of governance for which there is no clear-cut recipe. Even when institutions seem strong, like...

By Yussef Núñez Menéndez * The last couple of years have forever changed the international system’s dynamics and have also...

By Ana Bertha Gutiérrez * Like most other countries in the world, Mexico faces an inflation problem: 2022 year-end inflation...

By Bertha Banuet * On December 12th of last year, the United States and Mexico celebrated the bicentennial of diplomatic...

In 2022 we lost someone of true influence, Ena Esperanza Becerra S. You don’t know her, but everyone called her...

If we believe media reports alone, the U.S.-Mexico border is nothing but a never-ending territory in crisis. If you, however,...

USMCA by the numbers: •During the first nine months of 2022, trade in goods among the three North American countries...

USMCA by the numbers: The agricultural sector in North America is deeply integrated with extensive trade among USMCA partners. •Over...

I had the good fortune to visit Israel recently in order to explore issues related to their innovation ecosystem and...

By Sara Hayden Van Velkinburgh * Unless you avidly follow the Mexican fintech sector, you likely missed Mexican fintech Covalto’s...

For many years Guatemala was a beacon of hope in global efforts to fight corruption. Not because it was the...

In this column and my writing on security issues in Mexico and other parts of the world, I have often...

By Jamaal Glenn * In February of this year, an American startup founder visiting Mexico tweeted a photo of a...

By Heidi Jane Smith * President Joe Biden took the stage last Friday at UN's COP27 summit to say that...

There is no question that the U.S.-Mexico border is dynamic in a way that few others in the world are....

In the last several years Mexico has lost its way as a regional climate leader, choosing to resist the energy...

By Emilio Cadena * More than two years after Covid-19 upended face-to-face meetings and international travel, the U.S.-Mexico Foundation organized...

Apart from human rights and civil liberties concerns, the recent decisions of the Mexican Congress to place the National Guard...

Does North America exist beyond geography? Is there a notion of regional identity that marks us as North Americans? The...

The Mexican Senate has just overwhelmingly voted to keep the armed forces in public security roles until 2028. At the...

By Regina Rosales Talamas * On October 2021, the U.S. and Mexican governments unveiled a new phase in the bilateral...

About midway through the three-day North Capital Forum in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico last week, I started having the most...

By Tábata N. Rodríguez Talamás * What happened to the Mérida Initiative? Before digging deeper, it is elemental to analyze...

The bipolar competition between the two largest Mexican cartels – the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación - has...

By Antonio Ortiz-Mena López Negrete * International energy relations have rarely been left solely to the market, given the role...

In the US, we have created a system that allows us to be blissfully ignorant of a horrible crime -...

The bipolar competition between the two largest Mexican cartels – the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) -...

By Stoney Burke *   In order to fully benefit from the next generation of opportunities between the US &...

As the narco-blocades playing out in recent days across several Mexican states and key cities such as Tijuana, Guadalajara, and...

By Lani Anaya* In July 2020, the trilateral relationship between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada reached a new era. After...

The Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) are in increasing competition  around the globe. The older and innovative...

By Max Santana * Women's participation in security positions around the world is a key component for a future of...

The competition between the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is playing out not only across Mexico, but...

Mexico shares a 1,954-mile border with the United States, where 3 out of every 4 Hispanics (36.6 million) are of...

By Javier Brown César * The Rio Bravo Congressional Fellowship is a clear example that when two important institutions collaborate...

By Diego Marroquín Bitar & Ryan C. Berg * It takes two to tango. Any time two partners dance, coordination...

By Diego Díaz and Oscar Ocampo* After refusing to attend the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in...

This is a pretty disheartening time. In the US people are getting mowed down by hate-filled gunmen at schools and...

By Sonia Mancera and Jesús Carrillo * Every year Mexico's Ministry of Energy publishes a document outlining plans for the...

By The Center for Binational Institutions * The Summit of the Americas is an institutional convening where leaders from the...

The recent climate announcement made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a virtual forum together with his US counterpart,...

The general hoopla of the Summit of the Americas has passed, making this the perfect time to reflect upon its...

Every fourth summer, June’s warmth and elongated days brings with it a rapturous World Cup fever, that for many of...

In these pages, I have written before how the self-described idea of a “Fourth Transformation” peddled by President Andrés Manuel...

By Ricardo Smith Nieves * During the Covid-19 pandemic, “ally-shoring” came to the forefront as it became evident that the...

Large segments of Mexico’s people, territory, and economy are falling under the rule of Mexican criminal groups even in areas...

•SPOTLIGHT: Spring Break and Holy Week were the concluding chapters of one of Mexico's high seasons for travel. The country now...

As of June 2020, 11,472 students were enrolled in a higher education program in California state prisons, according to a...

By Axel Cabrera & Pedro Casas Alatriste * In both politics and business, perception is just as important as data...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) recently created a diplomatic kerfuffle by declaring that he would not attend the...

OK, Plan B.  What if instead of proceeding with its “Summit of the Americas” in Los Angeles in three weeks,...

By Dannie Suber * On July 1, 2020 the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) took effect, modernizing the NAFTA trade pact that...

As Mexico finds itself in the midst of high political polarization, economic uncertainties, and different social tensions, it is tempting...

The past two years have taught us that medical research must cross borders. At the same time, the U.S. and...

TREND: In January and February 2022, Mexico tied with China as the US’s top trading partner  totaling US $113.2 billion...

by Joel Abraham Enriquez * Should North America go beyond the net-zero emissions race and begin leading the geoengineering era...

The rejection of the electricity reform in the Mexican Congress on Easter Sunday was a major defeat for President Andrés...

Trips along the Rio Grande, crossing back and forth, always leave me pondering what seems like paradox. I’ve just returned...

By Gerald P. Kierce Iturrioz * By most measures, Mexican economic progress over the past twenty years has been disappointing....

Mexico recently achieved an important triumph in the United Nations that has largely gone unnoticed. With the invasion and war...

By Ana Karen Amezcua Contreras * On February 24th, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine...

When reading basic definitions of nationalism around the world, at first hand it is hard to blame anybody for being...

Large segments of Mexico’s people, territory, and economy are falling under the rule of Mexican criminal groups even in areas...

While Mexico will undoubtedly be on the sidelines of any potential enlarged armed conflict that results from the ongoing invasion...

In addition to leading his nation’s valiant fight for survival, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has rescued President Joe Biden’s stalled agenda...

By Raquel López-Portillo Maltos * While experts consider misogyny as a feature of contemporary authoritarian governments, the use of feminism...

March celebrates women and their vital role in politics, economy, society, and family. So I left my last oped in...

On March 21st the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA for its acronym in Spanish) will be inaugurated with much...

It’s a Wednesday morning, and a group of around 70 incarcerated women are gathered in front of Zoom screens. They’re...

There is a constant lament that Mexico is the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. UNESCO...

Photo: Cecilia Farfán Méndez By Cecilia Farfán Méndez * •International Women’s Day on March 8 celebrates...

•SHOCKWAVES: Since the start of the year, Mexico has already registered the killing of at least six journalists, and the government's...

•ALLURE: The state of Quintana Roo in the Mexican Caribbean (pop. 1.85 million) is full of natural wonders, rich history,...

The craggy-faced fisherman rolled his water and ice cubes filled glass in his hand again, looking in the direction of...

By Oscar Ocampo * The case of Mexican avocados and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a fine reflector of...

TREND: Total commercial traffic through the primary U.S.-Mexico ports of entry (PoE) in 2021 roughly matched 2019 traffic. This marks...

Driving near our university campus in Tempe, Arizona, this past weekend, I saw a huge “Trump 2024” flag draped on...

When Latin Americans are surveyed about their primary concerns, crime and violence often top the list. This is not surprising,...

On January 23, Bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz of Baja California Sur (BSC) publicly denounced an open secret – the...

A congressional bill is never just a bill. Whether it passes or not, each congressional bill sends a political message...

By Michael Lettieri and Cecilia Farfán-Méndez * Margarito, José Luis, Lourdes, Roberto, Ernesto, Heber. Their murders should not be the...

The thing I find most striking about Mexico City's Mercado de Jamaica is how, as you walk through its passageways,...

One of the things that I truly love about Mexico is that it’s never dull. That said, so far 2022...

By The Center for Binational Institutions * Institutional Context  The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) entered into force on July 1st,...

I often think about what inspires change and why change doesn’t happen, especially in egregious situations. Acknowledgement of the problem...

Increasingly, Chinese actors and markets are thickly intertwined in Mexico’s illegal economies, such as drug and wildlife trafficking and money...

On the wrong track Mexican politics are going through a tough, divisive, and uncertain time. Mexico does not stand alone;...

By Miguel Mendivil Roiz * Curbing the illicit flows of small arms and light weapons has been a top priority...

This week preliminary homicide data for the first half of 2021 was released by Mexico’s National Institute on Geography and...

Did Latin America just get upgraded? At his marathon press conference last Thursday, President Joe Biden said Americans have been...

It might seem that 2022 is starting off with important positive news about the crime and security situation in Mexico....

During the 2019-2020 school year, 19,792 U.S. students studied abroad in Spain, the top destination for U.S. study abroad, according...

This week a short video circulated in major news outlets and social media showing an attack in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán. Unlike...

by Daniela Philipson Garcia *  Violence against women and girls in Mexico and Central America is prevalent and on the...

For those who follow developments in Mexico, the hand-wringing over the state of politics is ubiquitous and many of the...

•BRAND-NEW YEAR: Mexico is reeling-in after the onslaught of Covid-19's Omicron variant. Airlines suffering from last-minute changes and ill staff have...