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• INFECTION: The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed Tuesday that she has tested positive for coronavirus but added...
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• INFECTION: The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed Tuesday that she has tested positive for coronavirus but added...
Opinion | What to Glean from an Arrest
Former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested at the Los Angeles International airport (LAX) on October 15th on...
Spotlight | Challenges remain at US-Mexico ports of entry
TREND: With the continued increased restrictions along the border, total passenger and pedestrian crossings continued to drop in September. However,...
Jalisco sees signs of nearshoring from Asia
• NEASHORING: Despite the pandemic downturn, the Mexican western state of Jalisco is seeing growing signs of Asian firms relocating...
Opinion | Narratives
One feature that defines the current Mexican government is its emphasis on the past. In stark contrast with its predecessors,...
Opinion | AMLO, a “dream President” for narcos
The world consumes US $360 billion of illegal drugs every year. Between 2006 and 2016, the demand for marijuana, cocaine,...
Opinion | Let’s take advantage of the crisis
Major crises, like the current Covid-19 pandemic, force us to change and compel us out of our comfortable routines. For...
Opinion | It’s our money
We are all fed up with the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it is going to stay here a long time, with...
Opinion | Not Dried Up: US-Mexico Water Cooperation
For weeks, a water dispute between the Mexican government and Mexican farmers and between the United States and Mexico was...
Op-Ed by Nuria Palou | From the Merida Initiative to a new security dialogue
We are living in historic moments amidst a key presidential election in which democracy and international cooperation are at stake...
Opinion | The Nostalgic
In memory of Dr. Guillermo Soberón Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo wrote: "When we say that all time past was better, we...
Opinion | Whom should Mexico vote for?
If voting fraudulently by mail were as easy as Donald Trump would have us believe, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)...
Spotlight | Home South of the Border
TREND: Mexico is not only the top foreign destination for U.S. travelers, but it is also home to the largest...
Uptick in coronavirus cases hits eight Mexican states
SURGE: Eight Mexican states are registering an uptick in coronavirus cases including three northern states located along the US border,...
Spotlight | What’s happening in US-Mexico bilateral trade?
TREND: In the last 3 months we have seen an almost complete recovery of monthly US-Mexico trade flows to pre-pandemic...
Opinion | Rewriting the Culiacán Effect
By Cecilia Farfán-Méndez and Michael Lettieri * The images were striking. Plumes of thick black smoke rose from the city’s...
Opinion | The next step
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) always asks for more. The country's Supreme Court opened the door for him...
Opinion | Supply Chain Economics
Different indicators in the last weeks suggest that the Mexican economy has stabilized after the initial impact of Covid-19 and...
Poll: Vast majority of Mexicans knows someone diagnosed with coronavirus
• MAJORITY: The share of Mexicans who say they know someone diagnosed with coronavirus rose sharply over the summer and...
Opinion | Pemex is just for speculators
The market “gave its backing” to state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), they say. Its five-year bond issuance of US...
Opinion | Call it as I see it
During one of his recent daily press conferences, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) mentioned me among those Mexican columnists...
Opinion | Pretenses
If politicians say it, it must be true. That is the way Mexican politics has worked during the past years:...
Coronavirus: Mexico says to have secured 116 million vaccine doses
•VACCINES: The López Obrador administration said today that Mexico (pop. 119 million) has secured at least 116 million doses of...
Opinion | What does Mexico Want?
As the US presidential election draws near, I keep wondering, “What does Mexico want out of its relationship with the...
Spotlight | The Mexican Caribbean Calls
TREND: Cruise ships will return to Mexico when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifts its No...
Hijacking of road toll booths extends across Mexico during pandemic
• TAKEOVERS: Informal groups of protestors have increased the number of illegal takeovers of highway toll booths across Mexico since...
Opinion | Saving the Vaquita Marina & Urgency of This Fall
The survival of the marine mammal – the vaquita marina – a porpoise endemic to Mexico’s Gulf of California, remains...
Renegotiation of Mexican union contracts is moving slowly
• REVIEW: The renegotiation of Mexican collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) required under the new USMCA trade agreement is moving slowly...
Op-Ed by Daniel Bremer-Wirtig | Public diplomacy in times of a global pandemic
The value and importance of public diplomacy cannot be emphasized enough, both in normal times and even more so in...
Opinion | Tyranny?
One of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, famously wrote in 1788 in Federalist Paper number 47 that...
Opinion | Sublime goals
Last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said: "When you have to choose between law or justice, justice...
Opinion | Falling short
Karl Popper, the great scholar of democracy and open societies, wondered once: “What has to be done if ever the...
Opinion | Arizona is 2020’s Pivotal Battleground for Latinos & Nation
When people talk about the importance of the Latino vote in US presidential elections, I am always reminded of the...
Opinion | We, the Unladylike
We are losing but we are not defeated. On September 28, International Safe Abortion Day, women in Mexico City gathered...
Mexican Supreme Court modifies referendum question on past abuses
•REFERENDUM: Mexico's Supreme Court allowed to move forward with a referendum seeking to clarify abuses in the country's recent past...
Mexico leapfrogs Italy, Sweden in coronavirus deaths per million
•DEATHS: The number of coronavirus deaths in Mexico relative to the size of the population has now surpassed that of...
Opinion | Energy commissioners should resign
What a sad, shameful and even tragic role Mexico’s energy regulators are being forced to play! President Andrés Manuel López...
Opinion | Realities & ruptures
"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world", said Albert Camus during his 1957 Nobel Prize acceptance speech....
Opinion | We don’t get it
Whoever is reading this opinion piece probably thinks more or less like me. It's logical. The problem is that we...
Opinion | The Supreme Court is asleep
The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already run out of money and that should concern...
Coronavirus: 88,000 will not get their test results
•LOSS: More than 88,000 people who were tested for coronavirus in Mexico will not get their results mainly because tests...
Spotlight | Covid-19’s Toll at the US-Mexico Border Ports of Entry
TREND: The onset of the Covid-19 crisis and accompanying restrictions on the U.S.-Mexico border and on the U.S.-Canada border led...
Opinion | The Majors List or the Pot Calling the Kettle Black
The US has a hypocritical and downright offensive practice that is part of its national drug policy. It is called...
Opinion | Global Warming, Fires & Crime in Mexico & Beyond
By Vanda Felbab-Brown and Elisa Norio * When a brush fire erupted near Tijuana in early September, a large part...
Newsrack | Around the web
1. Food editor Rick Martínez explores the culture of breakfast in Mexico's Pacific coast city of Mazatlán in Bon Appetit...
Op-Ed by Alma Caballero | Youth at the Center of the Agenda
The recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg felt like a personal loss to so many generations...
Opinion | More circus
I understand President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's need to create a circus. During his first 18 months in office, Mexico...
Regulators in Mexico reportedly to advance state-energy dominance
•DOMINANCE: Energy regulators in Mexico have reportedly agreed to advance President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to expand the role...
Mexico’s murder rate remains stuck at historic highs
• RECORD: Mexico's murder rate remained stuck at historic high levels in 2019 with the country experiencing 29 homicides per...
Opinion | The New Context
King Canute of Denmark (c. 990 A.D.) is famous for setting his throne by the sea shore and ordering the...
Mexican produce growers credit technology for rise in exports
• INVESTMENT: Mexican growers credit major investments in protected agriculture technology as the key reason for the explosive growth in...
Opinion | Mexico’s Rule of Law Shouldn’t Be on a Ballot
A brilliant leader once asked “the people” to make him emperor in a national referendum so that he could preserve...
Spotlight | Mexico’s Revolving Door
TREND: As Mexico’s enhanced migration enforcement and regional mobility restrictions have curbed the flows of migrants from other countries arriving...
Mexican banks feel effects of coronavirus downturn
•CLOSURES: Mexican banks are rushing to restructure in the face of the coronavirus downturn with the largest banks shutting permanently...
Mexico experiences at least 45 massacres in 2020
•MASSACRES: Mexico has experienced at least 45 massacres in 2020 where five or more people were murdered in a single...
Opinion | Relationship Status: It’s Complicated
This week the White House published the “Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for...
Restrictions at US-Mexico border extended through Oct. 21
• RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions to non-essential travel at the US-Mexico land border due to the coronavirus pandemic will be extended through...
Opinion | Expensive marketing
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's 2021 budget proposal includes the largest propaganda spending in Mexican history. The money is not...
Airbnb implements collection of taxes on Mexico rentals
• COLLECTION: Travel lodging platform Airbnb confirmed this week that it has begun collecting a 16% value-added tax (VAT) on...
Opinion | All is not well at Dos Bocas
Incredibly, the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) has just begun a public bidding process to contract “technical assistance in drawing up...
Opinion | One More Envelope
According to a long-standing joke in Mexican politics, the outgoing president leaves three envelopes for his successor to open when...
Spotlight | The Mexican Travel Season
TREND: Tourists bound for Mexico can still take advantage of the transition between the Summer and Fall. With much at stake,...
Opinion | Diego Luna & the Rare Conversation
During this time of intense political polarization on both sides of the border, Mexican actor Diego Luna’s new show, Pan...
Opinion | Illegal Fishing in Mexico & Policy Responses
A major recent U.S. bust of a crime ring trafficking totoaba bladders and shark fins from Mexico to China highlights...
Missing funds case in Mexican President’s hometown forces city council to resign
•RESIGNATION: The mayor and 12 council members in the city of Macuspana (pop. 165,000), in the Mexican oil producing state...
Mexico reopens famed Teotihuacán’s ruins to tourists
•SITE: The ancient Mesoamerican site of Teotihuacán in central Mexico has reopened after being closed for nearly six months due...
High coronavirus lethality rate reported in Mexico’s poorest areas
LETHALITY: The average lethality rate of coronavirus in Mexico’s poorest municipalities is 17%, with some localities like Ajalpan in the...
Op-Ed by Enrique Perret | A new institutional architecture
Mexico's relationship with the United States is probably one of the most complex between two neighboring countries in the world....
Los Cabos eyes ending 2020 at half pre-pandemic levels
•RECOVERY: The number of tourists arriving to the Mexican resort of Los Cabos in 2020 is expected to fall 50...
Mexico stalls US $10.6 billion in power generation investments
•ENERGY: Mexico's energy regulator (CRE) has stalled more than US $10.6 billion in investments in the country's electric sector by...
Opinion | Sports Pull an Upset in the Time of Covid
Sport prevails. The coronavirus is far from conquered, but the games must go on. And what a surreal holiday weekend...
Newsrack | Around the web
1 Rodrigo Pérez Ortega writes about the devastating effects of the Covid-19 crisis on Mexican science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/we-re-losing-entire-generation-scientists-covid-19-s-economic-toll-hits-latin-america 2 Rebecca...
Thirty airlines have left Mexico since pandemic hit
•TRAVEL: Thirty out of 52 international airlines operating in Mexico before the coronavirus pandemic hit in February have yet to...
Opinion | Mexico: Learn from Colombia
In the last week, a usually absent-from-the-news government agency has made headlines. The head of the Secretariat of Environment and...
Coronavirus is now the number one cause of death in Mexico
DEATH: With an average of 3,673 deaths per week, coronavirus is now the number one cause of death in Mexico...
Trump Administration defends US energy investments in Mexico
•DEFENSE: US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, defended Wednesday the investments of US companies in the Mexican energy sector after...
Opinion | Welfare
It is hard to believe that Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) compared supporting the poorest Mexicans to taking...
Mexico could reopen entire school system in November
REOPENING: Despite being one of the hardest hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic, Mexico's health authorities argue that according to...
Opinion | No policy for natural gas
Natural gas is the strategic fuel in the Mexican economy, more than oil and liquid fuels. Natural gas accounts for...
Mexico’s oil refining output drops 18% in 2020
DROP: Oil refining in Mexico’s state-owned refineries fell from 657,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July 2019 to 534,000 bpd...
Opinion | Costs and Consequences
The democratization process that Mexico has undergone over the last decades brought with it unanticipated consequences that need to be...
Automotive companies resume hiring in Mexico
HIRING: Automotive and auto part companies in Mexico have resumed hiring of personnel five months after the coronavirus lockdown force...
AMLO’s approval rating falls to lowest level since taking office
• LOWEST: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's approval rating dropped in August to its lowest level since taking office with...
Opinion | True justice vs media circus
When I listen to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), I always wonder how much of his narrative is...
Opinion | The Pitfalls of Poppy Licensing in Mexico
In its early phases, the Andrés Manuel López Obrador administration seemed keen to explore whether licensing opium poppy for medical...
Coronavirus: Mexico expands criteria to detect suspected cases
DEFINITION: Mexico's original definition of a suspected case of coronavirus was too strict, turning away 36% of symptomatic patients since...
Op-Ed by Joel Abraham Enríquez | North America’s Power Sleeps on Its Abundance of Energy
A reloaded Gas & Oil Boom -in that order– may deliver strategic benefits for the entire region and renew North...
Newsrack | Around the Web
1 Caroline Hatchett explores the world of Mexican tepache and some recipes in Wine Enthusiast Magazine: https://www.winemag.com/2020/08/04/tepache-fermentation-drink-recipe/ 2 Marcos...
Mexico suffers historical GDP drop in Q2 2020
• HISTORIC: Mexico recorded its worst three-month drop in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) falling 17.1% in seasonally adjusted terms during...
Opinion | Selective outrage
One week ago, I shared on Twitter a video (which was already public) in which three sons of Mexico's President...
Number of Mexicans dead from coronavirus in the US tops 2,000
• DEATHS: The number of Mexican nationals who have died from coronavirus in the US has now reached 2,173 with...
Coronavirus: forecast sees 130k deaths in Mexico by December
• MODEL: A new model from the University of Washington estimates that Mexico will reach more than 130,000 coronavirus deaths...
Opinion | The Most Trumpy of all Trumpian Scandals
Wait, what?! Steve Bannon was arrested by the Postal Service on a Chinese billionaire’s yacht because Mexico wouldn’t pay for...
Spotlight | Mexico’s invisible migration
TREND: In recent years, flows of migrants from Africa, Asia, Haiti, and Cuba have been growing in Mexico. These flows...
Femicide remains on the rise in Mexico in 2020
•RISE: The number of women killed in Mexico because of their gender increased 5.4% during the first seven months of...
Opinion | Introducing the U.S.-Mexico Fentanyl Taskforce
The U.S.-Mexico Fentanyl Taskforce does not exist. Yet. Let me explain. Over the last two weeks Mexico’s ambassador to the...
Mexican President’s brother caught receiving envelopes of cash
• FUNDS: The brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received envelopes of cash in 2015 for alleged...
Opinion | Bed occupancy
In 1987 Paul O'Neill was appointed CEO of Alcoa, the largest U.S. aluminum producer. In his first meeting with financial...
Ex-Mexico President engaged in widespread corruption scheme.- former aide
•CORRUPTION: The former head of Mexico’s state-owned oil company (Pemex) accused former president Enrique Peña Nieto of engaging in a...
Spotlight | Mexico Travel Update
TREND: Mexico's tourism industry is still fighting for survival. Travel between the Mexico-US border is open only for essential crossings through...
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