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Railway operations resume at Lázaro Cárdenas seaport
•RESUMPTION: Rail connectivity in and out Mexico's Pacific seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas has reopened with at least five cargo trains...
AMLO’s approval rebounds but challenges remain
•REBOUND: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enters his third year in office with a rebound in his approval ratings after...
Railway operations resume at Lázaro Cárdenas seaport
•RESUMPTION: Rail connectivity in and out Mexico's Pacific seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas has reopened with at least five cargo trains...
AMLO’s approval rebounds but challenges remain
•REBOUND: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enters his third year in office with a rebound in his approval ratings after...
Opinion | To Destroy
Things in Mexico were certainly not perfect two years ago. It had been some time since the promise of being...
Coronavirus: WHO warns Mexico for rise in cases and deaths
•SERIOUS: The rise in the number of coronavirus deaths and coronavirus cases in Mexico during the past six weeks is...
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Railway operations resume at Lázaro Cárdenas seaport
•RESUMPTION: Rail connectivity in and out Mexico's Pacific seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas has reopened with at least five cargo trains...
AMLO’s approval rebounds but challenges remain
•REBOUND: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enters his third year in office with a rebound in his approval ratings after...
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Railway operations resume at Lázaro Cárdenas seaport
•RESUMPTION: Rail connectivity in and out Mexico's Pacific seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas has reopened with at least five cargo trains...
AMLO’s approval rebounds but challenges remain
•REBOUND: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enters his third year in office with a rebound in his approval ratings after...
Opinion | To Destroy
Things in Mexico were certainly not perfect two years ago. It had been some time since the promise of being...
Coronavirus: WHO warns Mexico for rise in cases and deaths
•SERIOUS: The rise in the number of coronavirus deaths and coronavirus cases in Mexico during the past six weeks is...
Spotlight | Trade through the US-Mexico ports of entry
TREND: In 2019, the top five U.S.-Mexico ports of entry (PoE) in terms of total trade accounted for 80% of...
Opinion | Trump’s War on Trust
Donald Trump is still at it – waging a scorched-earth war against one of America’s greatest national assets: trust. The...
Murder of French-Mexican restauranteur shocks Mexico City
•MURDER: The weekend murder of French-Mexican restauranteur Baptiste Jacques Daniel Lormand alongside one of his business associates has shocked Mexico...
Op-Ed by Pedro Casas Alatriste | The Missing Link
by Pedro Casas Alatriste * The world is shifting into a geographical-focused development, empowering the concept of regional blocks. Ours...
Coronavirus will be the top cause of death in Mexico this year
•PROJECTION: Coronavirus will end up being the leading cause of death in Mexico in 2020 according to new estimates by...
Opinion | Electric reliability?
Without any legal amendments, but by tying the hands of regulators and by breaching the USMCA trade agreement, the López...
Opinion | Pyrrhic victory
The relationship between the US and Mexico is one of the most complex in the world between two highly populated,...
Opinion | Against Nature
The saying goes that one defies nature at his own expense and risk. In economics, there is ample evidence of...
Poll: 95% of Mexicans support universal mask mandate
•MANDATE: Nearly all Mexicans (95 percent) support adopting of a universal mask mandate to prevent the coronavirus spread in public...
Spotlight | Migrant children in Mexico
TREND: In the past three years, the number of migrant minors (below age 18) apprehended in Mexico has been on...
Opinion | This is where AMLO pushes back?!
In mid-November the US Justice Department dropped previously filed drug charges against former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, paving the...
Coronavirus: Mexico tops 100,000 deaths as cold season rolls in
•DEATHS: Less than a week after surpassing 1 million confirmed cases, Mexico hit another grim milestone by surpassing 100,000 confirmed...
Opinion | Cienfuegos and the US-Mexico firestorm
In an extraordinary break with decades of U.S. law enforcement practices, the United States this week agreed to drop drug...
Opinion | Corruption and Impunity
One key question in Mexico these days is understanding whether corruption is a tool for the government to advance a...
Ban on subcontracting could impact Mexican manufacturing
• SUBCONTRACTING: The López Obrador administration's proposal to ban most subcontracting of jobs by private companies could have a drastic...
Newsrack | Vaquita, Zama, Cuisine, Huasteca, Farming
1. Carolyn Cowan writes on the race for the vaquita genome in Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/vaquita-genome-offers-hope-species-survival-180976202/ 2. IHS Markit Energy's...
Mexican aerospace industry years from returning to pre-pandemic levels
•EXPECTATIONS: The Mexican aerospace industry expects it will take years before production returns to pre-pandemic levels given the cancellation of...
Opinion | Flying through a pandemic
Mexico was the star of last month’s Boyd Aviation Forecast Summit, an influential annual gathering of aviation industry executives, financial...
Coronavirus: Mexico surpasses one million cases
•MILLION: Mexico surpassed one million confirmed coronavirus cases this past weekend according to official government numbers. However, the country’s mortality rate...
Spotlight | What’s happening in US-Mexico bilateral trade?
TREND: In September 2020, US-Mexico bilateral trade grew 3.6% compared to the previous month and has hit its highest level...
Opinion | Throwing Stones in Our Glass House
The incoming administration of President-Elect Biden will provide a window of opportunity for enhancing U.S.-Mexico security cooperation. In particular, it...
Opinion | Reset
The last four years have been unusual for the Mexico-U.S. relationship. The immigration, security and trade pillars of the bilateral...
Opinion | The oil industry outlook
With a victory for Joe Biden, U.S. energy policy will lean towards renewable energy and sustainability. In the oil and...
Spotlight | Puerto Peñasco: Destination Rocky Point
TREND: Puerto Peñasco strives to prove it is more than just a Spring Break getaway. The city has faced two obstacles...
Opinion | Hangover
Sir Winston Churchill is often quoted as saying: “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all...
Opinion | The Need for Shared Values
We’ve all seen the street celebrations in the United States. Personally, I’m still waiting for the euphoria that comes with...
Mexico president doubles down on not congratulating Biden
• CLAIMS: Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) doubled down Monday on his decision not to congratulate Joe Biden...
Opinion | US Democracy Rescues Itself
Since Tuesday night, the United States has waited with bated breath for the results of the 2020 presidential and congressional...
Opinion | A Vote like No Other
Donald Trump made America so “great again” in just one term in office, the nation’s capital city is boarded up...
Opinion |The Parallel US-Mexico Monologues
A central disadvantage of cooperation stalling between the U.S. and Mexico is that while each side is engaged in broadcasting...
Opinion | Vanity
During his almost two years in office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly thanked Mexican immigrants in the...
Coronavirus: Mexico discards imposing overnight curfew restrictions
• CURFEW: The López Obrador administration discarded that Mexico's federal government could impose overnight curfew restrictions like those implemented by...
Mexican maquiladoras get ready for potential new supply disruption
• INVENTORIES: Manufacturing assembly plants in some areas of northern Mexico, known as maquiladoras, have begun to build up supply...
Opinion | Can Pemex be “rescued”?
In the midst of controversy regarding Mexico's energy policy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he supports "public-sector business" over...
US natural gas exports to Mexico reach record levels
• RECORDS: US natural gas exports to Mexico via pipeline have reached record levels propelled by the Mexican economy's reopening...
Mexico City mayor tests positive for coronavirus
• 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 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 | Mazatlán, Ayotzinapa, Cabo, Pemex, Film
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...
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