The Chief of Staff of Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Fabián Medina, resigned on Wednesday and his reasons for leaving are unclear....

• PUSH: A bipartisan group of members in the US Congress renewed a push to develop a binational plan to...

Days after Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made references about me during one of his regular morning press...

It is hard to overlook the fact that Mexico's challenges are piling up in several fronts. In 2020, the Covid-19...

TREND: A trip to Cancún is back on the calendars of many international visitors, including families, college students, and political figures,...

• BEERMAKERS: Government-mandated closures of beer manufacturing in Mexico during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic caused a 4.7...

Mexico's state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) racked up enormous losses in 2020. It attributed them to the economic crisis...

• LARGEST: A retired colonel took over Monday as manager of Mexico's largest customs office in the border city of...

• PROJECTIONS: Migrant remittances to Mexico are expected to break records again in 2021 with economists predicting a rise of...

In memory of Luis Martínez Fernández del Campo The U.S. establishment managed to turn the Covid-19 pandemic into yet another...

Humanity has a corruption problem that arises from human nature. It is rooted in selfishness and societies have to create...

1. EVENT l Violent Intermediaries, Drug Cartels, Autodefensas, and the State: from Political Brokerage to Patronage Wars in Michoacán, Mexico ...

Undoubtedly, each government forges its own history, some due to their achievements, others because of their dogmatism. If something characterizes...

1. “Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective”- Meaghan Beatley on how a Mexican journalist/detective solved a femicide...

TREND: The immigrant population in Mexico continues to grow, according to the recently released data for the 2020 Census. From...

No world leader viewed the Covid-19 pandemic as a political opportunity. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was the...

• WAITING: Hundreds of seniors in the medium-size municipality of García in northern Mexico spent the night in queues waiting...

1. BLOG: Shannon Sheppard shares the history of carnival, the colorful and religious celebration in different towns of Oaxaca Canceled...

by Joel Abraham Enríquez * The world's economy continues to crawl in an often-unsustainable way fueling economic imbalances, wealth inequality, and environmental...

• SPIKE: The number of illegal taps drilled into liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pipelines surged 77 percent in Mexico last...

•CERTIFICATES: The municipality of Ecatepec in the greater Mexico City area, one of the hardest hit areas by the pandemic...

• FOREIGNERS: Mexican health officials clarified Tuesday that foreign nationals present in Mexico will have access to the coronavirus vaccine,...

TREND: The top 10 U.S.-Mexico border ports of entry in terms of total merchandise trade by value fell significantly in...

• PROBE: Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR) has opened an investigation into a wide fuel-smuggling network from Texas to the...

• PECULIARITY: The share of Mexicans buying online in 2020 grew at a faster pace than in most large Latin...

• REINFECTION: Four months after having contracted it for the first time, Mexico's Navy Minister, Rafael Ojeda, announced Tuesday he...

President Biden and his foreign policy team have their work cut out for them in terms of restoring US credibility...

• CHARGES: The López Obrador administration's ministry in charge of fighting corruption and promoting transparency blocked auditors from accessing its...

1. EVENT l The Impact of the China Trade War on the USMCA Rice University's Baker Institute / February 24,...

What's the political myth that has damaged Mexico the most in the last century? The indoctrination of the Mexican people...

It has become commonplace to state, with deep conviction, that everything in Mexico’s recent past was bad and that the...

When I first visited Beijing in 1980 did not have the feel of a city, rather a big town. A...

1. “The Yucatán Peninsula Could Be México’s Next Big Independent Music Haven” – As Covid-19 pushes people away from metropolitan...

This summer, 15 states in Mexico will elect governors. As my colleague Amalia Pulido has pointed out, these elections could...

The president ended up dead because no one had the guts to tell him: "I can't do that". That seems...

• SHORTAGES: Shortages of natural gas and blackouts across Mexico -linked to frigid conditions in Texas- have affected manufacturing operations...

By Oscar Ocampo* International trade relies on principles that parties agree to respect and promote. Predictability is, hence, an indispensable...

• TOLL: The number of Mexican health workers who have died from coronavirus has now surpassed 3,000, putting Mexico well...

• COMPLAINT: Mexico denounced before the UN Security Council what it labeled as "the hoarding" of coronavirus vaccines by a...

• BLACKOUTS: The current power outages across northern Mexico, stemming from shortages of natural gas due to frigid weather in...

• OUTAGE: Manufacturing assembly plants in northern Mexico have lost US $2.7 billion in the last two days due to...

The main issue at stake is not electric reliability nor Mexico’s energy security nor the financial health of state-run power...

• VACCINATION: Mexico jump-started Monday its coronavirus vaccination effort after weeks of dwindling supplies and thanks to the arrival of...

• INCOME: Two-thirds of Mexicans (66 percent) say they have seen their income hurt, either their own or that of...

TREND: In December 2020, bilateral trade flows finished strong with a 0.09% increase compared to November. This trend is great...

As the United States begins to figure out how to reunify migrant children it separated from their families during the...

• ARRESTS: The number of arrests linked to the November 2019 massacre of nine members of a Mormon offshoot community...

1. BLOG: Cassie Pearse guides us through the vineyards of northern Baja California in her blog. Great food, amazing wine!...

1. “For a Family in Mexico, a Mission to Protect Monarchs”- How the migration of the Monarch butterflies changed the...

• GROWTH: Bicycle sales in Mexico increased by 30 percent in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, early industry estimates show....

• DATA: Mexico's construction industry suffered its worst contraction in 25 years falling by 17.45 percent in 2020 according to...

by Mónica Trigos * President Joe Biden may have begun to reverse Donald Trump’s most damaging immigration policies, but migrants...

•VACCINATION: Mexico's coronavirus vaccination effort slowed to a grind this week, with health authorities reporting only 220 people vaccinated on...

• COSTS: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's bill seeking to protect state-owned electric utility (CFE) could imperil 71 private renewable...

• SHOOTOUT: A shootout at an upscale business area in the Guadalajara metro area of western Mexico early this week...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration has a thirst for centralization only rivaled by its managerial incompetence. In a global...

VACCINES: Mexico is pinning its hopes on the scheduled arrival of the first load of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines on Sunday,...

Sometimes one has to try to learn from the mistakes of others. The whole world witnessed the ominous result of...

How the Covid-19 pandemic evolves this year will define the world's future. It is a precarious situation indeed. The impressive...

The attack on the U.S. Capitol was like a piercing alarm clock waking us up from a deep sleep, when...

Yesterday, sport prevailed over the pandemic. The world tuned into another mesmerizing clash between the two titans of the English...

•STANDSTILL: Mexico is hoping that coronavirus vaccine deliveries will resume this week with the expected arrival of the first load...

1. ARTICLE l Two Years of AMLO in Office. A Brief Look at his Security Strategy Justice in Mexico at...

1. “Till Deportation Do Us Part?” – The new episode from KPBS podcast ‘Port of Entry’, hosted by Alan Lilienthal...

By Cecilia Farfán-Méndez and Michael Lettieri * The macabre scene discovered in the Camargo, Tamaulipas on January 22 was a...

• INCENTIVES: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's proposed amendments to Mexico's electric industry law -to favor state-run utility (CFE)- would...

Over the last weeks, a lot has been said about the future of the United States – Mexico relationship under...

• EMERGENCY: Mexico’s drug safety agency (COFEPRIS) approved emergency use of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, a development that the...

I will refer to two recent studies carried out by Rystad Energy on the global oil industry. One of them,...

• RECORD: Mexican migrants abroad sent home a record US $40.6 billion in 2020 amidst the coronavirus downturn, according to...

TREND: International tourists traveling to Mexico must be ready to meet new requirements when returning to their countries of origin. The...

The paradox of power is old and well known: the greater power one has, the more its misuse is overlooked...

•TOURISM: The Mexican tourism industry could lose up to US $782 million from Canada's recent decision to suspend flights to...

• REFORM: After a series of setbacks in courts, president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has presented Congress a bill to...

1. INTERVIEW | Understanding Extralegal Justice The Mexico Violence Resource Project / February 1, 2021   2. NEWS RELEASE |...

•STUDY: Researchers in Mexico are trying to determine if four new coronavirus cases in the western state of Jalisco can...

In a piece of good news, the Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act came out Congress and was signed into...

1. Suleman Anaya looks into two architectural projects in Mexico City that repurposed old buildings. The story in Metropolis.   2....

1. BLOG: Harriet Murray writes in her Viewpoint real estate blog about how the pandemic has impacted the real estate...

• DEATHS: Mexico is only beginning to grasp the true death toll of the coronavirus pandemic, after the country's independent...

by Elaine Dezenski and John Austin * The pandemic exposed a lot of truths, including how interdependent and vulnerable to...

• PRECAUTIONS: Days after disclosing he had contracted coronavirus, a solid majority of Mexicans (60%) say that president Andrés Manuel...

Officials in the López Obrador administration usually attach the adjectives "regrettable" and "unfortunate" when referring to Mexico's more than 150,000...

•POVERTY: The share of Mexicans living in poverty soared in 2020, from 42 percent to 51 percent of the country's...

• ILLEGAL: Criminals in Mexico have found new opportunities in the illicit trade of oxygen cylinders for personal use amid...

"It's  in the United States’ best national interest for Mexico to become a prosperous country," Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, former...

TREND: With the Covid-19 crisis dominating 2020, sharp decreases were seen at the top U.S. land ports of entry in terms...

• APPROVAL: The López Obrador administration is expecting that Mexico's drug safety agency (COFEPRIS) will approve the emergency use of...

I have always believed that it is never a good idea to write an op-ed about something of a personal...

CINEMAS: Mexico's film box office plunged drastically in 2020 to its worst level in 20 years amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Donald Trump faces two legal proceedings in the coming weeks that will go a long way towards defining his legacy...

•STABLE: Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) remains stable one day after announcing that he had tested positive for...

1. PODCAST | What’s on the Horizon for U.S.-Mexico Ties in a Biden Administration AS/COA Online / January 19, 2021...

1.  Jeremy Kay talks to Mexican director Fernando Frías de la Parra about his new film ‘Ya No Estoy Aqui’ and...

•DEATHS: Mexico reported Thursday the single highest daily rise in its coronavirus death toll with a total of 1,803 deaths...

Earlier this week Foreign Policy reported that the National Security Council under the Biden administration would include a new position...

No task is more important this year than the vaccination effort against Covid-19. Some governments around the world understood this...

President Joe Biden will set in motion an ambitious plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the year...

•RESHUFFLE: Mexico is in a rush to restructure its coronavirus vaccination effort after the temporary closure of the main Pfizer...

•HOSPITALITY: Battered by the pandemic lockdowns and the drastic fall in travel, Mexico's hospitality industry lost nearly one quarter of...