• 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...

This will be a decisive year for Mexico. It provides a last chance both for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...

•RESIGNATION: The head of Mexico's coronavirus vaccination effort stepped down Sunday only weeks after launching it. Mexican officials said that Miriam...

TREND:  Over the past three years, the number of temporary residency visas issued by Mexican authorities has been in decline. Although...

“In these trying times” has been so often repeated over the last year that it has lost meaning. Take a...

The blows that in the last days of the Trump presidency Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador delivered to the...

By Emily Medina* The U.S.- Mexico energy relationship is simultaneously both stronger and weaker than ever before. As the two...

•VACCINE: Forty-two percent of Mexicans believe that the López Obrador administration will improperly use the coronavirus vaccination effort for campaign...

TREND: In November 2020, bilateral trade flows decreased 8.36% compared to the previous month, however this trend is similar to...

•MILITARY: Mexico's Defense Ministry (SEDENA) is set to spend a record-setting budget in 2021 resulting from the large number of...

Conflict is the essence of politics, since it is politics that allows for conflict to be addressed and processed. The...

•VIOLATION: The López Obrador administration's decision to phase-out the use of genetically modified corn for human consumption by 2024 could...

•VARIANT: The first case of the new variant of the novel coronavirus, known as B117, in Mexico was detected Sunday...

It was always going to come back to Mexico. On the heels of pressuring Georgia officials to commit electoral fraud...

Before the election certification was catastrophically but predictably disrupted in Capitol Hill, President-elect Biden’s transition team and Mexico’s Foreign Ministry...

•ABOLISH: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insisted Friday on his plan to abolish Mexico's independent regulatory agencies, ranging from the...

•DEATHS: Mexico recorded Wednesday the day with the most reported coronavirus deaths, a total of 1,165, since the start of...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s self-described "Fourth Transformation" can best be understood as an attempt to achieve a regime change...

•THREAT: After failing repeatedly to do it through the courts, Mexico's state-owned utility (CFE) threatened Tuesday to block solar and...

TREND: Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexico is poised to become the third most visited country in 2020 only surpassed by Italy...

A step towards state control over part of the Mexican economy, something usually associated with authoritarian regimes, was taken with...

•PLAYER: Mexico has emerged as a key supplier of medical goods critical to fighting the coronavirus pandemic, overtaking Japan as...

The potential end to the current health crisis and the Covid-19 virus depends ultimately on science. Sooner rather than later,...

The government of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's seems determined to ruin its international reputation. It seems to believe that...

•RECORDS: With data from December still to come, remittances to Mexico from migrants abroad in 2020 have already broken yearly...