•VACCINES: The López Obrador administration said today that Mexico (pop. 119 million) has secured at least 116 million doses of...

As the US presidential election draws near, I keep wondering, “What does Mexico want out of its relationship with the...

TREND: Cruise ships will return to Mexico when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifts its No...

• TAKEOVERS: Informal groups of protestors have increased the number of illegal takeovers of highway toll booths across Mexico since...

The survival of the marine mammal – the vaquita marina – a porpoise endemic to Mexico’s Gulf of California, remains...

• REVIEW: The renegotiation of Mexican collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) required under the new USMCA trade agreement is moving slowly...

The value and importance of public diplomacy cannot be emphasized enough, both in normal times and even more so in...

One of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, famously wrote in 1788 in Federalist Paper number 47 that...

Last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said: "When you have to choose between law or justice, justice...

Karl Popper, the great scholar of democracy and open societies, wondered once: “What has to be done if ever the...

When people talk about the importance of the Latino vote in US presidential elections, I am always reminded of the...

We are losing but we are not defeated. On September 28, International Safe Abortion Day, women in Mexico City gathered...

•REFERENDUM: Mexico's Supreme Court allowed to move forward with a referendum seeking to clarify abuses in the country's recent past...

•DEATHS: The number of coronavirus deaths in Mexico relative to the size of the population has now surpassed that of...

What a sad, shameful and even tragic role Mexico’s energy regulators are being forced to play! President Andrés Manuel López...

"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world", said Albert Camus during his 1957 Nobel Prize acceptance speech....

Whoever is reading this opinion piece probably thinks more or less like me. It's logical. The problem is that we...

The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already run out of money and that should concern...

•LOSS: More than 88,000 people who were tested for coronavirus in Mexico will not get their results mainly because tests...

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...

The US has a hypocritical and downright offensive practice that is part of its national drug policy.  It is called...

By Vanda Felbab-Brown and Elisa Norio * When a brush fire erupted near Tijuana in early September, a large part...

1. Food editor Rick Martínez explores the culture of breakfast in Mexico's Pacific coast city of Mazatlán in Bon Appetit...

The recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg felt like a personal loss to so many generations...

I understand President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's need to create a circus. During his first 18 months in office, Mexico...

•DOMINANCE: Energy regulators in Mexico have reportedly agreed to advance President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to expand the role...

• RECORD: Mexico's murder rate remained stuck at historic high levels in 2019 with the country experiencing 29 homicides per...

King Canute of Denmark (c. 990 A.D.) is famous for setting his throne by the sea shore and ordering the...

• INVESTMENT: Mexican growers credit major investments in protected agriculture technology as the key reason for the explosive growth in...

A brilliant leader once asked “the people” to make him emperor in a national referendum so that he could preserve...

TREND: As Mexico’s enhanced migration enforcement and regional mobility restrictions have curbed the flows of migrants from other countries arriving...

•CLOSURES: Mexican banks are rushing to restructure in the face of the coronavirus downturn with the largest banks shutting permanently...

•MASSACRES: Mexico has experienced at least 45 massacres in 2020 where five or more people were murdered in a single...

This week the White House published the “Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for...

• RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions to non-essential travel at the US-Mexico land border due to the coronavirus pandemic will be extended through...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's 2021 budget proposal includes the largest propaganda spending in Mexican history. The money is not...

• COLLECTION: Travel lodging platform Airbnb confirmed this week that it has begun collecting a 16% value-added tax (VAT) on...

Incredibly, the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) has just begun a public bidding process to contract “technical assistance in drawing up...

According to a long-standing joke in Mexican politics, the outgoing president leaves three envelopes for his successor to open when...

TREND: Tourists bound for Mexico can still take advantage of the transition between the Summer and Fall. With much at stake,...

During this time of intense political polarization on both sides of the border, Mexican actor Diego Luna’s new show, Pan...

A major recent U.S. bust of a crime ring trafficking totoaba bladders and shark fins from Mexico to China highlights...

•RESIGNATION: The mayor and 12 council members in the city of Macuspana (pop. 165,000), in the Mexican oil producing state...

•SITE: The ancient Mesoamerican site of Teotihuacán in central Mexico has reopened after being closed for nearly six months due...

LETHALITY: The average lethality rate of coronavirus in Mexico’s poorest municipalities is 17%, with some localities like Ajalpan in the...

Mexico's relationship with the United States is probably one of the most complex between two neighboring countries in the world....

•RECOVERY: The number of tourists arriving to the Mexican resort of Los Cabos in 2020 is expected to fall 50...

•ENERGY: Mexico's energy regulator (CRE) has stalled more than US $10.6 billion in investments in the country's electric sector by...

Sport prevails. The coronavirus is far from conquered, but the games must go on. And what a surreal holiday weekend...

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...

•TRAVEL: Thirty out of 52 international airlines operating in Mexico before the coronavirus pandemic hit in February have yet to...

In the last week, a usually absent-from-the-news government agency has made headlines. The head of the Secretariat of Environment and...

DEATH: With an average of 3,673 deaths per week, coronavirus is now the number one cause of death in Mexico...

•DEFENSE: US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, defended Wednesday the investments of US companies in the Mexican energy sector after...

It is hard to believe that Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) compared supporting the poorest Mexicans to taking...

REOPENING: Despite being one of the hardest hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic, Mexico's health authorities argue that according to...

Natural gas is the strategic fuel in the Mexican economy, more than oil and liquid fuels. Natural gas accounts for...

DROP: Oil refining in Mexico’s state-owned refineries fell from 657,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July 2019 to 534,000 bpd...

The democratization process that Mexico has undergone over the last decades brought with it unanticipated consequences that need to be...

HIRING: Automotive and auto part companies in Mexico have resumed hiring of personnel five months after the coronavirus lockdown force...

• LOWEST: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's approval rating dropped in August to its lowest level since taking office with...

When I listen to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), I always wonder how much of his narrative is...

In its early phases, the Andrés Manuel López Obrador administration seemed keen to explore whether licensing opium poppy for medical...

DEFINITION: Mexico's original definition of a suspected case of coronavirus was too strict, turning away 36% of symptomatic patients since...

by Joel Abraham Enríquez * A reloaded Gas & Oil Boom -in that order– may deliver strategic benefits for the...

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...

• HISTORIC: Mexico recorded its worst three-month drop in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) falling 17.1% in seasonally adjusted terms during...

One week ago, I shared on Twitter a video (which was already public) in which three sons of Mexico's President...

• DEATHS: The number of Mexican nationals who have died from coronavirus in the US has now reached 2,173 with...

• MODEL: A new model from the University of Washington estimates that Mexico will reach more than 130,000 coronavirus deaths...

Wait, what?!  Steve Bannon was arrested by the Postal Service on a Chinese billionaire’s yacht because Mexico wouldn’t pay for...

TREND: In recent years, flows of migrants from Africa, Asia, Haiti, and Cuba have been growing in Mexico. These flows...

•RISE: The number of women killed in Mexico because of their gender increased 5.4% during the first seven months of...

The U.S.-Mexico Fentanyl Taskforce does not exist. Yet. Let me explain. Over the last two weeks Mexico’s ambassador to the...

• FUNDS: The brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received envelopes of cash in 2015 for alleged...

In 1987 Paul O'Neill was appointed CEO of Alcoa, the largest U.S. aluminum producer. In his first meeting with financial...

•CORRUPTION: The former head of Mexico’s state-owned oil company (Pemex) accused former president Enrique Peña Nieto of engaging in a...

TREND: Mexico's tourism industry is still fighting for survival. Travel between the Mexico-US border is open only for essential crossings through...

The current Mexican government marginalizes direct private investment in energy and tries to demolish the energy reforms of the previous...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The eternal riddle of both science and daily life is never to...

Mexico has a defining role to play in the upcoming election of a new president for the Inter-American Development Bank...

On July 31, the U.S. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy released its annual assessment of opium poppy...

The US, Mexico, Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA) entered into force on July 1st. After a quite complex negotiating process,...

There is nothing older than resentment and, above all, resentment of the poor towards the rich. Nor is it new...

When I was in college, my parents lived in El Paso, and a Chinese friend of mine came to visit....

The coronavirus pandemic changed the world. Leaving aside the more than 731,000 deaths and the 19.8 million confirmed cases, economic...

• GRANT: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ) will provide Mexico a US $3 million grant...

• HEALTH: The López Obrador administration is seeking to centralize decisions in Mexico's health sector by eliminating two key regulatory...

There is a new social media star and I owe my friend Manuel a bottle of mezcal for introducing me...

• THRESHOLD: Mexico's official coronavirus death toll topped 50,000 today, the world's third highest, far exceeding Mexican authorities' original forecasts....

Mexico has never faced anything similar: a 17 percent GDP drop in the 2020 second quarter from the previous quarter....

• DISAGREEMENT: A vast majority of Mexicans (77%) disagree with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's refusal to wear a face...

Months go by and state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) continues to amass enormous debts by not paying its suppliers...

Continuity is normal during changes of government with some natural adjustments in style and personality. The leader of the government...

Mexico's state-owned oil company (Pemex) has confirmed once again that it is the weakest link in the country project that...

1. Petroleum Economist's Charles Waine writes about Pemex, Talos Energy and the opportunities offered by Zama field: https://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/corporate/finance/2020/pemex-debt-strategy-at-risk-of-unravelling   2....

• STRENGTH: Remittances of Mexican migrants abroad reached its second highest monthly number on record in June totaling US $3.54...

How to think about the future?  This is a question I’m struggling with during the pandemic.  The future seems on...

• ACCUSATIONS: Parents associations in dozens of public schools in the central state of Guanajuato have accused that representatives of...

Mexico’s out-of-control criminal market remains not only terribly violent; the violence is once again becoming extraordinarily brazen. The ostentatiousness of...