The Ukraine crisis continues to dominate global politics. Hence, we started our interview with Javier Gutiérrez, Member of the National Executive Committee of the Labor Party (Partido de Trabajo). But as we are in Mexico, the interview evolved fast to the President’s peace proposal, than to US-Mexican relations, with the upcoming elections in mind. At the end, it was the ...
The Mexican – Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group, Mexico’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Latin American perspectives on the conflict, Mexican – US relations and Mexicans living in the US as well as the approaching midterm elections in the US Congress... I spoke about all this with an experienced politician and leader just south of the border: Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez ...
By Rodrigo Guillot, reporting from Mexico City In the past few weeks, Mexico learned of the #GuacamayaLeaks phenomenon: A group that called itself Guacamaya has hacked 6 terabytes of information from the National Defense Ministry of Mexico. This entity, that calles itself a group of hacktivists, made public opinion aware of the theft of information from the Mexican State, and ...
The United States continues trying to exclude Russia from international oil markets and determining the oil price, while maintaining the oil supply. Despite Washington’s attempts to organize increasing supply, OPEC has recently decided to cut production by 2 million barrels per day. In that context, another challenging proposal comes from Mexico: to coordinate price policies on Mexico’s, Venezuela’s and Brazil’s ...
Mexico’s Fourth Transformation is continuing in a high pace. President López Obrador, who faces strong resistance both from domestic political forces as well as the United States, pursues reforms in energy, banking and agriculture. Meanwhile, his party MORENA (Movement of National Regeneration) is fighting a strong battle with its ally, the Labor Party (Partido Del Trabajo) both in the parliament ...
Mexico’s energy reforms keep on fueling tensions with the country’s northern neighbor, the United States. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the latest public episode in his daily press conference on July 28, when he questioned the free trade agreement between Mexico, United States and Canada, the USMCA. USMCA was signed in 2018 as a follow-up on the infamous ...
More than 90 million registered Mexican voters face the following question on April 10: “Do you agree that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of the United States of Mexico should be revoked from his mandate due to loss of confidence, or should he continue his presidency till the end of his term?” The so-called revocation referendum comes exactly on to ...
US Commander of NORTHCOM questioned Mexican government’s ability to repell Russian spies and Chinese influence. The Mexican president responded with an emphasis on sovereignty. Just the lates episode in a clash of words between the countries – a clash with concrete content. The US President elevated the conflict in Ukraine to one between “democracies and authoritarian states”. Following that, the ...
The efforts of the United States to isolate the Russian Federation diplomatically have received a blow from Washington’s southern neighbor Mexico on March 23. Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies established formally a Group of Friendship Mexico – Russia, announced in a ceremony with participation of Russian ambassador Victor Koronelli. The group was established by proposal of the governing Morena (Movement of ...
On March 15, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies commemorated the 139th anniversary of the passing away of Karl Marx. The lower chamber of the bicameral parliament of Mexico dedicated a distinct agenda item, with all represented parties’ holding speeches about the German philosopher considered main thinker of communism. During the speeches, both sides of the of the parliament’s speaker stand ...