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Getting Lost Trying to Quantify Corruption
Last week the New York Times exposed that Wal-Mart de Mexico bribed local officials $24 million to hurry permitting for new stores. Most of the subsequent reportage has focused on stateside...
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Testing democracy’s resolve: a look at Greece and Mexico
No one ever said democracy is easy (well, if anyone did, they shouldn’t have). It offers the promise of freedom and the ability of people to choose who governs them. But constant vigilance is required...
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Voices on the Future of Mexico: Enter the Debate!
Source: Google Images. This week The Economist has created a very interesting and innovative forum to discuss the pros and cons of the PRI party regaining power in Mexico after losing the presidency...
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Updates on Women, Children, and Human Rights Around the Globe
Victim of acid attack photographed in Bogota, Colombia, May 2012. Source: TRUSTLAW/Anstasia Moloney Biogas saves Kenyan school money, conserves nature A school in the rural Rift Valley of central...
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Lines Between Unelected and Elected Democracy: Mexico, Paraguay, and Egypt...
Enrique Pena Nieto (left) leads his rivals Josefina Vazquez Mota and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters The end of the Arab Spring has likely come about in two...
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On Eve of Mexican Election, Government Uncertainty Remains
Supporters of Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto (who represents PRI, the party which ruled Mexico with an iron fist for 70 years until 2000) celebrate at a campaign rally in Toluca....
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Mexico’s Economic Rebound: Good News, Bad News
Newest Nissan plant in Mexico. Another is expected in Brazil as well. Photo Credit: Nissan Recently, the general gloom about Mexico has been replaced by a bit of positive reportage. Mexico’s economy...
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The Career Minded Immigrant: Redefining Facts in the U.S. Immigration Debate
Mexico City (SECTUR) The Washington Post published a very informative article this week about Mexican immigration to the United States and the logical and progressive nature of immigration and...
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Winning an Election in the Americas: Apathy and Corruption Compete for the...
Student protests this year in the streets of Montreal over a relatively small tuition hike took the Quebec government by storm. In reality, it is likely more than just tuition that fuelled this year’s...
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Discussing Romney’s Policy on Latin America
President Obama over the last four years has had as successful a record on Latin America as the last two presidents before him. It can be argued he has had some added success in the region considering...
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Mexico’s Growing Middle Class
Mexico has come in for positive news of late, thanks in part to a forecast published by Nomura Securities that showed Mexico surpassing Brazil as Latin America’s largest economy by 2022. While that’s...
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Will Fast and Furious survive the election? DOJ seeks to limit authority of...
DOJ wants to limit future investigations When you’re right, you’re right. I’m talking about Fast and Furious, the gun-walking operation the U.S. Department of Justice used (illegally if the Export...
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Mexico’s Most Important Election
Barack Obama’s reelection has stirred policy reactions in Mexico in at least two ways. First, voters in the states of Colorado and Washington endorsed ballot measures to legalize recreational use of...
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5 Foreign Policy Challenges Obama Can Tackle From Home
While foreign policy had a brief moment in the sun during this past election cycle, Americans are still clearly, and rightly, preoccupied with the challenges we face here at home. A CBS poll taken...
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Shared Policy for Mexico’s New President and America’s Old President
President Obama’s election victory last month proposed many new policy changes for the next four years. One of the most important policy relationships may be the one between the United States and...
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The Other Side of Immigration (2009)
It’s the economy, stupid. That mantra from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential race pretty much sums up the core issue when it comes to immigration from Mexico to the United States. Many Mexicans abandon...
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Powering Up NAFTA
Latin America is often seen as in the lower echelon of State Department priorities, and many experts think this is appropriate, given the world’s current hotspots. However, Latin Americans are our...
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ICE Agents Claim Napolitano Forcing Them to Violate U.S. Law–New Immigration...
DHS Secretary Napolitano sued by ICE agents Been on the road, folks. Lots of airports, long security lines, plastic bins — shoes, coat, watch, laptop, any liquids? Transportation Security...
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On the Road to Pemex Reform
President Enrique Peña Nieto has mounted an assault against Mexico’s entrenched monopolies over the past two months. He first took on the teachers union, then the telecoms, explaining his aim was to...
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Theories on the Rise of Diabetes in Mexico
One fact that is often presented in the classroom of fresh MBA students is that out of all the markets for carbonated beverages in the world, Mexicans stand as the number one consumers of sodas. So...
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