Mexico and the United States must collaborate to tackle a dual problem of violence and drug use hurting their countries.But first, they must stop playing the blame game.
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The author describes his experience as a transgender man: How his physical transition has given him access to new spaces and conversations that were previously inaccessible to him as a woman, and how it’s made him feel like a spy within the patriarchy.
In Mexico, it’s common to hear the term “improving the race” when a darker skinned person dates someone who is white. The author came directly in contact with these prejudices — and Spain’s discrimination of people from its former colonies — when she went through surrogacy.
The Costantini collection of Latin American art, on display in Buenos Aires, includes family photos of Mexico’s Frida Kahlo, whose singular paintings and resilience in suffering made her, in death, a symbol of female strength and creativity.
In irking Mexico’s chief trading partners with decisions affecting energy firms, the country’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is tinkering with the free-trade pact that is the very engine and ballast of Mexico’s vast, and vulnerable, economy.
Among the most immediate effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade is that women who find themselves in states where abortion is outlawed will travel to where it is legal. But that of course requires the right information and economic means to do so.
The dominance of a single narrative of globalization and liberal democracy is over.
Growing old in Mexico brings uncertainty, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. However, being LGBTQ+ brings additional challenges, which the pandemic accentuated.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, says his plans to reform the electoral system are a way to save taxpayer money. A closer look tells a different story.
MEXICO CITY — Huge lamps swing from the ceiling on the sixth floor of a building in downtown Mexico City, illuminating the wrestling ring below. The crowd holds its collective breath as a woman emerges from the shadows. Her bright blue hair whirls behind her sparkling makeup as she kicks out her knee-high black boots. A deep voice booms over the loudspeaker: “From the Mexican jungle comes Ladyyy Amazonaaa!” Responding to the cheers and shouts, she takes her time posing in each of the ring’s four corners at the Furia de Titanes women’s championship. “I have wrestling in my blood,” […]
Artisans who produce the natural fiber have mixed feelings about its success.
Oblivious to his lackluster performance in government, Mexico’s President López Obrador is revving up efforts to make himself a transcendental figure of Mexican history, like other unsung predecessors.
Despite the pandemic’s heavy toll, people remain reluctant to inoculate, in part because of persistent doubts about the country’s public health system.
Mexico’s socialist president is determined to restore a ‘strong’ presidency he believes will put things right in Mexico. To many, he is starting to look like another tropical dictator of sort.
Mexican President López Obrador has made it clear that he prefers keeping the United States at arm’s length.
Faced with an unprecedented health crisis, the López-Obrador administration has proven itself to be incompetent, overpoliticized and self-involved.
Mexico’s current leader, and loud-and-proud leftist, has more in common with the outgoing U.S. president, a conservative Republican, than many people realize.
People are dying, economies are tanking and politics are awry. But that’s no excuse to short-shrift the struggle for equality and protections for women.
Mexico’s socialist president is fanning class resentments and threatening Mexico’s fragile social peace, while delivering little of the welfare he promised in 2018.
If the López Obrador government really wants to restore the state oil firm’s status as a cash cow, it needs to stop treating it like a sacred cow.
The protests, pandemic and poor U.S. jobs numbers all seem to spell trouble for President Donald Trump. But his challenger has a few disadvantages of his own.
Unlike the SARS and H1N1/09 outbreaks, which caused friction between the two countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has, if anything, improved Chinese-Mexican relations.
-Essay- MEXICO CITY — Confinement has had few consolations, in spite of all the efforts to sell it as an “opportunity for personal growth.” The good news from where I sit is that I can see beer showing up again in Mexico City’s supermarkets and convenience stores. When the country imposed a nationwide shutdown, the […]
COVID-19 has barely distracted Mexico’s leftist government from its political and electoral priorities. It may be forgetting the price earlier governments paid for ignoring the plight of millions of Mexicans.
President López Obrador has failed spectacularly to manage the pandemic and its economic repercussions.
Given its reliance on both oil and tourism, the Mexican economy is in major trouble. So far, though, President López Obrador has refused to have the state take on new debt.
-Essay- MEXICO CITY — I notice some are still touching surfaces, grabbing a pole to hold onto on the bus or the handrails on escalators. With reckless abandon. For me, no sniffle nor sneeze nor little cough escapes my notice. On a city bus, you’d think they would make every effort to “swallow” that cough. […]
If murder and kidnappings in Mexico were a contagious disease, the country’s feeble response and impunity rates would already have turned them into the most destructive of pandemics.
Mexico’s socialist president is deluded if he thinks he can turn the clock back and restore his vision of the welfare state.
Its shared border with the U.S. could be more of a blessing than a curse if only Mexico would clean up its act.
In loudly rejecting President’s Trump threat to label Mexican drug gangs terrorists, Mexico’s government is covering its failure, if not reluctance, to tackle systemic corruption and its offspring, crime.
The weakness of institutions in Mexico once gave its presidents leeway to reform the state. Today President López Obrador is using it as a tool to accumulate more and more power of his own.
President López Obrador is bending Congress and the judiciary to his will, and scaring away investors in the process.
Mexico should consider revising copyright laws to protect its traditional arts and crafts, after use of native designs by an international brand sparked anger
Donald Trump’s decision to threaten Mexican exports over migration is weakening years of U.S.-Mexican cooperation, further shaken by this weekend’s El Paso shooting.
President López Obrador’s confrontational approach to ruling Mexico has reminded many of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. But he seeks confrontation as a tool like the iconic 20th century Argentine leader.
Facing U.S. brinkmanship over tariffs and migration, Mexico’s president must act to unite his country with sensible policies and end his ‘confrontational’ strategy with domestic critics.
Instead of perpetuating an established propensity toward ‘asymmetrical’ trade ties, Mexico can boost relations with China with an eye on environmentally-friendly opportunities.
The Mexican president’s overhaul of public life is riding roughshod over interests, including those of the poor, his own voters, and a ‘defenseless’ middle class.
If President López Obrador really wants to give his country peace and security, he’ll need to tackle criminal complicity among the powers that be.