Mexico's president hits back at Trump over 'Gulf of America': 'We're going to call it Mexican America'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday jumped into President-elect Trump's chatter about geopolitical realignment, proposing a renaming of North America in response to the president's musings on the Gulf of Mexico. In a wide-ranging press conference on Tuesday, President Trump detailed his desire to expand U.S. territory into Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, and […]
Mexico's president on Trump threat: 'One tariff would be followed by another in response'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced her own plan for the United States after President-elect Donald Trump suggested imposing a 25% tax on Mexican imports if Mexico does not stop the flow of drugs across the border. threatened to retaliate with tariffs. In remarks Tuesday, Sheinbaum said drugs are a U.S. problem, not a Mexican […]
On his way out, AMLO is taking a wrecking-ball to Mexico's institutions
The future of Mexico's democracy and investment climate is currently at stake. Lame-duck President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) has a very clear roadmap for the rest of his presidency: he wants to consolidate his party's supermajority in Congress, reform the judiciary, and eliminate all checks and balances. Simply put, he wants to […]