Region Related Event Feeds

Issues in International Political Economy - Corporate Workouts in Mexico - April 2011 - Special Issue 1

Mgraybeal — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400

It is now more than ten years that the law governing the Mexican insolvency regime— the Ley de Concursos Mercantiles (LCM, best translated as the "Business Reorganization Act" of 2000)—was enacted and has been successfully applied in hundreds of cases of corporate debt workouts.

Hemisphere Highlights Volume X Issue 1 - February 2011

cwatson — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

HEADLINES

Presidential contests in five countries promise excitement this year, the first taking place in Haiti next month. All mix familiar candidates with fresh faces. Though there are early leaders in each race, the possibility of close contests or upsets should not be discounted.

Hemisphere Focus: Mexico's 2011 Gubernatorial Elections and their Impact on Drug Policy - January 28, 2011

sherry — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Sunday, January 30, a hotly contested vote in Guerrero state marks the first of six elections this year for Mexican state executives. They will set the stage for the 2012 presidential race and indicate whether the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) can continue its political rebound.

Cooperative Mexican-U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts

jdunton — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Because of high U.S. narcotics consumption and Mexico’s role as the main transit country for cocaine from Colombia, the dominant narcotics activity in the Western Hemisphere takes place between the United States and Mexico.

The End of SBInet?

mentman — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: There was growing evidence last week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will scrap plans for a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border. Why?

Hemisphere Highlights Volume IX Issue 7 - October 2010

cwatson — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Canadian prime minister vetoes proposal to extend the detention period for asylum seekers in Canada. Haiti prepares to elect a new president and legislators in November. Mexican president announces a plan to protect journalists in Mexico from drug violence.

Hemisphere Highlights, Volume IX Issue 6 - June 2010

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

A new bill could change enrollment requirements for Englishlanguage public schools in the Canadian province of Quebec, further recognizing French as the primary language of the region. Mexican electrical workers continue to protest the liquidation of state-owned power company Luz y Fuerza del Centro.

Hemisphere Focus: The July 4, 2010, Mexican Gubernatorial Elections

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Summary

• Mexico’s 12 gubernatorial elections this Sunday will test whether the Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI) can maintain the momentum that it has exhibited since finishing third in the 2006 presidential contest.

Issues in International Political Economy - Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico - April 2010 - Number 124

adyne — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The book on the United States and Mexico with the title listed above was launched on April 12 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I trace how each country’s policy was made toward the other -- one country dominant economically, and the other dependent on the other for its market and as a destination to which its nationals flee to seek greater opportunity.

Unequal Partners

ian — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Sidney Weintraub examines the current relationship of Mexico and the United States as one of sustained dependence and dominance. The chapters examine the consequences of this imbalance in six major policy areas: trade; investment and finance; narcotics; energy; migration; and the border.

Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico-U.S. Non-Discussion of Migration - March 2010 - Number 123

adyne — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

In a world of sovereign states, nations are free to determine which foreigners, and how many, they will allow to enter their country and how long they will be permitted to stay. Recommendations that these decisions should be negotiated between sending and receiving countries are therefore unlikely to be accepted by receiving countries unless they want more foreign workers.

El trafico ilicito en el corredor mesoamericano

jdunton — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Spanish translation of Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor (CSIS, November 2009).

Issues in International Political Economy - The Unending Campaign against NAFTA - February 2010 - Number 122

adyne — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Many Mexicans and Americans display vague misgivings about the North American Free Trade Agreement; their comments indicate that this is largely because the agreement did not turn out to be a development panacea.The core of Mexico´s growth problem, in my view, is political—namely, the inability to deal with structural problems affecting taxes, energy, education, labor markets, monop

Issues in International Political Economy - Situation in Latin America--Year-end 2009

adyne — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The political differences among the countries in Latin America are profound, and this reality is perhaps the most important political commentary to make at year-end 2009. Countries of the region are more apt to learn from each other in the economic field.

Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119 - The Cost of Questionable Policies

adyne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Until Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, it was taken for granted that no African-American could become president of the United States. Any great talent in that population group, about 13.5 percent of Americans, was discarded for the top position in the country. The situation has changed, and the United States is surely better for it.

Hemisphere Highlights, Volume IX, Issue 9 - November 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A backlog of immigrants seeking refugee status in Canada forced the Canadian government to announce new immigration reform. President Calderón dissolved the state-run electric company Luz y Fuerza, sparking political controversy in Mexico.

Issues in International Political Economy - September 2009 - Number 117

adyne — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

President Felipe Calderón just delivered his third annual Informe and it calls for a thoroughgoing change in policy direction. President Barack Obama, for this part, is trying to rescue as much of his health-care proposal as he can from a confrontational Congress.

Hemisphere Focus - Vol. 17, Issue 3: Party Politics in Mexico’s Midterm Elections

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Issues in International Political Economy - The Essentials of U.S. Policy towards Latin America - June 2009 - Number 114

adyne — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

President Barack Obama has not yet defined the essentials of U.S. policy toward Latin America despite the painful economic situation in the region brought on by the U.S. financial collapse.The best posture for the U.S. government in dealing with Latin America is to demonstrate by its actions that the United States is sincere in wanting to help countries of the region.

Hemisphere Highlights, Volume VIII, Issue 5 - May 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative comes into effect for travelers entering the United States from Canada. Police raids in Mexico successfully arrest 30 suspected members of the La Familia drug cartel. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is appointed as a special envoy to Haiti by the United Nations.

Hemisphere Focus: Mexican Governors and Mayors Place Ex-Military in Public Safety Posts

sherry — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Influenza Outbreak in Mexico

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Q1: Why are public health officials concerned about the current influenza outbreak in Mexico?

Prospects for the Summit of the Americas

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

President Barack Obama will take part in the Summit of the Americas meeting held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on April 17–19.

Q1: What is the Summit of the Americas? Is it important? Why?

Opportunities for Obama in the Americas

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The Obama administration has gotten off to an exceptionally promising start in activating relations with other countries in the Americas.

El Control de la Corrupción en los Gobiernos Locales de America Latina

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Para abordar el problema de la ética y la transparencia en el gobierno municipal, el Programa de las Américas del CSIS realizó una conferencia el 14 de Noviembre de 2008, que reunió a los alcaldes de dos importantes ciudades de América Latina, los directores de las principales ONG dedicadas a la buena gobernabilidad, y donantes internacionales que se concentra

Issues in International Political Economy: U.S.-Mexico Relations

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Some 5,300 people were killed in Mexico in 2008 stemming from the drug trade. The violence that accompanies the shipment and sales of narcotics from and through Mexico to the United States stems primarily from U.S. antinarcotics policies. It would be useful if President Obama states early in his administration that U.S. anti-narcotics activities are not working as intended.

Issues in International Political Economy: Obama and Mexico

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Positions taken during the campaign have created uncertainty in Mexico about what President Obama’s policies will be. The question that raises the most immediate concern, because it was created by Obama, is how he will deal with his repeated statements to renegotiate NAFTA. Violence in Mexico is out of control.

Hemisphere Focus: The 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

When more than 22,000 scientists, advocates, policymakers, and activists gathered in Mexico City from August 3 to 8, for the 17th International AIDS Conference, or “AIDS 2008,” it was the first time that the meeting had taken place in Latin America.

Hemisphere Focus: A Farewell to Arms: Managing Cross-border Weapons Trafficking

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

On June 30, President George W. Bush signed into law a 2008 supplemental budget bill that included $465 million for a project called the Mérida Initiative: a multiyear billion dollar program aimed at combating the increasingly urgent threat of drug trafficking and related crime.

Issues in International Political Economy: Mexico is Facing a Difficult Time

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Among the current issues facing the average Mexican are drug-related murders, kidnappings for ransom, and a debate on future energy policy that reflects a defensive nationalism rather than practica

NAFTA Revisited

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

During the Democratic Party presidential primary race, both candidates stated that they wished to renegotiate NAFTA in order to strengthen the labor and environmental accords and make them part of

Issues in International Political Economy: U.S.-Mexico Relations

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The competing interplay between special and regional influences is the way U.S. policy is made almost across the board.

Issues in International Political Economy: Trade Policy Confusion

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

There are deep disagreements between different groups over the future of U.S. trade policy.

Issues in International Political Economy: Dealing with Neighbors

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Quite apart from the fact that the United States profits overall from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an important consideration lost in the bad-mouthing of the agreement by Senato

Issues in International Political Economy: The Dependency/Dominance Relationship between Mexico and the United States

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

When two neighboring countries have vastly disparate economic and political power, one can expect a dependency/dominance relationship to develop.

Issues in International Political Economy: The High Cost of Criminalizing Drug Use

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The "war" on narcotics continues to be waged with little to show for it other than occasional successful skirmishes (like Mexico’s recent drug seizure) at great cost in self-destruc

Issues in International Political Economy: Setting the Record Straight on NAFTA

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The misinformation that is being disseminated in the United States and Mexico about the North American Free Trade Agreement is overwhelming. The constant refrain by U.S.

The Immigration Debate and U.S.-Mexican Relations

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Immigration has become the most debated issue of domestic U.S.

Issues in International Political Economy: The Mood in Mexico

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Viewed abstractly, not many Mexicans would contest the need to address structural impediments to growth.

Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Is there a model for Western Hemisphere energy cooperation? How would individual countries and the hemisphere as a whole benefit from cooperative understandings for hemispheric oil and natural gas? What are the impediments to creating cooperative agreements, and how can the region overcome them? What would be the consequences of not adopting a plan for energy cooperation in the Americas?

Issues in International Political Economy: The Fence as a Metaphor for How the United States Views its Relations with Mexico

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400

A ubiquitous word in the writings of Mexican intellectuals when they describe their country’s relations with the United States is “asymmetry.” The asymmetry is evident: the Unit

Issues in International Political Economy: Governing a Demonstrably Divided Mexico

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0400

As the July 2, 2006, election showed, Mexico is a politically and socially divided country.

Issues in International Political Economy: Mexico's Presidential Election Was a Significant Event

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400

After looking at the title of this essay, I decided to leave it, but with an amendment: election day (July 2, 2006) was an event in a still-ongoing process, that of the emergence of Mexico from o

Issues in International Political Economy: Mexico's Fascinating 2006 Presidential Election

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0500

The election of Vicente Fox as president of Mexico in 2000 was a major event in Mexican history in that, after 71 years, it showed alternation in power among the country’s political parties w

Building Human Capital in an Aging Mexico

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0400

Today there are nine Mexican children for every Mexican elder—but by 2050, there will be as many elders as children.