Mexico
Mexico
Our neighbor to the south.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Treasury secretary also says U.S. negotiators likely to go to Beijing in near future
Sunday 31 March 2019
...despite warnings that the move would inflict immediate economic damage on American consumers and businesses while doing little to stem a tide of migrants
"I guess we should thank God it's only three Mexican countries. And not all of them."
Saturday 30 March 2019
Friday 29 March 2019
Thursday 28 March 2019
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Fifteen people reportedly arrested for robbing concertina wire installed by US authorities and selling it to locals in Tijuana
Tuesday 5 February 2019
Sunday 3 February 2019
Thursday 31 January 2019
Friday 25 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 35
...but said it would take in some of the asylum seekers anyway.
Saturday 19 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 29
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
The irony is that more Americans than realize it have Mexican blood.
Friday 11 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 21
Trump is rewriting the premise of his central campaign promise, a pledge that he has repeated hundreds of times and has said would be “so easy” to fulfill.
That proposal, titled “COMPELLING MEXICO TO PAY FOR THE WALL,” was the stuff of MAGA fan fiction.
Thursday 10 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 20
"It's an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year"
Yet he has said Mexico would “make a one-time payment,” that Mexico would reimburse the United States and that the costs could be covered by imposing fees on Mexican diplomats and workers.
"When I said Mexico would pay for the wall in front of thousands and thousands of people ... obviously I never meant Mexico would write a check."
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
State Department reports on terrorism have expressed more concern about Canada, which unlike Mexico has been home to “violent extremists inspired by terrorist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaida and their affiliates and adherents”
Friday 4 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 14
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 12
Monday 31 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 10
...tax cuts for northern states that he says will help power economic growth and deter migration to the United States.
Friday 28 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 7
Friday 21 December 2018
The campaign [...] had raised more than $13 million from more than 213,000 people by Friday afternoon. The goal? $1 billion.
Wednesday 19 December 2018
Thursday 13 December 2018
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Trump was essentially goaded [...] into embracing ownership of a shutdown yet to come if Democrats do not accede to his request for $5 billion to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
...the president said the USMCA will bring so much money into the US that it would be almost as if Mexico paid for the wall.
Monday 3 December 2018
...risking almost certain detention by U.S. authorities but hoping the illegal entry will allow them to apply for asylum.
"Which is the one that matters?" “Each of us gets a copy”
Sunday 2 December 2018
The NAFTA deal includes a provision that allows a withdrawal after providing a six-month notice, but opinions differ on whether the president can act on his own.
Saturday 1 December 2018
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 65, known as AMLO, took office as potentially the most powerful Mexican president in decades.
Friday 30 November 2018
...using the backdrop of the G-20 Summit to resolve a trade dispute between America and its closest neighbors.
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto praised Kushner as “a grand ally of Mexico”
Monday 26 November 2018
...tear gas, commonly known as CS gas — an aerosol compound considered a chemical weapon that has been outlawed on the battlefield by nearly every nation on Earth, including the United States.
But as a riot control agent, 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile is legal to use by both police and federal authorities in the United States and many other countries.
The border crisis is real. But it’s not the crisis Trump thinks it is.
The port of entry at San Ysidro, north of Tijuana and south of San Diego, had been closed since about 11:30 a.m. Sunday but was reopened by 6 p.m. local time
Sunday 25 November 2018
Mexico's interior ministry said all those who were identified as having tried to cross would be deported immediately.
As crowds amassed at San Ysidro, around 500 migrants overwhelmed federal and local Mexican police blockades and rushed toward the border
Saturday 24 November 2018
...a drastic overhaul of current policy that President Trump suggested Saturday night was as good as a done deal.
"There is no agreement of any kind between the future federal government of Mexico and the United States of America"
"The future government does not consider in its plans that Mexico assumes the status of 'safe third country' for the attention of Central American migrants"
...requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts
Friday 23 November 2018
...where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Tijuana officials prepared Wednesday for the caravan to double to more than 6,000 people
Sunday 18 November 2018
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Monday 22 October 2018
Thursday 18 October 2018
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Monday 1 October 2018
The Trump administration's new trade deal with Canada and Mexico leaves much of the old North American Free Trade Agreement intact.
Sunday 30 September 2018
The trilateral deal will no longer be called Nafta, they said, but will be named the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.”
A public announcement of any new deal would occur late Sunday night, or possibly Monday
Saturday 29 September 2018
...there’s optimism it will be reached by the Sunday deadline
Tuesday 25 September 2018
...negotiators are “sort of running out of time” to include Canada in the trade deal with Mexico, which was finalized last month.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Under the program, Mexico would be responsible for detaining and providing judicial review of immigrants before deporting them.
Tuesday 28 August 2018
A day after President Trump threatened to exclude Canada from a revised North American Free Trade Agreement, top Canadian officials raced to Washington and said they were moving “full steam ahead”
Monday 27 August 2018
There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade relationship as part of the NAFTA talks.
–David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Yet while Mr. Trump may try to change the name, the agreement reached with Mexico is simply a revised Nafta
Saturday 25 August 2018
Tuesday 21 August 2018
The announcement is also expected to include details of when Canadian officials will be returning to Washington to resume talks with the other two nations.
Friday 17 August 2018
On Friday, the United States and Mexico appeared close to agreeing on how to revise the 24-year-old Nafta deal. Canada [...] was not party to the talks.
Friday 10 August 2018
Friday 3 August 2018
One of the thorniest issues between the United States and Mexico has been the rules that govern whether automobiles qualify for zero tariffs under Nafta.
Wednesday 18 July 2018
And so trade restrictions aimed at preventing U.S. jobs from heading to Mexico and elsewhere have instead hampered a Mexican company’s multimillion-dollar effort to create jobs in the United States
Wednesday 11 July 2018
...as part of cost-cutting measures.
Monday 2 July 2018
López Obrador, winner of Mexican election, given broad mandate
Sunday 1 July 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
Tuesday 19 June 2018
Protesters crashed her meal, yelling “shame!” and “If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace!” while Nielsen appeared to look down at her phone before eventually exiting the restaurant.
Friday 15 June 2018
The number represents a dramatic uptick from the nearly 1,800 family separations that Reuters reported had happened from October 2016 through February of this year.
Monday 4 June 2018
Friday 1 June 2018
Mexico has adopted a poised and consistent stance in its responses, one it has refined over the course of the two years that Mr. Trump has lashed out at the country with insults and threats
Thursday 31 May 2018
Thursday 17 May 2018
...the lead American trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said the countries involved were “nowhere near close to a deal.”
Friday 4 May 2018
Tuesday 1 May 2018
The extension reflects concerns by the Trump administration of a swift retaliation on American products by European Union nations
Sunday 29 April 2018
More than 150 migrants, part of a caravan that once numbered about 1,200 and headed north in March from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, were prepared to seek asylum from United States immigration officials.
Thursday 26 April 2018
Monday 23 April 2018
Friday 13 April 2018
Monday 9 April 2018
Mexico said on Monday it will review all forms of cooperation with the United States, including efforts to combat powerful drug cartels, in a sign of mounting frustration over President Donald Trump’s antagonistic attitude toward the country.
Saturday 7 April 2018
Thursday 5 April 2018
A final agreement is far from guaranteed, but the White House is revising some of its more aggressive demands, particularly related to automobiles
Wednesday 4 April 2018
She said the National Guard troops would be deployed as quickly as possible and gave no indication of how long the mission might last.
Tuesday 3 April 2018
...to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America
Monday 2 April 2018
Sunday 1 April 2018
In a fiery series of Sunday morning tweets, sent an hour after he wished Americans a “HAPPY EASTER" and minutes before he attended a church service here, Trump vowed, “NO MORE DACA DEAL.”
Friday 30 March 2018
Trump promised to build a “big, beautiful” wall, but a border official’s description of the first major steps of the project framed it as more of a fixer-upper.
“I would say that it’s all new because there’s a different design going in, it’s replacing stuff that’s unsuitable,” he said. “I would call it all new. It replaces what is existing.”
Tuesday 13 March 2018
"There's a lot of problems in Mexico — they have a lot of problems over there," he said. "The fact is, if you don't have a wall system it would be bedlam, I imagine."
Thursday 8 March 2018
Trump agreed to exempt, for now, Canada and Mexico and held out the possibility of later excluding allies such as Australia.
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Kushner, who also met with Mexico’s foreign minister, did not invite the American ambassador — Roberta S. Jacobson, a diplomat with more than 30 years of experience in the region — to join him in the meetings
“This is not the way foreign policy normally is, or should be, conducted”
Monday 5 March 2018
Saturday 3 March 2018
“Why are we signing a trade deal with a country that would unilaterally decide to restrict certain sectors?”
Thursday 1 March 2018
Jacobson, who spent 31 years as a diplomat, becomes the latest veteran foreign service officer to step down in an unusual exodus of senior talent under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Saturday 24 February 2018
One Mexican official said Trump “lost his temper.” But U.S. officials described him instead as being frustrated and exasperated, saying Trump believed it was unreasonable for Peña Nieto to expect him to back off his crowd-pleasing campaign promise of forcing Mexico to pay for the wall.
Friday 23 February 2018
Tuesday 6 February 2018
The case, which was initially three separate lawsuits before being consolidated by Curiel, represents a substantial legal challenge to the construction of Trump’s potential border wall.
Monday 29 January 2018
Government officials and trade analysts described the mood around the talks as “cautiously optimistic” as Canada, in particular, joined Mexico in offering counterproposals to America’s requests for drastic changes
Thursday 18 January 2018
Friday 6 October 2017
Trump’s Twitter bombs and rhetorical attacks on what he calls the “worst deal ever made” and his administration’s vague and confusing proposals have dismayed Canada, which is now exploring backup options. And they have infuriated Mexico ahead of a presidential election in which voters are demanding that their leaders stand up to the United States.
Tuesday 19 September 2017
...rattling the capital and sending people flooding into the streets for the second time in just two weeks.
Thursday 14 September 2017
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Mexico will no longer send the emergency aid offered to Texas after Hurricane Harvey, to focus on those affected by a deadly earthquake and Hurricane Katia that struck the eastern state of Veracruz last week
Saturday 9 September 2017
Friday 8 September 2017
About 50 million people across Mexico felt the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2
Friday 1 September 2017
Trade negotiators from Canada, Mexico and the United States resume discussions on Friday over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Thursday 31 August 2017
The relative dearth of global goodwill, some analysts say, may stem from anger at Trump over his “America First” approach to the world, which has irked even staunch U.S. allies.
Sunday 27 August 2017
Thursday 24 August 2017
The White House isn't even pretending that Mexico is going to pay for that wall anymore.
Thursday 3 August 2017
"But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall – I have to."
"This is going to kill me. I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."
"I spoke to Putin, Merkel, Abe of Japan, to France today, and this was my most unpleasant call"
"What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?"
"I have had it. I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous."
The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”
Thursday 29 June 2017
Thursday 22 June 2017
Wednesday 7 June 2017
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Mexico agreed to demands from the United States to cut exports of refined sugar, striking a deal on Tuesday in a contentious trade negotiation that was closely watched as a prologue to talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Sunday 4 June 2017
...businesses on both sides of the border are watching to gauge what the sugar negotiations signal about Washington’s approach to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Thursday 18 May 2017
...notifying lawmakers that it intends to open trade talks with Canada and Mexico in an attempt to renegotiate NAFTA
Thursday 27 April 2017
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Trump is almost certainly not going to get his money for a wall on the border with Mexico this week.
Sunday 23 April 2017
Trump wants funding to be included in a spending measure that would keep the government open past April 28
Tuesday 18 April 2017
What Mexican analysts have called the “China card”—a threat to align with America’s greatest competitor—is an extreme retaliatory option.
Saturday 15 April 2017
Trump ... has already provoked a nationalist surge in Mexico, uniting the country across political and economic divides in outrage at his stance on immigration, trade and border security.
Saturday 18 March 2017
The proposal said the wall should be about 30-foot high, but added that it could be lower in some instances.
Thursday 16 March 2017
Key GOP senators expressed concerns this week about who would foot the bill for the wall, with some bluntly voicing doubts that Mexico will cover it, as Trump has vowed.
Friday 10 March 2017
...that percentage could very likely be lower ... but there it still enough data to conclude that a very significant number of Americans living in Mexico are not there legally.
Thursday 9 March 2017
Thursday 23 February 2017
While the White House touted the relationship Wednesday as "phenomenal," Tillerson acknowledged problems.
Wednesday 22 February 2017
...and a separate effort to take a hard look at all American aid to Mexico, possibly using it to pay for a border wall instead.
The furtive visit came as the Trump administration set off this week to reshape the nation’s immigration policy
Saturday 11 February 2017
Monday 6 February 2017
Trump said that media reports of what appeared to be angry exchanges between him and the two foreign leaders had been mischaracterized, and insisted that he had “positive” relations with both countries and their leaders.
Thursday 2 February 2017
Trump seems to believe that chaos and unpredictability are good in and of themselves because they can keep US adversaries trying to guess what Washington will do next.
Wednesday 1 February 2017
“You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.”
Friday 27 January 2017
Even before Jan. 20, Mexico was already a tinderbox.
Thursday 26 January 2017
Spicer dodged reporters' questions about the impact of the border tax on American consumers
This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the working meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with @POTUS
We are going to finance the Secure Fence Act
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Mexico has repeatedly said it will not pay for any border wall.