The president claims that corruption has been banished but there has not been a single criminal conviction.
Opinion
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After another tough pandemic year, hope is on the horizon
The third wave of COVID is subsiding in Mexico, bringing with it a chance to cautiously relax.
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Can AMLO, Biden and Trudeau get back to important trilateral business?
Differing national priorities may make finding common ground difficult at the first North American Leaders’ Summit since 2016.
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This expat sought sun and cheap living but Mexico offered him much more
After spending years studying how to live truly in the moment, it turned out all Bodie Kellogg needed to do was move to Mazatlán.
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Ending corruption and poverty takes more than political theater
AMLO talks a good game about making Mexico more equitable, but he needs to care as much about his actions as he does his optics.
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In Mexico, animal welfare advocates still battle myopia and indifference
Abuse laws with more teeth and government programs to help strays are win-win ideas, but activists mostly find themselves alone in the fight.
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It’s time for Mexico to kick its fossil fuel addiction
Like a sugar junkie returning to bad habits, the government has swept aside the private renewable energy industry in favor of fossil fuels.
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It’s time expats in Mexico had a communal coming of age
A sewage issue in Ajijic got Greg Custer thinking about how gringo communities often don’t react to local problems in useful ways.
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President’s war on ‘neoliberalism’ moves to university campus
The president’s diatribes against the National Autonomous University appear to some to be a sign of a growing squeeze on dissent.
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Can Mexico be a leader at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?
With its recent hard pivot to fossil fuels, Mexico’s pledges at the COP26 global summit may fall seriously short in fighting global warming.
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Back to school in a pandemic: nerve-wracking but necessary
Denying children their right to an education likely has already done more harm than good. So, finally, it’s back-to-school time.
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Latin America’s environmental villains dodge the COP26 climate summit
The presidents of the region’s two biggest nations—Mexico and Brazil—will be absent when world leaders gather for a crucial summit next week.
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Trees deserve our love and protection, yet we keep destroying them
Reforestation is just one small piece of the environmental puzzle. But if we can’t even protect people, how will we protect trees?
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Cartels are a fact of life in Mexico, yet I feel feel safer here than in the US
Bodie Kellogg finds organized crime’s mostly predictable and avoidable violence more palatable than the random kind north of the border.
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As the pandemic drags on, even the most privileged children are suffering
Even the most dedicated parents can’t replace the value of playing with other children, something kids are missing in the pandemic.
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Heartless, annoying debt collectors are a curse shared across borders
The author plots vengeance against the debt collectors who hound her friend, and inexplicably, harass the author herself.
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Group that sweeps Arizona desert for migrants’ remains makes a lucky find
When Battalion Search and Rescue found the 19-year-old Central American, he’d been abandoned and robbed and was barely alive.
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Where we run out of empathy, compassionate policy must take over
As humans, our ability to feel empathy has limits but just, humane laws can protect us from our own base instincts.
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How a city’s beautification plan became the Great Palm Tree Fiasco
The city’s plan was to create an attractive arborway along a 4.5-kilometer stretch of Mazatlán’s malecón boardwalk. It should have been easy.
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Five questions for Conacyt’s director about Mexico’s offensive on science
Scientist Omar Vidal has some burning questions for María Elena Álvarez-Buylla about the nation’s current state of academic freedom.
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Why does the American dream live on in the hearts of migrants?
Social problems abound in the U.S. yet migrants keep making the dangerous trek across Mexico in search of safety and opportunity.
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Mexico offers a ray of hope after Texas’ devastating abortion ban
Mexico’s decriminalization of abortion offers a surprising — and welcome — counterpoint to Texas’ new restrictive anti-abortion law.
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Mexico and Colombia’s commonalities include both blessings and curses
The two Latin American countries have shared a centuries-old fraternity; they also share similar labyrinthian sociopolitical challenges.
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Is inclusive language here to stay? Either way, a little respect never hurts
Language is a living, changing organism. Whatever the future brings for Spanish, people like feeling included and our word choice can help.
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The specter of high inflation returns to haunt Latin America
Inflation is back with a vengeance in Latin American and central banks are raising rates, some aggressively.
