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Opinion: What would a regional utopia look like? Part 9
With roughly 40 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans (57% of the United States' 68 million Latinos) and at the same time, 1.2 to 1.6 million Americans living in Mexico, the human bridge between the two nations has never been thicker, Pedro Casas writes.
Productivity brings prosperity: Is Mexico really failing at both? A perspective...
Mexico's exports are surging, wages have doubled and poverty is falling — so why has per capita GDP and productivity barely budged in 25 years?
Opinion: Why President Sheinbaum’s ‘Don’t watch TV Azteca’ comment is such...
Why did Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, use her daily news conference to tell citizens not to watch TV Azteca? Writer María Meléndez explains the backstory for what has become a hot button political issue.
How I’m outgrowing US exceptionalism: A work in progress
The myth of U.S. exceptionalism is indoctrinated into those who grow up there. But living in other countries, as the writer does seasonally in Mexico, will force you to question what you thought you knew.
The boom up north: A perspective from our CEO
Mexico News Daily CEO Travis Bembenek returns to Monterrey after six years away to find a city transformed by impressive infrastructure, surging investment and sky-high ambition.
The short and unnecessary drama of Mexico’s aborted school year reduction
Mexican parents panicked when the federal education minister planned to cut the school year short by six weeks with hardly any notice.
Opinion: Sheinbaum, Meloni and Takaichi — a comparison worth exploring
For the first time in modern history, women lead Mexico, Italy and Japan at the same time. They have almost nothing else in common — and that is precisely the point, writes María Meléndez.
Opinion: What would a regional utopia look like? Part 8
Mexico’s brand isn’t broken; it’s just under-marketed. We must work on perceptions as hard as we work on any policy initiative, argues the CEO of AmCham Pedro Casas.
The airplane landing from hell that left me inspired: A perspective from our CEO
A dust storm, two failed landings and a diversion to Morelia turned a routine trip into a nightmare — and a lesson in human kindness, Travis Bembenek writes.
Opinion: What would a regional utopia look like? Part 7
This summer's World Cup is the perfect excuse to lock in permanent structures that turn the pitch into the place where Mexico, the U.S. and Canada finally play as one team, Pedro Casas writes.
Opinion: ICE detentions are a humanitarian crisis the world will remember long after Trump
President Sheinbaum is not taking lightly the deaths of 15 Mexicans this year in ICE detention, yet her options are limited.
Opinion: Sheinbaum’s political gambit reshapes Mexico in her own image
Eighteen months into her term as Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum is making strategic moves to consolidate her power, María Meléndez explains.
Opinion: What would a regional utopia look like? Part 6
CEO of AmCham Pedro Casas explains the five elements necessary for the new USMCA to transform from a simple trade agreement into a strategic framework for joint North American industrialization.
Why getting uncomfortable may be the most important skill you can give your child today: A perspective from our CEO
In an era of unprecedented comfort and safety, studying abroad pushes young people to grow and problem-solve in a way regular classrooms just can’t match, Travis Bembenek writes.
Opinion: What would a regional utopia look like? Part 5
Mexico doesn’t just want to be the U.S.’s cheap assembly shop; it wants to be the reliable, high-value enabler that attracts the full nearshoring wave. That requires growing the energy matrix, CEO of AmCham Pedro Casas writes.
Opinion: Seat 34B is not a foreign policy
The videos of President Sheinbaum boarding a commercial flight are good storytelling. The problem is that good storytelling and good governance are not the same thing, and confusing the two has costs, María Meléndez writes.
