On January 6, I was invited to a speech by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) in Juarez. AMLO was traveling through Mexico’s northern border region to promote the January 1 launching of his northern border zone program, which he calls his “border free zone.” Comprised of 43 border municipalities, the elements of this […]

A couple of weekends ago, I drove to the Pink Store in Palomas, Mexico, directly across the border from Columbus, N.M., to search for some Mexican yard pottery and Christmas gifts. For those of you who have not been to either border city, Columbus has a population of about 1,800, and Palomas has a population […]

And then there were three again. On September 30, Canada and the U.S. announced that they had come to an agreement on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). On August 27, the U.S. and Mexico announced that they had come to terms on their end of the renegotiations, and it was […]