Is Congress Likely to Approve the USMCA This Year?
What is the outlook and most-likely timeline for advancing USMCA in the 116th Congress?
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¿Aprobará el Congreso el USMCA este año?
¿Cuál es el camino más probable hacia la aprobación del USMCA?
¿Ejercerán un nuevo poder los sindicatos de México bajo AMLO?
¿Cuáles son las razones detrás de las huelgas de los trabajadores, y habrá más conflictos laborales en los próximos meses?
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The Outlook for Renewable Energy under the AMLO Administration
AMLO’s skepticism of private investment, the cancellation of generation and transmission auctions, and the return to state-led electricity development through bolstering of the CFE threaten to squander Mexico’s renewable potential and drag its clean development efforts backwards.
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Trump amenaza y AMLO se defiende: ¿Dónde está el problema?
El presidente Donald Trump amenaza con cerrar la frontera con México si el presidente de ese país, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, no detiene de inmediato la inmigración ilegal. Manuel Orozco habló con CNN Español sobre la decisión de Trump.
Regulators and Companies Still Central to Mexico’s Energy Sector
Regulators and private companies will continue to play important roles in the development of Mexico’s energy resources despite President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s focus on strengthening state-owned companies and enhancing “energy sovereignty” by reducing dependence on energy imports from the United States. This was the key message from speakers at “La nueva política energética de México,” an Inter-American Dialogue event in Mexico City.
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A Conversation with Carlos Urzúa, Mexico’s Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
On April 12, the Inter-American Dialogue partnered with the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute to host a conversation with Carlos Urzúa, the current Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit.
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La CEPAL propone un plan de desarrollo económico regional para Centroamérica y México
Esta semana, la CEPAL presentó a México la propuesta del Plan de Desarrollo Integral para el El Salvador-Guatemala-Honduras-México. Manuel Orozco comentó para CNN acerca de este plan de desarrollo.
Mexico’s Problematic Energy Policy
Just as Pemex bonds suffered a downgrading to junk status by Fitch, Lisa Viscidi, director of the Energy Program, sat down with Nathaniel Parish Flannery of Forbes to discuss the state of Mexico’s energy sector, including oil and gas, regulators, and renewables, seven months into the AMLO administration.
¿Qué ganan México y China de lazos más fuertes?
¿Cómo se verían los lazos más fuertes entre México y China, y cómo puede ganar cada país?
Mexico’s Energy Reform: Bridging the Skills Gap
Firms across Latin America are complaining about the difficulties of recruiting workers with the technical skills their businesses demand. Lack of adequate skills is becoming a bottleneck for growth in technologically complex industries, harming government efforts to increase investment in strategic sectors of the economy. In Mexico, the energy reform creates opportunities to generate new jobs and educate and train workers in specialized skillsets, but the country will also face challenges in meeting additional demand for skilled labor.
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The Oil from Ipanema
Brazil has vast oil reserves, but can the Bolsonaro government get the energy to market? Lisa Viscidi tells Richard Miles of CSIS that reforms are already in place that will enable oil production “to take off.” The real obstacles are the financial stability of Petrobras, the shaky state oil conglomerate, and the monopoly that the state has on most aspects of energy production, delivery, and even retail sales.
México: Informes de Progreso de Políticas de Primera Infancia
El Informe de Progreso de Políticas de Primera Infancia de México, elaborado por Mexicanos Primero, busca medir el avance hacia el cumplimiento de los acuerdos de la Agenda Regional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Primera Infancia.
How Unstable Has Mexico’s Payment System Become?
How stable and secure are Mexico’s payments systems?
Presentation to FERC: The US-Mexico Energy Trade Relationship Under AMLO
Lisa Viscidi, director of the Energy Program, gave a presentation to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Mexican energy policy under AMLO and its implications for US-Mexico energy trade.