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April 1, 2021
Blog

Mexico’s Electricity Bill Rolls Back Energy Reforms and Threatens Relations with Trading Partners
… to increase the role of state intervention in Mexico’s energy markets. Through a recent bill, which passed comfortably through Mexico’s Congress on March 2, 2021, AMLO is fulfilling his promise to make changes to Mexico’s Law of …
By Inu Manak and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
March 11, 2021
Blog

Mexico’s Marijuana Legalization
Late last night, lawmakers in Mexico’s lower house overwhelmingly approved a bill to legalize the use, cultivation, and sale of recreational marijuana. Observers expect the higher chamber to pass the bill by a comfortable margin and be signed by …
By Jeffrey Miron and Erin Partin
March 11, 2021
Blog

DHS Expels Families to Mexico & Kids Come Back Alone: La Separación
… 29, 2019 when DHS decided to expel whole families under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as Remain-in-Mexico, to await asylum hearings north of the border. Remain-in-Mexico was supposed to deter asylum seekers from applying …
By David J. Bier
March 2, 2021
Blog

Biden’s “Wait in Mexico” Is Worse Than Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
… Control’s (CDC’s) “Title 42 authorities and return them to Mexico, and we have done that.” If Remain in Mexico was cruel, is “Wait in Mexico” better? Definitely not. Under the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico policy known …
By David J. Bier
January 28, 2021
Antiwar.com

Ugly Yankee: Washington Continues to Bully Mexico on the Drug War
… Mexico on the drug issue was striking. This was hardly the first time that US leaders adopted bullying tactics toward Mexico (as well as other countries) about aspects of the drug war. It also seemed more than coincidental that the …
By Ted Galen Carpenter
December 21, 2020
Blog

Will Mexico’s “Kill Switch” Run Afoul of USMCA Digital Trade Rules?
… also many core principles of digital trade governance the United States is hoping to replicate in other agreements. Why does Mexico want the power to block foreign service providers from providing services in Mexico over the internet? Mexico enacted changes …
By Inu Manak and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
Winter 2020-2021
Regulation

Bad Energy Legislation in New Mexico
Traditionally, the primary goal of electric utility regulation has been to control the pricing behavior of monopoly providers in order to achieve reliable electric supply at a low cost to consumers.
By Kenneth W. Costello
November 13, 2019
The National Interest (Online)

U.S. Military Assistance Cannot Fix Mexico’s Cartel Mayhem
Drone strikes or U.S. special forces missions will not solve Mexico’s cartel and drug problems. Trump needs to resist the temptation to adopt a futile, counterproductive military option in the country.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
November 7, 2019
Blog

Trump Wants to Escalate the Already Disastrous Drug War in Mexico
A prohibition strategy guarantees that violent criminal gangs are the suppliers—with all the accompanying violence and corruption. The bloody struggles in Mexico are merely the latest confirmation of that reality.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
August 23, 2019
Blog

Homicides in Mexico Tripled But Fewer Mexicans Came Illegally
The economic-focused strategy of increasing temporary work visas for Mexicans has succeeded in reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.
By David J. Bier
June 12, 2019
Blog

Mexico Deported More Central Americans Than the U.S. in 2018
The facts don’t back up Trump’s claims about lax enforcement by Mexico.
By David J. Bier
May 24, 2019
Cato Daily Podcast

The Surge of Populism in Mexico
Featuring Roberto Salinas-León and Caleb O. Brown
February 8, 2019
Legal Briefs

Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico
By Samantha Harris, Brynne Madway, Ilya Shapiro, & Trevor Burrus
November 29, 2018
Cato Daily Podcast

New Mexico Begins Innovative Fix to Occupational Licensing
Featuring Paul Gessing and Caleb O. Brown
August 27, 2018
Blog

Today’s U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal: What Was Agreed and What Comes Next
But before we applaud the completion of any deal, what matters most is in the details. From what we know at the moment, those details suggest that NAFTA may have been made worse, not better.
By Simon Lester and Inu Manak

Cato Annual Report

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Spring 2025

Mexico’s Electricity Bill Rolls Back Energy Reforms and Threatens Relations with Trading Partners

Mexico’s Marijuana Legalization

DHS Expels Families to Mexico & Kids Come Back Alone: La Separación

Biden’s “Wait in Mexico” Is Worse Than Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”

Ugly Yankee: Washington Continues to Bully Mexico on the Drug War

Will Mexico’s “Kill Switch” Run Afoul of USMCA Digital Trade Rules?

Bad Energy Legislation in New Mexico

U.S. Military Assistance Cannot Fix Mexico’s Cartel Mayhem

Trump Wants to Escalate the Already Disastrous Drug War in Mexico

Homicides in Mexico Tripled But Fewer Mexicans Came Illegally

Mexico Deported More Central Americans Than the U.S. in 2018

The Surge of Populism in Mexico

Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico

New Mexico Begins Innovative Fix to Occupational Licensing

Today’s U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal: What Was Agreed and What Comes Next