Episode 28: Pemex and Energy Policy under AMLO (Guest: Fluvio Ruiz Alarcón)
Fluvio Ruiz Alarcón, former board member of Pemex and advisor on energy issues to López Obrador during the presidential campaign, discusses the changes in energy policy the new administration could pu...
27 Sep 201820min
Episode 27: Defining and Measuring Corruption: The Case Study of Mexico (Guest: Ivan Rodriguez Sanchez)
Iván Rodríguez, postdoctoral research fellow in international trade at the Baker Institute Mexico Center, discusses his recent paper, "Understanding the Problems and Obstacles of Corruption in Mexico,...
13 Sep 201818min
Episode 26: Psychological Distress Among Undocumented Immigrants (Guest: Luz Garcini)
Luz Garcini, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University, discusses her research on the psychological distress among undocumented Mexican immigrants living in hi...
30 Aug 201829min
Episode 25: The Impact of a Border Wall on Biodiversity (Guest: Scott Egan)
Scott Egan, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University and a Rice faculty scholar at the Mexico Center, discusses the impact a continuous border wall can have on the natural populations of ...
16 Aug 201821min
Episode 24: Mexico’s Corruption Problem (Guest: Paul Lagunes)
Paul Lagunes, the 2018 Board of Advisors Visiting Fellow, and an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, talks about the role of transparency in fighti...
2 Aug 201825min
Episode 23: AMLO and the future of Mexico’s energy reform (Guest: Miriam Grunstein)
Miriam Grunstein, nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute Mexico Center and chief energy counsel at Brilliant Energy Consulting, discusses the energy reform in light of López Obrador’s victory in M...
19 Jul 201820min
Episode 22: Election Day in Mexico and the Results (Guest: Tony Payan)
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Mexico Center at the Baker Institute, analyzes the results from the July 1st election and the victory of le...
5 Jul 201825min
Episode 21: Telecommunications Reform in Mexico (Guest: Clara Luz Alvarez)
Clara Luz Álvarez, nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and professor at the Universidad Panamericana, discusses the telecommunications reform of 2013 in the context of the current presidential e...
21 Jun 201820min
