Episode 12: High-Skilled Migration from Mexico and Mexico’s response to US proposed policy changes (Guest: Elizabeth Salamanca)
The issue of immigration has remained a salient topic in U.S.-Mexico relations for over 20 years. In addition to the traditional migration issues, President Trump has expressed his discontent with the...
15 Feb 201821min
Episode 11: Impunity in Mexico (Guest: Juan Antonio Le Clercq)
Juan Antonio Le Clercq, a nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and co-author of the “2017 Global Impunity Index” discusses impunity in Mexico and what the Mexican voter can expect from the campaig...
1 Feb 201820min
Episode 10: Energy Trade between US and Mexico (Guest: Adrian Duhalt)
In August 2017, 67% of Mexico’s natural gas supply came from the United States. In addition, in the energy sector in 2016, US exports to Mexico amounted to $20.2 billion versus the $8.7 billion in imp...
25 Jan 201818min
Episode 9: The Power Structure and the Rules of the Game (Guest: Luis Rubio)
The Mexican economy continues to underperform and the country faces serious issues of public security and corruption. Moreover, the existing structure of power and system of privileges gives politicia...
18 Jan 201820min
Episode 8: Party Coalitions and Deciding the Presidential Candidates (Guest: Tony Payan)
On our first episode of 2018, we talk with Tony Payan, director of the Baker Institute Mexico Center and recap what happened over the winter break in Mexico. The candidate list for the presidential ra...
11 Jan 201821min
Episode 7: Public Security and Organized Crime (Guest: Gary Hale)
On the last episode of 2017, we speak with Gary Hale, the nonresident fellow in drug policy and Mexico studies at the Baker Institute, about organized crime, extortions, and corruption. What can the n...
14 Des 201723min
Episode 6: How Mexico views the U.S. and its impact on the Mexican elections (Guest: Jesus Velasco)
Jesús Velasco, a nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and the Joe and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at Tarleton State University, talks about the evolution of the Mexican people’s a...
7 Des 201714min
Episode 5: Presidential Candidates and Energy Reform (Guest: Francisco Monaldi)
Back from the Thanksgiving break, Francisco J. Monaldi discusses the future of the energy reform in Mexico in the context of the upcoming 2018 presidential election. Monaldi is the fellow in Latin Am...
30 Nov 201720min
