Mexican President López Obrador famously ran on an anti-corruption platform to win last year’s election. He promised that eliminating corruption would save lots of money, and he underlined this commitment to saving money by promising a severe government austerity program. He started by slashing his own salary and those of…
On September 30, 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published the proposed text of the agreement to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new tripartite agreement — still subject to further revision — is comprised of 34 chapters, 11…