by jpitney | Aug 17, 2025 | Canada, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Reagan, Russia, Trade
Ronald Reagan’s Announcement of Candidacy, November 13, 1979: On the foreign front, the decade of the 1980s will place severe pressures upon the United States and its allies. We can expect to be tested in ways calculated to try our patience, to confound...
by jpitney | Mar 4, 2023 | Democracy, Mexico
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Populists who fashion themselves as tribunes of the people have never met institutional checks and balances they can happily abide. Seeing themselves and their parties as embodiments of the majority will, any constraint on their power is...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico, Ukraine
From the International Federation of Journalists: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today renewed its call on the international community for concrete action to protect the safety and freedoms of journalists as it recorded a spike in the numbers of...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
AP: A journalist who ran an online local news program was shot to death Monday in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Monday that Fredid Román was gunned down in the...
by jpitney | Jun 28, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
by jpitney | Jun 18, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
Matt Rivers at CNN: Stumbling upon a murder scene is not uncommon in Tijuana. In a country plagued by homicide, the city stands out. There have been more than 800 homicides registered so far this year alone, according to city officials — and that’s only...
