Ana Campoy

Monterrey, Mexico

There are two ways of looking at Laredo, Texas, a border city at the southern edge of the US.

More than 20 years ago, then-US president Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico into law. Today, prodded by president Donald Trump, negotiators from the three countries will start talks to revamp it.

Much of the world is horrified by what’s going on in Venezuela. Dozens of dead protestors. Jailed opponents. Food shortages and decaying hospitals.

Los Angeles’s 1984 Olympics were a financial success, setting off an era of expensive one-upmanship among cities wanting to replicate it. As competition increased, Olympic bids got more lavish and extravagant.

Venezuela voted to elect a constituent assembly on July 30. The new body will have the power to bypass the opposition-dominated national assembly, potentially eliminating most checks and balances on the government.

On the face of it, John Kelly’s new job as White House chief of staff looks easier than the one he’s held as US president Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary. For starters, the retired Marine general will be managing 377 staffers instead of the 240,000 he has overseen at the Department of Homeland Security. But the stories of vicious power struggles within the Trump White House suggest the job could be much tougher. Combat experience might prove handy.

US president Donald Trump is celebrating Foxconn’s decision to build a new plant in Wisconsin as a personal win. Had he not been elected, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer wouldn’t be planning to invest $10 billion to build LCD screens in the US, he said when he announced the plans on July 26.

We collected years of data for every state and province in North America, and the conclusion is clear: US president Donald Trump’s belief that manufacturing equals prosperity doesn’t hold up.

Conservative politicians in Washington DC, including president Donald Trump, are intent on bringing back jobs that have migrated to Mexico.

One of the very first things Donald Trump did after becoming president was to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Now, he wants to revive parts of the 12-nation trade deal—which he called “a potential disaster” last year—and put them into a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).

The Trump administration has expanded the meaning of “America First” to include foreign workers willing to take on low-skill work.

American corn farmers are getting a taste of what a less-friendly relationship with Mexico could entail.

Who knew a unibrow could be such a popular look?

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill increasing prison sentences for undocumented immigrants who illegally reenter the country after being deported. Its aim is to prevent tragedies of the kind that befell Kathryn Steinle, a 32-year-old woman who was shot and killed in 2015 by an undocumented immigrant.

The US announced today (June 28) it’s rolling out a set of new, largely undisclosed security measures targeting some 2,000 international flights arriving at American airports every day.

After more than 50 years of bloody war with the government, Colombia’s biggest guerrilla force is now unarmed.

Donald Trump’s attempt to stop letting citizens from six (originally seven) majority-Muslim countries into the US was one of his first moves as president, and it ran into repeated legal challenges. Today, in a 16-page opinion, the Supreme Court said it would hear the case for the ban later this year. Meanwhile, it’s allowing the government to implement it—but with caveats that have some observers scratching their heads.

The US Supreme Court is holding the last session of its current term today (June 26)—and it is the final chance the justices will have to settle several weighty issues before the court’s annual summer recess.

It’s no secret there’s widespread racism in Mexico, but a new study shows the surprising precision with which skin color can determine socio-economic status.

Tequila is for sipping, not shots—and certainly not for chugging out of a beer bottle with trace amounts of Mexico’s most famous export. At least that’s the stance of the country’s Tequila Regulatory Council, which is threatening to sue Heineken over its tequila-flavored beer Desperados, the Financial Times reports.

Automaker Ford said June 20 it won’t move production of its Focus model from the US to Mexico after all. The company now plans to make the cars in China, and ship them to the US.

“You don’t have the balls to watch how I make out with your partner.” That’s the kind of text message several journalists and human right activists in Mexico received as part of a campaign to hack into their phones.

Some of Donald Trump’s supporters are starting to feel as bewildered and frustrated with the erratic US president as people on the opposite side of the political spectrum.