End of preview - This article contains approximately 1145 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 14 October 2021 (WR-21-41)
Mexico and US seal broad-brush security alliance
The Mexican and US governments launched a much-trumpeted new alliance this week which will endeavour to go beyond shared security concerns to embrace a diffuse collection of tangentially related issues. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, hailed a “new chapter” in bilateral security cooperation, while Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard maintained that the alliance was unprecedented and betokened “a partnership that is superior, qualitatively speaking”. Only time will tell how much substance lies beneath the rhetoric, but at first blush the new Bicentennial Framework on Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities looks less original than portrayed, while containing a number of good intentions modelled on the ‘abrazos no balazos’ approach advocated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
- Mexico and US seal broad-brush security alliance
- ECUADOR: Lasso feels the heat over Pandora Papers
- BOLIVIA: Government and opposition stage rival protests
- PERU: Vásquez reaches out to opposition
- COLOMBIA: Duque’s US trip pays dividends
- ARGENTINA: The Martín and Kristalina show
- PARAGUAY: Partido Colorado exceeds electoral expectations
- CHILE: Realignment on the right?
- BRAZIL: Call to hold Bolsonaro criminally liable for Amazon destruction
- REGION: A small step towards resolution of Mercosur stalemate?
- COSTA RICA: Race wide open ahead of February
- CUBA: More moves towards a mixed economy
- HONDURAS: Corruption stalks presidential frontrunner
- Death of prominent Venezuelan political prisoner fuels controversy
- Quotes of the week