Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Divided Congress, Good or Bad?

Image: Wildpixel on iStock After a very messy election and nearly $17 billion in campaign spending, the Democrats did better than projected and retained the Senate, although they lost control of the House of Representatives. People wonder why, at a time of enormous inflation, crime in the streets, and a rather incapable president with popularity …

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AMLO, Petro: War on Drugs?

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …

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