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Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

October 1, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Why the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue Should Engage Sub-National Leaders

September 20, 2013, Joseph Parilla and Alan Berube

How Important Are Mexico's Proposed Tax System Reforms?

September 18, 2013, Andrés Rozental

Will Teachers' Resistance Derail Mexico's Education Reforms?

September 10, 2013, Andrés Rozental

Harold Trinkunas Named Senior Fellow and Director of the Foreign Policy at Brookings Latin America Initiative

September 10, 2013

Is Peña Nieto's Energy Reform Plan Bold Enough for Investors?

August 19, 2013, Andrés Rozental

Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill

August 14, 2013, David L. Goldwyn, Neil R. Brown and Cory R. Gill

Reforming PEMEX: Awaking the Mexican Bronco

August 7, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

Is Peña Nieto's Infrastructure Program on the Right Track?

July 25, 2013, Andrés Rozental

What Does the Capture of the Zetas' Leader Mean for Mexico?

July 22, 2013, Andrés Rozental

Political Violence Surrounding Mexico’s Local Elections

July 17, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

The Besieged Polis: Citizen Insecurity in Latin America

July 8, 2013, Kevin Casas-Zamora

President Peña Nieto’s New Security Strategy: Implications for U.S.-Mexico Cooperation

June 24, 2013

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The End of Nostalgia

Mexico Confronts the Challenges of Global Competition

2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte, ed.

Crime–War Battlefields

June 6, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

What Is the Future of U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation?

May 8, 2013, Andrés Rozental

Part of the emphasis on the economic relationship is also an attempt to change the perception in America about Mexico and Mexican immigrants.

May 2, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, National Journal

Obama’s Mexico Trip: Putting Trade and Investment at the Top of the Agenda

May 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

President Obama's Trip to Mexico Emphasizes America's Future Economic Prosperity and Security

May 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Ted Piccone

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A Conversation on President Obama’s Trip to Mexico and Costa Rica

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Ted Piccone and Neil Ruiz

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This is a new world, this is a much more integrated American market than we’ve seen in the past. I think updating the American people on this reality is the main objective for the White House.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Washington Times

The bilateral relationship at least with Mexico has been dominated by drugs and violence. I think there is going to be a concerted effort here to refocus attention on the depth and size of the economic relationship.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, New York Times

President Obama’s Visit to Mexico: Key Anti-Crime Issues

April 26, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Obama-Peña Nieto Meeting: Critical Issues in the Upcoming U.S.-Mexico Talks

April 11, 2013

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What Will the Proposed Telecom Overhaul Mean for Mexico?

March 25, 2013, Andrés Rozental