President-elect Donald Trump already questioned a meeting with intelligence officials regarding Russian hacking and openly stated that America needs to “move one” and forget that a foreign country deliberately interfered in our electoral process. Now Trump has set yet another precedent, choosing to take the word of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over that of the United States intelligence community. There are,… Read more »
Citibanamex can’t catch a break. It’s been hammered by a fraud scandal, had its management shaken up, and weathered a lengthy period of uncertainty over whether its parent would hang a for-sale sign above it. The Mexican lender looked to be putting those worries behind it last year, when Citigroup in the US announced a billion-dollar investment in the bank…. Read more »
Apodaca, Mexico — In 30 years at Whirlpool, working at the company’s manufacturing plant in this industrial Mexican town, Jose Luis Rico has witnessed some pretty major changes. The work force has grown, churning out refrigerators that look more like robots than the simple models of his early career. Fueling the changes was a free-trade agreement among Mexico, Canada and… Read more »
What the president of the United States says sets the tone and shapes American foreign policy. As a candidate and even as president-elect, Donald Trump has shown little interest in the protocols, agreements and practices that have marked American foreign policy – and even less interest in spelling out a consistent foreign policy of his own. His impulsive style and… Read more »
Here we go. President-elect Donald Trump apparently tuned in to FOX News Tuesday night for Sean Hannity’s sit down with Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, who appears to be emerging as a surprising ally of some conservatives in Washington. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that Assange backs up his own suspicions over the U.S. government and a variety of independent cybersecurity firms’… Read more »
It’s definitely time for American to look in the mirror and evaluate itself. Many of us need to spend the next 6 weeks thinking hard about how the Washington “establishment” is viewed. If I recall correctly, Donald Trump spent much of his campaign time bashing the inefficacy and unqualified nature of Hillary Clinton in her tenure as Secretary of State…. Read more »
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, staging a historic upset against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For Brazil, this could mean bad news regardless of your political views. As the votes started rolling Trump’s way, stock markets across the globe plunged due to the fear of Trump’s anti-free trade agenda. The Republican’s victory could cause problems… Read more »
When Donald Trump takes office in January, he will inherit a relationship with Latin America vastly different from the one Barack Obama faced when he entered the White House eight years ago. The Obama administration has made tremendous progress when it comes to our neighbors in the Americas, and the president-elect would be wise to sustain that progress by building… Read more »
The simmering distrust between Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence agencies escalated into open antagonism Saturday after the president-elect mocked a CIA report that Russian operatives had intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help him win. The growing tensions set up a potential showdown between Trump and the nation’s top intelligence officials during what some of those officials describe as… Read more »
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, a transition official said Saturday, a selection that would reach outside the traditional foreign policy establishment to elevate a global business deal-maker. Mr. Trump hasn’t yet made a final decision, the official said, but the president-elect heaped praise on Mr. Tillerson… Read more »