Four Years After His Inauguration, Why is Mexico’s Leader Still Campaigning?
Earlier last month, tens of thousands of people marched through Mexico City in defense of the National Electoral Institute. "It was a clear sign that the opposition, though fragmented, is there," Baker Institute's Center for the U.S. and Mexico Director Tony Payan said.
An Outdated Immigration System Is Deporting U.S. Citizens by Proxy
A faulty immigration system is deporting U.S. citizens by proxy, creating a potential underclass of citizens ill-fitted to claim their place in the American landscape when they return, wrote U.S.-Mexico Center director Tony Payan in an article co-authored with Tran Dang.
Narco Riots Target Civilians and Companies in Post-Chapo Mexico
"This is making people afraid and rethink their investment,” said Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico. “We should expect continued flare-ups, local fights and a generalized environment of violence, crime and terror for the foreseeable future.”
Yes, Fentanyl is Killing Texans. No, Abbott’s Operation Lone Star Won’t Save Them.
"The strategy to me does not match the nature of the drug,” said U.S.-Mexico Center director Tony Payan of Texas Gov. Abbott's plan to target cheap, easily smuggled fentanyl. Big fentanyl drug busts? Not always impressive, Payan added. "Dealers can afford to lose a lot of it and still make a very handsome profit.”