As local Texas leaders stall cannabis decriminalization due to potential retribution from state lawmakers, Baker Drug Policy's Katharine Neill Harris said claims that marijuana reforms lead to more crimes are not supported by evidence.
On Houston Matters' last political roundup of the year, fellow Mark P. Jones discussed major developments from 2022, including the Dobbs decision, Trump's impact on the 2022 elections and Beto O'Rourke's loss in the Texas governor's race.
While Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pledged to complete major projects during his term, his government’s ability to move them forward “has been weak and out of focus, as in the case of increasing the supply of natural gas,” said Baker Center for the U.S. and Mexico’s Adrian Duhalt.
"The Qataris are not going to let a big European energy crisis go to waste," fellow Jim Krane told The New York Times, as Russian energy exports to the continent slow and Qatar maneuvers to become a critical source of natural gas.
“This is a long-term horizon business, and Latin American politics is factional and short-sighted,” said Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin American Energy Program at the Center for Energy Studies.