Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River, discusses his recent article for Audubon Magazine where he wrote about a grand dream for an international park encompassing Big Bend on the U.S side and Santa Elena and Maderas del Carmen on the Mexican side. Cantú talks about what he learned during his visit about the different approaches of the two countries when it comes to conservation and the current cooperation that happens across the Rio Grande. For more information on the Baker Institu...
May 13, 2022•33 min
Richard J. Kilroy , nonresident scholar at the Center for the United States and Mexico and associate professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University, discusses the role of Mexico’s National Guard in President López Obrador’s public safety strategy. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center for the U.S. and Me...
Mar 28, 2022•22 min
Peniley Ramírez , investigative journalist and columnist for the newspaper Reforma, talks about the dangers of being a journalist in Mexico, the mechanisms in place to protect journalists, and the relationship between Lopez Obrador and the media. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center for the U.S. and Mexico Co...
Mar 03, 2022•30 min
Tony Payan , director of the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico , discusses what happened in 2021 to Mexico’s economy, politics, public health, and to the binational relationship with the United States. He also sets out expectations for 2022. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center for the U...
Dec 03, 2021•32 min
José Núñez, the vice president for Global Development at Houston Methodist’s Global Health Care Services, talks about how Mexican patients access healthcare services in the United States, what Houston Methodist’s partnerships with the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and Mexico City’s ABC Medical Center entail, and how the coronavirus pandemic affected these services and collaborations. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and ...
Nov 08, 2021•20 min
Alicia Kerber Palma , consul general of Mexico in Houston since 2019, talks about her time in the Mexican Foreign Service, the programs and services provided by Mexico’s Consulate General in Houston, feminist foreign policy, and the binational relationship. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center for the U.S. an...
Oct 15, 2021•30 min
This podcast is in Spanish. Eduardo Guerrero , socio fundador y director de Lantia Consultores y Lantia Intelligence, habla sobre la complicada situación de seguridad nacional y el incremento en la violencia relacionada al crimen organizado en México. Para mayor información sobre el Centro para Estados Unidos y México del Instituto Baker, visite nuestra página web: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX...
Aug 23, 2021•27 min
Tony Payan , the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University, discusses the implications of the 2021 midterm elections for Mexico’s president, the president's party, the opposition, and electoral institutions. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subsc...
Jun 10, 2021•25 min
On June 6, Mexico will hold its midterm elections. A total of 21,368 elected positions will be on the ballot, making this the largest single-day election in Mexico’s history. The results will define Mexico’s political landscape through at least 2024, and may also determine whether President López Obrador and his political party, MORENA, will continue to hold the majority of power. Javier Martin Reyes , Professor of Constitutional Law, Election Law and Judicial Politics at CIDE, joins us to discu...
May 14, 2021•37 min
James Gerber, professor emeritus of economics at San Diego State University, and Eduardo Mendoza, professor in the Department of Economic Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, discuss the challenges in making comparisons between sub-national units across the U.S.-Mexico border with existing data. They offer recommendations for future data collection efforts to help answer questions about economic and social integration at the border region. Their research can be found in the edited volume ...
Apr 22, 2021•25 min
Catherine Glazer, U.S. immigration attorney, discusses what the current path to permanent residency is, the obstacles for DACA recipients, and potential avenues the current administration could pursue to grant permanent legal status to Dreamers. Glazer is the author of the recently published research paper "T he Materialization of a Dream: Creating a Pathway to Permanent Residency for DACA recipients ” published by the Center for the United States and Mexico . For more information on the Baker I...
Apr 01, 2021•22 min
Vincent Speranza, Managing Director of Endeavor Mexico , discusses the growth of venture capital and entrepreneurship in Mexico, the role of Endeavor in supporting entrepreneurs, and the challenges and opportunities during the pandemic. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Cen...
Mar 15, 2021•25 min
Tony Payan , director of the Baker Institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico , discusses the expectations for Mexico in 2021 in regard to the country's economy, politics, public health, and the binational relationship with the United States under the Biden administration. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please ...
Jan 20, 2021•29 min
Michael S. Malone , high-technology/business journalist, producer of the award-winning PBS miniseries The New Heroes, editor of Forbes ASAP magazine, and Dean’s Executive Professor at Santa Clara University, talks about his recent book, " El Tercer País ", where he explores the connections between San Diego and Tijuana, the history of the border region and the growing bi-national partnership. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at...
Dec 14, 2020•24 min
Mark P. Jones , fellow in political science at the Baker Institute and the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies at Rice University, talks about the binational relationship between the United States and Mexico in the context of the 2020 presidential election and the new president-elect. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our maili...
Nov 17, 2020•20 min
Eva Moya, Associate Professor, and Silvia Chavez-Baray, Post Doctoral Fellow, at the Department of Social Work, University of Texas at El Paso , talk about the unique characteristics of the US-Mexico border, the health of its residents, and the challenges and opportunities of managing health policy and outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their research can be found in the edited volume "The Future of US-Mexico Relations: Strategic Foresight" available at Arte Público Press and Amazon . For mo...
Oct 23, 2020•26 min
Lucas McMillan , Dean, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences, Lander University; and Jorge Schiavon , Professor of International Relations at the International Studies Department, CID, talk about the ways in which subnational actors in Mexico and the U.S. engage to further international cooperation in benefit of their state or locality; how the current dynamics between the U.S. and Mexico have promoted or hindered these relationships; and what we can expect to see in the future. Their rese...
Sep 25, 2020•28 min
Richard Kilroy , nonresident scholar in the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico and associate professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University; and Abelardo Rodriguez Sumano , professor and researcher at Universidad Iberoamericana, discuss the key drivers impacting national security and defense relations between the United States and Mexico and offer possible scenarios for the future, along with policy recommendations to support the avoidance of conflict. Their paper, "Av...
Aug 20, 2020•25 min
In this episode, Tony Payan , director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University's Baker Institute, analyzes the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico. The Center hosted a webinar conversation on Mexico's response to the pandemic on April 1, 2020. It is available to view here . For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subs...
Jun 05, 2020•29 min
Nora Haenn , associate professor of anthropology and international studies at North Carolina State University, talks about how women experience and deal with the disruption to family dynamics that comes from migration and how they work to keep families together. Haenn’s new book Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico explores this subject. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at...
Mar 27, 2020•28 min
Tamaulipas governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca discusses his administration’s plans to tackle drug-related violence and improve public safety as well as increase the production of shale gas and oil in the state. The Center for the United States and Mexico hosted governor García Cabeza de Vaca on Febraury 7, 2020. For more information, photos and video of the event, visit: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/events/2049/ For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United Sta...
Feb 27, 2020•19 min
Tony Payan , director of the Center for the United States and Mexico , discusses the expectations for the López Obrador administration in 2020. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX , and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn . To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center for the U.S. and Mexico Communications."...
Jan 30, 2020•26 min
Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico's director Tony Payan , and scholars Rodrigo Montes de Oca and Ivan Rodriguez-Sanchez , analyze López Obrador's first year in office, looking at the challenges faced, the successes, and what to keep an eye on in 2020. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center f...
Dec 17, 2019•32 min
Isidro Morales , nonresident scholar at the Center for the United States and Mexico and a senior professor and researcher at Tec de Monterrey, discusses the challenges Mexico faces in achieving self-sufficiency in the energy sector and suggests a path to resilience. This conversation focuses on his recent publication for the Center: The Future of Pemex: A Return to a State-centered Model or a Means to Strengthen Mexico's Energy Resilience? (Spanish, English version is forthcoming). For more info...
Dec 09, 2019•21 min
Luis Arriola , the summer 2016 visiting scholar at the Center for the United States and Mexico and researcher at the Migration Studies and Trans-border Processes Academic Group at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Campeche, talks about the strategy of the López Obrador administration to tackle the issue of immigration and the mounting pressure from the United States government. This conversation discusses Arriola's recent publication for the Center: López Obrador's Initial Policies Toward Central...
Nov 08, 2019•22 min
Cymene Howe , associate professor of anthropology at Rice University, talks about the complexities of energy transitions using the case study of a wind park project in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca from her recent book Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene . For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX To join our mailing list, please subscribe here and make sure to opt-in to "Center f...
Oct 29, 2019•25 min
This podcast is in Spanish. Santiago Nieto, director de la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF) de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, habla sobre la estrategia de combate a la corrupción de la administración de López Obrador. El 28 de agosto de 2019 se organizó un evento con el Dr. Nieto sobre corrupción en México. El video del evento está disponible en la siguiente página: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/events/2016/ Para mayor información sobre el Centro para Estados Unidos y Méxic...
Oct 10, 2019•27 min
David Gantz , Will Clayton Fellow in Trade and International Economics, talks about the future of the USMCA and what is holding the agreement from being ratified. This interview follows an event held at the Baker Institute on September 5, 2019, with The Honorable Kevin Brady, representative for the 8th congressional district of Texas, where the future of the USMCA in the U.S. Congress was discussed. Brady evaluated these important topics in a moderated conversation with David Gantz. To view vide...
Sep 23, 2019•18 min
Stan Marek, CEO of MAREK and a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, discusses his efforts to see immigration reform passed and the politics in Congress. Marek talks about his ID and Tax proposal to incorporate undocumented immigrants into the economy and the reasons he cares so much about seeing this through. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX To join our mailing list, plea...
Sep 09, 2019•26 min
Lorenzo Cordova , president councillor of Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE) discusses the role of electoral reforms in improving the electoral system, the current proposals by Morena representatives and the criticism these have received, and the controversy following the 2019 gubernatorial election in Baja California. For more information on the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico visit our website at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/USMEX To join our mailing list, pl...
Aug 22, 2019•34 min
