Mexico

Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena)

02 Feb 2025 4 3

Claudia Sheinbaum

Inserted 1 month ago

“I've instructed my economy minister to implement the Plan B we've been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico's interests.”

President of Mexico

01 Feb 2025 4 3

Marcelo Ebrard

Inserted 1 month ago

“The main impact is clear: millions of families in the United States would have to pay 25 percent more.”

Mexican economy minister

31 Jan 2025 4 2

Kimberley Sperrfechter

Inserted 1 month ago

“Mexico's ability to soften the blow from tariffs is also limited because of budgetary challenges. If tariffs are imposed, the country's currency, the peso, could weaken and make Mexico even more appealing to U.S. tourists, who represent the country's largest international visitor group. But that's unlikely to offset the hit to other sectors.”

Emerging markets economist at Capital Economics in London

31 Jan 2025 6 2

Marcus Noland

Inserted 1 month ago

“Tariffs of 25 percent would be ruinous for Mexico. In effect, it would initiate a process of deindustrialization of Mexico. Such tariffs could reduce Mexico's economic output growth by about 2 percentage points, potentially resulting in large-scale factory closures and job losses.”

Executive vice president and director of studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

31 Jan 2025 7 2

Gabriela Siller

Inserted 3 months ago

“Trump may have just tossed the threat out there, as he does. But Mexico's response, that we're going to respond to you with tariffs, that will make Trump really impose them.”

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Director of economic analysis of the financial group Banco Base

26 Nov 2024 3 1

Falko Ernst

Inserted 7 months ago

“We aren't talking about a structure that depends on a few kingpins - it's very diffuse and resilient to these kinds of hits. If anything the move could spark more violence as factions vie for control amid a vacuum of power at the very top. There's already a bunch of pressure on that structure and there has been a lot of infighting. So we're definitely facing a scenario of greater violence, potentially.”

Senior analyst at the International Crisis Group

26 Jul 2024 5 1

Armando Linares

Inserted 3 years ago

“For exposing corrupt administrations and corrupt officials and politicians, today that led to the death of one of our colleagues. The Monitor Michoacan team has suffered weeks, months of death threats. We know where all of this comes from.”

Director of Monitor Michoacan

01 Feb 2022 5 2

José Miguel Vivanco

Inserted 3 years ago

“President López Obrador is clearly just paying lip service to the human rights concerns surrounding the re-implementation of the 'Remain in Mexico' program. If he were truly concerned with ending the horrific abuses asylum seekers have suffered under the program, he would have clearly and unequivocally refused to participate from day one.”

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Director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division

09 Dec 2021 5 3

Jan-Albert Hootsen

Inserted 3 years ago

“These murders take place within a context of continuously deteriorating security in the country, for all citizens, but particularly for human rights defenders and journalists. These attacks are fueled by impunity, which is almost complete in crimes against the press. The government of [President Andrés Manuel] López Obrador has been unwilling to take any meaningful steps to strengthen the justice state or protect journalists.”

Mexico representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists

01 Nov 2021 4 5

Bernandino Hernández

Inserted 3 years ago

“The situation for journalists in Acapulco and all of Guerrero [state] has worsened. Journalists have been threatened, some have had to flee. It's a really dicey situation.”

Photojournalist in the coastal city of Acapulco

01 Nov 2021 3 4

Carlos Correa

Inserted 3 years ago

“We can't survive in Tapachula. We are asking the government of Mexico to please create a humanitarian corridor for us so we can travel to the (U.S.) border.”

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Colombian migrant in Mexico

28 Aug 2021 1 2

Adrián Fernández Bremauntz

Inserted 4 years ago

“Instead of thinking of a transition from coal and fossil fuels, he's thinking of using more coal and petroleum. No other G20 country has such abnormal or retrograde energy policies as this government [Mexican government]. It's not going to advance us toward our climate goals.”

Director of the environmental organisation Iniciativa Climática de México

15 Feb 2021 2 3

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Inserted 4 years ago

“Now, for example, that there is a US immigration policy to regularise the situation of migrants, Mexicans and our Central American brothers, people think that now the doors are open, that President Biden is going to immediately regularise all migrants. It is not true that everyone can go now to the United States and they will be regularised, that has not been defined yet. Our brother migrants should have this information so that they won't be deceived by human traffickers, who paint a rosy picture.”

President of Mexico

11 Feb 2021 5 2

Gladys McCormick

Inserted 4 years ago

“The logic from the Mexican government was to basically hold off until they could no longer and then impose quarantine measures, knowing full well that individuals in the informal economy wouldn't necessarily be able to abide by social distancing or staying home, in part because they needed to be out to be able to make a living.”

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Associate professor in history who studies Mexico-U.S. Relations at Syracuse University

23 Aug 2020 3 3

Salomon Chertorivski

Inserted 4 years ago

“There are three fundamental variables: a reduction in the last 14 days in the numbers of contagions, reduction in recent days in the number of deaths, and reduction in the number of hospitalized people. None of those three parameters were achieved.”

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Former health minister of Mexico

07 Jul 2020 (approx) 2 2

Jesús Canan

Inserted 6 years ago

“It didn’t rain this year. Last year it didn’t rain, my maize field didn’t produce a thing. With my expenses, everything we invested, we didn’t have any earnings. There was no harvest. It wasn’t the same before. This is forcing us to emigrate,” he said. “In past years, it rained on time. My plants produced, but there’s no longer any pattern [to the weather].”