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Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia! 

Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia! 

March 1, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came back with an imaginary scene I found pleasurable and instructive all at once: What if Claudia Sheinbaum went to see…

Mexico’s Solution to the Border Crisis

Mexico’s Solution to the Border Crisis

December 11, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

López Obrador’s $20 billion development plan gives Washington a chance to help rectify the historic damage it’s done to the living conditions of people in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, writes Patrick Lawrence. A Latin American Marshall Plan, at a…

Why Trump’s NAFTA Strategy Is a Surefire Failure

Why Trump’s NAFTA Strategy Is a Surefire Failure

August 18, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Long-awaited talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement began in Washington Wednesday. And it doesn’t look good for President Trump and Robert Lighthizer, his special trade representative and leader of the U.S. delegation facing Mexican and Canadian officials. This is…

Trump Just Blew His Chance to Renegotiate NAFTA

Trump Just Blew His Chance to Renegotiate NAFTA

January 27, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

President Donald Trump’s determination to upend the accords that frame American trade policy are taking root. Even before Trump spiked the Trans–Pacific Partnership on Monday, the White House had signaled that the new president would renegotiate the North American Free…

The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence

The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence

July 15, 2014 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

If you want to really understand what’s happening at the border, revisit the violence we visited upon the region Some years ago, I flew in from Asia to interview some State Department people and stayed with my dear friend Judith…

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