Jorge G. Castañeda

The NAFTA era has seen Mexico become a representative democracy with a functional middle class and a more liberal society

Could it be time for Mexico to legalize marijuana?

Mexico’s Peña Nieto should take a pragmatic lead on the road to legalization

In Europe, Portugal and other countries have begun to consider alternatives to the punitive and prohibitionist policy on drugs imposed by the United States since 1971

There have been more changes concerning the legalization of drugs in Latin America and the United States in recent months than in whole decades

The sovereign immunity debate has entered a new phase as the US government gets involved in the lawsuit against ex-Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, now a US citizen

Mexico is not the country it was in 1994; the media is more independent and other institutions stronger