Latest Bakerinstitute Podcast Episodes
Episode 48: A Conversation with the Governor of Tamaulipas
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 27, 2020 16:34 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsTamaulipas 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 Cab...
Episode 48: A Conversation with the Governor of Tamaulipas (Guest: Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 27, 2020 16:34 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsTamaulipas 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 Cab...
Episode 47: Expectations for 2020 (Guest: Tony Payan)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - January 30, 2020 17:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsTony 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 foll...
Episode 47: Expectations for 2020
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - January 30, 2020 17:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsTony 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 foll...
Episode 46: Lopez Obrador's First Year in Office (Guests: Tony Payan, Rodrigo Montes de Oca and Ivan Rodriguez-Sanchez)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - December 17, 2019 23:18 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsBaker 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 o...
Episode 46: Lopez Obrador's First Year in Office
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - December 17, 2019 23:18 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsBaker 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 o...
Episode 45: Lopez Obrador's Energy Policy (Guest: Isidro Morales)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - December 09, 2019 18:02 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsIsidro 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 h...
Episode 45: Lopez Obrador's Energy Policy
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - December 09, 2019 18:02 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsIsidro 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 h...
Episode 44: Migrant Caravans and Mexico's Southern Border
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - November 08, 2019 16:22 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsLuis 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...
Episode 44: Migrant Caravans and Mexico's Southern Border (Guest: Luis Arriola)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - November 08, 2019 16:22 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsLuis 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...
Episode 43: Wind Power in Mexico (Guest: Cymene Howe)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - October 29, 2019 18:14 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsCymene 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 o...
Episode 43: Wind Power in Mexico
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - October 29, 2019 18:14 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsCymene 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 o...
Episode 42: Inteligencia Financiera y Corrupción (Guest: Santiago Nieto)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - October 10, 2019 17:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 42: Inteligencia Financiera y Corrupción
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - October 10, 2019 17:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 41: Ratifying the USMCA (Guest: David Gantz)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - September 23, 2019 16:39 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsDavid 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...
Episode 41: Ratifying the USMCA
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - September 23, 2019 16:39 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsDavid 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...
Episode 40: Immigration reform, a business case
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - September 09, 2019 16:08 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsStan 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 ...
Episode 40: Immigration reform, a business case (Guest: Stan Marek)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - September 09, 2019 16:08 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsStan 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 ...
Episode 39: Electoral Reforms and the Consolidation of the Electoral System in Mexico (Guest: Lorenzo Cordova)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - August 22, 2019 16:51 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsLorenzo 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 gubernator...
Episode 39: Electoral Reforms and the Consolidation of the Electoral System in Mexico
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - August 22, 2019 16:51 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsLorenzo 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 gubernator...
Episode 38: Mexico's National Security and National Guard
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - May 16, 2019 15:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsAlejandro Hope, security analyst and columnist for El Universal, talks about the national security problem in Mexico, President López Obrador’s strategy and what he believes could be a more appropriate strategy to tackle the problem. For more information on the Baker Institute Mexico Center, v...
Episode 38: Mexico's National Security and National Guard (Guest: Alejandro Hope)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - May 16, 2019 15:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsAlejandro Hope, security analyst and columnist for El Universal, talks about the national security problem in Mexico, President López Obrador’s strategy and what he believes could be a more appropriate strategy to tackle the problem. For more information on the Baker Institute Mexico Center, v...
Episode 37: López Obrador and the Fight Against Corruption (Guest: Stephen Morris)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - April 25, 2019 16:34 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn the final episode of this season, Stephen Morris, nonresident fellow at the Baker Institute Mexico Center and professor in the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University, discusses the role of public opinion, political will, autonomous entities, and an active civil s...
Episode 37: López Obrador and the Fight Against Corruption
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - April 25, 2019 16:34 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn the final episode of this season, Stephen Morris, nonresident fellow at the Baker Institute Mexico Center and professor in the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University, discusses the role of public opinion, political will, autonomous entities, and an active civil s...
Episode 36: The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined (Guest: Andrew Selee)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - March 28, 2019 15:37 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsAndrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute and former executive vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Center and founder of the Center’s Mexico Institute, discusses the social, cultural, and economic ties between the United States and Mexico. Selee recently spoke at the Baker In...
Episode 36: The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - March 28, 2019 15:37 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsAndrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute and former executive vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Center and founder of the Center’s Mexico Institute, discusses the social, cultural, and economic ties between the United States and Mexico. Selee recently spoke at the Baker In...
Episode 35: Crisis in Venezuela and Lessons for Mexico (Guest: Francisco Monaldi)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 21, 2019 16:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsIs Mexico, under the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, headed in the same direction as Venezuela? Comparisons between the two countries and their regimes abound. Francisco Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Center for Energy Studies, the Mexico Center and the La...
Episode 35: Crisis in Venezuela and Lessons for Mexico
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 21, 2019 16:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsIs Mexico, under the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, headed in the same direction as Venezuela? Comparisons between the two countries and their regimes abound. Francisco Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Center for Energy Studies, the Mexico Center and the La...
Episode 34: Fighting Corruption in Mexico (Guest: Jacqueline Peschard)
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 07, 2019 16:47 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsJacqueline Peschard, former president of the newly created National Anti-corruption System in Mexico and former commissioner of the Federal Institute of Transparency and Access to Information, discusses the future of the fight against corruption under the Lopez Obrador administration. Dr. Pescha...
Episode 34: Fighting Corruption in Mexico
Judy Ley Allen Mexico Centered - February 07, 2019 16:47 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsJacqueline Peschard, former president of the newly created National Anti-corruption System in Mexico and former commissioner of the Federal Institute of Transparency and Access to Information, discusses the future of the fight against corruption under the Lopez Obrador administration. Dr. Pescha...
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