Proof of origin
Marco Lopez on the White House transshipment report, fifty cancelled Mexican visas, and the 2028 questions nobody is asking.
Power Courier by Marco Lopez
The Power Courier is a weekly newsletter on trade, immigration, border policy, and binational opportunity. Written by former mayor and CBP Chief of Staff Marco Lopez, it delivers informed analysis on the issues shaping the future of North America.
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The Metric Arizona Is Missing
Chips, housing and a river that just got cut
The announcement is the easy part: Everything That Has to Be True Before You Build in Mexico
Former CBP Chief of Staff Marco A. Lopez, Jr. lays out the seven questions that determine whether a Mexico operation succeeds, from rules of origin to workforce to border throughput. Most companies can answer two.
Arizona's 265 Billion Chip Boom Meets a 1994 Visa List
Former CBP chief of staff Marco Lopez on the TN visa list frozen since 1994, and the five categories that could staff Arizona's 109 billion dollar year.
The water math does not work
Phoenix is adding fabs and losing water at the same time. Plus the cartel tax on your avocados, Ceuta, Spain as a midterm ad, and the World Cup betting record.
Fifteen Billion Dollars That Do Not Exist
A cartel forfeiture nobody can collect, Arizona's real trade exposure, and the World Cup capability Jalisco refused to shut down
Epicenter
From the World Cup final to the fab floor, the week our border region became the center of everything, and the fragile trust holding it together. — 145. Evocative, on brand.
Who builds, who invests, who votes
Toyota heads north, a new housing law opens Arizona to investors, Sheinbaum's security gamble, El Tri's World Cup summer, and the fight over your ballot.
At 250, America's next chapter runs through the border
Marco Lopez on America's 250th, the USMCA going bilateral, an empty Arizona Sonora table, a socialist warning to Democrats, and Mexico's World Cup run
History on trial: from the Azteca to the National Palace to Washington's files
Three host nations still alive in the World Cup. A 40-year accountability crisis still unresolved. And a Spanish king who chose commerce over conquest.
The border doesn't wait for a book deal
A memoir, a stalled extradition, and a World Cup win: this week's border story has three faces
War Abroad, Pressure at Home: What It Means for You
On my way back to Arizona from Washington, D.C., after several days of meetings on trade, security, and cross-border coordination, one thing became clear: the world is shifting faster than most people realize.
Who Gets to Be American: The Supreme Court, the Border, and the Latino Shift That Changes Everything
This week, Power Courier goes deep on the stories that matter most to our communities right now.
This weekend, the U.S. Navy seized an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman
This weekend, the U.S.
Trump in Beijing, Booker in Phoenix, and the border story no one is telling
This week, I am breaking down what the DOJ’s indictment of ten Sinaloa officials means for every state north of Sinaloa and why Mexico’s MORENA party just handed Washington the opening it needed.
The USMCA clock is ticking and a million families are holding their breath
Washington in June really looks like.
Tariffs, cobalt, a cartel casino, and a gunman at the WHCD.
Tariffs are redirecting trade and the border corridor is positioned to win.
Mexico is failing three tests that will define the next generation
This Memorial Day weekend, I am thinking about the men and women who gave everything to defend the values that make this country worth defending. Among them, thousands of veterans with roots on both sides of the border, soldiers who grew up in Nogales, El Paso, Laredo, and San Diego
Consulates, cobalt, and the USMCA renegotiation. This is the week that changes things.
This week, I am breaking down the $850 million Mitsui cobalt deal that is quietly reshaping America’s critical mineral independence, making the case for why Latin American investors need to be paying attention to Arizona’s semiconductor boom right now, and naming exactly why Mexico’s
Kickoff week, a governor's visa revoked, and the sport America can't master
I am writing this from Mexico City, five days before the World Cup opens at the Azteca, and the energy here is electric.