ABOUT THE COLUMNISTS

 •     Enrique Andrade González is an attorney and consultant specializing in business and investment in Mexico.  His areas of special expertise include new investments, government services and liaison, the Mexican legislative agenda, lobbying, constitutional studies, and legal and political risk analyses.

He was Director of Audiences and Hearings for President Vicente Fox, in the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, until September 2004 when after 15 years of service he left the federal government for private practice.

Lic. Andrade received his LL.M. in Constitutional and Protection (“Amparo”) Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana, with Doctor of Laws studies at the Universidad National de México.  He has been a law professor at the Universidad Intercontinental and Universidad Anáhuac.

His office is located in Mexico City, at Avenida Reforma No. 155, 5° piso.  Telephone (52) 55 51 41 04 52.  Lic. Andrade can be reached via e-mail at enrique@abogadomx.com.

•     Patrick Corcoran is an English teacher and writer living in Torreón, Coahuila, in northern Mexico.  He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in history.  He has written about a wide variety of subjects while working for publications in Chicago, Illinois, and Knoxville, Tennessee, as well as in Mexico.  Mr. Corcoran can be reached at corcoran25@hotmail.com.

•     Carlos Luken, a Mexico-based businessman, is the principal in I.L.C. Corporate Real Estate, a project development firm, and I.L.C. Corporate Services, a consulting practice that provides business management, consultancy, lobbying, translations and cultural interphase services to global corporations and government agencies.  Mr. Luken can be reached via e-mail at ilcmex@yahoo.com.

•     Barnard Thompson has spent nearly 50 years in Mexico and Latin America, providing multinational clients with actionable intelligence; country and political risk reporting and analysis; and business, lobbying, and problem resolution services.  He is a principal in MIRA Associates, based in San Diego, California, and editor of www.MexiData.info.  Mr. Thompson can be reached via e-mail at mexidata@ix.netcom.com.

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MEXICAN INFORMATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

•  Mexico emphasis business and government services; negotiations with federal, state and local government agencies and officials, plus the private sector; lobbying and facilitation with government officials, regulatory agencies and elected representatives; problem resolution; socioeconomic and political research and analysis; country and political risk analysis; actionable intelligence; U.S.A. services for Latin American clients.

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