The Mexico Brief

I’m not sure many people, anywhere, have a decent grasp of any immigration laws, anywhere!

Analysis: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high? — The Mexico Brief. by Marcela Ánimas and Laura Aguayo. Ms. Ánimas is a Partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel , where she works and collaborates with Ms. Aguayo. “Ideas have been put forward, but they are not e...

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Analysis: Sheinbaum at one year: A ‘complex’ operator emerges — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren, writer-at-large. President Claudia Sheinbaum swore the oath of office one year ago in a ceremony laden with symbolism as she became Mexico’s first female president. Flanked by femal...

New & Free Today: One year into Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term, a “complex” operator is emerging, writes @davidagren.bsky.social

Analysis: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high? — The Mexico Brief. by Marcela Ánimas and Laura Aguayo. Ms. Ánimas is a Partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel , where she works and collaborates with Ms. Aguayo. “Ideas have been put forward, but they are not e...

New & free to read today: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high?

Anyone care to tell him who was in government between 2010 - 2024…?

Editor's Note Trump’s drug war isn’t adding up — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. I want to pause this week to point out an incongruity in the Trump administration’s supposed war on drug trafficking that is posing challenges around how we best...

Trump‘s drug war “escalation“ simply doesn’t add up. Free to read now:

Roy Orbison, ABBA, and Belle and Sebastian. Usually in that order.

Analysis: Mexico’s fuel theft scandal is too big for the government to contain — The Mexico Brief. by Luis Rubio. Gasoline theft is nothing new in Mexico. One need only recall the 1992 Guadalajara explosion, triggered by stolen gasoline dumped into the city’s drainage system after traffickers fail...

A massive fuel theft scandal in Mexico has ensnared the Navy, business, and government officials - reaching senior members of Morena. It’s too big for the government to contain, so for Luis Rubio the question now is if President Claudia Sheinbaum can seize the crisis as an opportunity. Free today:

Analysis: Mexico’s fuel theft scandal is too big for the government to contain — The Mexico Brief. by Luis Rubio. Gasoline theft is nothing new in Mexico. One need only recall the 1992 Guadalajara explosion, triggered by stolen gasoline dumped into the city’s drainage system after traffickers fail...

A massive fuel theft scandal in Mexico has ensnared the Navy, business, and government officials - reaching senior members of Morena. It’s too big for the government to contain, so for Luis Rubio the question now is if President Claudia Sheinbaum can seize the crisis as an opportunity. Free today:

Issue for platforms like us is that the conversation on BlueSky is overwhelmingly US/UK focused. If you’re focused on Mexico, for instance, hardly anyone relevant to that conversation is here - much less having a vibrant conversation!

Analysis: What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history? — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to deliver the cry of independence from the Presidential Palace this week, coinciding with the 215th a...

What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history?

There are high profile right wing US personalities who have been barred from Britain for less than what Elon Musk did yesterday, and by Theresa May no less! The lack of response is a real indictment of Starmer’s inability to lead and unfitness to the moment he’s in.

Editor's Note: An uncomfortable week for Mexico’s sovereignty — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. This week a video circulated on social media of former Mexican president Felipe Calderón decrying the country’s freshly implemented judicial reform at Georgeto...

This week Claudia Sheinbaum branded ex-president Felipe Calderón a traitor. But for all her talk of sovereignty, Sheinbaum has yet to stand up to Washington the way Calderón once did. It’s an awkward truth that was on display again this week.

And most MAGA folk would likely point to that as a reason to feel unsafe - and an indictment of the state - in Mexico, still, without a trace of irony.

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

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Without doubt she’s expanding on AMLO’s script. I don’t and wouldn’t argue that she is copying Trump, but I do argue she and her project need to be understood as Trump’s parallel, which is a different thing.

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

Claudia Sheinbaum’s ‘end of neoliberalism’ looks like Donald Trump’s statist oligarchy. Her ‘poverty reduction’ hides a collapse in healthcare access. Her murder stats mask a disappearance crisis. She‘s redefining the terms of reality itself in a direct parallel to Trump’s assault on truth.

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

A note to the many progressives who have embraced Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum as a foil to Donald Trump: she isn’t Trump’s foil, she is his parallel. Here is why, free to read: www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...

"The #mañanera (the morning news conference) has dragged down the public discourse with an unedifying mix of trolling, shittalking, gaslighting, provoking, deflecting and accusing", opines @davidagren.bsky.social for @themexicobrief.bsky.social.

#Mexico #4T

Scuffle in Congress reflects Mexico’s entrenched culture of political trolling — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren, writer-at-large. The permanent session of Mexico’s congress ended on Thursday with fireworks and fisticuffs with Institutional Revolutionary Party president Alejandro Moreno c...

An entrenched culture of political trolling reached an unedifying peak this week in Mexico’s Congress, @davidagren.bsky.social breaks down how we got here. Free now:

Analysis: The problem with Andy by David Agren — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren, writer-at-large. — Former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador used to campaign on the slogan: you can’t have a rich government with poor people. Austerity became his calling car...

“This line against Andy is approved and rewarded,” a source familiar with presidential communications told us. “It’s paving the way for Sheinbaum to have more of a say in reconfiguring Morena…with her people.”

Spoiler alert - this gets complicated, says Arturo Sarukhan — The Mexico Brief. In response to statements emanating from the Mexican presidential bully pulpit that with the United States “we are doing better than any other country,” that “we dialogue with respect and on equal ter...

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My latest take for @themexicobrief.bsky.social, out today, on the current state of Mexico-US tariff/trade negotiations and bilateral affairs www.themexicobrief.org/latest/spoil...

Reporting: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say — The Mexico Brief. by Madeleine Wattenbarger. A polemical point of the reform to the General Disappearance Law passed by Mexican legislators this week is the use of a biometric CURP to search for missing people. The ...

Free today: “They are using us as pretext”: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, victims’ families say in an exclusive report.

Analysis: Mexico’s democratic transition turns 25 - or only 7, if you ask Morena… — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren, writer-at-large. Morena supporters marked one of their movement’s many anniversaries on July 1: the seventh anniversary of the ruling party’s founder, former Andrés Manuel Ló...

Mexican democracy turned 25 this week, but the ruling Morena party barely acknowledged the milestone. That’s because, as @davidagren.bsky.social reports, for its loyalists only the last seven matter.

Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, founder and editor. In 2014, Luisa Alcalde — now Morena’s party president — blasted then-President Peña Nieto’s telecom reform on Twitter: “Signal blocking, prior censorship, data ...

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Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance — The Mexico Brief. by Andrew Law, founder and editor. In 2014, Luisa Alcalde — now Morena’s party president — blasted then-President Peña Nieto’s telecom reform on Twitter: “Signal blocking, prior censorship, data ...

On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance.

Analysis: New rules - The 4T ushers in the age of “plenitud del pinche poder” — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren. Former PRI governor Fidel Herrera passed away recently. He was remembered for a sordid administration in the late 2000s, when Los Zetas took over the state. As the discovery of a cl...

Free to read today: @davidagren.bsky.social on how Morena’s upcoming congressional agenda channels the infamous maxim of the late, scandal-ridden PRI ex-governor Fidel Herrera: “Estoy ahorita en plenitud del pinche poder.”

#Sheinbaum "didn’t post any photos with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy, a leader unpopular with her base", underlines @davidagren.bsky.social in an analysis for @themexicobrief.bsky.social.

And people still believe that #Russia is not influential in Latin America anymore...

#Mexico #4T

Analysis: Sheinbaum’s polished G7 visit was dimmed by small-beer politics — The Mexico Brief. by David Agren. President Claudia Sheinbaum stepped onto the world stage with her participation in this week’s Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit in the Canadian Rockies.  Sheinbaum sat down with the leaders of India, South Korea , Germany , the European Union, though suffered the

“Sheinbaum broke with AMLO’s approach to international affairs by actually attending the G7. She continued with the rest of his kabuki, however.” www.themexicobrief.org/latest/shein...