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Trump‘s DOJ’s been suspiciously lenient on Sinaloa Cartel members too. Zambada & other top captures allowed to plead out/avoid trial, death penalty taken off table. Barr personally intervened to release Cienfuegos in ‘19 after LAX bust, he was H-2 affiliated which was a Sinaloa splinter group.

Not quite. Trump’s gone suspiciously easy on Sinaloa Cartel specifically. DOJ‘s top captures (Zambada etc) all allowed to plea out instead of stand trial + all spared death penalty by Trump DOJ. Barr personally intervened to release Cienfuegos in 19, who was H-2 a splinter group from Sinaloa Crtl.

Presumably state AGs could/should also open their own investigations given some of these allegations clearly overlap with violations of all kind of state laws…

Starmer obv has a lot of issues & you cover them well, but I’ve long thought his woeful polling *in part* reflects this disconnect - the public at large think his premiership is about traditional public services issues vs what‘s actually occupying his premiership: the collapse of the global order

Grosse Point Blank is one of the greatest and most underrated films of all time. An incredible work of pop culture art.

My editorial bias is anti bullshit and anti-democratic backsliding. I have been highly critical of US posture toward MX, highly critical of CS’ acquiescence to Trump, and highly critical of Trump/Maga in general. It’s not the media’s role to cheerlead power, its role is to watchdog.

I live UK, all contributors live in either Mexico or DC. I spent 10 years in and out of MX & thought there was need for English language pub to cover 12th largest economy / US’ biggest trade partner. Launch time coincides with me leaving a job. On no one’s payroll. Not everything is a conspiracy.

No hedge funds here mate. The issue with Sheinbaum’s water agenda is it‘s not funded and mostly consists of rhetoric designed to appeal to superficial sycophants. I’d love for her to cut from Pemex and properly invest in Mexico’s environment. Sadly, she will not. Thx for reading. Yours, Andrew Law

The Ken comparison is the most accurate imo. But Ken was Labour to his core & always coded Labour. Mamdani is Dem to his core, regardless of top level policy proposals. He’s fully coded D, operates within a clear left tradition of his party. D establishment rejected him for not waiting his turn.

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...

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

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: