Mexico Decoded

Why Sexless Men Are Increasing in Mexico A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.

Why Sexless Men Are Increasing in Mexico

A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.

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Buzzing Border, Oversight Power Plays & Deadly Rains Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Buzzing Border, Oversight Power Plays & Deadly Rains

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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How Mexicans Consume Their Drugs Today, on Mexico Decoded Podcast, we will dive into the groundbreaking ways Mexico is rethinking drug consumption.

How do Mexicans really use drugs — and what can the world learn from it?

Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:

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The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.

The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico.

How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.

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Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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Mexico’s First Female President Is Redefining Power Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year in power is reshaping her country — and what it means to be a leftist politician.

Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is quietly reshaping power at home — and across Latin America.

Here’s our review of her first year in office:

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🖊️ @lemonde.fr quoted our work on Mexico’s new security strategy! :)

Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
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Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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How Drug Cartels Recruit Their Members Hollywood tells us people join drug cartels for money, power, and glamour. What’s really happening is far more chilling.

One of the most chilling conversations we’ve recorded in Mexico Decode is out!

Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:

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Sheinbaum’s Genocide Call, Canada's Leader Visits, and a $300M Oil Heist Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Menstrual Leave, Mexico-Canada Affair & Useless Stock Exchange

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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How Mexican Billionaries are Made A case study in how economies fail when power and privilege replace competition.

How are Mexican billionaires made?

The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:

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Why Mexico Wants You to Quit Diet Coke A bold tax experiment on whether governments can change taste itself

It seems like Mexico wants you to quit Diet Coke. And here’s why:

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The Guardian quoted our founder, @viririos.bsky.social, on Mexico’s soda tax… but forgot to mention she edits Mexico Decoded :( Read more on the tax in this newsletter 👇

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Deadly Gas Blast, Soda Tax, and Opposition Drama Shake Mexico Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Fox News Fans, Independence Cries & Capital Repatriation.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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Le Monde cited us on the connection between Sheinbaum’s anti-corruption strategy and her business development agenda!

If you’d like to dive deeper into these topics check this:

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What 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico's Organized Crime In this episode of the Mexico Decoded podcast, I speak with Omar García Ponce, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, about what decades of...

What Do 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico’s Organized Crime?

Today, on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore it with professor Omar García Ponce.

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Trumponomics, the Mexican Way Prompted by the U.S. Mexico is embracing a new pro-business model not seen in decades.

Mexico is raising tariffs to its maximum in 30 years. Is this trumponomics the Mexican way?

🚨 Spoiler: no, it’s something much more interesting 👇🏽

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Bankers’ Loopholes, Palestine Chants and Navy Scandals Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Bankers’ Loopholes, Palestine Chants and Navy Scandals.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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Why Do Mexicans "Hate" Dishwashers? My answer to a viral Substack that tried to explain it — and got Mexico all wrong.

A text went viral trying to "explain" why Mexicans don’t have dishwashers — including the wealthy.

It got it so wrong, we decided to put out the real reason:

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Mexico Just Fired Its Entire Judiciary — For Real Mexico just fired every judge and replaced them with elected ones — a democratic experiment no country has ever dared to try.

Mexico just fired every judge and replaced them with elected ones — a democratic experiment no country has ever dared to try.

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Musk Litters Mexico, Radical Judiciary, and a $1.5B Quarry Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Musk Litters Mexico, Radical Judiciary, and a $1.5B Quarry.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more at the link in our bio.

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The Future of Government May Already Be Happening in Mexico What a secret army of 30,000 social workers reveal about how democracies can get closer to their citizens.

The future of government may already be happening in Mexico —thanks to a secret 50k-person army you’ve never heard of:

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What We Get Wrong About Mexico’s Cartels In this episode of the Mexico Decoded podcast, I speak with Ioan Grillo, one of the world’s leading journalists on Mexico’s drug war, to examine the myth of Mexico as a “narco-state”, how do cartels a...

What We Get Wrong About Mexico’s Cartels.

Today on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore cartel power and politics with journalist @ioangrillo.bsky.social

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The Mexican Chernobyl Nobody Knows About What President Sheinbaum’s flagship housing program can teach us about policy-made disasters.

Mexico has its own Chernoby —a policy made disaster that Sheinbaum’s new housing plan risks repeating:

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Golden Retirements, DEA Rebuffed, and Tomato Troubles Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Golden Retirements, DEA Rebuffed, & Tomato Troubles.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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Who Gets Ahead in Mexico — and Why Most Don’t We explore why family background shapes income and opportunity far more in Mexico than in the United States, with economist Luis Monroy-Gómez-Franco. A must-listen for anyone interested in inequality,...

Who Gets Ahead in Mexico — and Why Most Don’t

Today on the Mexico Decoded Podcast, I talk to Luis about one of the Mexican economy's biggest puzzles:

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Trump’s Favors, Adidas’s Faux Pas & Mexico City’s Return to the Lake Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Trump's Favors, Adidas's Faux Pass & Mexico City's Return to the lake.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

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What the World Can Learn from Mexico’s Historic Drop in Poverty How Mexico lifted 13 million people out of poverty without an economic boom.

Mexico just achieved a historic drop in poverty — without the usual playbook.

Here’s what the world can learn from it 👇

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