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New & free to read today: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high?
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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October 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New & free to read today: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high?
New & Free Today: One year into Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term, a “complex” operator is emerging, writes @davidagren.bsky.social
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...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New & Free Today: One year into Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term, a “complex” operator is emerging, writes @davidagren.bsky.social
New & free to read today: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high?
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...
www.themexicobrief.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New & free to read today: Is Mexico’s water agenda aiming too high?
Trump‘s drug war “escalation“ simply doesn’t add up. Free to read now:
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...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trump‘s drug war “escalation“ simply doesn’t add up. Free to read now:
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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...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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:
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...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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:
What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history?
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...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history?
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.
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...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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.
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A reality check for the week...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel."
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@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel."
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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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September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A reality check for the week...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel."
www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel."
www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
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:...
www.themexicobrief.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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.
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...
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:...
www.themexicobrief.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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...
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"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
#Mexico #4T
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:
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...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"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
#Mexico #4T
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:
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...
www.themexicobrief.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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:
“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.”
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...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“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.”
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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...
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...
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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August 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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.
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.
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...
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July 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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.
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@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
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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July 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...
On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance.
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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July 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance.
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.”
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...
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June 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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.”
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#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
And people still believe that #Russia is not influential in Latin America anymore...
#Mexico #4T
“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...
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
https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/sheinbaums-g7-visit-small-beer-politics?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=685556b0b88462489c6aced5&ss_email_id=685586aa98bc7f206a1869d0&ss_campaign_name=Claudia+Sheinbaum’s+excellent+adventure&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-06-20T16%3A05%3A56Z
June 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#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
And people still believe that #Russia is not influential in Latin America anymore...
#Mexico #4T
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“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...
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
https://www.themexicobrief.org/latest/sheinbaums-g7-visit-small-beer-politics?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=685556b0b88462489c6aced5&ss_email_id=685586aa98bc7f206a1869d0&ss_campaign_name=Claudia+Sheinbaum’s+excellent+adventure&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-06-20T16%3A05%3A56Z
June 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“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...
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In case you missed it, here's my take last week for @themexicobrief.bsky.social on the protests in LA and what's at stake for US-Mexico ties.👇
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In case you missed it, here's my take last week for @themexicobrief.bsky.social on the protests in LA and what's at stake for US-Mexico ties.👇
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Analysis: Pride and Prejudice: Mexico’s flag becomes a flashpoint — again — The Mexico Brief.
by Arturo Sarukhán (Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, 2007 - 2013) This was a domestic clash waiting to happen, largely concocted in the Oval Office but potentially exacerbated in Mexico ...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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In case you missed it, here's my take last week for @themexicobrief.bsky.social on the protests in LA and what's at stake for US-Mexico ties.👇
www.themexicobrief.org/latest/pride...
In case you missed it, here's my take last week for @themexicobrief.bsky.social on the protests in LA and what's at stake for US-Mexico ties.👇
www.themexicobrief.org/latest/pride...
“The President and the ruling party, which no longer complies with the President’s wishes, will control some judges, maybe most of the time, but not all the time; it’s in this inconsistency that a sign of weakness will prevail instead of power and control.”
Analysis: Judicial reform is Sheinbaum’s Frankenstein — The Mexico Brief.
by Emiliano Polo. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will not govern the political order she has helped construct. Under the guise of a so-called “judicial reform,” she has championed the creation...
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June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“The President and the ruling party, which no longer complies with the President’s wishes, will control some judges, maybe most of the time, but not all the time; it’s in this inconsistency that a sign of weakness will prevail instead of power and control.”
Bad timing and high stakes hang over Claudia Sheinbaum’s trip to the G7. Once praised for deftly defusing Trump’s tariff threats, she’s stumbled of late. Next week’s summit offers a chance to regain her footing, as @davidagren.bsky.social reports.
Bad timing and high stakes for potential Sheinbaum - Trump G7 meeting — The Mexico Brief.
by David Agren. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced details of her trip to Canada next week for the Group of Seven Leader’s Summit in Kananaskis, a resort in the Alberta Rockies, and her first me...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Bad timing and high stakes hang over Claudia Sheinbaum’s trip to the G7. Once praised for deftly defusing Trump’s tariff threats, she’s stumbled of late. Next week’s summit offers a chance to regain her footing, as @davidagren.bsky.social reports.