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Mexico matters. The Mexico Brief helps you keep up with it. BlueSky: @themexicobrief.bsky.social
Joined July 2024
RT @Arturo_Sarukhan: ⚠️."How Morena politicians hijacked gender laws to muzzle the press", @el_reportero via @The….
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by David Agren, writer-at-large. Reporting on alleged irregularities in the municipal finances is routine for local media outlets the world over. Acapulco Trends recently focused its reporting on the...
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RT @el_reportero: Sheinbaum has successfully pushed gov't narratives through a verbose morning press conference and an army of influencers.….
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by David Agren, writer-at-large. Shortly after rumours started that Ovidio Guzmán – son of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – might plead guilty on drug trafficking charges...
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RT @Arturo_Sarukhan: "Sheinbaum’s monologue diplomacy is meeting Washington’s deaf ear", @el_reportero via @TheMexicoBrief https://t.c….
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by David Agren, writer-at-large. Shortly after rumours started that Ovidio Guzmán – son of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – might plead guilty on drug trafficking charges...
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RT @EmPoloA: 📌In 2024 alone, Mexico saw 31 million cyberattacks, many targeting core state institutions like SEDENA. The government cannot….
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For the past seven years, Mexico’s economics have been an example of textbook populism. But as the country’s debt-to-revenue ratio approaches 60%, @macariomx warns a breaking point is alarmingly near.
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by Macario Schettino. Editor’s note: Mr. Schettino is an eminent Mexican economist and retired professor at Monterrey Tech’s School of Government. —— As the United States debates the One Big Beauti...
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“They are using us as pretext”: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, victims’ families tell @madeleinewhat
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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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RT @Arturo_Sarukhan: 🚨⚠️. @TheMexicoBrief: " Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" https://t.co/….
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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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RT @Arturo_Sarukhan: Spot-on, by @el_reportero for @TheMexicoBrief. This is like the "debate" between evolutionists and creationists. For m….
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RT @GERONIMO__GF: Happy to share my last piece @TheMexicoBrief on the difficulties for Mexico’s political opposition. Analysis: Mexico….
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by Gerónimo Gutíerrez. Editor’s note: Amb. Gutíerrez served as Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States and also as Mexico’s Undersecretary for Governance. Mexico’s political opposition today finds...
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Free today: For years, Mexico’s opposition has shouted, “Morena is a danger to the future.” But that’s not a vision, and voters aren’t listening. @GERONIMO__GF lays out what’s gone wrong for the opposition and the mounting costs of its political malaise.
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by Gerónimo Gutíerrez. Editor’s note: Amb. Gutíerrez served as Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States and also as Mexico’s Undersecretary for Governance. Mexico’s political opposition today finds...
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RT @EmPoloA: 🚩Throughout its electoral victories, Morena has made clear its conviction that the military should play a prevalent role in pu….
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The final stage of the National Guard’s militarization is now underway. In September 2024, former President López Obrador amended the Constitution to formally place the National Guard—already...
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Free to read today: @el_reportero 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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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...
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RT @TheMexicoBrief: Mexico’s economy is slowing across key indicators: consumption, investment, and employment. With limited fiscal space a….
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by Macario Schettino. In my first column for The Mexico Brief , six weeks ago, I wrote that Mexico was in a recession. Now that we are nearing the end of the year’s first half, the evidence is even...
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Mexico’s economy is slowing across key indicators: consumption, investment, and employment. With limited fiscal space and rising external threats, there’s no clear path to recovery. For @macariomx the data says recession, even if official rhetoric doesn’t.
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by Macario Schettino. In my first column for The Mexico Brief , six weeks ago, I wrote that Mexico was in a recession. Now that we are nearing the end of the year’s first half, the evidence is even...
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RT @Arturo_Sarukhan: ✍️.#ICYMI, my take last week for @TheMexicoBrief on the protests in LA and what's at stake for US-Mexico ties.👇 http….
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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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RT @TheMexicoBrief: Free today: As Claudia Sheinbaum heads to the G7 in Canada, @lrubiof explores the growing tension between loyalty to AM….
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by Luis Rubio. Editor’s note: Mr. Rubio as a political analyst and chairman of México Eval ua . From t he moment she wa s nominated as Morena's presidential candidate, speculation arose r egarding...
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Free today: As Claudia Sheinbaum heads to the G7 in Canada, @lrubiof explores the growing tension between loyalty to AMLO and the adverse reality she faces, forcing a stark choice: stay the course as executor of his legacy or make a break of her own.
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by Luis Rubio. Editor’s note: Mr. Rubio as a political analyst and chairman of México Eval ua . From t he moment she wa s nominated as Morena's presidential candidate, speculation arose r egarding...
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New today from @lrubiof: as she heads to the G7 in Canada, Claudia Sheinbaum faces adversity.
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by Luis Rubio. Editor’s note: Mr. Rubio as a political analyst and chairman of México Eval ua . From t he moment she wa s nominated as Morena's presidential candidate, speculation arose r egarding...
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Mexico & the US: neighbors & uneasy partners caught in a deep cultural misalignment, with consequences for what could be the world’s most dynamic economic region. Luis Lozano, Toyota Mexico’s ex-president, asks can they ever really understand each other?
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by Luis Lozano. Perhaps one of the more complex relationships in the world is the one between Mexico and the United States. Sure, anyone will say that relationships between neighbors are always...
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