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Mexico 2023, A Closer View.

May 11, 2023March 8, 2023

Image: Mostafa Meraji on Unsplash As part of our offer to subscribers, we regularly select some analyses and prognoses of sectors, regions, or potential outcomes of events from qualified sources and combine them in a set suitable for easy consultation in one single piece. Today we share research from Morgan Stanley regarding the importance of …

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The Tamaulipas Massacre.

March 5, 2023March 5, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The massacre of five young men in Tamaulipas at the hands of a military detachment is the absolute refutation of everything AMLO has said about his official strategy against organized crime. And it comes at the worst moment: when the U.S. Congress …

Power and Wealth

March 4, 2023March 3, 2023

Luis Rubio The great success of capitalism has been the generation of wealth and prosperity for billions of global inhabitants, and at the heart of that system of the economic organization lies a crucial concept: the separation of political power from wealth. Although capitalism and …

2024 Begins Today

February 26, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce 2024 began this February 26 when the opposition gathered in rallies, gathering millions of people all over and outside the country. While the ruling party flutters around its three (or are there four?) corcholatas (Bottle caps) that do not discuss proposals -because …

Mexico Found Guilty

February 25, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Most Americans have not seen the Narcos series, but the political class of both parties in their country has confirmed their conviction that Mexico is a country where crime reigns. In the U.S. perception, what exists in Mexico is a narco-state where …

Legislationitis

February 26, 2023February 24, 2023

Luis Rubio How strange is the course of action of the government in legislative matters. Despite being able to count on wide-ranging majorities in both chambers, Morena party adherents tend to blunder due to the lack of clarity of the bills dispatched by the Executive …

McCaul, Menendez Statement on Mexican Congress’ Vote to Weaken Elections Oversight Agency

February 24, 2023

Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) released the following statement in reaction to Mexican lawmakers’ approval of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to cut funding and strip authorities …

A Useful but Disposable Justice Minister

February 19, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The case of plagiarist Justice Minister Jazmín Esquivel Mossa refuses to disappear. It is growing and becoming more notorious every day. She is the elephant in the middle of the deliberation room of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). …

Credibility

February 18, 2023February 17, 2023

Luis Rubio It never was going to be easy for President López Obrador. His rhetoric, obsessions, and resentments entailed a permanent source of conflict, thus of polarization and feuding. Winning an election in those terms implied always rowing against the current. How, under those circumstances, …

CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC: New Blood

February 12, 2023

Antonio Navalón Last Tuesday, February 7, the constitutional President of the United States of America gave his second State of the Union address. With Joe Biden, something very peculiar happens; it is evident that, either because of the passage of time or because of the …