Non-governmental groups working with migrants say images of ICE raids (in the US) have stoked disquiet among some immigrants in Chile – and provoked calls for similar enforcement in South America. “There are people who wish we had a police like that in Chile.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Delcy Rodríguez anuncia una ley de amnistía general para los presos políticos y el cierre del Helicoide en Venezuela www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/del...

“It’s a matter of time. There’s an opportunity to change Venezuela permanently. Cuba is clearly on the radar and in the crosshairs now. And after something is done on Cuba, Nicaragua is the logical next step from there.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

"Because of the instability promoted by Chavista policies, people 'started to support anything that would undermine and eventually remove them,' to the point where there was eventually more LatAm support for Maduro’s removal than there was in the U.S." www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

En medio de máxima reserva, el pontífice recibió a la líder opositora de Venezuela, quien también tiene previsto ver a Trump esta semana www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/el-...

“The crisis of the Latin American anti-imperialist left is so profound that a person like Trump is capable of influencing the decisions of many countries.” #Venezuela www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

"Don't mess with the bolillo" ☝️https://apnews.com/article/british-baker-hart-mexico-bread-social-media-outrage-5b2f23a36f9f714f4d4c96e1509b43a5

The crimes described on “Forensic Files” keep most people up at night. But for a subset of fans, the show is the only thing that puts them to sleep.

Sheinbaum ante Uruapan: negar, minimizar y eludir letraslibres.com/politica/esp...

How well bright-light treatment works is tricky to test. But the available evidence looks good—and the benefits appear significant enough for researchers to look into whether it can help non-seasonal forms of depression, too

New & Free Today: One year into Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term, a “complex” operator is emerging, writes @davidagren.bsky.social

"(Trudeau) was preachy and talked down to people. ... Though he was right to have a gender-balanced cabinet (a former minister wrote) he never stopped talking about it, never stopped the virtue signalling: 'It made it sound like we were there to fill a quota'" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Her approval rating sits at 73 per cent, according to the newspaper El Financiero, as middle-class Mexicans unsettled by Mr. López Obrador’s class politics and populist policies warmed to Ms. Sheinbaum’s more sober and serious style. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Donald Trump’s treasury secretary pledges to provide “all options for stabilization” to Javier Milei as he works to keep Argentina from falling back into crisis, prompting a rally in the South American country’s assets www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (Gift link)

“The electoral reform could be the final nail in the coffin. It’s a return to a controlled democracy,” which existed in the days of one-party rule under the Institutional Revolutionary Party. open.substack.com/pub/davidagr...

🇺🇸 No voy a ir 🇳🇮 No voy a ir 🇯🇵 No voy a ir 🇬🇹 No voy a ir 🇨🇦 No voy a ir 🇲🇽 Te aviso

RECAP • U.S. sends warships off Venezuela • Maduro mobilizes troops, militias • U.S. strikes alleged drug boat • Venezuelan planes buzz U.S. guided-missile destroyer • U.S. warns Venezuela • www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"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

If you’re not following @laloalcaraz.bsky.social you’re doing social media wrong

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:

Mexico probably isn’t looking to Canada as an ally. "Canada is not going to send mounted police to rescue Mexico from the DEA. We know that.” www.themexicobrief.org/latest/does-...

"What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example" www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

With my commentary on the different look one gets at the US tariffs madness when watching from Mexico City or Ottawa... By @davidagren.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

1- Un pintura representativa de la vida política de México durante el siglo XX. Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), "El Hueso", c. 1940, Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA, México. munal.emuseum.com/objects/77/e...

Trump has directed the Pentagon to begin preparing options to use military force against Latin American drug cartels, the latest step in the administration’s campaign against the cartels.

Mexico’s president wants to reach an agreement with the U.S. to further cooperate on security, but she has been undermined by the cartels’ pervasive influence.

Probably the first time that idle shitposting has resulted in concrete changes to an adversary’s nuclear posture.

“I can’t think of another country” – spare China where – “the American wish list is as long and complicated as is the case with Mexico. The Canadian thing looks like peanuts compared to the case against Mexico.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Acapulco mayor Abelina López found the reporting on municipal finances objectionable. But rather than counter it with audited statements, she filed claims of gender violence in politics. Astonishingly, the state electoral tribunal agreed with her accusation. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/how-m...

Bahahahaha www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

An avid TMB reader!

Sheinbaum has successfully pushed gov’t narratives through a verbose morning press conference and an army of influencers. But the narrative of narco-gov’t in Mexico has been gaining hold in Washington – and talking ad nauseam in the mañanera won't change that www.themexicobrief.org/latest/shein...

"Su problema fue de origen, al convertirse durante dos meses en la única voz oficial contra las decisiones estadounidenses, pese a tener varios fusibles. Quien debió llevar la voz principal era el secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, que siempre está convenientemente ausente."

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.

“The problem with the discussion about what's happening in Mexico City is that Sheinbaum’s people want to pretend they’re not involved in whatever they’ve done. They’ve controlled the city and its laws.” www.themexicobrief.org/latest/there...

"If international comparisons are made to justify the surveillance systems being created in Mexico, it would be honest to compare the control systems over their use in each country."

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.

“One of the arguments repeated” by PRD leaders while AMLO was the party’s biggest name “was that there could be no talk of democracy in Mexico if a candidate from the left wasn’t allowed to win the presidency.” www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexic...

The ruling against @hdemauleon.bsky.social, a very transparent attempt to abuse a law intended to combat gender violence with the goal of silencing critical reporting on corruption, is part of a larger, deeply worrying trend of judicial harassment against critical reporters in Mexico. 🧵2/3

AIRPLANE! was released 45 years ago today. Still one of the most beloved comedies ever made, and the film that turned Leslie Nielsen to comedy, the story of how it came to the screen surely can’t be serious… 1/31

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.”

Chanclas *and* socks? Mexicans have been doing this forever! 🙄 pagesix.com/2019/08/21/s...

"Separately, a senior U.S. official who asked for anonymity acknowledged that the B-2 attack on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but severely damaged it." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

“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...

EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, a Venezuelan activist tortured inside Nicolás Maduro's notorious El Heliocoide prison, is seeking asylum in the U.S. Weeks before his initial hearing, he was making a routine check-in when ICE detained him @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports wapo.st/3HE9dwu

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.

Canada extended Sheinbaum the #G7Summit invite ostensibly to talk trade and tariffs. …But thorny issues loom, including Mexican discontent with Trump’s migration crackdowns, his planned tax on remittances and the possible US pursuit of narco-politicians. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/trump...