A carefully reported piece by @davidagren.bsky.social from Chile... www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/nu...

250 years later the king lectures the U.S. government on democracy

President Donald Trump has wrecked the dream of a more united region

What a monstrous bladder of vanity

Canada's ruling Liberal Party is a more competent, conniving and durable version of Mexico's once-venerable Institutional Revolutionary Party – not to mention equally ruthless, unsentimental and ideologically malleable

A new book looks at one of the most famous murders in history: that of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City. What is there new to say, 86 years later? A lot, it turns out econ.st/4lDwC0O Photo: Bridgeman Images

Aduanas: botín militar y delincuencia organizada con López Obrador | Información de seguridad, judicial y de inteligencia a la que Proceso tuvo acceso indica que unos 200 elementos de la Marina y unos 150 del Ejército se encuentran bajo investigación www.proceso.com.mx/reportajes/2...

The U.S. consulate in Toronto was hit by gunfire Tuesday morning, according to Canadian authorities. The gunfire follows a series of similar shootings at synagogues in the Toronto area. on.wsj.com/4be1e4f

“Ms. Sheinbaum has played exactly the opposite game that Mr. Carney is suggesting,” said Manuel Molano, an economist at the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla. “Her strategy is not to confront Trump.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Personal 🧵: I recently began writing in earnest again for a paper I hardly wrote for in several years, due to burnout and some lingering effects of the PTSD that hit my like a torpedo about a decade ago. I'm writing this for my younger colleagues: take care of yourself, don't repeat my mistakes. 1/9

“Sunday’s operation was ... the result of sustained pressure from the White House that altered the incentives of the Mexican state. The bilateral security relationship has entered a more demanding phase with less political room for ambiguity.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

My two cents. #Mexico www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

“Killing Oseguera was one more step toward pacifying the United States, albeit a big one. It’s more politically palatable for Sheinbaum to target big cartel bosses than arrest politicians with drug cartel ties.” unherd.com/newsroom/el-...

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.

“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...