“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...
“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
Interesting map! The Mennonites in Chihuahua actually immigrated from Canada and there’s still a lot of movement between communities in both places, though they were originally from Russia and Prussia
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
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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
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“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.
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🇺🇸 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
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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
Award-winning cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz reimagines the Cracker Barrel logo using an old time favorite mexican icon: El Chavo del Ocho.
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...
