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Alex González Ormerod

@alexgonzor.bsky.social
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Editing The Mexico Political Economist—Mexican politics, policy, and markets for a global audience. www.mxpe.org

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Americas Society/Council of the Americas @ascoa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
What would it take for right-wing movements in Mexico to succeed? In the latest #LatAmFocus, @gemakloppe.bsky.social and @alexgonzor.bsky.social talk with @carinzissis.bsky.social about the history of and obstacles for Mexico’s many derechas. 🎧Listen to the full episode: ow.ly/c5Bg50Yfjwe
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The security tightrope @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social is walking isn’t about balancing Trump’s demands on one side and Mexico’s needs on the other. It is about shared interests being thrown by politicking back in Washington and Mexico City time.com/7314987/us-m...
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The White House and Mexico Are Learning to Get Along
The two have agreed to cooperate closely on the most politically sensitive issue, writes Alex González Ormerod.
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is the craziest story in Mexico right now… and it’s just the beginning. www.mxpe.org/p/how-pemex-...
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Mexico's oil company is in trouble. Here's what happend
Mexico's State-owned oil company went from hero to zero. What went so wrong?
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Mexico’s very progressive human rights laws weren’t designed for a one-party government www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-wea...
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Mexico weaponises human rights
Critics are silenced as government officials are seen to rule in their own self-interest.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
After a single person dictatorship, and one-party rule, Mexico has the third worst form of government. As president Sheinbaum mulls an electoral reform, now’s a good time to remember how terrible—and unreformable—Mexico’s political system is. www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pol...
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The dictatorship of political parties in Mexico
The Mexican political system is set up to protect its many political parties over all else.
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You really need to listen to this episode of Mexico: The Podcast We're covering Mexico's 5 most famous people and you'll either hate or love this list. But you will absolutely learn something you didn't know about some of the most influential people in Mexican history www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjkl...
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Mexico's 5 most famous people
YouTube video by The Mexico Political Economist
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Can't get enough of Mexico: The Podcast? Here's episode two, covering the promise and pitfalls of Mexican industrial policy. Now available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BM5...
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Mexico's industrial policy is destined to fail
YouTube video by The Mexico Political Economist
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
An entrepreneur or company expanding into Mexico has a lot to worry about. Labour unions are probably nowhere near the top of their concerns. This week showed, they probably should be. www.mxpe.org/p/weelly-ess...
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"Uber, meet unions": An unhappy introduction
MXPE Weekly Essentials ft. giving houses to squatters, a bright spot in US-Mexico cooperation, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Like a pernicious black mold, The Mexico Political Economist's content is spreading to other platforms. You can now listen to our podcast—Mexico: The Podcast—on YouTube Have a listen! youtu.be/kjkFpeQfyLU?...
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Mexico does not matter
YouTube video by The Mexico Political Economist
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mexico is on the verge of striking a big deal with the Trump admin. So president Sheinbaum must have been pulling out her hair last week as her party went up in a blaze of anti-US rhetoric. Here’s why everything got so out of hand: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-wee...
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Sheinbaum really needs her party to shut up
MXPE Weekly Essentials ft. import backdoor busted, diminishing returns in investments, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Candidates are so unqualified to campaign that by the time a consultant contacted them, many had already been scammed. This is what the lead up to Mexico’s judicial election has looked like for voters, candidates, and politicians: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-jud...
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Mexico’s judicial election: The campaign
Novice judges and useless politicians force civil society to prepare for Mexico’s most controversial election.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
For centuries governments have taxed those they consider to be second-class citizens. For just as long, the taxed have found ways to avoid paying. Republicans are in for a rude awakening www.mxpe.org/p/trump-remi...
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Trump’s remittance tax won’t make any money
It will be a bonanza for the cartels though.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It was a win-win agreement. MrBeast got permission to film Mayan ruins, Mexico got access to millions in free publicity. How could anyone screw this up? www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Mexico’s war with YouTube’s biggest influencer, museums, telecoms fight, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You can't build an economy in your own image without breaking a few taboos. Mexico is going all out and is about to remake (or break) its entire economic system. Here's a breakdown of each of the major sectors president Sheinbaum is already revolutionising www.mxpe.org/p/plan-mexic...
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A breakdown of Plan México, Sheinbaum’s flagship economic policy
The state of every sector Mexico is seeking to super-charge.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Mexico’s most revered holiday abroad is a non-event to Mexicans. Find out what happened and why it is that the US has become so enamored by it in this episode of Mexico: The Podcast (link in the comments) www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pod...
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
When the government saw an amazing community run environmental project and tried its own quick and dirty fix. It was a disaster. There’s another way www.mxpe.org/p/community-...
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Timid quick-fixes paved the road to hell in Mexico
Genuine progress requires bold action, not piecemeal policy.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Mexico’s proposed telecoms reform—known as the “Censorship Bill”—was incredibly stupid. This is what it says about the country’s current politics: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Censorship bill censored, mining undermined, auto tariff discounts, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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Maria Finnerty @mariafinnerty.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pope Francis saw and spoke to a world in which the economy no longer serves ordinary people, inequality is soaring, and our natural world is in crisis. I spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social for @cafod.bsky.social on the legacy of a Pope who criticised an “economy that kills” #PopeFrancis
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Unsure where Mexico stands with tariffs at the moment? MXPE Weekly Essentials has got you. Here's an update—and Mexico is on surprisingly good footing. Read all about it here: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Where Mexico stands re:Trump tariffs now—and why it's promising news, an ill-advised oil ban, music censorship, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Donald Trump has reposted an anti-fentanyl video produced by the Mexican government. Though well intentioned (and a relational coup for Mexico), hyperbolic warnings about drugs can actually be very counterproductive. Here’s why: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-dru...
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“What’s truly unbelievable is that we’re now the ones defending the USMCA,” www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Sheinbaum: The last neoliberal, murder falls, grocery war, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@mexicope.bsky.social wasn’t originally going to cover the horrors discovered in Teuchitlán—tragically, none of this was new. That was, until the government opened its mouth. www.mxpe.org/p/sheinbaum-...
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Claudia Sheinbaum is losing control
The Mexican president’s support is not as solid as it seems.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Listen to this episode of Mexico: The Podcast to discover the definitive answer as to whether Mexico is left wing or right wing. www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pod...
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Mexico confounds the left-right political spectrum
Listen now | A history of ideological contradiction makes it tough to decide whether Mexicans are really progressive or utterly conservative.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is damage tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminium will do to *US industry* www.mxpe.org/p/us-tariffs...
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The US fallout from tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminium
The biggest winner could be the Chinese auto industry.
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ongoing tariff threats *are the policy* Explained how this will continue to work for Trump and Mexico in yesterday’s piece: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-tar...
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Mexican industry’s immediate reactions to tariffs
Mexico knows threats are Trump’s policy. It’s avoiding knee jerk retaliation.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Mexico is largely fighting back by holding back. There is a very specific countdown to when it will actually have to respond though: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-tar...
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Mexican industry’s immediate reactions to tariffs
Mexico knows threats are Trump’s policy. It’s avoiding knee jerk retaliation.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Despite not getting many concessions from the US, Sheinbaum has accrued a significant number of domestic policy victories thanks to Trump. Here’s how: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
The benefits of negotiating with Trump, Mexico’s millionaires, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Despite their love-in over anti-fentanyl ads, Trump and Sheinbaum are dead wrong about what makes a society less likely to take drugs. The opposite is true; ads can make things worse and make tough decisions around drug policy harder. Here's why: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-dru...
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Anti-drug ads are not why Mexico has fewer addicts
The campaigns actually make drug abuse worse and distract from the real, tough solutions.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
As MAGA "floods the space", Mexico has got caught in the undertow. Here's a quick cheat sheet to unpick the half-truths from the untruths regarding Mexico in the age of Trump: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Unpicking US fake news about Mexico, $1 billion from Netflix, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
20 of the world’s 50 most violent cities are in Mexico. This is no accident and neither is it due to an problem with Mexicans themselves. Find out how Mexico got so violent in our podcast: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pod...
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How Mexico got so violent
Listen now | Zoom out from everyday violence to see how Mexico became a cartel stronghold.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is the domino effect that will plan out when Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs kick in: www.mxpe.org/p/us-tariffs...
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The US fallout from tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminium
The biggest winner could be the Chinese auto industry.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The history of Mexican poverty and inequality in 5 stats. www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pod...
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Is Mexico poor?
Listen now | The history of Mexican poverty and inequality in 5 stats.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Mexico’s anti-nepotism and re-election bills do little more than empower entrenched party elites. Find out how by getting a paid subscription to The Mexico Political Economist www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Political dynasties against nepotism and reelection, the fight for housing, car exports down while production’s up, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
US has an ambitious semiconductors strategy and big plans for Mexico within it. But, unlike the EU plan which is far more equitable among its member States, the US was generous enough to leave its southern partner with the dregs. Find out how Mexico is pushing back: www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-sem...
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Mexico’s chip plan stands up to the US
Unpacking the Mexican government’s ambitious semiconductor industrial policy.
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"We have historically been very, very hard done by by the United States. So we're under no illusions they're going to continue to be friendly to us ad infinitum." @alexgonzor.bsky.social on #Mexico reaction to #Trump trade wars @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2ab3f6
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Byline Podcast: Trump's Trade Wars
Adrian Goldberg gets a view from Canada and Mexico as President Trump announces swingeing tarrifs on the import of steel and aluminium from his nearest neighbours. We hear from Alex Gonzalez Ormero...
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Ezra Alcázar @ezraalcazar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
¿Quihúbole con las mañaneras de AMLO y @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social? ¿Qué es esta forma de comunicarse? De eso hablamos @alexgonzor.bsky.social y yo con @waleedshahid.bsky.social para @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Morena and Claudia Sheinbaum Have Kept Up Mexico’s Move to the Left
Incumbent parties around the world keep losing to upstart challengers. Yet Mexico’s López Obrador defied the trend, handing off his presidency to Sheinbaum. What’s their secret?
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
NEW EPISODE: Trump's Trade Wars... @goldbergradio.bsky.social gets a view from #Canada and #Mexico and ponders #Starmer choices over #tarrifs With @hassum.bsky.social and @alexgonzor.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2ab3f6
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Byline Podcast: Trump's Trade Wars
Adrian Goldberg gets a view from Canada and Mexico as President Trump announces swingeing tarrifs on the import of steel and aluminium from his nearest neighbours. We hear from Alex Gonzalez Ormero...
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@hassum.bsky.social from Canada and @alexgonzor.bsky.social from Mexico offer progressive perspectives from both borders of Trump's trade wars on the @bylinetimes.bsky.social podcast podfollow.com/1747192337/e...
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Byline Podcast: Trump's Trade Wars
Adrian Goldberg gets a view from Canada and Mexico as President Trump announces swingeing tarrifs on the import of steel and aluminium from his nearest neighbours. We hear from Alex Gonzalez Ormero...
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Why Claudia Sheinbaum is so popular in Mexico has less to do with Trump and everything to do with new economic policy… one which the US president could undermine www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Why Sheinbaum remains popular (it’s not her tariff triumph), petrol export pause, lobbies in Congress, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How did Mexico get so violent? Find out in the latest episode of Mexico: The Podcast www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-pod...
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How Mexico got so violent
Listen now | Zoom out from everyday violence to see how Mexico became a cartel stronghold.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As the US becomes increasingly erratic and authoritarian, it can no longer be considered a reliable partner. It therefore becomes a matter of national security and economic stability for Mexico to diversify its trade relationships. www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-tra...
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Untethering trade from the US
Mexico cannot ditch the US completely, but it should diversify its economy away from it.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"If American workers truly want to protect their jobs without sinking to Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric, transnational collaboration between unions in the US and Mexico is the right way to bolster workers’ rights on both sides of the border." - @alexgonzor.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Trump’s tariffs: The US will now find out just how much it needs Mexico
The American jobs that Trump claims are ‘threatened’ by Mexico actually depend on it to exist.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Mexico's secret weapon in Trump's trade war: Inaction www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Mexico’s best retaliation is inaction, productivity to replace imports, oil quagmires, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As it wages a war against GMOs based on posturing and not science, Mexico threatens its entire supply chain of corn. www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-gmo...
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Mexico addresses GMOs as badly as the US does fentanyl
Posturing and government ineptitude are exacerbating issues surrounding genetically modified maize.
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Alex González Ormerod @alexgonzor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This paid off in less than a week: #DeepSeek
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Tariffs aren’t the only way for a country to influence the global economy. These are the cards held by the US and by Mexico: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Trade war by other means, Mexico didn’t turn back Trump’s planes, not worried about remittances, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Three decades since the end of the Cold War, the debate rages on: Is State intervention in the economy essential for a country’s growth or is it a disaster waiting to happen? Mexico is about to find out... again. Hear the full story in this ep of Mexico: The Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6z1Q...
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Mexico's industrial policy is destined to fail
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Halbert Jones @halbertjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Nice to see my work on Mexico and World War II highlighted here!
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Increasingly, analysts cannot help but replace the names and references of WWII with the geopolitics of today. How much will a coming trade war with the US reflect that real war 80 years ago? Will the current crisis result in a stronger or at least more unified Mexico? www.mxpe.org/p/mexico-war...
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The war has brought peace to Mexico
Mexico’s experience of World War II shows a path for Sheinbaum to thrive under Trump.
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The Mexico Political Economist @mexicope.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When Mexico has found itself in Trump’s crosshairs, it has tended to diplomatically hold its ground publicly and then used the imminent danger of the threat to its advantage domestically. Find out how in this week’s Essentials: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
Figuring out signal over noise in Trumpism, EU trade deal, worrying job stats, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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