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Carin Zissis

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Editor covering Mexico.

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Americas Society/Council of the Americas @ascoa.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New #LatAmFocus: Can Rodrigo Paz Unearth Bolivia’s Lithium Potential? Texas A&M’s Diego von Vacano talks to ASCOA’s @carinzissis.bsky.social about the history of political and economic obstacles stifling the sector and outlines the path ahead for the new president. 🎧 Listen: ow.ly/e5y050Xr1uX
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LatAm in Focus: Can Rodrigo Paz Unearth Bolivia's Lithium Potential?
Texas A&M's Diego von Vacano traces a history of political and economic obstacles stifling the sector and outlines the path ahead for the new president.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
On June 26, Trump backed a remittance tax in the "big, beautiful bill," saying it will help fund the wall. But the 3.5% tax could lead migrants, scared to share migration status, to find other ways to send money home, weakening financial transparency, CEMLA's René Maldonado told me in #LatAmFocus 🎙️
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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
😮Did you know that when Mexico's first congresswoman took office in 1958, women still weren't able vote in a national election? 🇲🇽 @carinzissis.bsky.social‬ reflects upon Aurora Jiménez de Palacios' legacy for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/aurora-jimen...
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She Was Mexico’s First, Forgotten Congresswoman | Essay
Aurora Jiménez’s Story Illuminates the Country’s Larger Struggle for Women’s Political Rights, Power, and Equity
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🇲🇽 President Sheinbaum headed to 🇨🇦 Mon for G7, where she's expected to hold a bilateral mtg with 🇺🇸 Trump Tues PM. This is her 3rd trip abroad since she became president in Oct: 🇧🇷the G20 in Brazil, Nov 2024 🇭🇳the CELAC summit, Honduras in Apr 2025 🇨🇦G7 in Canada now www.reforma.com/viaja-sheinb...
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Viaja Sheinbaum con más frecuencia al extranjero que AMLO
En menos de un año, la Presidenta CSP ha viajado a tres giras al extranjero, lo cual contrasta con los pocos viajes realizados por AMLO.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Come join us in DC for this conversation on June 12. All you have to do is register at: www.as-coa.org/amazon
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Book Talk: How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips
Join us June 12 in Washington as collaborators who helped complete the late journalist's manuscript examine his life and book.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
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Americas Society/Council of the Americas @ascoa.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
On June 1, Mexico held unprecedented direct elections for judges and magistrates. From candidate totals to voter turnout, AS/COA’s @carinzissis.bsky.social explains the voting day in six facts and figures: ow.ly/8Nfr50W2Yf8
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Six Facts to Understand Mexico's 2025 Judicial Elections
From candidate totals to voter turnout, learn about the country’s unprecedented election.
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Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
On the anniversary of Mexico's election of President Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the position, @carinzissis.bsky.social reflects on the history—and paradox—of women's political power in the country. zps.la/4juaSlE
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She Was Mexico’s First, Forgotten Congresswoman | Essay
Aurora Jiménez’s Story Illuminates the Country’s Larger Struggle for Women’s Political Rights, Power, and Equity
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Aurora Jiménez became Mexico's first congresswoman in 1954 due to a special election and before 🇲🇽 women even got to participate in a national vote. For @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social, I cover her unlikely rise to power 70 yrs before MX's first presidenta. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/aurora-jimen...
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She Was Mexico’s First, Forgotten Congresswoman | Essay
Aurora Jiménez’s Story Illuminates the Country’s Larger Struggle for Women’s Political Rights, Power, and Equity
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Ere Derbez @erederbez.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“To speak of a country with more than a hundred and twenty-seven thousand disappeared people is to question democracy itself,” María de Vecchi Gerli, who leads the Truth and Memory Program at the human-rights group Article 19. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump
Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy?
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"As we approach the Cristero Rebellion’s centennial in 2026, we will likely see more attempts to equate Morena with the socialism and anti-clericalism of the 1920s and ’30s...to mobilize Catholics in opposition." www.americasquarterly.org/article/the-...
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The Long Shadow of Mexico’s War Over Catholicism
A century ago, the Cristero war pitted Catholics against the state—and left a lasting impact on the country’s left, still visible today.
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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade. - vía @nytimes.com
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Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel
Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A film that takes place where you’re from
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a man says i 'm the guy who does his job while standing next to another man
ALT: a man says i 'm the guy who does his job while standing next to another man
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
‘Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?” @jennykleeman.bsky.social
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
BREAKNG: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals — which was slated to expire next week. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves? This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.
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In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources. Can Mexico get there? @carinzissis.bsky.social writes:
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In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🇲🇽 At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce. I cover Mexico's gender workforce gap and push for a national care system in @wpr.bsky.social: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mexico-care-...
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In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum
A national care system would go a long way toward addressing Mexico’s workforce gender gap, but building it will take time and resources.
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Mexico Institute @mexicoinstitute.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢 The Role of Latin American Women in Advancing Human Rights 🌎✊ In this article in the @latamprog.bsky.social, @wilsoncenter.org Fellow @carinzissis.bsky.social explores the historical contributions of #LatinAmerican women to the #humanrights movement​ 📖 www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ho...
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How Latin American Women Shaped Human Rights
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hillary Clinton declared "Women's rights are human rights" at the 1995 Beijing Conf. But Latin American women helped enshrine the concept in the UN Charter 50 years before—and over US objections. For #8M #WomensHistoryMonth, I write for @latamprog.bsky.social: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ho...
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How Latin American Women Shaped Human Rights
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
2 sides, 1 coin: On same day Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexico go into effect, 🇲🇽's lawsuit against 🇺🇸 gun makers lands in the US Supreme Court. 🇺🇸 declared MX org crime groups terrorist orgs and says fentanyl is cause for tariffs, even as illicit 🇺🇸 guns arm crime groups. www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/mexi...
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Mexico’s suit against U.S. gun makers comes before Supreme Court - SCOTUSblog
Just two weeks after the Trump administration designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Mexico will come to the Supreme Court on Tuesday in its effort to hold U.S. gun makers ...
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Just as 🇲🇽 Security Chief García Harfuch is in DC for talks, Mexico reveals that it has extradited 29 organized crime group members to the 🇺🇸, including Caro Quintero www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/desde...
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Desde Caro, “Los Zetas”, “Los Chapitos” y hasta el CJNG; ellos son los 29 narcos extraditados de México a EU | El Universal
De acuerdo con fuentes federales, entre los extraditados se encuentran el capo mexicano Rafael Caro Quintero, así como los fundadores de “Los Zetas”
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"In discussions so far, American officials have delivered vague ultimatums and unclear policy demands that Mexico dismantle the cartels or face the full force of Washington’s power...leading to confusion among Mexican officials." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...
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Trump Officials Split Over How Hard to Go on Mexican Cartels
A Mexican delegation will meet in Washington on Thursday to finalize a security deal, as White House officials debate a strategy for fighting cartels and stemming the flow of drugs across the border.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Mexican President Sheinbaum announced that Security Sec Harfuch & Econ Sec Ebrard are expected to head to 🇺🇸 this week to hold 🇲🇽's first cabinet-level meetings with Trump admin. The White House has set a March 1 deadline to impost 25% tariffs on 🇲🇽 elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
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Harfuch y Ebrard, los representantes de México en las primeras reuniones con la Administración de Trump
Sheinbaum espera que se celebren dos encuentros esta semana sobre Comercio y Seguridad, con la amenaza de los aranceles como telón de fondo
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Who is being sent to Guantanamo? “According to US fed court records, 2 of them had no crimes on their records except for illegal entry. The 3rd had picked up an additional charge while in detention, for kicking an officer while being restrained during a riot.” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/i...
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U.S. claims migrants held at Guantanamo are “worst of the worst.” Their families say otherwise.
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
👵🏼🇲🇽Mexico is growing old—and fast. Its demographic bonus ends with Sheinbaum's presidency and the number of elderly Mexicans who need care will triple by 2050. Is the country ready for the challenge? My latest for Americas Quarterly: www.americasquarterly.org/article/mexi...
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Mexico Is Growing Old. Can It Build a Care System in Time?
The country’s demographic bonus ends with Sheinbaum’s presidency, offering a chance to rethink care and close workforce gender gaps.
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Mala Madre @malamadremx.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Los arrestos de ciudadanos estadounidenses por delitos relacionados con cárteles en México se dispararon bajo el gobierno de López Obrador #NarcoUSA The Guardian retomando el reportaje de @pajaropolitico.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Arrests of US citizens for cartel-related crimes in Mexico soared under Amlo
Sixfold rise from days of Peña Nieto suggests Americans have increasingly become pawns for drug gangs, study finds
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“Politics becomes like a soccer match in which the referees, the groundskeepers, and the scorekeepers work for one team to sabotage its rival.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The new Corruption Perceptions Index is out. The US dropped 4 spots...and that was before Trump administration decided to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024/... www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...
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2024 Corruption Perceptions Index - Explore United States’s results
How does United States measure up in the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index?
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🍓🥦 91% of 🇲🇽 women agricultural workers don't get social security. Only 3% have work contracts. "US supermarkets get fresh fruits & vegetables because there is a chain of labor that starts in Mexican fields, and a big part of that labor falls to women." mujeres.expansion.mx/actualidad/2....
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Las mujeres producen 19 mil mdd en alimentos, pero el 91% no tiene seguro social
Las jornaleras mexicanas sostienen la agroexportación con su trabajo en berries, café y aguacate, pero enfrentan bajos salarios y falta de derechos laborales.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Despite a production increase, Mexican car exports dropped nearly 14% in January amid tariff fears. www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/exp...
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Exportaciones de autos hechos en México bajaron 13.74% en enero pese a alza en la producción
México registró ligero incremento de 1.7% en la producción de vehículos ligeros durante enero pasado, con 312,257 unidades, sin embargo, la incertidumbre
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Per @pajaropolitico.bsky.social, there's been an uptick in number of US citizens detained in Mexico for organized crime ties, with US citizens increasingly involved in these types of crimes "because they can cross the border much more easily than foreigners." animalpolitico.com/seguridad/na...
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Mala Madre @malamadremx.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
En un mensaje en Twitter donde leyó su tuit de ayer, la presidenta Sheinbaum informó que va a esperar a ver qué le responde Trump a su propuesta de diálogo -porque no quiere «confrontación»- y mañana en la mañanera nos cuenta de qué va el plan B (lo de las medidas arancelarias y no arancelarias)
Imagen del tuit de la presidenta Sheinbaum, en el que comparte un video con su mensaje sobre los aranceles anunciados por Trump.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m not going full “phone free February” but I’ve been appreciating app limits. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Try ‘Phone Free February’ to reduce screen time and improve your health
Experts say reducing phone use by just an hour a day can have significant health benefits, and Phone Free February is a great way to start.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
"The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases." A maddening but important read:
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I'm getting in the habit of checking google maps each day to make sure things are still as they should be.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Crazy that she doesn't even mention Mexico, with which Canada also has an important free trade agreement, here.
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Ángel Plascencia @angel-pc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Si eres migrante en Estados Unidos, tienes derechos, conócelos. Info de ACLU.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Great listen, especially at this moment in time: “We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.” open.spotify.com/episode/5JdP...
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When Carter called out America
Today, Explained · Episode
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The antidote to today's anti-factchecking Meta news. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...
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Bad Bunny Wants to Read You the News
Looks like Puerto Rico has a new anchorman.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My fave new stat of the new year: "For scale, Mexico City’s metropolitan GDP is slightly smaller than that of Colombia or Chile." This is from MXPE Weekly Essentials. Given US-MX ties are on all the 2025 "risk lists" and knowing is 1/2 the battle, sign up for knowledge: www.mxpe.org/p/mxpe-weekl...
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MXPE Weekly Essentials
What you missed over the holidays, metropolitan GDPs, a breather from pollution, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program...ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platform..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta ends fact checks as it prepares for Trump era
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of community notes, calling the recent election “a cultural tipping point.”
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
An excellent analysis from @carinzissis.bsky.social & Maria Fernanda Benavides on why 2024 was not time for women in the US -- but it was in Mexico (including quotes from @labaldez.bsky.social about quotas and me about women in the GOP). vozyvoto.com.mx/articulo/por...
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¿Por qué no fue el tiempo de las mujeres en Estados Unidos?
¿Cuando Joe Biden decidió retirarse de la carrera presidencial de Estados Unidos para dar paso a Kamala Harris, surgió una posibilidad: que México y Estados Unidos finalmente tuvieran presidentas.
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"Mexico Is Doing the United States’ Dirty Work on Migration" Trump's pledges to “secure the border,” are dead in the water without Mexican cooperation and he knows it LATEST by me with Daniela Diaz for World Politics Review (gift link) www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mexico-us-mi...
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Mexico Is Doing the United States’ Dirty Work on Migration
Mexican authorities are stopping, delaying and detaining record numbers of migrants en route to the U.S. border.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
¿Por qué no fue el tiempo de las mujeres en los Estados Unidos? En la revista Voz y Voto, María Fernanda Benavides y yo escribimos unas respuestas, incluso sobre cómo el aumento de mujeres en el congreso tras el movimiento #MeToo se ha estancado: vozyvoto.com.mx/articulo/por...
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¿Por qué no fue el tiempo de las mujeres en Estados Unidos?
¿Cuando Joe Biden decidió retirarse de la carrera presidencial de Estados Unidos para dar paso a Kamala Harris, surgió una posibilidad: que México y Estados Unidos finalmente tuvieran presidentas.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Every time a political leader takes up the issue of daylight savingS time, I can’t help but think of Veep. youtu.be/cHsd-EU_KKI?...
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Congressman Jonah Ryan "punches a clock" to protest Daylight Saving
YouTube video by Selina Meyer
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In Mexico, it's time for women—except in the 2025 budget. President Sheinbaum followed in AMLO's footsteps by apportioning most of the spending (89%) for gender equality to social programs—many of which, like tree planting or pensions—aren't related to gender. animalpolitico.com/politica/pre... 1/
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Sheinbaum repite la fórmula de AMLO: 89 % del presupuesto para mujeres es para programas sociales
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
4 in 10 elections if the elections that CFR lists as ones to watch in 2025 are in the Americas: Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, and Canada. 🇪🇨🇧🇴🇭🇳🇨🇦 (Mexico's judicial elections didn't make the list, but I will be watching those.) www.cfr.org/article/ten-...
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Ten Elections to Watch in 2025
Numerous countries will hold elections in 2025. Here are ten to watch.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In Mexico, a judge absolved Diego 'N', a college student charged with using AI to produce sexualized images of fellow students. Lawyers say they'll appeal the decision in what has been seen as a landmark case. forbes.com.mx/batalla-por-...
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Batalla por la primera sentencia de violencia sexual con IA continúa en México
Abogada de víctimas buscará apelar la decisión de un juez que absolvió al acusado en dos de ocho casos presentados.
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Carin Zissis @carinzissis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In Mexico, the economic value of unpaid domestic work was 26.3% of GDP last year. www.eleconomista.com.mx/economia/equ...
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