by Marcela Ánimas and Laura Aguayo. Ms. Ánimas is a Partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel , where she works and collaborates with Ms. Aguayo. “Ideas have been put forward, but they are not e...

by David Agren, writer-at-large. President Claudia Sheinbaum swore the oath of office one year ago in a ceremony laden with symbolism as she became Mexico’s first female president. Flanked by femal...

by Marcela Ánimas and Laura Aguayo. Ms. Ánimas is a Partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel , where she works and collaborates with Ms. Aguayo. “Ideas have been put forward, but they are not e...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. I want to pause this week to point out an incongruity in the Trump administration’s supposed war on drug trafficking that is posing challenges around how we best...

by Luis Rubio. Gasoline theft is nothing new in Mexico. One need only recall the 1992 Guadalajara explosion, triggered by stolen gasoline dumped into the city’s drainage system after traffickers fail...

by Luis Rubio. Gasoline theft is nothing new in Mexico. One need only recall the 1992 Guadalajara explosion, triggered by stolen gasoline dumped into the city’s drainage system after traffickers fail...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to deliver the cry of independence from the Presidential Palace this week, coinciding with the 215th a...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. This week a video circulated on social media of former Mexican president Felipe Calderón decrying the country’s freshly implemented judicial reform at Georgeto...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

by Andrew Law, editor and founder. It’s been impossible to miss during Trump’s second term how, in corners of US media and the anti-Trump internet, President Claudia Sheinbaum is cast as his foil:...

by David Agren, writer-at-large. The permanent session of Mexico’s congress ended on Thursday with fireworks and fisticuffs with Institutional Revolutionary Party president Alejandro Moreno c...

by David Agren, writer-at-large. — Former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador used to campaign on the slogan: you can’t have a rich government with poor people. Austerity became his calling car...

In response to statements emanating from the Mexican presidential bully pulpit that with the United States “we are doing better than any other country,” that “we dialogue with respect and on equal ter...

by Madeleine Wattenbarger. A polemical point of the reform to the General Disappearance Law passed by Mexican legislators this week is the use of a biometric CURP to search for missing people. The ...

by David Agren, writer-at-large. Morena supporters marked one of their movement’s many anniversaries on July 1: the seventh anniversary of the ruling party’s founder, former Andrés Manuel Ló...

by Andrew Law, founder and editor. In 2014, Luisa Alcalde — now Morena’s party president — blasted then-President Peña Nieto’s telecom reform on Twitter: “Signal blocking, prior censorship, data ...

by Andrew Law, founder and editor. In 2014, Luisa Alcalde — now Morena’s party president — blasted then-President Peña Nieto’s telecom reform on Twitter: “Signal blocking, prior censorship, data ...

by David Agren. Former PRI governor Fidel Herrera passed away recently. He was remembered for a sordid administration in the late 2000s, when Los Zetas took over the state. As the discovery of a cl...

by David Agren. President Claudia Sheinbaum stepped onto the world stage with her participation in this week’s Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit in the Canadian Rockies.  Sheinbaum sat down with the leaders of India, South Korea , Germany , the European Union, though suffered the

by Arturo Sarukhán (Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, 2007 - 2013) This was a domestic clash waiting to happen, largely concocted in the Oval Office but potentially exacerbated in Mexico ...

by Emiliano Polo. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will not govern the political order she has helped construct. Under the guise of a so-called “judicial reform,” she has championed the creation...

by David Agren. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced details of her trip to Canada next week for the Group of Seven Leader’s Summit in Kananaskis, a resort in the Alberta Rockies, and her first me...

by Arturo Sarukhán (Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, 2007 - 2013) This was a domestic clash waiting to happen, largely concocted in the Oval Office but potentially exacerbated in Mexico ...

by Arturo Sarukhán (Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, 2007 - 2013) This was a domestic clash waiting to happen, largely concocted in the Oval Office but potentially exacerbated in Mexico ...

by Andrew Law. The surreal events this week in my old hometown of Los Angeles are spiraling from a local crisis into an international fiasco. Mexico’s former Ambassador to the United States, Marth...

by Andrew Law. The surreal events this week in my old hometown of Los Angeles are spiraling from a local crisis into an international fiasco. Mexico’s former Ambassador to the United States, Marth...

by David Agren. Former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared in public for the first time in eight months to cast his ballot in the recent judicial elections. The man known as AMLO voted u...

by Jacques Coste. Many analysts have argued that Mexico’s recent judicial elections removed the last check on presidential power because several candidates with clear connections or affinities with...

by Macario Schettino. Last Sunday, elections were held in Mexico—very unusual elections that are virtually unheard of in any other country in the world. Judges, magistrates, and justices were elect...

by David Agren. Mexico holds judicial elections on Sunday, which will select nearly 900 judges – including supreme court justices – via popular vote. But the much anticipated elections are unfo...

by Madeleine Wattenbarger. Until last week, Ximena Guzmán Cuevas and José Muñoz were not public figures. Longstanding members of the ruling Morena Party, they both held senior positions in Mexico C...

by Luis Rubio. Judicial reform reaches its critical moment this coming Sunday. After the constitutional reform was approved last September, this Sunday citizens will vote for judges, magistrates, a...

by Luis Rubio. Judicial reform reaches its critical moment this coming Sunday. After the constitutional reform was approved last September, this Sunday citizens will vote for judges, magistrates, a...

by Emiliano Polo. Mother’s Day in Mexico has increasingly become a day of protest for women whose children have disappeared in the context of a deepening national crisis. This year, demonstration...

by David Agren. Claudia Sheinbaum has suffered perhaps the worst week of her administration – marked by the murders of two senior functionaries in the Mexico City government.  How bad w...

by David Agren. Claudia Sheinbaum has suffered perhaps the worst week of her administration – marked by the murders of two senior functionaries in the Mexico City government.  How bad w...

As US Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson arrives in Mexico City, former Mexican Ambassador to the United States Gerónimo Gutiérrez asks where next?

Meet Fernández Noroña, the chaos agent in charge of Mexico’s Senate. Read more at The Mexico Brief.

Mexico City’s MUAC is fast becoming a vital hub for sonic experimentation in Latin America. Read more at The Mexico Brief.

Meet Fernández Noroña, the chaos agent in charge of Mexico’s Senate. Read more at The Mexico Brief.

Macario Schettino finds AMLO's economic inheritance with Donald Trump's return to the White House makes for a risky combination, read more at The Mexico Brief.

Madeleine Wattenbarger and Axel Hernández look at how illegal logging is fueling CDMX forest fires, spotlighting the Teporingos forest-protection brigade, read more at The Mexico Brief.

Meixco's former Ambassador to the United States assesses how increased fiscal centralization is placing Mexico’s federalism under pressure - again.

Ambika Subra explores the politics and poetics of aguas frescas through an immersive performance at this year's TONO Festival in Mexico City.

Comments made by Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, undermine Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's narrative of resistance.

Amb. Andrés Rozental finds Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum’s stoic diplomacy faces its limits, read more at The Mexico Brief.