Inside Trump’s war on the cartels
Mexico is one area where the MAGA base and its brain trust seem open to the idea of more aggressive action
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Tuesday
Friday
Trump puts the cartels in his sights
The administration is already indicating its willingness to take real action against a threat that deserved direct confrontation long ago
Monday
Yes, there is a Mexican state-cartel alliance
The shock for the informed is not that Trump declared the Mexican state a narco-regime, but that it didn’t happen years ago
Monday
Don’t expect Mexico’s new girlboss to take on the cartels
In all likelihood, the US’s relationship with the failing narco-state across our southern border will only get worse
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president?
The sixty-one-year-old will become the first Jewish leader elected in the overwhelmingly Catholic country
Thursday
A car-crash clean-up press conference Biden will hope to forget
The media ate Biden alive, demanding to know if his memory was OK and why he wouldn’t step aside in the 2024 election
Monday
Is China using Mexico as a back door to trade with the US?
It appears shortsighted to celebrate Mexico becoming our top trading partner as an absolute ‘decoupling’ success
Thursday
AMLO sides with the cartels
The old paradigm of the US-Mexico relationship is over
