Claudia Sheinbaum

To understand the latest disturbing spasm of violence in Mexico, it helps to go back six years to an ultra-wealthy colonia called Lomas de Chapultepec, near the heart of Mexico City. Lomas de Chapultepec is protected, partly by a large security apparatus net that has been thrown around it, and partly by the pacto de narco, which protects the high-income neighborhoods in which both cartel leadership and their political partners live, along with their families. Not long ago, former Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was publicly threatening to use the Mexican armed forces to defend cartels That was why it was surprising when, on June 26, 2020, Mexico City’s

The shock for the informed is not that Trump declared the Mexican state a narco-regime, but that it didn’t happen years ago

She sounds like a more refined AMLO. For the US, this means a very different negotiator but, essentially, the same terms