Latin America Cracking down on cartel crime requires more bullets than hugs. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has quietly been abandoning the security framework of her predecessor, the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador famously took a soft-touch approach towards cartels in Mexico, saying that ultimately what would solve organized crime are “hugs, not bullets,”
Foreign Affairs State of the Union: Mexico will send 10,000 troops to the border while tariffs will be delayed for another month. The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced Monday morning at her regular press conference that she had come to an agreement with Donald Trump to postpone the levying of tariffs by the U.S.
Foreign Affairs The outgoing president has proposed sweeping constitutional reforms for his final month in office. The overwhelming victory achieved by Morena, the political party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in the June Mexican federal elections has breathed new life into his plan for a sweeping reform of the Mexican political system.
