Mexico Decoded
@mexicodecoded.bsky.social
A Substack that unpacks Mexico’s politics, economy, and power —straight from the source. By @viririos.bsky.social
The Battle for Mexico’s Water Is a Warning to the World.
Why Mexico’s rural protests are about dismantling one of the most powerful —and least understood— economic coalitions in the country.
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Why Mexico’s rural protests are about dismantling one of the most powerful —and least understood— economic coalitions in the country.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-battle...
The Battle for Mexico’s Water Is a Warning to the World
Why Mexico’s rural protests are about dismantling one of the most powerful —and least understood— economic coalitions in the country.
www.mexicodecoded.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Battle for Mexico’s Water Is a Warning to the World.
Why Mexico’s rural protests are about dismantling one of the most powerful —and least understood— economic coalitions in the country.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-battle...
Why Mexico’s rural protests are about dismantling one of the most powerful —and least understood— economic coalitions in the country.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-battle...
Non-Mexican Beauty, Highway Blockades & Tepid.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more about at the link in our bio.
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more about at the link in our bio.
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Non-Mexican Beauty, Highway Blockades & Tepid Growth
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Non-Mexican Beauty, Highway Blockades & Tepid.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more about at the link in our bio.
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more about at the link in our bio.
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Mexico’s Gen Z Is Breaking Global Political Patterns — Here’s How.
The recent protests claimed to represent them. The data tells a very different story.
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The recent protests claimed to represent them. The data tells a very different story.
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Mexico’s Gen Z Is Breaking Global Political Patterns — Here’s How
The recent protests claimed to represent them. The data tells a very different story.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mexico’s Gen Z Is Breaking Global Political Patterns — Here’s How.
The recent protests claimed to represent them. The data tells a very different story.
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The recent protests claimed to represent them. The data tells a very different story.
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Amphibian Crisis, Trump's Extortion & 40-Hour Reform
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Amphibian Crisis, Trump's Extortion & 40-Hour Reform
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Amphibian Crisis, Trump's Extortion & 40-Hour Reform
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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How Mexico Sweeps Murders Under The Rug.
A quiet bureaucratic trick is reshaping the country’s homicide data.
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A quiet bureaucratic trick is reshaping the country’s homicide data.
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How Mexico Sweeps Murders Under The Rug
A quiet bureaucratic trick is reshaping the country’s homicide data
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November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
How Mexico Sweeps Murders Under The Rug.
A quiet bureaucratic trick is reshaping the country’s homicide data.
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A quiet bureaucratic trick is reshaping the country’s homicide data.
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Mamdani’s Mexican Connection, Avocado Security Plan & More...
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Mamdani’s Mexican Connection, Avocado Security Plan & More
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Mamdani’s Mexican Connection, Avocado Security Plan & More...
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Mexico's Role in the U.S.-China Trade War.
A fact about trade that Washington can’t afford to ignore.
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A fact about trade that Washington can’t afford to ignore.
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Mexico's Role in the U.S.-China Trade War
A fact about trade that Washington can’t afford to ignore
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November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mexico's Role in the U.S.-China Trade War.
A fact about trade that Washington can’t afford to ignore.
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A fact about trade that Washington can’t afford to ignore.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/why-washin...
Gen Z’s Love Affair with Mexico City, Bankers’ Crocodile Tears & Uber’s Uncertain Win.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Gen Z’s Love Affair with Mexico City, Banks’ Crocodile Tears & Uber’s Uncertain Win
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Gen Z’s Love Affair with Mexico City, Bankers’ Crocodile Tears & Uber’s Uncertain Win.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Trump’s New Trade Playbook.
What Mexico reveals about America’s quiet plan to turn globalization into a hierarchy of obedience.
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What Mexico reveals about America’s quiet plan to turn globalization into a hierarchy of obedience.
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How Trump’s Economic Demands Aim to Subjugate Mexico
What Mexico reveals about America’s quiet plan to turn globalization into a hierarchy of obedience.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump’s New Trade Playbook.
What Mexico reveals about America’s quiet plan to turn globalization into a hierarchy of obedience.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-trumps...
What Mexico reveals about America’s quiet plan to turn globalization into a hierarchy of obedience.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-trumps...
Citrus Violence, Mogul’s Rally, & Deported Cubans.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! www.mexicodecoded.com/p/salinas-pl...
Salinas Pliego’s Political Push, Cuban Deportees in Mexico, & Dangers for Citrus Producers
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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October 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Citrus Violence, Mogul’s Rally, & Deported Cubans.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! www.mexicodecoded.com/p/salinas-pl...
🎙️Few realize it, but Mexico’s bureaucracy is both dysfunctional and brilliant — a paradox that reveals how power works.
Prof. Fernando Nieto joins Mexico Decoded podcast to reveal why👇
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Prof. Fernando Nieto joins Mexico Decoded podcast to reveal why👇
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How Mexican Bureaucracy Works
In this episode of Mexico Decoded podcast, we dive into one of the most misunderstood yet essential forces shaping Mexico: its bureaucracy.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️Few realize it, but Mexico’s bureaucracy is both dysfunctional and brilliant — a paradox that reveals how power works.
Prof. Fernando Nieto joins Mexico Decoded podcast to reveal why👇
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexica...
Prof. Fernando Nieto joins Mexico Decoded podcast to reveal why👇
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Inside Mexico’s Conservatives’ Flirt with the Far Right.
Mexico long resisted the radical right.
Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.
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Mexico long resisted the radical right.
Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/inside-con...
Inside Conservative’s Flirt with the Far Right
Mexico long resisted the radical right. Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Inside Mexico’s Conservatives’ Flirt with the Far Right.
Mexico long resisted the radical right.
Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/inside-con...
Mexico long resisted the radical right.
Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/inside-con...
Banks Buckle, "New" Opposition, & Energy Reform
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Banks Buckle, "New" Opposition, & Energy Reform
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Banks Buckle, "New" Opposition, & Energy Reform
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Why Sexless Men Are Increasing in Mexico
A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.
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A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.
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Why Sexless Men Are Increasing in Mexico
A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Why Sexless Men Are Increasing in Mexico
A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.
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A paradox of ambition and loneliness is rewriting the story of the global incel.
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Buzzing Border, Oversight Power Plays & Deadly Rains
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Buzzing Border, Oversight Power Plays & Deadly Rains
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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October 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Buzzing Border, Oversight Power Plays & Deadly Rains
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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How do Mexicans really use drugs — and what can the world learn from it?
Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:
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Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:
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How Mexicans Consume Their Drugs
Today, on Mexico Decoded Podcast, we will dive into the groundbreaking ways Mexico is rethinking drug consumption.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
How do Mexicans really use drugs — and what can the world learn from it?
Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:
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Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:
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The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico.
How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.
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How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.
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The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico
How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico.
How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-traged...
How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-traged...
Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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October 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club.
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is quietly reshaping power at home — and across Latin America.
Here’s our review of her first year in office:
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Here’s our review of her first year in office:
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Mexico’s First Female President Is Redefining Power
Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year in power is reshaping her country — and what it means to be a leftist politician.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is quietly reshaping power at home — and across Latin America.
Here’s our review of her first year in office:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-fi...
Here’s our review of her first year in office:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-fi...
🖊️ @lemonde.fr quoted our work on Mexico’s new security strategy! :)
Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
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Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
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October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🖊️ @lemonde.fr quoted our work on Mexico’s new security strategy! :)
Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
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Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexico...
Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
www.mexicodecoded.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/blackout-i...
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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One of the most chilling conversations we’ve recorded in Mexico Decode is out!
Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:
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Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:
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How Drug Cartels Recruit Their Members
Hollywood tells us people join drug cartels for money, power, and glamour. What’s really happening is far more chilling.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
One of the most chilling conversations we’ve recorded in Mexico Decode is out!
Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-drug-c...
Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-drug-c...
Menstrual Leave, Mexico-Canada Affair & Useless Stock Exchange
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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Sheinbaum’s Genocide Call, Canada's Leader Visits, and a $300M Oil Heist
Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters
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September 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Menstrual Leave, Mexico-Canada Affair & Useless Stock Exchange
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/sheinbaums...
Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!
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How are Mexican billionaires made?
The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:
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The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:
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How Mexican Billionaries are Made
A case study in how economies fail when power and privilege replace competition.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
How are Mexican billionaires made?
The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexica...
The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexica...
It seems like Mexico wants you to quit Diet Coke. And here’s why:
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Why Mexico Wants You to Quit Diet Coke
A bold tax experiment on whether governments can change taste itself
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September 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It seems like Mexico wants you to quit Diet Coke. And here’s why:
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