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A massive fuel theft scandal in Mexico has ensnared the Navy, business, and government officials - reaching senior members of Morena. It’s too big for the government to contain, so for Luis Rubio the question now is if President Claudia Sheinbaum can seize the crisis as an opportunity. Free today:

Analysis: Mexico’s fuel theft scandal is too big for the government to contain — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · 16d

A massive fuel theft scandal in Mexico has ensnared the Navy, business, and government officials - reaching senior members of Morena. It’s too big for the government to contain, so for Luis Rubio the question now is if President Claudia Sheinbaum can seize the crisis as an opportunity. Free today:

Analysis: Mexico’s fuel theft scandal is too big for the government to contain — The Mexico Brief.

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...

www.themexicobrief.org

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · 17d

Issue for platforms like us is that the conversation on BlueSky is overwhelmingly US/UK focused. If you’re focused on Mexico, for instance, hardly anyone relevant to that conversation is here - much less having a vibrant conversation!

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · 19d

What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history?

Analysis: What place does Claudia Sheinbaum want in Mexico’s history? — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · 24d

There are high profile right wing US personalities who have been barred from Britain for less than what Elon Musk did yesterday, and by Theresa May no less! The lack of response is a real indictment of Starmer’s inability to lead and unfitness to the moment he’s in.

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · 26d

This week Claudia Sheinbaum branded ex-president Felipe Calderón a traitor. But for all her talk of sovereignty, Sheinbaum has yet to stand up to Washington the way Calderón once did. It’s an awkward truth that was on display again this week.

Editor's Note: An uncomfortable week for Mexico’s sovereignty — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Sep 6

And most MAGA folk would likely point to that as a reason to feel unsafe - and an indictment of the state - in Mexico, still, without a trace of irony.

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Arturo Sarukhan @ambarturosarukhan.bsky.social · Sep 5

A reality check for the week...
@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel."
www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief.

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:...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Sep 5

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Sep 5

Without doubt she’s expanding on AMLO’s script. I don’t and wouldn’t argue that she is copying Trump, but I do argue she and her project need to be understood as Trump’s parallel, which is a different thing.

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Sep 5

Claudia Sheinbaum’s ‘end of neoliberalism’ looks like Donald Trump’s statist oligarchy. Her ‘poverty reduction’ hides a collapse in healthcare access. Her murder stats mask a disappearance crisis. She‘s redefining the terms of reality itself in a direct parallel to Trump’s assault on truth.

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief.

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:...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Sep 5

A note to the many progressives who have embraced Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum as a foil to Donald Trump: she isn’t Trump’s foil, she is his parallel. Here is why, free to read: www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...

Editor’s note: Claudia Sheinbaum is not Donald Trump’s foil. She is his parallel. — The Mexico Brief.

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:...

www.themexicobrief.org

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · Aug 29

"The #mañanera (the morning news conference) has dragged down the public discourse with an unedifying mix of trolling, shittalking, gaslighting, provoking, deflecting and accusing", opines @davidagren.bsky.social for @themexicobrief.bsky.social.

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Aug 29

An entrenched culture of political trolling reached an unedifying peak this week in Mexico’s Congress, @davidagren.bsky.social breaks down how we got here. Free now:

Scuffle in Congress reflects Mexico’s entrenched culture of political trolling — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Aug 29

An entrenched culture of political trolling reached an unedifying peak this week in Mexico’s Congress, @davidagren.bsky.social breaks down how we got here. Free now:

Scuffle in Congress reflects Mexico’s entrenched culture of political trolling — The Mexico Brief.

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...

www.themexicobrief.org

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Aug 28

“This line against Andy is approved and rewarded,” a source familiar with presidential communications told us. “It’s paving the way for Sheinbaum to have more of a say in reconfiguring Morena…with her people.”

Analysis: The problem with Andy by David Agren — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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Arturo Sarukhan @ambarturosarukhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

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My latest take for @themexicobrief.bsky.social, out today, on the current state of Mexico-US tariff/trade negotiations and bilateral affairs www.themexicobrief.org/latest/spoil...

Spoiler alert - this gets complicated, says Arturo Sarukhan — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Jul 4

Free today: “They are using us as pretext”: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, victims’ families say in an exclusive report.

Reporting: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say — The Mexico Brief.

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 ...

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The Mexico Brief @themexicobrief.bsky.social · Jul 4

Mexican democracy turned 25 this week, but the ruling Morena party barely acknowledged the milestone. That’s because, as @davidagren.bsky.social reports, for its loyalists only the last seven matter.

Analysis: Mexico’s democratic transition turns 25 - or only 7, if you ask Morena… — The Mexico Brief.

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...

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Arturo Sarukhan @ambarturosarukhan.bsky.social · Jul 4

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@themexicobrief.bsky.social: "Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance" www.themexicobrief.org/latest/edito...

Editor’s note: On Mexico’s rapid, breath-taking descent into total surveillance — The Mexico Brief.

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 ...

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