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Mexico swimming against the tide under López Obrador

Mexico swimming against the tide under López Obrador

If critics of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador were restricted to isolating just one of his faults there is a strong chance they would settle on his inflexibility, a dogmatic determination to pursue his own ideolo...

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China’s ‘face mask diplomacy’ tests geopolitical ties

China’s ‘face mask diplomacy’ tests geopolitical ties

Amid ‘China virus’ jibes emanating from the US and from Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the Chinese government has busily supplied stressed Latin American health systems with unprecedented medical aid. Shipments of protective ...

LatestSecurity & Strategic Review

Pandemic does not stop violence in Mexico

Pandemic does not stop violence in Mexico

Despite the social distancing guidelines introduced by the government in late March to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), and even though this has reduced drug trafficking activity, the levels of violence in Mexico have not...

LatestRegional Report

With the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak reaching the rapid transmission stage in Mexico, the April Regional Report: Mexico focuses on the government’s response to the economic impact of the outbreak and some of the unexpected effects the ou...

LatestSpecial Report

The world changed in March. Originating three months earlier in the Chinese city of Wuhan the Covid-19 pandemic spread through Europe, the United States, Latin America, and many other countries triggering a series of quarantines and lockdown measu...