Soberanía 81: Just a Flash in the “PAN”
In this episode of Soberanía we unpack the Relaunch of the PAN: what the party’s reset looks like, who’s driving it, and whether it can really reclaim relevance? José Luis and Kurt then shift to the government’s response to recent heavy rains, assessing preparedness, relief efforts, and political fallout on the ground. We also analyze Mexico’s foreign-policy stance as President Sheinbaum insists Mexico will not abandon Cuba, exploring the diplomatic and domestic stakes of that position. We close with our regular Losers & Haters segment, calling out a familiar figure to longtime listeners.
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From Fast and Furious to Walking Fentanyl: Lessons Not Learned by the US
Nancy Flores digs into declassified emails showing the DEA let fentanyl ‘walk’ New Mexico streets, echoing the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns to the Sinaloa Cartel a decade earlier.
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The Women of Mexico’s War of Independence
We interviewed Dr. Pedro Salmerón for our weekly bulletin to talk about Mexican Independence: “Like the nomads of Mongolia, they all moved together. Women participated directly.”
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Broken Promises and Discontent: Reforms to Mexico’s Supreme Court Between 1994 and 2018
In part one of his paper, Luke Pickrell explores Mexico’s Supreme Court during the neoliberal period and argues it was made to serve the elite rather than the people.
