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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Provoke AMLO
“That old man they give up for dead will return to the plazas if necessary. Get ready, because he has the strength to travel the country once more,” warns Páez Varela.
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Fernando Cerimedo’s International Network Includes the PRI and Sí por México
In Contralínea, Aníbal García Fernández shows how Cerimedo’s network reaches Mexico’s right-wing opposition, through the man who ran an anti-Morena group’s social media.
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Judicial Reform in Mexico: Morena, the Opposition, and How History Was Made
In part two of his paper, Luke Pickrell examines Mexico’s historic 2024 judicial reform: how Morena built mass trust while the PRI and PAN collapsed under neoliberalism and a failed drug war.
