Trump Doesn’t Want to Bomb Mexico, US Ambassador Says. He Calls for Recognizing the Bilateral Relationship
Ronald Johnson told investors the terrorist label on cartels aims at financial sanctions, and claimed China would welcome chaos in Mexico.
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Mexico Does Not Have the Capacity to Confront the Cartels, Trump Says
Speaking at the White House, Trump claimed without evidence that cartels control Mexico and warned they have a deadline to “basically surrender.”
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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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Sheinbaum Responds to Trump: “Mexico Is Not and Will Not Be a Colony”
After Trump shared a map draping Mexico, Canada, and Greenland in U.S. flag colors, Sheinbaum invoked the “month of the homeland” to reaffirm national sovereignty.
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Rocha, Cerimedo and the Beast
“What of Rocha. What of Cerimedo. What of Negre. What of “Alito” and the other worms. The issue is the beast that drools and growls on the porch of our house,” writes Páez Varela.
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Trump’s Pushing It — But Claudia Sheinbaum’s No Pushover
David Raby on the El Mayo abduction, USMCA fights, ICE killings of Mexican-Americans, and the economic strength behind Sheinbaum’s firmer line with Washington.
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Sheinbaum: No Need to Take the Bait on Every Trump Statement, He Has His Way of Communicating
Responding to Trump’s G7 jab calling her a ‘scared’ woman, Sheinbaum declines a personal debate.
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Trump Goes Against Mexico at the G7; Accuses Sheinbaum of Being a ‘Scared’ Woman
“Mexico has lost control of its country. The cartels control Mexico, it’s sad. The President is a very good woman, but she’s a very scared woman,” Trump declared.
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Trump: “Mexico Does What We Tell It To”
US President Donald Trump made the remarks during a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Asymmetric Dependence, the New Economic Order
Mexico ceased to be energy sovereign in 2014, but rebuilding state-owned enterprises gives it the flexibility and capacity to avoid Trump using energy as a weapon to extract concessions and halt the national development of strategic sectors. Europe is too far gone.
