Mexfiles
Mexican politics and current events.
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(Re) visions.
Politics always has a backstory, but in Mexico, that backstory can pre-date the Conquest at times, and I’m finally getting back to writing about that, as well.
Cross-posted with Mexfiles.net.
There will be time, there will be time...
Intelligence report
President Trump rejects the idea of placing guardrails on artificial intelligence, saying in a Truth Social post that the only control needed is “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT…
Well… ok, but she’s got a lot on her plate now.
As...
Where were you?
I wouldn’t claim to have foresight, but a sense of dread, that something was very wrong with the US and the petty bellicosity of the (possibly illegitimately elected) President Bush Jr. (”They wanted to kill my dad!”), and the generic rah-r...
"If I don't trade with Mexico, they have nothing that we have to have. I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things."
Franc Contreras (CGTN, Al Jazeera, National Public Radio… etc. went to the trouble of listing out a “couple of things…:”
Mexico is the United States’ most important trading partner right now in 2026, and the scale is considerably larger th...
Elections, “bot” and paid for
Make it make sense!
There’s a conventional theory that political trends in Latin America naturally shift from left to right and back again, with Mexico usually the outlier. That is, during the “Pink Tide” of early 2000s,— with leaders like...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writing and living in Mexico since 2001 Books: Gods Gauchipines and Gringos (2008) Bosques' War (2011) Gorostieta and the Cristiada (2013) Mexfile.net (2001 - ) Various news articles, occasional “quote whore”.
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