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Get to know the struggle inside Mexico’s ruling party, which matters more than anything the opposition is doing👇🏽
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Mexico’s violence is driven by impunity, but sustained by something much deeper 👇🏽
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Is Mexico’s Welfare Making People Work Less?
mexicodecoded.com/p/is-mexic…
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Private School kids are producing one of Mexico’s strangest educational outcomes👇🏽
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How Did Mexico’s Wealthiest Man Build His Fortune?
Carlos Slim, Mexico’s Elon Musk, represents everything that is wrong in Mexico’s economy 👇🏽
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Get to know the invisible forest that keeps Mexico City alive.
And why the water supply of one of Latin America’s largest cities is at risk👇🏽
mexicodecoded.com/p/the-invi…
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Here’s an economic recipe for defeating Trump.
What other countries have shown works, and how Mexico could implement it 👇🏽
mexicodecoded.com/p/an-econo…
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Don't be that tourist...
Here's why Mexicans roll their eyes when you say Mexico City is "so green"👇🏽
mexicodecoded.com/p/mexico-c…
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Today, we examine the nepo trap that could break Mexico’s ruling party.
And the fierce internal struggle to escape it👇🏽
mexicodecoded.com/p/the-nepo…
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There is a tax myth protecting Mexico’s rich... today we talk about it 👇🏽
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Why does Mexico celebrate like it won the World Cup, but with a chant that reflects heartbreak?👇🏽
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Why poverty reduction was not enough to save Colombia's left?
And what it reveals about a mistake Latin America's left cannot afford to make.
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While Mexico looks the other way, somebody is writing the rules of Mexico's AI on its behalf.
And that somebody does not have Mexico's development as a goal 👇🏽
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Trump keeps inserting himself into elections abroad.
Today, we trace the pattern, and explain the high-risk strategy Mexico's ruling party is betting on to keep him out of Mexican politics 👇🏽
mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-…
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The strategy of burying your head in the sand until the Democrats win is not a safe path for Mexico👇🏾
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Mexico City's mayor is painting the whole city purple and driving the rich insane.
Here is the story:
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The Mayor the Rich Love to Hate
Why Mexico City's mayor is driving the rich insane
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Is Mexico’s Decline in Homicides Too Good to Be True?
A complement to my Project Syndicate piece:
mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-…
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Mexico is having what looks like a real, unprecedented drop in murders.
Yet, there is a catch:
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An investor told us Mexico could never develop because it’s a “narco-state.”
Today, we explain why that narrative is pure MAGA talking fiction:
mexicodecoded.com/p/is-mexic…
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