Kurt Hackbarth is a journalist, writer, and playwright covering Mexico and Latin America. He is an analyst on Mexico’s Canal Once and the cohost of SoberanĂa: The Mexican Politics Podcast.
Ten months into a US fuel blockade, Cuba’s hospitals, power grid, and economy are buckling, and the threat of invasion has become a midterm talking point in Florida. But the island hasn’t broken. That may make Washington more dangerous, not less.
Fernando Cerimedo built the disinformation machine behind the far right’s wins from Argentina to Bolivia to Honduras — with technology and money from Trump’s own operatives. Now he’s in a Bolivian jail, charged with trying to have his ex-partner killed.
The mysterious deaths of two CIA agents in Mexico has raised questions about the Trump White House’s increasingly belligerent actions against the Latin American left.Â
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a lived reality.
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants to send Cuba some desperately needed oil. Donald Trump sent the US Navy into the Caribbean to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Mexico’s hugely popular president, Claudia Sheinbaum, won massive reforms in 2025. But with the Donald Trump administration’s neocolonial interventions in Latin America, next year will be a fight for survival.
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.
From deftly handling a hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with a remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins.
Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands.
The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry. Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally realized with the support of the AMLO administration.
Despite powerful enemies at home and in the United States, Mexico’s left-populist former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador managed to not only win power but deliver on his promises to workers and the poor.
Donald Trump’s tariff threats have only made Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, even more popular — her approval rating now stands at 85%.
Mexico’s staunchly left-populist former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, just spent six years in power. But his road to the National Palace was anything but a straight line.
Donald Trump was elected on inflation and cost-of-living issues. His proposed trade war on Mexico and Canada would aggravate both.
Mexican judges have threatened to throw their own president in jail for implementing constitutional reforms that subject them to direct elections. The effort is destined to fail, but the confrontation could set the tone for lawfare campaigns across the region.
Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took office yesterday, succeeding AMLO following the left coalition’s landslide victory. Expect the Right to redouble its media attacks — and find a willing accomplice in the United States.
Mexico’s judiciary is infamous for favoring oligarchs and other unsavory interests. MORENA’s judicial reforms aim to fix this by introducing democratic elections for judges — a move that has the US and global business elites in a panic.
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidential election in a landslide. In her victory speech, she paid homage to the social movements of the past and promised to continue MORENA’s impressive record of social progress.