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Regions Americas North America Mexico

Mexico

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of political and economic issues in Mexico, as well as the country’s relationships with the United States, the nations of Central America, and the wider world.

Top Stories

ISSUE: November/December 2022

Mexico’s Dying Democracy

AMLO and the Toll of Authoritarian Populism

Denise Dresser

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Gustavo Graf / Reuters

Mexico’s Dying Democracy

The Long History of the U.S. Immigration Crisis

Ana Raquel Minian

Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship

Richard Feinberg

The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

Richard Feinberg

Stories That Make History: Mexico Through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Richard Feinberg

Civilizations: A Novel

Richard Feinberg

Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Richard Feinberg

Latin America Needs a New Social Contract

Jorge G. Castañeda, Forrest D. Colburn

The Real Root Causes of America’s Border Crisis

Michael A. Clemens

Will America Welcome Refugees and Asylees Once Again?

Sarah Pierce , Susan Fratzke

Mexico’s President Is Spoiling for a Fight With Washington

El Presidente de México Busca Enfrentarse Con Washington

The Pandemic Could Bring Power to Latin America’s Criminal Gangs

The Second American Revolution: The Civil War–Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic

Richard Feinberg

Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border

Richard Feinberg

Mexico’s Migration Dilemmas

Mexico’s New President Turns Back the Clock on Democracy

The End of the Big Cartels

Trump’s Border Policy Is Creating Chaos

Mexico’s New President Needs a Better Solution to Criminal Violence

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Can Mexico Be Saved?

Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together

Richard Feinberg

AMLO: Con los pies en la tierra (AMLO: With His Feet on the Ground); Andrés Manuel: La invención de un político (Andrés Manuel: The Invention of a Politician)

Richard Feinberg

What if Mexico Stops Cooperating on Migration?

López Obrador and the Future of Mexican Democracy

Shannon K. O’Neil

Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era; Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know

Richard Feinberg

What Ails Mexican Democracy

Gladys I. McCormick, Matthew R. Cleary

Between a Wall and a Hard Place

Sólo así: Por una agenda ciudadana independiente (The Only Way: Toward an Independent Citizen Agenda)

Richard Feinberg

Winning on Anticorruption

Alejandro Aurrecoechea, Nick Panes

Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Nationalization and Its Discontents

“Homeland Security as a Theory of Action: The Impact on U.S./Mexico Border Management”

Richard Feinberg

The Spirit of Mexico

Chantal Martineau

Brutal Borders

Mexico, the Next Brazil?

Geert Aalbers, Nick Panes

Get Shorty

Robert C. Bonner, Gillian Horton

Mexico's Liberal Record

Jonathan Schlefer

No Perfect Dictatorship

Letter to the Editor

Mexico's Perfect Dictatorship?

Jonathan Schlefer

A Casa Divided

Nathaniel Parish Flannery

March on Mexico

Ralph H. Espach

A Second Mexican Revolution?

Pamela K. Starr, Michael C. Camuñez

Northbound

Foreign Affairs Focus: Carla Hills on NAFTA at 20

The Man Who Loved Dogs: A Novel

Richard Feinberg

Frontier Justice

Patricio Asfura-Heim, Ralph H. Espach

Quesadillas

Richard Feinberg

Perfect Partners

David Petraeus, Robert B. Zoellick

The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War

Richard Feinberg

Smart Development

Eduardo J. Gómez

The Bones Speak

Six Markets to Watch: Mexico

Shannon K. O’Neil

NAFTA's Mixed Record

Jorge G. Castañeda

NAFTA's Economic Upsides

Pact for Progress

NAFTA's Unfinished Business

Border Battle

The Rise of Mexico’s Self-Defense Forces

Patricio Asfura-Heim, Ralph H. Espach

Mexico Makes It

Shannon K. O’Neil

Jorge Castañeda and Shannon O'Neil on Mexico

Jorge Castañeda, Shannon K. O’Neil

Watching the Election, South of the Border

Ana Paula Ordorica

Mexico's Age of Agreement

Héctor Aguilar Camín, Jorge G. Castañeda

What Mexico's Election Means for the Drug War

Pamela K. Starr

The Old Guard in a New Mexico

Shannon K. O’Neil

The Cartel Crackdown

Robert C. Bonner

Vázquez Mota and the 2012 Mexican Election

Shannon K. O’Neil

Surgical Strikes in the Drug Wars

Mark A. R. Kleiman

Legalize It

Letter to the Editor

Foreign Affairs LIVE: Rehab for Mexico?

Robert C. Bonner, Jorge G. Castañeda, James F. Hoge, Jr.

The New Cocaine Cowboys

Robert C. Bonner

Proto-State-Capitalism

Jonathan Brookfield

Letter to the Editor

What to Read on Mexican Politics

Shannon K. O’Neil

The Real War in Mexico

Shannon K. O’Neil

Mexico's Disputed Election

Luis Rubio, Jeffrey Davidow

Furthering Democracy in Mexico

Mexico at an Impasse

Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

Kenneth Maxwell

Mexico: The Policy and the Politics of Modernization

Kenneth Maxwell

Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico; Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s

Kenneth Maxwell

Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico

Kenneth Maxwell

The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821

Kenneth Maxwell

Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism

Kenneth Maxwell

The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico

Kenneth Maxwell

Two Ways to Go Global

Mexican Phoenix, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries; Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019)

Kenneth Maxwell

The Mirage of Mexican Guest Workers

Philip L. Martin, Michael S. Teitelbaum

The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict

Kenneth Maxwell

Don't Disturb the Neighbors: The U.S. and Democracy in Mexico, 1980-1995

Kenneth Maxwell

With A Friend Like Fox

Robert S. Leiken

Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America

Kenneth Maxwell

Here: A Biography of the New American Continent

Kenneth Maxwell

Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen

Kenneth Maxwell

Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide

Kenneth Maxwell

A Concise History of Mexico

Kenneth Maxwell

The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World

Mexico and the Sexenio Curse: Presidential Successions and Economic Crises in Modern Mexico

Kenneth Maxwell

Mexico's Coming Backlash

Saving America from the Coming Civil Wars

Steven R. David

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

Kenneth Maxwell

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