N. Parish Flannery

Nathaniel Parish Flannery. Latin America analyst & writer. ✏️&📷: The Guardian, Fortune & New York Times. 🎙️Host: @ModernMexico Podcast. @ColumbiaSIPA. 🚲🇲🇽

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🇲🇽📗: My book, SEARCHING FOR MODERN MEXICO, is available on Amazon.

I traveled to remote villages in Chiapas, Oaxaca, & Michoacan, & also to the emerging nearshoring hubs of Guadalajara & Tijuana to explain the obstacles that entrepreneurs in Mexico face. https://t.co/CVSkajobXP

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@MagnunRufun my first guess looking at the video was more Nueva Italia, Michoacan, but yeah...

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Guys on mopeds shooting handguns & AK-47s? ✅ red, white, and green flag? ✅ clandestine horse race on public road? ✅ Nopales? ✅ Can anybody guess where this is?

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@jesusfuel logic checks out. ✅

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🇲🇽 "President Claudia Sheinbaum has established a kind of 10 commandments that protect the former and current officials of her Morena party who are wanted by U.S. justice. The number one argument is that, according to Sheinbaum, there is not enough evidence. For 34 days, she has said there is no reason for an urgent arrest and extradition in the Rocha Moya case.

Faced with the weakness of this argument, though, the Mexican government is now resorting to emotional appeals. The new narrative claims that handing over those accused of drug trafficking is a violation of national sovereignty." https://t.co/Y5XobGCuwG

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🇲🇽🇺🇸🤝"Mexico’s relationship with the United States is already fragile. Its prosperity depends on trade with its northern neighbor. Its public security strategy still leans on intelligence and cooperation across the border. Its ability to manage migration, fentanyl, investment, energy, and the upcoming review of the free trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada all require a level of discipline and trust that nationalist theatrics do not help build.

And Mexico’s democracy hangs in the balance. Sheinbaum’s party, Morena, has weakened the courts, is reshaping the electoral system and now invokes “foreign interference” as a permanent threat. It is not merely defending sovereignty. It is constructing a political instrument. The danger is that the government will use the confrontation with the United States to narrow the space for dissent at home.

Sunday’s speech was an early glimpse of a governing party preparing its electoral narrative for 2027: If Morena wins, the people have spoken; if Morena is challenged, foreign interference may be to blame.

This is a recipe for lasting democratic erosion."

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🇲🇽@LeonKrauze argues, "With more U.S. indictments looming, Mexico’s president could be preparing the political terrain for the difficult summer ahead.

Another, far more concerning reason for Sheinbaum’s defiance is that she has decided to turn to populism, making the Trump administration’s pressure a political asset for herself and her party before the country’s midterm contests next year. Wrapping herself in the flag, she may be trying to convert a position of structural vulnerability into a narrative of patriotic defiance.

The message to her base is clear: If Trump threatens and criticizes, and if U.S. sanctions or investigations arrive, it is not because her government is failing in reining in organized crime and narco-politics; it is because Mexico has a government that refuses to bow." https://t.co/lnJuQwZnPr

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🇲🇽@LeonKrauze argues, "With more U.S. indictments looming, Mexico’s president could be preparing the political terrain for the difficult summer ahead.

Another, far more concerning reason for Sheinbaum’s defiance is that she has decided to turn to populism, making the Trump administration’s pressure a political asset for herself and her party before the country’s midterm contests next year. Wrapping herself in the flag, she may be trying to convert a position of structural vulnerability into a narrative of patriotic defiance.

The message to her base is clear: If Trump threatens and criticizes, and if U.S. sanctions or investigations arrive, it is not because her government is failing in reining in organized crime and narco-politics; it is because Mexico has a government that refuses to bow." https://t.co/lnJuQwZnPr

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"Real success [in Mexico] will depend less on the number of troops deployed, drugs seized, suspects captured, or kingpins taken down than on the Mexican government’s ability to uncover and dismantle the political and economic arrangements involving corrupt officials and white-collar operators that have allowed criminal groups to grow in power for decades. Those tasks will require the intelligence and prosecutorial capacities that Sheinbaum and García Harfuch are investing in, as well as political will. If Sheinbaum can marshal both while navigating internal political constraints and Trump’s hawkish interventionism, her administration could mark a turning point in the fight against organized crime in Mexico. She could be the president who not only takes the fight to criminal groups but also confronts the networks that sustain them."

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🇲🇽👮"Without clear support from the party, Sheinbaum’s fight against corruption and violence could stall as she becomes trapped between the imperative to confront organized crime and the political costs of doing so." https://t.co/gkJWN2sbIx

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🇲🇽👮"Without clear support from the party, Sheinbaum’s fight against corruption and violence could stall as she becomes trapped between the imperative to confront organized crime and the political costs of doing so." https://t.co/gkJWN2sbIx

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@eduardoanconab probably Exploradores (piazza roast), Avellaneda, and Meson so far....

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🇲🇽☕️🏆I’m trying to find the best espresso in Mexico City. I stopped by Meson Cafe in the centro histórico. Very good! It was fun to ride over there. Are there any other new cafes in the centro histórico I should check out?

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🇲🇽🇺🇸👮On Saturday night a U.S. citizen was killed in the crossfire in Los Cabos after a group of paramilitary criminal gunmen attacked a military patrol. Tourism + cartel war in Mexico. 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/Uv2op69Ptn

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🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico's President Sheinbaum today:

"Mexico is nobody's punching bag. When foreigners dictate who is guilty, when external pressure is exerted on our institutions, we are talking about interference. We are a sovereign country," she said. https://t.co/y35TqWrbqO

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@ppcuaik 🙂

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@cinespiritu Thanks! I haven’t been to Nils yet. BUNA is cool https://t.co/L5RI7hrM3D

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🇲🇽☕️🙂POV: I’m searching for the best espresso in Mexico City. Yesterday I stopped by the BUNA roaster & cafe in the Doctores neighborhood. Cool building! Very good espresso. Where should I go next? Any cool new cafes I should visit?

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One other recent espresso stop

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🇲🇽☕️🏆POV: I’m trying to find the best espresso in Mexico City. Today I stopped by Cafe Equis in the centro histórico. Founded in 1930 it’s 1 of the city’s oldest coffee shops. They make a very old-school style of espresso. Where should I go next?

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"In Colombia alone, the United Nations estimates that annual cocaine production is around 5.7 million pounds, about 11 times the amount seized by the Coast Guard."

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🇺🇸💰👮"almost nine months into the operation, cocaine is as easy to get in much of the US as it was before the strikes began.

The costs of these military operations have already climbed to $4.7 billion." https://t.co/vr8ja8N4a6

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🇺🇸💰👮"almost nine months into the operation, cocaine is as easy to get in much of the US as it was before the strikes began.

The costs of these military operations have already climbed to $4.7 billion." https://t.co/vr8ja8N4a6

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 "Trump wants to increase the level of regional content in North American-built vehicles to 82% to qualify ​for preferential treatment under the USMCA on trade, with 50% of that value produced in ‌the U.S." https://t.co/4Bf43vEcWD

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🇲🇽🔊I talked to historian David Wysocki about how sports have helped shape and develop Modern Mexico’s identify, and how Mexico’s social and political context have impacted the country’s athletes.

Isaac Del Toro is Mexico’s top sports star right now. https://t.co/FyvR6IlH3H

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🇲🇽🚴+🇮🇹☕️=🙂. Last year I traveled to Italy to watch Mexico’s Isaac Del Toro compete. I stopped by the historic sciasciacaffe1919 in Rome for an espresso. Check out episode 29 of the @ModernMexico Podcast to hear about what Isaac’s debut at the Giro means for Mexico.