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By Ghaleb Krame and Raúl Flores In his second term, Donald Trump has turned rhetoric into state policy with unprecedented bluntness. On January 20, 2025, during his inaugural address, he announced the designation of Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist...

By Ghaleb Krame The leak published by The New York Times on August 8, 2025, revealing a secret directive from President Donald Trump authorizing the Pentagon to use military force against Mexican cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO),...

By Ghaleb Krame Mexico’s opposition has long been fragmented, discredited, and even infiltrated. But the ruling party’s increasingly punitive discourse and its systematic targeting of dissent—not just politicians, but also journalists, activists, business leaders, and...

By Ghaleb Krame and Raúl Flores In 2025, Mexico ise facing the greatest redefinition of its sovereignty since the Cold War. The source is not an overt military invasion, but something far more insidious: a growing arsenal of legal and financial instruments emerging...

By Ghaleb Krame Mexico stands at a dangerous crossroads. Seven years into the López Obrador era —and with Claudia Sheinbaum now in office— the ruling party Morena still dominates the political arena. It controls the narrative, the budget, the state machinery, and in...

By Howard Campbell* The first spy I met was Christopher Boyce. It was the summer of 1980, and I was working as an archaeologist for the Forest Service in northern Idaho. My partner and I were looking for old logging and mining camps in the forests outside Bonners...