I happened to be in Mexico City on the night of July 1, 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) was elected Mexico’s president in a landslide. I was there to help make a documentary that had ...

For the first time in more than two centuries of Mexican history, the nation’s most powerful symbol of freedom was led by a woman. On Monday night, President Claudia Sheinbaum stepped onto the balcony ...

Why do I study the history of contemporary political violence in Mexico? My answer has evolved across time. At first, I wanted to offer a basic accounting of what had happened: the who, what, where, ...

“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often been repeated to describe the country he ruled as a ...