The U.S. Counterweight in Mexico
Washington needs a viable policy that balances a stricter line to protect critical U.S. interests at a vulnerable moment.
The sweeping victory of Claudia Sheinbaum and the political coalition of her mentor, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on June 2 leaves Mexico’s opposition in shambles. Sheinbaum’s political opponents will control less than a third of the nation’s Chamber of Deputies and are only a few defections away from the same fate in the Senate. Mexico would become the fifth Latin American country with a legislative supermajority, but it’s a grouping that does not augur well for Mexican democracy—Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Facing this qualified...
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