The violence that followed the recent events in Jalisco speaks not only of a criminal organization, but of the state's capacity—and its limits—to manage power vacuums.
Mexico reduced poverty without extraordinary economic growth: it did so by challenging the idea that the market, on its own, guarantees social progress.
Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.
With a legislative majority and a consultation process underway, Claudia Sheinbaum's government is pushing for a new electoral reform that opens the debate on its true objectives and its effects on competition and political plurality in Mexico.
