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How Mexicans Consume Their Drugs

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 4d

How do Mexicans really use drugs — and what can the world learn from it?

Zara Snapp joins Mexico Decoded podcast to unpack it:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexica...

Today, on Mexico Decoded Podcast, we will dive into the groundbreaking ways Mexico is rethinking drug consumption.

The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 6d

The Tragedy of the Michelin Star in Mexico.

How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.

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How global fame collided with local reality in the story of a taco stand that became a world-class irony.

Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 7d

Elite's beach playground, Tax the Rich Reform & Tycoons' Fight Club.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/elites-bea...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Mexico’s First Female President Is Redefining Power

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 12d

Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is quietly reshaping power at home — and across Latin America.

Here’s our review of her first year in office:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-fi...

Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year in power is reshaping her country — and what it means to be a leftist politician.

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 13d

🖊️ @lemonde.fr quoted our work on Mexico’s new security strategy! :)

Here’s a rundown of it compared with previous presidents:
www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexico...

Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 14d

Blackout in Paradise, Billionaire Fallout, and not a Tax-Evasion Déjà Vu

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/blackout-i...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

How Drug Cartels Recruit Their Members

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 18d

One of the most chilling conversations we’ve recorded in Mexico Decode is out!

Along with Pablo Ferri we discuss how drug cartels “recruitment” their members:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-drug-c...

Hollywood tells us people join drug cartels for money, power, and glamour. What’s really happening is far more chilling.

Sheinbaum’s Genocide Call, Canada's Leader Visits, and a $300M Oil Heist

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 20d

Menstrual Leave, Mexico-Canada Affair & Useless Stock Exchange

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/sheinbaums...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

How Mexican Billionaries are Made

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 22d

How are Mexican billionaires made?

The story is far more underwhelming than most people imagine:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexica...

A case study in how economies fail when power and privilege replace competition.

Why Mexico Wants You to Quit Diet Coke

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 26d

It seems like Mexico wants you to quit Diet Coke. And here’s why:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/why-mexico...

A bold tax experiment on whether governments can change taste itself

Deadly Gas Blast, Soda Tax, and Opposition Drama Shake Mexico

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 27d

The Guardian quoted our founder, @viririos.bsky.social, on Mexico’s soda tax… but forgot to mention she edits Mexico Decoded :( Read more on the tax in this newsletter 👇

Newsletter: www.mexicodecoded.com/p/deadly-gas...

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 28d

Fox News Fans, Independence Cries & Capital Repatriation.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/deadly-gas...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

What 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico's Organized Crime

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 29d

Le Monde cited us on the connection between Sheinbaum’s anti-corruption strategy and her business development agenda!

If you’d like to dive deeper into these topics check this:

On corruption: www.mexicodecoded.com/p/how-mexico...
On business development: www.mexicodecoded.com/p/trumponomi...

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 13

What Do 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico’s Organized Crime?

Today, on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore it with professor Omar García Ponce.

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In this episode of the Mexico Decoded podcast, I speak with Omar García Ponce, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, about what decades of...

Trumponomics, the Mexican Way

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mexico is raising tariffs to its maximum in 30 years. Is this trumponomics the Mexican way?

🚨 Spoiler: no, it’s something much more interesting 👇🏽

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/trumponomi...

Prompted by the U.S. Mexico is embracing a new pro-business model not seen in decades.

Bankers’ Loopholes, Palestine Chants and Navy Scandals

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bankers’ Loopholes, Palestine Chants and Navy Scandals.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out!

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/bankers-lo...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Why Do Mexicans "Hate" Dishwashers?

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 7

A text went viral trying to "explain" why Mexicans don’t have dishwashers — including the wealthy.

It got it so wrong, we decided to put out the real reason:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-dishwa...

My answer to a viral Substack that tried to explain it — and got Mexico all wrong.

Mexico Just Fired Its Entire Judiciary — For Real

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 3

Mexico just fired every judge and replaced them with elected ones — a democratic experiment no country has ever dared to try.

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/mexicos-el...

Mexico just fired every judge and replaced them with elected ones — a democratic experiment no country has ever dared to try.

Musk Litters Mexico, Radical Judiciary, and a $1.5B Quarry

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Sep 1

Musk Litters Mexico, Radical Judiciary, and a $1.5B Quarry.

Weekly summary of Mexico’s top 5 stories at 🟧 Mexico Decoded is out! Read more at the link in our bio.

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/musk-litte...

Mexico Decoded’s weekly briefing makes sense of the news that matters

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Aug 29

Everybody is reading Mexico Decoded — except you 💕🥭 mexicodecoded.com

The Future of Government May Already Be Happening in Mexico

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Aug 28

The future of government may already be happening in Mexico —thanks to a secret 50k-person army you’ve never heard of:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/servants-o...

What a secret army of 30,000 social workers reveal about how democracies can get closer to their citizens.

What We Get Wrong About Mexico’s Cartels

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Aug 25

What We Get Wrong About Mexico’s Cartels.

Today on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore cartel power and politics with journalist @ioangrillo.bsky.social

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In this episode of the Mexico Decoded podcast, I speak with Ioan Grillo, one of the world’s leading journalists on Mexico’s drug war, to examine the myth of Mexico as a “narco-state”, how do cartels a...

The Mexican Chernobyl Nobody Knows About

Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mexico has its own Chernoby —a policy made disaster that Sheinbaum’s new housing plan risks repeating:

www.mexicodecoded.com/p/the-mexica...

What President Sheinbaum’s flagship housing program can teach us about policy-made disasters.