In few area does Mexicab President Claudia Sheinbaum face more contradictions than in addressing climate change. She is trained as an environmental scientist a path that led her to participate in a Nobel Prize yet champions an energy sovereignty plan that places hydrocarbons at its core. While empowering her Secretary of Environment to position herself as a regional leader, Sheinbaum allocates nine out of every 10 pesos of the budget intended to mitigate climate change
In his guilty plea, the veteran Mexican drug lord publicly acknowledged what was already widely known: that he bribed police officials, military personnel, and politicians to operate freely in the country. The allusion to that last group, elected representatives, has sent a chill through the entire Mexican political class. The statement is brief and general, so general that anyone could use it as a weapon, even at the risk of it coming back to haunt them.