{"id":19086,"date":"2026-04-17T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-10-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:31:27","slug":"mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miranda-partners.com\/es\/news-and-content\/miranda-intelligence\/foreign-press-chatter\/mis-mexico-foreign-press-chatter-apr-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MI\u2019s Mexico Foreign Press Chatter \u2013 Apr. 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign press coverage<\/strong><\/h4>

Following The Economist\u2019s controversial article on Mexico\u2019s \u2018\u2019broken economy\u2019\u2019, (which elicited\u00a0a rebuttal letter<\/a>\u00a0to The Economist from the Finance Ministry), this week it was Bloomberg\u2019s turn to wade in. The Bank of Mexico\u2019s controversial rate-cut decision on March 26 was analyzed from a different, more personal, angle in JP Spinetto\u2019s Bloomberg opinion column. Spinetto turned the spotlight on Banxico\u2019s low-profile governor, Victoria Rodr\u00edguez Ceja, to argue that her \u201clackluster\u201d leadership has contributed to a \u201csubdued\u201d central bank that is struggling to curtail inflation. Rodr\u00edguez became the first woman to lead Banxico in 2021 and rarely makes public appearances or gives interviews, which Spinetto sees as part of broader weakness in the bank\u2019s communications strategy (to avoid irking Palacio Nacional).<\/p>

In business news, Bloomberg published a detailed piece on the pros and cons of the Viva-Volaris merger and how it will test the new antitrust regulatory agency, and profiled Mexico\u2019s most aggrieved billionaire, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who shares Trump\u2019s \u201clove of debt, aggressive tax avoidance and brass-knuckled legal tactics.\u201d<\/p>

Mexico\u2019s crisis of disappearances was covered by the LA Times and The Guardian (and in a reflexively anti-Morena O\u2019Grady WSJ opinion column) this week after the government issued a contentious new report indicating the registry of over 130,000 missing persons is inflated, and also lashed out at a UN committee\u2019s decision to forward the disappearances issue as a \u201ccrime against humanity\u201d to the General Assembly. The Financial Times reported on Guadalajara\u2019s security preparations for the arrival of 3 million tourists during the World Cup, quoting one analyst who noted that it will also be \u201ca very good few weeks for criminal businesses.\u201d<\/p>

The Guardian also covered a UN special rapporteur\u2019s investigative mission (this one, at the Mexican government\u2019s invitation) to document the impact of environmental contaminants in Mexico, who concluded that the country is facing a \u201ctoxic crisis\u201d and has become a \u201cgarbage sink\u201d for U.S. hazardous waste. In less bleak news, the debate over the fate of the Gelman Collection (or \u201cFrida Kahlo trove\u201d) got in-depth treatment in The New York Times this week and the LA Times covered the inauguration of the spinoff of Contramar in Las Vegas, \u201carguably the most significant opening by a Mexican chef in the city.\u201d<\/p>

Blogs destacados en ingl\u00e9s sobre M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/h4>

Viri R\u00edos breaks down the data on Sheinbaum\u2019s approval ratings in Mexico Decoded this week and finds some fresh insights: Claudia has made inroads in demographic groups that AMLO had alienated (middle-class professionals) and lost some ground among the traditional Morena base (rural voters in southern states). R\u00edos points out that this means \u201cSheinbaum\u2019s capacity to mobilize voters comes from a fundamentally different place than Obradorism did\u201d and points towards Morena\u2019s momentum beyond its charismatic founder. Ioan Grillo published a comprehensive \u201crisk guide\u201d ranking the safety of Mexican states and cities this week and The Mexico Political Economist profiled the freshly-confirmed 38 year-old new foreign minister, Roberto Velasco. In Materia Gris, Eduardo Garc\u00eda argued for putting a \u201cdemocracy clause\u201d in the USMCA, which he says should apply to all three countries, but seems mostly to envision as a way to put the brakes on the \u201csystematic dismantling of democratic architecture\u201d in Mexico.<\/p>