Claudia Sheinbaum, the hand-picked successor of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will be the next president of Mexico.
Unfortunately, that means U.S.-Mexico relations remain on a dangerous course that has empowered drug cartels and brought skyrocketing overdoses and uncontrolled migration to the United States.
Sheinbaum owes her victory almost entirely to Lopez Obrador’s highly popular government, leaving little chance that she will distance herself from the man universally known as AMLO.
Under the incumbent’s government, U.S.-Mexico relations have seen a dangerous deterioration.
New threats have emerged on the border—ranging from fentanyl, weaponized mass migration, and terrorist networks—and important opportunities for collaboration, such as nearshoring supply chains from China, have been largely squandered.
Worse still, deepening…
