A man waves a Mexican flag in front of the Angel of Independence monument during a protest on the day of the judicial and magistrate elections, in Mexico City, Mexico June 1, 2025.(Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters)
For two centuries, the nation suppressed its vitality in favor of victimization and righteousness. A pair of opportunities lie before it that could restore Mexico’s ascendance.
In 1613, the Keichō Embassy under Hasekura Tsunenaga set forth from Japan to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, landing at Acapulco and spending some time in Ciudad de México — not even a full century removed from its past as Tenochtitlan — before proceeding to Europe. The Japanese visit, including a retinue of samurai, was chronicled by the Nahua annalist Chimalpahin, who recorded armed conflicts between the visitors and their Spanish escorts. For a certain class of history buff, swordplay between a Spaniard of the Siglo de Oro and a samurai has the aura of a fantastical happening, but this episode ...
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The tariff case, the Supreme Court’s final decisions of the term, and the nation’s Semiquincentennial all point to the same lesson: liberty depends on limits.
The primary races served as a test of the Democratic Socialists’ ongoing electability, after the progressive group won big with Mamdani’s election in 2025.
