The recent reforms approved by the Sheinbaum administration have caused controversy that her government is creating a surveillance apparatus to spy on everyday Mexicans.

We’ve been here before…

In this episode of Mexico: The Podcast, Tavo and Alex compare and contrast Sheinbaum’s intel initiatives to the police state set up by the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. A regime whose powers of espionage failed spectacularly, leading to in-fighting and nothing less than the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Sheinbaum’s intelligence reforms

Mexico’s National Guard, explained

Our critique of why a lack of intel led to the Mexican War of drugs

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