“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often been repeated to describe the country he ruled as a ...

I happened to be in Mexico City on the night of July 1, 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) was elected Mexico’s president in a landslide. I was there to help make a documentary that had ...

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it. A 17th-century depiction of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán, the capital ...

An impressive and confident history of Mexico from the Aztecs to the present, Paul Gillingham’s Mexico: A 500-Year History is at once well-written and yet also somewhat unbalanced. The central theme, ...

Mexico’s struggle with drug cartels is both historic and deeply complex. While the illegal drug trade has existed for decades, the rise of organized cartels transformed it into a major source of ...