{"id":1557,"date":"2025-06-06T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:26:10","slug":"mexico-judicial-elections-grant-morena-sheinbaum-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Judicial Elections Grant Morena, Sheinbaum More Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome back to <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>\u2019s Latin America Brief.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights this week: Mexico holds <strong>judicial elections<\/strong>, <strong>Haiti\u2019s interim government<\/strong> hires a U.S. mercenary service, and an <strong>Ecuadorian<\/strong> <strong>grandma <\/strong>gains a global online following.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode-fallback\">\n<h2 class=\"dek-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/category\/latin-america-brief\/\">Sign up<\/a>  to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday.            <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-shortcode-newsletter=\"latin_america_brief\" class=\"newsletter-unit-signup newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode email-capture--step-1 newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode-latin_america_brief\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-latin_america_brief newsletter-shortcode-latin_america_brief\">\n<div class=\"show-on-email-capture--signed-up hide-from-newsletter-subscriber newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode--container\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-unit newsletters-page newsletter-row\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-latin_america_brief\">\n<h2 class=\"dek-heading\">Sign up to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday.<\/h2>\n<p>\n                        <button class=\"button\">Sign Up<\/button>\n                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"grid--flex newsletter-latin_america_brief newsletter-signup-container\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"Latin America Brief sign up form\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"buttons\">\n<div class=\"hide-from-newsletter-subscriber privacy-policy-container\">\n<div class=\"privacy-policy-acknowledge\">\n<p><small>By submitting your email, you agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/termsofuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Use<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out at any time.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n    <label for=\"email-latin_america_brief\">Enter your email<\/label><br \/>\n    <input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" class=\"hide-from-reg hide-from-sub\" id=\"email-latin_america_brief\" aria-required=\"true\" required=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <button class=\"button button--signup \" data-newsletter-id=\"latin_america_brief\" data-sourceid=\"In-article unit\">Sign Up<\/button>\n  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>On Sunday, Mexico became the first country in the world to begin the process of electing all of its judges, including those on the country\u2019s Supreme Court. The election has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-03\/mexico-vote-count-for-top-court-shows-majority-with-morena-ties-mbgvcn5z?sref=vxSzVDP0\">transformed<\/a> the top court, which will now be stacked with judges who have ties to Mexico\u2019s ruling Morena party. That outcome appears to confirm critics\u2019 fears that the election could erode judicial independence.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of electing judges has been controversial since former Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador first formally proposed it last year. L\u00f3pez Obrador echoed the broadly held public sentiment in Mexico that the country\u2019s justice system is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/31\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-morena-democracy.html\">ineffective<\/a>; a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mexicoevalua.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hallazgos2022resumen-ejecutivo.pdf\">study<\/a> found that more than 90 percent of crimes such as homicides and disappearances go unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez Obrador may have also had more personal motivations. Throughout his six-year term, he developed hostility toward the Supreme Court, which was one of the biggest checks on his government and struck down several of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/mexico-high-court-strikes-down-lopez-obrador-energy-reforms-e70f9719\">desired<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-supreme-court-president-overturned-legislation-e58f48b5bfb217c02573f9604c43c2c8\">reforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s proposed solution for Mexico\u2019s judiciary\u2014nationwide popular elections for judges\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/latin-america-caribbean\/central-america\/mexico\/peoples-court-weighing-mexicos-first-elections-for-judges\">alarmed<\/a> rule-of-law experts and international investors. His judicial overhaul, passed during his last month in office last September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-americas\/2025\/05\/15\/mexico-will-be-the-only-country-that-elects-all-its-judges\">loosened<\/a> requirements for becoming a judge and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/article\/judicial-reform-mexico-comparative-between-old-and-new-process-electing-judges\">gave<\/a> government committees a hefty role in vetting candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer number of candidates in the June 1 election meant that it was difficult for voters to make informed decisions. Depending on the district, ballots often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/06\/01\/world\/americas\/mexico-judicial-election-ballots.html\">included<\/a> hundreds of candidates vying for multiple positions.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some voters took cues from electoral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/mexico\/2025\/06\/05\/ine-reporta-29-quejas-por-los-acordeones-a-favor-de-algunas-candidaturas-en-la-eleccion-judicial\/\">cheat sheets<\/a> distributed around the country. Although the documents were of unclear origin, they often <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/mexico\/2025-05-30\/los-acordeones-el-penultimo-dolor-de-cabeza-del-ine-ante-la-eleccion-judicial.html\">favored<\/a> candidates aligned with Morena. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that they were not an official party product and ordered the electoral authority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milenio.com\/politica\/elecciones\/ine-investiga-mc-morena-acordeones-eleccion-judicial\">take action<\/a> against them.<\/p>\n<p>Many Mexican opposition leaders, meanwhile, called on people to boycott the vote. The election saw low turnout of around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elfinanciero.com.mx\/nacional\/eleccion-judicial\/2025\/06\/05\/cierran-computos-para-eleccion-de-la-corte-quienes-seran-los-9-ministros-y-el-presidente\/\">13 percent<\/a>. Some voters spoiled their ballots or voted blank.<\/p>\n<p>In all, more than 2,600 judges were elected. Of the nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-03\/mexico-vote-count-for-top-court-shows-majority-with-morena-ties-mbgvcn5z?sref=vxSzVDP0\">Supreme Court<\/a> justices chosen, three were already sitting members appointed under L\u00f3pez Obrador and at least three previously worked for Morena politicians. In comparison, L\u00f3pez Obrador only nominated five to the previous court, which had 11 justices instead of nine.<\/p>\n<p>The election produced Mexico\u2019s second-ever Indigenous president of the top court\u2014Hugo Aguilar, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/hugo-aguilar-mexico-supreme-court-election\">lawyer<\/a> from the southern state of Oaxaca and former official in L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s government. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2025-06-04\/mexican-supreme-court-remake-ruling-party-loyalists-dominate-the-new-bench\">first Indigenous head<\/a> of the court was <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/09\/26\/mexico-amlo-benito-juarez-foreign-policy-legacy-history\/\">Benito Ju\u00e1rez<\/a>, who served more than 150 years ago and then became president.)<\/p>\n<p>To critics, Mexico\u2019s election downgraded judicial independence\u2014and thereby a key check on executive power. Though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elfinanciero.com.mx\/encuestas-ef\/2024\/09\/03\/solo-41-conoce-de-que-trata-la-reforma-al-poder-judicial\/\">opinion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kas.de\/documents\/266027\/34188306\/Reporte+Encuesta+V5-2025.pdf\/331bbfb7-f0b5-da53-4a8c-9d27fcd28137?version=1.0&amp;t=1740092865433\">surveys<\/a> suggest that around half of Mexicans approved of the election, the process was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/latin-america-caribbean\/central-america\/mexico\/peoples-court-weighing-mexicos-first-elections-for-judges?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">excoriated<\/a> by local and international business elites, bar associations, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oas.org\/en\/iachr\/jsForm\/?File=\/en\/iachr\/media_center\/preleases\/2024\/213.asp\">democracy experts<\/a>. Key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/article\/mexicos-2024-judicial-reform-politicization-justice\">trade partners<\/a> such as the United States and Canada also voiced concerns.<\/p>\n<p>When he was still a senator last year, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/release\/cardin-risch-kaine-rubio-concerned-with-proposed-judicial-reforms-in-mexico\">statement<\/a> warning that Mexico\u2019s judicial overhaul could violate the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which calls for fair legal treatment of business between the three countries.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the overhaul has been implemented, it could disadvantage Mexico during a review of the deal that is due to occur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crs-product\/IF10997\">next year<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/mexico-hopes-early-review-usmca-can-end-uncertainty-revive-flagging-investment-2025-05-30\/\">or sooner<\/a>. (Some experts argue that the Trump administration has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/can-us-be-punished-for-imposing-tariffs\/a-71788197\">violated<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/voxeu\/columns\/chaos-theory-assessing-legal-validity-trumps-tariffs\">treaty<\/a> with its tariffs.)<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum has maintained that the judicial election makes Mexico more democratic. And some Mexican political observers have argued that the Morena-linked judges elected to the Supreme Court are not monolithic and could defy the party in the future, as analyst Viri R\u00edos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milenio.com\/opinion\/viri-rios\/no-es-normal\/ideologia-de-la-nueva-suprema-corte\">wrote<\/a> in <em>Milenio<\/em> and pollster Jorge Buend\u00eda said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-03\/mexico-vote-count-for-top-court-shows-majority-with-morena-ties-mbgvcn5z\">comments<\/a> to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>To others, the damage is done. Lawyer Emiliano Polo <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/05\/30\/mexico-judicial-elections-reform-morena-sheinbaum-amlo\/\">wrote<\/a> in <em>Foreign Policy <\/em>last week that the judicial reform was \u201cMexico\u2019s most profound and damaging political shift in decades.\u201d Journalist Alex Gonz\u00e1lez Ormerod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mxpe.org\/p\/mexico-judicial-election-campaign\">wrote<\/a> in The Mexico Political Economist that uncertainty around the judicial overhaul \u201chas arguably affected the Mexican economy more than even the return of Donald Trump to the [U.S.] presidency. It has frozen investments and cooled growth forecasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On one point, there was more consensus among observers: By sitting out the election, Mexico\u2019s opposition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-06-04\/mexico-s-judicial-election-was-a-dangerous-farce-in-democracy?srnd=phx-economics-v2&amp;sref=vxSzVDP0\">missed a chance<\/a> to fight for political space. They emerged from the judicial election with less influence, while Morena now has even more.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Friday, June 6: <\/strong>Argentine President Javier Milei visits Italy before traveling on through Europe and to Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, June 6, to Monday, July 9: <\/strong>Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva visits France.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>The future of the OAS. <\/strong>Outgoing Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro issued a warning as he departed his position last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/68699070-d5ef-4dbf-80da-3c579f6d1b1b\">telling<\/a> the <em>Financial Times <\/em>that the worst thing that can happen to Latin America \u201cis to be forced to choose\u201d between the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>Ending the region\u2019s trade with China would yield \u201ca very violent regional economic disaster,\u201d Almagro said. Even so, the Trump administration appears to be trying to push back against Chinese economic engagement in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Almagro, who is Uruguayan, had a front seat to the thorniest episodes of regional diplomacy in the past decade. After aligning with the first Trump administration\u2019s hard-line position against the government of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in 2018, Almagro was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/es\/uruguay-frente-amplio-expulsa-a-luis-almagro\/a-46759241\">expelled<\/a> from his leftist political coalition in Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>The OAS\u2019s incoming secretary-general, Albert Ramdin of <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/05\/30\/suriname-election-oil-oas-secretary-general-ramdin-staatsolie\/\">Suriname<\/a>, is now faced with <a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/affairs\/organisation-of-american-states\/\">balancing U.S priorities<\/a> with those of Washington\u2019s Latin American neighbors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1197594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone none\">            <span style=\"padding-bottom:66.625%;&#10;        \" class=\"image-attachment -ratioscale\"><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <\/span><figcaption style=\"height:0;opacity:0;\">The national flags of Taiwan and Guatemala are seen outside of the Presidential Office Building, where Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to receive Guatemalan President Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo, in Taipei on June 5.<\/figcaption><p id=\"caption-attachment-1197594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The national flags of Taiwan and Guatemala are seen outside of the Presidential Office Building, where Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to receive Guatemalan President Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo, in Taipei on June 5.<span class=\"attribution\">I-Hwa Cheng\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><!-- caption placeholder --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Regional start-ups get attention in Asia. <\/strong>Colombian electromobility start-up <a href=\"https:\/\/go.unergo.io\/\">Unergo<\/a> and Chilean corporate automation start-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketbot.com\/en\/\">Rocketbot<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/startup.sme.gov.tw\/en\/NewsContent\/683\">selected<\/a> to participate in a Taiwanese government-supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupterrace.tw\/en\/cp.aspx?n=1667\">training and networking<\/a> program for young companies that wrapped up late last month at Taiwan\u2019s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.<\/p>\n<p>Unergo facilitates charging and battery swaps for electric motorcycles and cars. Rocketbot offers automated digital systems for a range of different companies and announced that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latercera.com\/emprendimiento\/noticia\/rocketbot-inicia-su-expansion-en-asia\/\">expanding<\/a> operations in Asia following the training program.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, Latin American start-ups have grown in the Western Hemisphere rather than in Asia. Though the governments of Chile and Colombia do not maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mofa.gov.tw\/AlliesIndex.aspx?n=1294&amp;sms=1007\">countries<\/a> that do are in Latin America and the Caribbean. Guatemalan President Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rti.org.tw\/news\/view\/id\/2013024\">visited<\/a> Taipei this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unconventional influencer. <\/strong>Not all social media stars are young and hip. Last month, popular website TasteAtlas featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJ7TPsMsVzm\/\">video<\/a> from Ecuadorian cook Nievita Zambrano, a grandmother from the coastal province of Manab\u00ed who has tens of thousands of followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NievitaZambrano\">YouTube<\/a>. Zambrano was making cheesy cassava bread, or <em>pan de almid\u00f3n<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador <a href=\"https:\/\/ecuador221.com.ec\/nievita-zambrano-participara-en-el-ii-encuentro-de-cocinas-iberoamericanas\/\">tapped Zambrano<\/a> to be its representative last year at the international Meeting of Ibero-American Cooks. Zambrano\u2019s videos share what she calls the \u201cflavors and secrets of the countryside,\u201d including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwQWd7yLYVN\/\">chicken<\/a> with peanut sauce cooked in banana leaves, lobster and shrimp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=52WBM-Q9thc\">soup<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DI-IQlzvlF9\/\">sweets<\/a> made from the pechiche fruit. Her grandson Yeiko manages her online presence.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"fp-quiz\">\n<div class=\"fp-quiz-question\">\n<div class=\"fp-quiz-question-text\">\n<p>Which of the following is not a traditional soup from Latin America and the Caribbean?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"fp-quiz-question-response \"><\/p>\n<p>Encebollado<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"fp-quiz-question-response \"><\/p>\n<p>Pozole<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"fp-quiz-question-response \"><\/p>\n<p>Sancocho<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"fp-quiz-question-response is-answer\"><\/p>\n<p>Ciorba<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<hr\/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1197595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone none\">            <span style=\"padding-bottom:66.5%;&#10;        \" class=\"image-attachment -ratioscale\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" alt=\"A burnt-out car is seen during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 16.\" class=\"image wp-image-1197595 size-text_width -fit\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?w=800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=550,366 550w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=401,267 401w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=800,532 800w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=1000,665 1000w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=275,183 275w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=325,216 325w, https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haiti-unrest-GettyImages-2209995437.jpg?resize=600,399 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/span><figcaption style=\"height:0;opacity:0;\">A burnt-out car is seen during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 16.<\/figcaption><p id=\"caption-attachment-1197595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burnt-out car is seen during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 16.<span class=\"attribution\">Clarens Siffroy\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><!-- caption placeholder --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As multinational forums such as the United Nations show scant progress toward combating Haiti\u2019s security crisis, the country\u2019s interim government has turned to private security contractors, the <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/28\/us\/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html\">reported<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>A company run by Erik Prince, whose firm Blackwater <a href=\"https:\/\/icoca.ch\/case-studies\/the-nisour-square-massacre\/\">acted in the Iraq War<\/a>, has reportedly begun providing services in Haiti. These include drone attacks on suspected gang members. Human rights defender <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/06\/13\/haiti-gangs-violence-us-military-planes-international-security-mission-kenya\/\">Pierre Esp\u00e9rance<\/a> told the <em>Times <\/em>that the drone attacks have killed more than 200 people since March.<\/p>\n<p>Hiring Prince\u2019s contractors \u201csets a dangerous precedent for the future of international peacekeeping and security,\u201d Christopher Sabatini and Robert Greenhill <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/06\/03\/haiti-blackwater-international-peacekeeping-mission\/\">argued<\/a> in <em>Foreign Policy <\/em>this week, calling Haiti\u2019s crisis \u201ca microcosm of the failures of the current global system.\u201d They wrote that Russia and China\u2019s blockage of a U.N. security mission in Haiti undermined their claims to lead the global south.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Sabatini and Greenhill continued, there was still space and time for different countries\u2014including Kenya, which currently leads a multilateral mission to Haiti, and others in the global south\u2014to step up and make a medium-term commitment to Haiti\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>Haitians got more ominous news on Wednesday night, when Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz6329yvwdvo\">added<\/a> them to his list of 12 nationalities barred from entering the United States under a new travel ban. Already, the Haitian diaspora had been exasperated with the Trump administration for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy839m7xd1zo\">stripping<\/a> Haitian migrants of protections from deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio, who was born in Florida to Cuban immigrants, \u201cshould know better,\u201d Miami doctor Arthur Fournier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article307693770.html\">wrote<\/a> in the <em>Miami Herald <\/em>earlier in the week<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/06\/06\/mexico-judicial-election-amlo-sheinbaum-morena\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Foreign Policy\u2019s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Mexico holds judicial elections, Haiti\u2019s interim government hires a U.S. mercenary service, and an Ecuadorian grandma gains a global online following. Sign up to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday. 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