

N. Parish Flannery
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@NathanielParish
Nathaniel Parish Flannery. Latin America analyst & writer. ✏️&📷: The Guardian, Fortune & New York Times. 🎙️Host: @ModernMexico Podcast. @ColumbiaSIPA. 🚲🇲🇽



🇲🇽Mexico's President Sheinbaum's "proposal wanted to reduce the cost of elections by 25%, including 💰 for the @INEMexico & money given to all parties. Experts said the changes could endanger the running of Mexico’s elections & make [MORENA] stronger." apnews.com/article/mexico…


Hegseth: No quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in the press just can't stop. More fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the strait of hormuz. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.


Psyched to make my debut in the New Yorker with this profile of the bloody life and (grim) legacy of El Mencho "He was ruthless taking over business” Chicago cocaine king Margarito Flores says. His corrido goes: “They say I'm very violent, It’s true, why should I lie about it?”



En el proceso interno del CJNG por encontrar al sucesor de Nemesio Oseguera, los jefes regionales resultarán fundamentales, porque son ellos quienes tienen armas y efectivos. Encontré a 29 en fuentes periodísticas, pero debe haber más. Escribí sobre el tema en @Pajaropolitico

My story on the raid against Mencho: Mexico did the raid, fearing if they didn't the U.S. would take Mencho out unilaterally US Special Forces came to MX and trained elite teams on how to take him down The CIA and FBI provided his precise location #nt=00000175-f83a-d12c-a177-fffe3ef00002-showMedia-liG0promoMedium-1col" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">latimes.com/world-nation/s…

A ridiculous post by Chris Murphy Virtually all Mexican armed forces wear masks during operations against the cartels because cartels will hunt these men down and kill them and their families Same thing goes for a lot of law enforcement in Mexico

Hace unos meses escribí para @nexosmexico un artículo que es relevante en estos momentos, en donde se muestra como el CJNG ha expandido sus operaciones a 61 países de los 5 continentes, les comparto el mapa y en el primer comentario el artículo.

Sinaloa is high-key the breadbasket of the country while Michoacán is basically just the avocado printing region. Drug trafficking money is very disconnected from the economy at large because it (funnily enough) doesn't trickle down.




There are troubling reports coming out of Puerta Vallarta and other parts of Mexico that narco-terrorists are hunting down American citizens. The drug cartels should be aware that if any American citizen is harmed in Mexico there will be a violent and terminal retribution from the US. Any USMCA negotiations should cease until this situation is resolved. For any Ohioan stuck in Mexico, reach out to my office at 614-469-2083.

"The killing of [El Mencho] shows how the tense interplay between Trump & Sheinbaum — 2 leaders w/ starkly different styles but an unlikely camaraderie — has fundamentally reshaped the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽 relationship, particularly on security," @jacknicas explains. nytimes.com/2026/02/24/wor…
