After two years in office, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to be widely praised, both in Mexico and abroad, for her handling of US President Donald Trump. But Sheinbaum has skillfully—and cynically—disguised the extent to which she has deferred to Trump on almost every issue.
MEXICO CITY—October 1 will mark the end of the second year of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s six-year term. Her economic record is mediocre, as my colleague and former Mexican Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz has demonstrated, and her performance on security, law enforcement, and fighting organized crime and corruption is questionable, too. Perhaps most worryingly, Sheinbaum is leading the country down an authoritarian path.
